linux/block
Paolo Valente 46d556e6aa block, bfq: consider also in_service_entity to state whether an entity is active
Groups of BFQ queues are represented by generic entities in BFQ. When
a queue belonging to a parent entity is deactivated, the parent entity
may need to be deactivated too, in case the deactivated queue was the
only active queue for the parent entity. This deactivation may need to
be propagated upwards if the entity belongs, in its turn, to a further
higher-level entity, and so on. In particular, the upward propagation
of deactivation stops at the first parent entity that remains active
even if one of its child entities has been deactivated.

To decide whether the last non-deactivation condition holds for a
parent entity, BFQ checks whether the field next_in_service is still
not NULL for the parent entity, after the deactivation of one of its
child entity. If it is not NULL, then there are certainly other active
entities in the parent entity, and deactivations can stop.

Unfortunately, this check misses a corner case: if in_service_entity
is not NULL, then next_in_service may happen to be NULL, although the
parent entity is evidently active. This happens if: 1) the entity
pointed by in_service_entity is the only active entity in the parent
entity, and 2) according to the definition of next_in_service, the
in_service_entity cannot be considered as next_in_service. See the
comments on the definition of next_in_service for details on this
second point.

Hitting the above corner case causes crashes.

To address this issue, this commit:
1) Extends the above check on only next_in_service to controlling both
next_in_service and in_service_entity (if any of them is not NULL,
then no further deactivation is performed)
2) Improves the (important) comments on how next_in_service is defined
and updated; in particular it fixes a few rather obscure paragraphs

Reported-by: Eric Wheeler <bfq-sched@lists.ewheeler.net>
Reported-by: Rick Yiu <rick_yiu@htc.com>
Reported-by: Tom X Nguyen <tom81094@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Valente <paolo.valente@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Eric Wheeler <bfq-sched@lists.ewheeler.net>
Tested-by: Rick Yiu <rick_yiu@htc.com>
Tested-by: Laurentiu Nicola <lnicola@dend.ro>
Tested-by: Tom X Nguyen <tom81094@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-07-29 15:32:49 -06:00
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partitions partitions/ldm: switch to use uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:14 +02:00
badblocks.c block: Add fallthrough markers to switch statements 2017-06-21 11:46:07 -06:00
bfq-cgroup.c block, bfq: access and cache blkg data only when safe 2017-06-08 09:51:10 -06:00
bfq-iosched.c bfq: dispatch request to prevent queue stalling after the request completion 2017-07-12 08:32:04 -06:00
bfq-iosched.h block, bfq: consider also in_service_entity to state whether an entity is active 2017-07-29 15:32:49 -06:00
bfq-wf2q.c block, bfq: consider also in_service_entity to state whether an entity is active 2017-07-29 15:32:49 -06:00
bio-integrity.c bio-integrity: fix boolreturn.cocci warnings 2017-07-04 16:11:53 -06:00
bio.c block: call bio_uninit in bio_endio 2017-07-10 12:43:33 -06:00
blk-cgroup.c block: Avoid that blk_exit_rl() triggers a use-after-free 2017-06-01 13:07:55 -06:00
blk-core.c block: disable runtime-pm for blk-mq 2017-07-24 08:46:40 -06:00
blk-exec.c block: introduce new block status code type 2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
blk-flush.c block: Check locking assumptions at runtime 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
blk-integrity.c block: switch bios to blk_status_t 2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
blk-ioc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-03-03 10:53:35 -08:00
blk-lib.c block: Fix __blkdev_issue_zeroout loop 2017-07-06 09:43:20 -06:00
blk-map.c blk-map: call blk_queue_bounce from blk_rq_append_bio 2017-06-27 12:13:21 -06:00
blk-merge.c block: add support for write hints in a bio 2017-06-27 12:05:27 -06:00
blk-mq-cpumap.c blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
blk-mq-debugfs.c blk-mq: expose write hints through debugfs 2017-06-27 12:05:31 -06:00
blk-mq-debugfs.h mq-deadline: add debugfs attributes 2017-05-04 08:25:17 -06:00
blk-mq-pci.c blk-mq-pci: Fix two spelling mistakes 2017-03-29 11:09:51 -06:00
blk-mq-sched.c blk-mq-sched: fix performance regression of mq-deadline 2017-07-03 16:54:09 -06:00
blk-mq-sched.h Merge commit '8e8320c9315c' into for-4.13/block 2017-06-22 21:55:24 -06:00
blk-mq-sysfs.c blk-mq: untangle debugfs and sysfs 2017-05-04 08:24:13 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.c blk-mq: add shallow depth option for blk_mq_get_tag() 2017-04-14 14:06:54 -06:00
blk-mq-tag.h blk-mq-sched: Allocate sched reserved tags as specified in the original queue tagset 2017-03-02 08:56:04 -07:00
blk-mq-virtio.c blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for virtio device 2017-02-27 20:54:05 +02:00
blk-mq.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
blk-mq.h Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-03 16:50:31 -07:00
blk-settings.c block: don't bother with bounce limits for make_request drivers 2017-06-27 12:13:45 -06:00
blk-softirq.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/topology.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:26 +01:00
blk-stat.c blk-stat: don't use this_cpu_ptr() in a preemptable section 2017-05-10 07:40:18 -06:00
blk-stat.h blk-stat: kill blk_stat_rq_ddir() 2017-04-21 07:56:23 -06:00
blk-sysfs.c block: Fix a blk_exit_rl() regression 2017-06-14 13:27:50 -06:00
blk-tag.c block: Check locking assumptions at runtime 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
blk-throttle.c blk-throttle: set default latency baseline for harddisk 2017-06-07 09:09:32 -06:00
blk-timeout.c block: Check locking assumptions at runtime 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
blk-wbt.c sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and wq_head->task_list naming 2017-06-20 12:19:14 +02:00
blk-wbt.h block: Make writeback throttling defaults consistent for SQ devices 2017-04-19 08:49:03 -06:00
blk-zoned.c block: Rename blk_queue_zone_size and bdev_zone_size 2017-01-12 07:58:32 -07:00
blk.h bio-integrity: stop abusing bi_end_io 2017-07-03 17:00:59 -06:00
bounce.c block: remove the queue_bounce_pfn helper 2017-06-27 12:13:45 -06:00
bsg-lib.c block: introduce new block status code type 2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
bsg.c block: Make most scsi_req_init() calls implicit 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
cfq-iosched.c Linux 4.12-rc5 2017-06-12 08:30:13 -06:00
cmdline-parser.c block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol 2014-01-21 20:18:26 -08:00
compat_ioctl.c compat_hdio_ioctl: get rid of set_fs() 2017-06-29 18:17:52 -04:00
deadline-iosched.c block: enumify ELEVATOR_*_MERGE 2017-02-08 13:43:06 -07:00
elevator.c block: Add fallthrough markers to switch statements 2017-06-21 11:46:07 -06:00
genhd.c block: Constify disk_type 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
ioctl.c block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag 2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
ioprio.c block: Add fallthrough markers to switch statements 2017-06-21 11:46:07 -06:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm 2017-05-12 15:43:10 -07:00
Kconfig.iosched block, bfq: add full hierarchical scheduling and cgroups support 2017-04-19 08:30:26 -06:00
kyber-iosched.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-03 13:08:04 -07:00
Makefile block, bfq: split bfq-iosched.c into multiple source files 2017-04-19 08:48:24 -06:00
mq-deadline.c mq-deadline: add debugfs attributes 2017-05-04 08:25:17 -06:00
noop-iosched.c block: move existing elevator ops to union 2017-01-17 10:03:33 -07:00
opal_proto.h block/sed-opal: allocate struct opal_dev dynamically 2017-02-17 12:41:47 -07:00
partition-generic.c block: fix an error code in add_partition() 2017-05-23 08:41:59 -06:00
scsi_ioctl.c block: Change argument type of scsi_req_init() 2017-06-20 19:27:14 -06:00
sed-opal.c block: sed-opal: Tone down all the pr_* to debugs 2017-04-07 14:24:16 -06:00
t10-pi.c t10-pi: Move opencoded contants to common header 2017-07-03 16:56:25 -06:00