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Matias Bjørling
d20be90ae0 lightnvm: pblk: remove size and out of bounds read check
The I/O size and capacity checks are already done by the block layer.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-09 08:25:06 -06:00
Matias Bjørling
afdc23c91e lightnvm: pblk: unify vector max req constants
Both NVM_MAX_VLBA and PBLK_MAX_REQ_ADDRS define how many LBAs that
are available in a vector command. pblk uses them interchangeably
in its implementation. Use NVM_MAX_VLBA as the main one and remove
usages of PBLK_MAX_REQ_ADDRS.

Also remove the power representation that only has one user, and
instead calculate it at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-09 08:25:06 -06:00
Matias Bjørling
d7b6801673 lightnvm: combine 1.2 and 2.0 command flags
Add nvm_set_flags helper to enable core to appropriately
set the command flags for read/write/erase depending on which version
a drive supports.

The flags arguments can be distilled into the access hint,
scrambling, and program/erase suspend. Replace the access hint with
a "is_seq" parameter. The rest of the flags are dependent on the
command opcode, which is trivial to detect and set.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-09 08:25:05 -06:00
Michael Callahan
ddcf35d397 block: Add and use op_stat_group() for indexing disk_stat fields.
Add and use a new op_stat_group() function for indexing partition stat
fields rather than indexing them by rq_data_dir() or bio_data_dir().
This function works similarly to op_is_sync() in that it takes the
request::cmd_flags or bio::bi_opf flags and determines which stats
should et updated.

In addition, the second parameter to generic_start_io_acct() and
generic_end_io_acct() is now a REQ_OP rather than simply a read or
write bit and it uses op_stat_group() on the parameter to determine
the stat group.

Note that the partition in_flight counts are not part of the per-cpu
statistics and as such are not indexed via this function.  It's now
indexed by op_is_write().

tj: Refreshed on top of v4.17.  Updated to pass around REQ_OP.

Signed-off-by: Michael Callahan <michaelcallahan@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-18 08:44:20 -06:00
Heiner Litz
11f6ad699a lightnvm: pblk: add asynchronous partial read
In the read path, partial reads are currently performed synchronously
which affects performance for workloads that generate many partial
reads. This patch adds an asynchronous partial read path as well as
the required partial read ctx.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Litz <hlitz@ucsc.edu>
Reviewed-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-13 08:14:47 -06:00
Matias Bjørling
4e495a46b1 lightnvm: pblk: expose generic disk name on pr_* msgs
The error messages in pblk does not say which pblk instance that
a message occurred from. Update each error message to reflect the
instance it belongs to, and also prefix it with pblk, so we know
the message comes from the pblk module.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-13 08:14:43 -06:00
Matias Bjørling
921aebfac0 lightnvm: pblk: fix read_bitmap for 32bit archs
If using pblk on a 32bit architecture, and there is a need to
perform a partial read, the partial read bitmap will only have
allocated 32 entries, where as 64 are needed.

Make sure that the read_bitmap is initialized to 64bits on 32bit
architectures as well.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-13 08:14:39 -06:00
Matias Bjørling
880eda5440 lightnvm: move NVM_DEBUG to pblk
There is no users of CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG in the LightNVM subsystem. All
users are in pblk. Rename NVM_DEBUG to NVM_PBLK_DEBUG and enable
only for pblk.

Also fix up the CONFIG_NVM_PBLK entry to follow the code style for
Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-13 08:14:31 -06:00
Javier González
87cc40bbe3 lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary bio_get/put
In the read path, pblk gets a reference to the incoming bio and puts it
after ending the bio. Though this behavior is correct, it is unnecessary
since pblk is the one putting the bio, therefore, it cannot disappear
underneath it.

Removing this reference, allows to clean up rqd->bio and avoids pointer
bouncing for the different read paths. Now, the incoming bio always
resides in the read context and pblk's internal bios (if any) reside in
rqd->bio.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01 09:02:53 -06:00
Igor Konopko
fbadca7396 lightnvm: fix partial read error path
When error occurs during bio_add_page on partial read path, pblk
tries to free pages twice.

Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Dziegielewski <marcin.dziegielewski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01 09:02:53 -06:00
Javier González
e13f421ba8 lightnvm: pblk: remove unnecessary indirection
Call nvm_submit_io directly and remove an unnecessary indirection on the
read path.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01 07:43:53 -06:00
Javier González
03a34b2d25 lightnvm: pblk: improve error msg on corrupted LBAs
In the event of a mismatch between the read LBA and the metadata pointer
reported by the device, improve the error message to be able to detect
the offending physical address (PPA) mapped to the corrupted LBA.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01 07:43:53 -06:00
Javier González
310df58229 lightnvm: pblk: check read lba on gc path
Check that the lba stored in the LBA metadata is correct in the GC path
too. This requires a new helper function to check random reads in the
vector read.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01 07:43:53 -06:00
Kent Overstreet
b906bbb699 lightnvm: convert to bioset_init()/mempool_init()
Convert lightnvm to embedded bio sets.

Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-30 15:33:32 -06:00
Javier González
e46f4e4822 lightnvm: simplify geometry structure
Currently, the device geometry is stored redundantly in the nvm_id and
nvm_geo structures at a device level. Moreover, when instantiating
targets on a specific number of LUNs, these structures are replicated
and manually modified to fit the instance channel and LUN partitioning.

Instead, create a generic geometry around nvm_geo, which can be used by
(i) the underlying device to describe the geometry of the whole device,
and (ii) instances to describe their geometry independently.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-03-29 17:29:09 -06:00
Javier González
998ba62973 lightnvm: pblk: add iostat support
Since pblk registers its own block device, the iostat accounting is
not automatically done for us. Therefore, add the necessary
accounting logic to satisfy the iostat interface.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-05 08:50:12 -07:00
Javier González
b1bcfda105 lightnvm: pblk: compress and reorder helper functions
Through time, we have generated some redundant helper functions.
Refactor them to eliminate redundant and unnecessary code. Also, reorder
them to improve readability

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-05 08:50:12 -07:00
Javier González
1a94b2d484 lightnvm: implement generic path for sync I/O
Implement a generic path for sending sync I/O on LightNVM. This allows
to reuse the standard synchronous path trough blk_execute_rq(), instead
of implementing a wait_for_completion on the target side (e.g., pblk).

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
0f9248cf1e lightnvm: pblk: remove redundant check on read path
A partial read I/O in pblk is an I/O where some sectors reside in the
write buffer in main memory and some are persisted on the device. Such
an I/O must at least contain 2 lbas, therefore checking for the case
where a single lba is mapped is not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
7bd4d370db lightnvm: pblk: guarantee line integrity on reads
When a line is recycled during garbage collection, reads can still be
issued to the line. If the line is freed in the middle of this process,
data corruption might occur.

This patch guarantees that lines are not freed in the middle of reads
that target them (lines). Specifically, we use the existing line
reference to decide when a line is eligible for being freed after the
recycle process.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
a4809fee4e lightnvm: pblk: check lba sanity on read path
As part of pblk's recovery scheme, we store the lba mapped to each
physical sector on the device's out-of-bound (OOB) area.

On the read path, we can use this information to validate that the data
being delivered to the upper layers corresponds to the lba being
requested. The cost of this check is an extra copy on the DMA region on
the device and an extra comparison in the host, given that (i) the OOB
area is being read together with the data in the media, and (ii) the DMA
region allocated for the ppa list can be reused for the metadata stored
on the OOB area.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
26532ee52b lightnvm: pblk: use rqd->end_io for completion
For consistency with the rest of pblk, use rqd->end_io to point to the
function taking care of ending the request on the completion path.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
67bf26a322 lightnvm: pblk: refactor rqd alloc/free
Refactor the rqd allocation and free functions so that all I/O types can
use these helper functions.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
e2cddf2082 lightnvm: pblk: improve naming for internal req.
Each request type sent to the LightNVM subsystem requires different
metadata. Until now, we have tailored this metadata based on write, read
and erase commands. However, pblk uses different metadata for internal
writes that do not hit the write buffer. Instead of abusing the metadata
for reads, create a new request type - internal write to improve
code readability.

In the process, create internal values for each I/O type instead of
abusing the READ/WRITE macros, as suggested by Christoph.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
55e836d401 lightnvm: pblk: put bio on bio completion
Simplify put bio by doing it on bio end_io instead of manually putting
it on the completion path.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
d340121eb7 lightnvm: pblk: simplify data validity check on GC
When a line is selected for recycling by the garbage collector (GC), the
line state changes and the invalid bitmap is frozen, preventing
invalidations from happening. Throughout the GC, the L2P map is checked
to verify that not data being recycled has been updated. The last check
is done before the new map is being stored on the L2P table. Though
this algorithm works, it requires a number of corner cases to be checked
each time the L2P table is being updated. This complicates readability
and is error prone in case that the recycling algorithm is modified.

Instead, this patch makes the invalid bitmap accessible even when the
line is being recycled. When recycled data is being remapped, it is
enough to check the invalid bitmap for the line before updating the L2P
table.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
84454e6de5 lightnvm: pblk: refactor read lba sanity check
Refactor lba sanity check on read path to avoid code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
2942f50fa3 lightnvm: pblk: remove checks on mempool alloc.
As part of the mempool audit on pblk, remove unnecessary mempool
allocation checks on mempools.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
bd43241768 lightnvm: pblk: fix min size for page mempool
pblk uses an internal page mempool for allocating pages on internal
bios. The main two users of this memory pool are partial reads (reads
with some sectors in cache and some on media) and padded writes, which
need to add dummy pages to an existing bio already containing valid
data (and with a large enough bioset allocated). In both cases, the
maximum number of pages per bio is defined by the maximum number of
physical sectors supported by the underlying device.

This patch fixes a bad mempool allocation, where the min_nr of elements
on the pool was fixed (to 16), which is lower than the maximum number
of sectors supported by NVMe (as of the time for this patch). Instead,
use the maximum number of allowed sectors reported by the device.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
7d327a9ed6 lightnvm: pblk: use right flag for GC allocation
The data buffer for the GC path allocates virtual memory through
vmalloc. When this change was introduced, a flag signaling kmalloc'ed
memory was wrongly introduced. Use the right flag when creating a bio
from this buffer.

Fixes: de54e703a4 ("lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer")
Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González
75cb8e939c lightnvm: pblk: advance bio according to lba index
When a lba either hits the cache or corresponds to an empty entry in the
L2P table, we need to advance the bio according to the position in which
the lba is located. Otherwise, we will copy data in the wrong page, thus
causing data corruption for the application.

In case of a cache hit, we assumed that bio->bi_iter.bi_idx would
contain the correct index, but this is no necessarily true. Instead, use
the local bio advance counter and iterator. This guarantees that lbas
hitting the cache are copied into the right bv_page.

In case of an empty L2P entry, we omitted to advance the bio. In the
cases when the same I/O also contains a cache hit, data corresponding
to this lba will be copied to the wrong bv_page. Fix this by advancing
the bio as we do in the case of a cache hit.

Fixes: a4bd217b43 lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-07-28 08:06:00 -06:00
Javier González
076984669d lightnvm: pblk: verify that cache read is still valid
When a read is directed to the cache, we risk that the lba has been
updated during the time we made the L2P table lookup and the time we are
actually reading form the cache. We intentionally not hold the L2P lock
not to block other threads.

While strict ordering is not a guarantee at this level (unless REQ_FLUSH
has been previously issued), we have experience that some databases that
have recently implemented direct I/O support, issue metadata reads very
close to the writes, without issuing a fsync in the middle. An easy way
to support them while they is to make an extra effort and check the L2P
map right before reading the cache.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-30 11:08:18 -06:00
Javier González
de54e703a4 lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer
For now, we allocate a per I/O buffer for GC data. Since the potential
size of the buffer is 256KB and GC is not in the fast path, do this
allocation with vmalloc. This puts lets pressure on the memory
allocator at no performance cost.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-30 11:08:18 -06:00
Javier González
588726d3ec lightnvm: pblk: fail gracefully on irrec. error
Due to user writes being decoupled from media writes because of the need
of an intermediate write buffer, irrecoverable media write errors lead
to pblk stalling; user writes fill up the buffer and end up in an
infinite retry loop.

In order to let user writes fail gracefully, it is necessary for pblk to
keep track of its own internal state and prevent further writes from
being placed into the write buffer.

This patch implements a state machine to keep track of internal errors
and, in case of failure, fail further user writes in an standard way.
Depending on the type of error, pblk will do its best to persist
buffered writes (which are already acknowledged) and close down on a
graceful manner. This way, data might be recovered by re-instantiating
pblk. Such state machine paves out the way for a state-based FTL log.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26 16:27:39 -06:00
Javier González
63e3809cf7 lightnvm: pblk: set metadata list for all I/Os
Set a dma area for all I/Os in order to read/write from/to the metadata
stored on the per-sector out-of-bound area.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26 16:27:39 -06:00
Javier González
f9c101523d lightnvm: pblk: issue multiplane reads if possible
If a read request is sequential and its size aligns with a
multi-plane page size, use the multi-plane hint to process the I/O in
parallel in the controller.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26 16:27:39 -06:00
Javier González
084ec9ba07 lightnvm: pblk: rename read request pool
Read requests allocate some extra memory to store its per I/O context.
Instead of requiring yet another memory pool for other type of requests,
generalize this context allocation (and change naming accordingly).

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26 16:27:13 -06:00
Javier González
db7ada33cd lightnvm: pblk: add debug stat for read cache hits
Add a new debug counter to measure cache hits on the read path

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26 16:24:53 -06:00
NeilBrown
b25d52379a lightnvm/pblk-read: use bio_clone_fast()
pblk_submit_read() uses bio_clone_bioset() but doesn't change the
io_vec, so bio_clone_fast() is a better choice.

It also uses fs_bio_set which is intended for filesystems.  Using it
in a device driver can deadlock.
So allocate a new bioset, and and use bio_clone_fast().

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Tested-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-18 12:40:59 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
4e4cbee93d block: switch bios to blk_status_t
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Dan Carpenter
659226eb63 lightnvm: don't print a warning for ADDR_EMPTY
Reading from ADDR_EMPTY is out of bounds.  The current code generates a
static checker warning because we check for out of bounds "lba" before
we check for ADDR_EMPTY, so the second check is always false.  It looks
like we intended ADDR_EMPTY to be a no-op without printing a warning.

Fixes: a4bd217b43 ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-21 16:49:56 -06:00
Dan Carpenter
5bf1e1ee62 lightnvm: potential underflow in pblk_read_rq()
This is a static checker fix, and perhaps not a real bug.  The static
checker thinks that nr_secs could be negative.  It would result in
zeroing more memory than intended.  Anyway, even if it's not a bug,
changing this variable to unsigned makes the code easier to audit.

Fixes: a4bd217b43 ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-21 16:48:40 -06:00
Dan Carpenter
2a79efd833 lightnvm: fix some WARN() messages
WARN_ON() takes a condition, not an error message.  I slightly tweaked
some conditions so hopefully it's more clear.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-16 10:06:34 -06:00
Javier González
a4bd217b43 lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target
This patch introduces pblk, a host-side translation layer for
Open-Channel SSDs to expose them like block devices. The translation
layer allows data placement decisions, and I/O scheduling to be
managed by the host, enabling users to optimize the SSD for their
specific workloads.

An open-channel SSD has a set of LUNs (parallel units) and a
collection of blocks. Each block can be read in any order, but
writes must be sequential. Writes may also fail, and if a block
requires it, must also be reset before new writes can be
applied.

To manage the constraints, pblk maintains a logical to
physical address (L2P) table,  write cache, garbage
collection logic, recovery scheme, and logic to rate-limit
user I/Os versus garbage collection I/Os.

The L2P table is fully-associative and manages sectors at a
4KB granularity. Pblk stores the L2P table in two places, in
the out-of-band area of the media and on the last page of a
line. In the cause of a power failure, pblk will perform a
scan to recover the L2P table.

The user data is organized into lines. A line is data
striped across blocks and LUNs. The lines enable the host to
reduce the amount of metadata to maintain besides the user
data and makes it easier to implement RAID or erasure coding
in the future.

pblk implements multi-tenant support and can be instantiated
multiple times on the same drive. Each instance owns a
portion of the SSD - both regarding I/O bandwidth and
capacity - providing I/O isolation for each case.

Finally, pblk also exposes a sysfs interface that allows
user-space to peek into the internals of pblk. The interface
is available at /dev/block/*/pblk/ where * is the block
device name exposed.

This work also contains contributions from:
  Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
  Simon A. F. Lund <slund@cnexlabs.com>
  Young Tack Jin <youngtack.jin@gmail.com>
  Huaicheng Li <huaicheng@cs.uchicago.edu>

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-16 10:06:33 -06:00