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Omar Sandoval
43cade803e loop: fold loop_switch() into callers
The comments here are really outdated, and blk-mq made flushing much
simpler, so just fold the two cases into the callers.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-31 13:51:16 -06:00
Omar Sandoval
89e4fdecb5 loop: add ioctl for changing logical block size
This is a different approach from the first attempt in f2c6df7dbf
("loop: support 4k physical blocksize"). Rather than extending
LOOP_{GET,SET}_STATUS, add a separate ioctl just for setting the block
size.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-31 13:51:14 -06:00
Omar Sandoval
6c6b6f28b3 loop: set physical block size to PAGE_SIZE
The physical block size is "the lowest possible sector size that the
hardware can operate on without reverting to read-modify-write
operations" (from the comment on blk_queue_physical_block_size()). Since
loop does buffered I/O on the backing file by default, the RMW unit is a
page. This isn't the case for direct I/O mode, but let's keep it simple.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-31 13:51:12 -06:00
Omar Sandoval
8a0740c410 loop: get rid of lo_blocksize
This is only used for setting the soft block size on the struct
block_device once and then never used again.

Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-31 13:51:10 -06:00
Jens Axboe
cd996fb47c Linux 4.13-rc7
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Merge tag 'v4.13-rc7' into for-4.14/block-postmerge

Linux 4.13-rc7

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-28 13:00:44 -06:00
Omar Sandoval
1e6ec9ea89 Revert "loop: support 4k physical blocksize"
There's some stuff still up in the air, let's not get stuck with a
subpar ABI. I'll follow up with something better for 4.14.

Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-23 15:57:55 -06:00
Anton Volkov
a8c1d064d3 loop: fix to a race condition due to the early registration of device
The early device registration made possible a race leading to allocations
of disks with wrong minors.

This patch moves the device registration further down the loop_init
function to make the race infeasible.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Anton Volkov <avolkov@ispras.ru>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-15 12:49:20 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
89fbf5384d Merge branch 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull read/write updates from Al Viro:
 "Christoph's fs/read_write.c series - consolidation and cleanups"

* 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  nfsd: remove nfsd_vfs_read
  nfsd: use vfs_iter_read/write
  fs: implement vfs_iter_write using do_iter_write
  fs: implement vfs_iter_read using do_iter_read
  fs: move more code into do_iter_read/do_iter_write
  fs: remove __do_readv_writev
  fs: remove do_compat_readv_writev
  fs: remove do_readv_writev
2017-07-05 14:35:57 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
abbb65899a fs: implement vfs_iter_write using do_iter_write
De-dupliate some code and allow for passing the flags argument to
vfs_iter_write.  Additionally it now properly updates timestamps.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-06-29 17:49:23 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
18e9710ee5 fs: implement vfs_iter_read using do_iter_read
De-dupliate some code and allow for passing the flags argument to
vfs_iter_read.  Additional it properly updates atime now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-06-29 17:49:23 -04:00
NeilBrown
b2ee7d46be loop: Add PF_LESS_THROTTLE to block/loop device thread.
When a filesystem is mounted from a loop device, writes are
throttled by balance_dirty_pages() twice: once when writing
to the filesystem and once when the loop_handle_cmd() writes
to the backing file.  This double-throttling can trigger
positive feedback loops that create significant delays.  The
throttling at the lower level is seen by the upper level as
a slow device, so it throttles extra hard.

The PF_LESS_THROTTLE flag was created to handle exactly this
circumstance, though with an NFS filesystem mounted from a
local NFS server.  It reduces the throttling on the lower
layer so that it can proceed largely unthrottled.

To demonstrate this, create a filesystem on a loop device
and write (e.g. with dd) several large files which combine
to consume significantly more than the limit set by
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio or dirty_bytes.  Measure the total
time taken.

When I do this directly on a device (no loop device) the
total time for several runs (mkfs, mount, write 200 files,
umount) is fairly stable: 28-35 seconds.
When I do this over a loop device the times are much worse
and less stable.  52-460 seconds.  Half below 100seconds,
half above.
When I apply this patch, the times become stable again,
though not as fast as the no-loop-back case: 53-72 seconds.

There may be room for further improvement as the total overhead still
seems too high, but this is a big improvement.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-18 09:07:42 -06:00
Jens Axboe
8f66439eec Linux 4.12-rc5
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Merge tag 'v4.12-rc5' into for-4.13/block

We've already got a few conflicts and upcoming work depends on some of the
changes that have gone into mainline as regression fixes for this series.

Pull in 4.12-rc5 to resolve these conflicts and make it easier on down stream
trees to continue working on 4.13 changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-12 08:30:13 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
fc17b6534e blk-mq: switch ->queue_rq return value to blk_status_t
Use the same values for use for request completion errors as the return
value from ->queue_rq.  BLK_STS_RESOURCE is special cased to cause
a requeue, and all the others are completed as-is.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
2a842acab1 block: introduce new block status code type
Currently we use nornal Linux errno values in the block layer, and while
we accept any error a few have overloaded magic meanings.  This patch
instead introduces a new  blk_status_t value that holds block layer specific
status codes and explicitly explains their meaning.  Helpers to convert from
and to the previous special meanings are provided for now, but I suspect
we want to get rid of them in the long run - those drivers that have a
errno input (e.g. networking) usually get errnos that don't know about
the special block layer overloads, and similarly returning them to userspace
will usually return somethings that strictly speaking isn't correct
for file system operations, but that's left as an exercise for later.

For now the set of errors is a very limited set that closely corresponds
to the previous overloaded errno values, but there is some low hanging
fruite to improve it.

blk_status_t (ab)uses the sparse __bitwise annotations to allow for sparse
typechecking, so that we can easily catch places passing the wrong values.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 09:27:32 -06:00
Arnd Bergmann
b040ad9cf6 loop: fix error handling regression
gcc points out an unusual indentation:

drivers/block/loop.c: In function 'loop_set_status':
drivers/block/loop.c:1149:3: error: this 'if' clause does not guard... [-Werror=misleading-indentation]
   if (figure_loop_size(lo, info->lo_offset, info->lo_sizelimit,
   ^~
drivers/block/loop.c:1152:4: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it were guarded by the 'if'
    goto exit;

This was introduced by a new feature that accidentally moved the opening
braces from one condition to another. Adding a second pair of braces
makes it work correctly again and also more readable.

Fixes: f2c6df7dbf ("loop: support 4k physical blocksize")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-09 08:18:42 -06:00
Hannes Reinecke
f2c6df7dbf loop: support 4k physical blocksize
When generating bootable VM images certain systems (most notably
s390x) require devices with 4k blocksize. This patch implements
a new flag 'LO_FLAGS_BLOCKSIZE' which will set the physical
blocksize to that of the underlying device, and allow to change
the logical blocksize for up to the physical blocksize.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-08 08:40:00 -06:00
Hannes Reinecke
51001b7da3 loop: Remove unused 'bdev' argument from loop_set_capacity
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-08 08:39:58 -06:00
James Wang
6460495709 Fix loop device flush before configure v3
While installing SLES-12 (based on v4.4), I found that the installer
will stall for 60+ seconds during LVM disk scan.  The root cause was
determined to be the removal of a bound device check in loop_flush()
by commit b5dd2f6047 ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq").

Restoring this check, examining ->lo_state as set by loop_set_fd()
eliminates the bad behavior.

Test method:
modprobe loop max_loop=64
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=512 count=200K
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do losetup -f disk; done
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/loop0
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do mkdir t$i; mount /dev/loop$i t$i;done
for f in `ls /dev/loop[0-9]*|sort`; do \
	echo $f; dd if=$f of=/dev/null  bs=512 count=1; \
	done

Test output:  stock          patched
/dev/loop0    18.1217e-05    8.3842e-05
/dev/loop1     6.1114e-05    0.000147979
/dev/loop10    0.414701      0.000116564
/dev/loop11    0.7474        6.7942e-05
/dev/loop12    0.747986      8.9082e-05
/dev/loop13    0.746532      7.4799e-05
/dev/loop14    0.480041      9.3926e-05
/dev/loop15    1.26453       7.2522e-05

Note that from loop10 onward, the device is not mounted, yet the
stock kernel consumes several orders of magnitude more wall time
than it does for a mounted device.
(Thanks for Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, give a changelog review.)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Wang <jnwang@suse.com>
Fixes: b5dd2f6047 ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-06-08 08:04:18 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
d6296d39e9 blk-mq: update ->init_request and ->exit_request prototypes
Remove the request_idx parameter, which can't be used safely now that we
support I/O schedulers with blk-mq.  Except for a superflous check in
mtip32xx it was unused anyway.

Also pass the tag_set instead of just the driver data - this allows drivers
to avoid some code duplication in a follow on cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-05-02 07:52:08 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
08e0029aa2 blk-mq: remove the error argument to blk_mq_complete_request
Now that all drivers that call blk_mq_complete_requests have a
->complete callback we can remove the direct call to blk_mq_end_request,
as well as the error argument to blk_mq_complete_request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:16:10 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
fe2cb2905c loop: zero-fill bio on the submitting cpu
In thruth I've just audited which blk-mq drivers don't currently have a
complete callback, but I think this change is at least borderline useful.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-20 12:16:10 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
48920ff2a5 block: remove the discard_zeroes_data flag
Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
19372e2769 loop: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES
It's identical to discard as hole punches will always leave us with
zeroes on reads.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-08 11:25:38 -06:00
Eric Biggers
f363b089be blk-mq: constify struct blk_mq_ops
Constify all instances of blk_mq_ops, as they are never modified.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-31 08:28:58 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
590dce2d49 Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e0d072250a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "A collection of fixes for this merge window, either fixes for existing
  issues, or parts that were waiting for acks to come in. This pull
  request contains:

   - Allocation of nvme queues on the right node from Shaohua.

     This was ready long before the merge window, but waiting on an ack
     from Bjorn on the PCI bit. Now that we have that, the three patches
     can go in.

   - Two fixes for blk-mq-sched with nvmeof, which uses hctx specific
     request allocations. This caused an oops. One part from Sagi, one
     part from Omar.

   - A loop partition scan deadlock fix from Omar, fixing a regression
     in this merge window.

   - A three-patch series from Keith, closing up a hole on clearing out
     requests on shutdown/resume.

   - A stable fix for nbd from Josef, fixing a leak of sockets.

   - Two fixes for a regression in this window from Jan, fixing a
     problem with one of his earlier patches dealing with queue vs bdi
     life times.

   - A fix for a regression with virtio-blk, causing an IO stall if
     scheduling is used. From me.

   - A fix for an io context lock ordering problem. From me"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()
  blk-mq: ensure that bd->last is always set correctly
  block: don't call ioc_exit_icq() with the queue lock held for blk-mq
  block: Initialize bd_bdi on inode initialization
  loop: fix LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN hang
  nvme: Complete all stuck requests
  blk-mq: Provide freeze queue timeout
  blk-mq: Export blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait
  nbd: stop leaking sockets
  blk-mq: move update of tags->rqs to __blk_mq_alloc_request()
  blk-mq: kill blk_mq_set_alloc_data()
  blk-mq: make blk_mq_alloc_request_hctx() allocate a scheduler request
  blk-mq-sched: Allocate sched reserved tags as specified in the original queue tagset
  nvme: allocate nvme_queue in correct node
  PCI: add an API to get node from vector
  blk-mq: allocate blk_mq_tags and requests in correct node
2017-03-03 10:53:35 -08:00
David Howells
a528d35e8b statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
Add a system call to make extended file information available, including
file creation and some attribute flags where available through the
underlying filesystem.

The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a
u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the
synchronisation mode.  This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*()
function.

Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions
vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage.

========
OVERVIEW
========

The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved
with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall
with an extended stat structure.

A number of requests were gathered for features to be included.  The
following have been included:

 (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large.

 (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for
     future expansion.

 (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an
     __s64).

 (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could
     be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of
     FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime).

     This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could
     be exported by NFSD [Steve French].

 (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a
     netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly
     without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas
     Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC).

 (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks
     its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust]
     (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC).

And the following have been left out for future extension:

 (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh
     Kumar].

     Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves
     i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr().  It could get
     it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead.

     (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since
     not all filesystems do this the same way).

 (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such
     as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen)
     [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert].

 (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers
     [Bernd Schubert].

     (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the
     open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to
     whether it's a security hole or not).

(10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger].

     (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup
     timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come
     into this category).

(11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A
     filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if
     that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't
     exist or are fabricated locally...

     (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea
     for this).

(12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in
     struct xstat [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
     granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value.  These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
     Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
     define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
     may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).

     (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general
     feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't
     be exposed through statx this way).

(15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer,
     Michael Kerrisk].

     (Deferred, probably to fsinfo.  Finding out if there's an ACL or
     seclabal might require extra filesystem operations).

(16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner].

     (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for
     this - if there proves to be a need).

(17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this.

===============
NEW SYSTEM CALL
===============

The new system call is:

	int ret = statx(int dfd,
			const char *filename,
			unsigned int flags,
			unsigned int mask,
			struct statx *buffer);

The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a
similar way to fstatat().  There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be
emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags.  There is
also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL
filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd.

Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store
can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically
only affects network filesystems):

 (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this
     respect.

 (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise
     its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to
     occur to get the timestamps correct.

 (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a
     network filesystem.  The resulting values should be considered
     approximate.

mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of
interest to the caller.  The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to
get the basic set returned by stat().  It should be noted that asking for
more information may entail extra I/O operations.

buffer points to the destination for the data.  This must be 256 bytes in
size.

======================
MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD
======================

The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute
set:

	struct statx_timestamp {
		__s64	tv_sec;
		__s32	tv_nsec;
		__s32	__reserved;
	};

	struct statx {
		__u32	stx_mask;
		__u32	stx_blksize;
		__u64	stx_attributes;
		__u32	stx_nlink;
		__u32	stx_uid;
		__u32	stx_gid;
		__u16	stx_mode;
		__u16	__spare0[1];
		__u64	stx_ino;
		__u64	stx_size;
		__u64	stx_blocks;
		__u64	__spare1[1];
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_atime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_btime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_ctime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_mtime;
		__u32	stx_rdev_major;
		__u32	stx_rdev_minor;
		__u32	stx_dev_major;
		__u32	stx_dev_minor;
		__u64	__spare2[14];
	};

The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are:

	STATX_TYPE		Want/got stx_mode & S_IFMT
	STATX_MODE		Want/got stx_mode & ~S_IFMT
	STATX_NLINK		Want/got stx_nlink
	STATX_UID		Want/got stx_uid
	STATX_GID		Want/got stx_gid
	STATX_ATIME		Want/got stx_atime{,_ns}
	STATX_MTIME		Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns}
	STATX_CTIME		Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns}
	STATX_INO		Want/got stx_ino
	STATX_SIZE		Want/got stx_size
	STATX_BLOCKS		Want/got stx_blocks
	STATX_BASIC_STATS	[The stuff in the normal stat struct]
	STATX_BTIME		Want/got stx_btime{,_ns}
	STATX_ALL		[All currently available stuff]

stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the
data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be
placed.

Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields
plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution.  Note
that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond
fields will also be negative if not zero.

The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a
file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does.  The following
attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value:

	STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED		File is compressed by the fs
	STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE		File is marked immutable
	STATX_ATTR_APPEND		File is append-only
	STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		File is not to be dumped
	STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		File requires key to decrypt in fs

Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by:

	KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS

[Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed
through this interface?]

New flags include:

	STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		Object is an automount trigger

These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially,
depending on what they are.

Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes:

 (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize.

     These are local system information and are always available.

 (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino,
     stx_size, stx_blocks.

     These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not.  The
     corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they
     actually have valid values.

     If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated.  For
     example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server,
     unless as a byproduct of updating something requested.

     If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as
     UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask,
     even if the caller asked for the value.  In such a case, the returned
     value will be a fabrication.

     Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for
     instance Windows reparse points.

 (2) stx_rdev_*.

     This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a
     blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0.

 (3) stx_btime.

     Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist.

=======
TESTING
=======

The following test program can be used to test the statx system call:

	samples/statx/test-statx.c

Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine.
The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled.

Here's some example output.  Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to
another FSID.  Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting
this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:26           Inode: 1703937     Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------)

Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:27           Inode: 2           Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-03-02 20:51:15 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
94e877d0fb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile two from Al Viro:

 - orangefs fix

 - series of fs/namei.c cleanups from me

 - VFS stuff coming from overlayfs tree

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  orangefs: Use RCU for destroy_inode
  vfs: use helper for calling f_op->fsync()
  mm: use helper for calling f_op->mmap()
  vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter()
  vfs: pass type instead of fn to do_{loop,iter}_readv_writev()
  vfs: extract common parts of {compat_,}do_readv_writev()
  vfs: wrap write f_ops with file_{start,end}_write()
  vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files
  vfs: deny fallocate() on directory
  vfs: create vfs helper vfs_tmpfile()
  namei.c: split unlazy_walk()
  namei.c: fold the check for DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE into d_revalidate()
  lookup_fast(): clean up the logics around the fallback to non-rcu mode
  namei: fold unlazy_link() into its sole caller
2017-03-02 15:20:00 -08:00
Omar Sandoval
e02898b423 loop: fix LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN hang
loop_reread_partitions() needs to do I/O, but we just froze the queue,
so we end up waiting forever. This can easily be reproduced with losetup
-P. Fix it by moving the reread to after we unfreeze the queue.

Fixes: ecdd09597a ("block/loop: fix race between I/O and set_status")
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-03-02 08:56:59 -07:00
Al Viro
653a7746fa Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/for-viro' into for-linus
Overlayfs-related series from Miklos and Amir
2017-03-02 06:41:22 -05:00
Masahiro Yamada
89d790ab31 scripts/spelling.txt: add "algined" pattern and fix typo instances
Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  algined||aligned

While we are here, fix the "appplication" in the touched line in
drivers/block/loop.c.  Also, fix the "may not naturally ..." to
"may not be naturally ..." in the touched line in mm/page_alloc.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-9-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-27 18:43:46 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
bb7462b6fd vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter()
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2017-02-20 16:51:23 +01:00
Ming Lei
ecdd09597a block/loop: fix race between I/O and set_status
Inside set_status, transfer need to setup again, so
we have to drain IO before the transition, otherwise
oops may be triggered like the following:

	divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN
	CPU: 0 PID: 2935 Comm: loop7 Not tainted 4.10.0-rc7+ #213
	Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs
	01/01/2011
	task: ffff88006ba1e840 task.stack: ffff880067338000
	RIP: 0010:transfer_xor+0x1d1/0x440 drivers/block/loop.c:110
	RSP: 0018:ffff88006733f108 EFLAGS: 00010246
	RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8800688d7000 RCX: 0000000000000059
	RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 1ffff1000d743f43 RDI: ffff880068891c08
	RBP: ffff88006733f160 R08: ffff8800688d7001 R09: 0000000000000000
	R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8800688d7000
	R13: ffff880067b7d000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
	FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88006d000000(0000)
	knlGS:0000000000000000
	CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
	CR2: 00000000006c17e0 CR3: 0000000066e3b000 CR4: 00000000001406f0
	Call Trace:
	 lo_do_transfer drivers/block/loop.c:251 [inline]
	 lo_read_transfer drivers/block/loop.c:392 [inline]
	 do_req_filebacked drivers/block/loop.c:541 [inline]
	 loop_handle_cmd drivers/block/loop.c:1677 [inline]
	 loop_queue_work+0xda0/0x49b0 drivers/block/loop.c:1689
	 kthread_worker_fn+0x4c3/0xa30 kernel/kthread.c:630
	 kthread+0x326/0x3f0 kernel/kthread.c:227
	 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430
	Code: 03 83 e2 07 41 29 df 42 0f b6 04 30 4d 8d 44 24 01 38 d0 7f 08
	84 c0 0f 85 62 02 00 00 44 89 f8 41 0f b6 48 ff 25 ff 01 00 00 99 <f7>
	7d c8 48 63 d2 48 03 55 d0 48 89 d0 48 89 d7 48 c1 e8 03 83
	RIP: transfer_xor+0x1d1/0x440 drivers/block/loop.c:110 RSP:
	ffff88006733f108
	---[ end trace 0166f7bd3b0c0933 ]---

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-13 09:37:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7c0f6ba682 Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally
This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*<asm/uaccess.h>'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include <linux/uaccess.h>!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
Omar Sandoval
b4a567e811 loop: return proper error from loop_queue_rq()
->queue_rq() should return one of the BLK_MQ_RQ_QUEUE_* constants, not
an errno.

f4aa4c7bba ("block: loop: convert to per-device workqueue")
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-11-14 15:58:44 -07:00
Petr Mladek
3989144f86 kthread: kthread worker API cleanup
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name
of the subsystem.

The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues.  Each
worker has a dedicated kthread.  It runs a generic function that process
queued works.  It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem.

This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use
the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by
kthread_:

__init_kthread_worker()		-> __kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_worker()		-> kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_work()		-> kthread_init_work()
insert_kthread_work()		-> kthread_insert_work()
queue_kthread_work()		-> kthread_queue_work()
flush_kthread_work()		-> kthread_flush_work()
flush_kthread_worker()		-> kthread_flush_worker()

Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay
as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has
precedence over the subsystem names.

Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different
naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several
reasons for this solution:

  + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize"
    aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names
    stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer".

  + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros

  + init() functions are used close to the other kthread()
    functions. It looks much better if all the functions
    use the same scheme.

  + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will
    be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related
    to the init() function. Again it looks better if all
    functions use the same naming scheme.

  + there are several precedents for such init() function
    names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(),
    jump_label_init_type(),  regmap_init_mmio_clk(),

  + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-11 15:06:33 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
7d7e0f90b7 blk-mq: remove ->map_queue
All drivers use the default, so provide an inline version of it.  If we
ever need other queue mapping we can add an optional method back,
although supporting will also require major changes to the queue setup
code.

This provides better code generation, and better debugability as well.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-09-15 08:42:03 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
c1c87c2ba9 loop: make do_req_filebacked more robust
Use a switch statement to iterate over the possible operations and
error out if it's an incorrect one.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-04 14:19:16 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
f0225cacfe loop: don't try to use AIO for discards
Fix a fat-fingered conversion to the req_op accessors, and also
use a switch statement to make it more obvious what is being checked.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Fixes: c2df40 ("drivers: use req op accessor");
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-08-04 14:19:16 -06:00
Minfei Huang
7a6497378a loop: Make user notify for adding loop device failed
There is no error number returned if loop driver fails in function
alloc_disk to add new loop device. Add a correct error number to make
user notify in this case.

Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-07-12 16:17:18 -07:00
Mike Christie
3a5e02ced1 block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operation
This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
c2df40dfb8 drivers: use req op accessor
The req operation REQ_OP is separated from the rq_flag_bits
definition. This converts the block layer drivers to
use req_op to get the op from the request struct.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Mike Christie
a8ebb056a8 block, drivers, cgroup: use op_is_write helper instead of checking for REQ_WRITE
We currently set REQ_WRITE/WRITE for all non READ IOs
like discard, flush, writesame, etc. In the next patches where we
no longer set up the op as a bitmap, we will not be able to
detect a operation direction like writesame by testing if REQ_WRITE is
set.

This patch converts the drivers and cgroup to use the
op_is_write helper. This should just cover the simple
cases. I did dm, md and bcache in their own patches
because they were more involved.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-06-07 13:41:38 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
24b9f0cf00 Merge branch 'for-4.7/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "On top of the core pull request, this is the drivers pull request for
  this merge window.  This contains:

   - Switch drivers to the new write back cache API, and kill off the
     flush flags.  From me.

   - Kill the discard support for the STEC pci-e flash driver.  It's
     trivially broken, and apparently unmaintained, so it's safer to
     just remove it.  From Jeff Moyer.

   - A set of lightnvm updates from the usual suspects (Matias/Javier,
     and Simon), and fixes from Arnd, Jeff Mahoney, Sagi, and Wenwei
     Tao.

   - A set of updates for NVMe:

        - Turn the controller state management into a proper state
          machine.  From Christoph.

        - Shuffling of code in preparation for NVMe-over-fabrics, also
          from Christoph.

        - Cleanup of the command prep part from Ming Lin.

        - Rewrite of the discard support from Ming Lin.

        - Deadlock fix for namespace removal from Ming Lin.

        - Use the now exported blk-mq tag helper for IO termination.
          From Sagi.

        - Various little fixes from Christoph, Guilherme, Keith, Ming
          Lin, Wang Sheng-Hui.

   - Convert mtip32xx to use the now exported blk-mq tag iter function,
     from Keith"

* 'for-4.7/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (74 commits)
  lightnvm: reserved space calculation incorrect
  lightnvm: rename nr_pages to nr_ppas on nvm_rq
  lightnvm: add is_cached entry to struct ppa_addr
  lightnvm: expose gennvm_mark_blk to targets
  lightnvm: remove mgt targets on mgt removal
  lightnvm: pass dma address to hardware rather than pointer
  lightnvm: do not assume sequential lun alloc.
  nvme/lightnvm: Log using the ctrl named device
  lightnvm: rename dma helper functions
  lightnvm: enable metadata to be sent to device
  lightnvm: do not free unused metadata on rrpc
  lightnvm: fix out of bound ppa lun id on bb tbl
  lightnvm: refactor set_bb_tbl for accepting ppa list
  lightnvm: move responsibility for bad blk mgmt to target
  lightnvm: make nvm_set_rqd_ppalist() aware of vblks
  lightnvm: remove struct factory_blks
  lightnvm: refactor device ops->get_bb_tbl()
  lightnvm: introduce nvm_for_each_lun_ppa() macro
  lightnvm: refactor dev->online_target to global nvm_targets
  lightnvm: rename nvm_targets to nvm_tgt_type
  ...
2016-05-17 16:03:32 -07:00
Ming Lei
a7297a6a3a block: loop: fix filesystem corruption in case of aio/dio
Starting from commit e36f620428(block: split bios to max possible length),
block core starts to split bio in the middle of bvec.

Unfortunately loop dio/aio doesn't consider this situation, and
always treat 'iter.iov_offset' as zero. Then filesystem corruption
is observed.

This patch figures out the offset of the base bvevc via
'bio->bi_iter.bi_bvec_done' and fixes the issue by passing the offset
to iov iterator.

Fixes: e36f620428 (block: split bios to max possible length)
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.5)
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2016-04-15 08:25:56 -06:00
Jens Axboe
21d0727f63 loop: switch to using blk_queue_write_cache()
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2016-04-12 16:00:39 -06:00
Jens Axboe
54ef2b9687 Merge branch 'for-4.4/core' into for-4.4/drivers
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-09 10:40:29 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
f4829a9b7a blk-mq: fix racy updates of rq->errors
blk_mq_complete_request may be a no-op if the request has already
been completed by others means (e.g. a timeout or cancellation), but
currently drivers have to set rq->errors before calling
blk_mq_complete_request, which might leave us with the wrong error value.

Add an error parameter to blk_mq_complete_request so that we can
defer setting rq->errors until we known we won the race to complete the
request.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-01 10:10:55 +02:00
Ming Lei
bc07c10a36 block: loop: support DIO & AIO
There are at least 3 advantages to use direct I/O and AIO on
read/write loop's backing file:

1) double cache can be avoided, then memory usage gets
decreased a lot

2) not like user space direct I/O, there isn't cost of
pinning pages

3) avoid context switch for obtaining good throughput
- in buffered file read, random I/O top throughput is often obtained
only if they are submitted concurrently from lots of tasks; but for
sequential I/O, most of times they can be hit from page cache, so
concurrent submissions often introduce unnecessary context switch
and can't improve throughput much. There was such discussion[1]
to use non-blocking I/O to improve the problem for application.
- with direct I/O and AIO, concurrent submissions can be
avoided and random read throughput can't be affected meantime

xfstests(-g auto, ext4) is basically passed when running with
direct I/O(aio), one exception is generic/232, but it failed in
loop buffered I/O(4.2-rc6-next-20150814) too.

Follows the fio test result for performance purpose:
	4 jobs fio test inside ext4 file system over loop block

1) How to run
	- KVM: 4 VCPUs, 2G RAM
	- linux kernel: 4.2-rc6-next-20150814(base) with the patchset
	- the loop block is over one image on SSD.
	- linux psync, 4 jobs, size 1500M, ext4 over loop block
	- test result: IOPS from fio output

2) Throughput(IOPS) becomes a bit better with direct I/O(aio)
        -------------------------------------------------------------
        test cases          |randread   |read   |randwrite  |write  |
        -------------------------------------------------------------
        base                |8015       |113811 |67442      |106978
        -------------------------------------------------------------
        base+loop aio       |8136       |125040 |67811      |111376
        -------------------------------------------------------------

- somehow, it should be caused by more page cache avaiable for
application or one extra page copy is avoided in case of direct I/O

3) context switch
        - context switch decreased by ~50% with loop direct I/O(aio)
	compared with loop buffered I/O(4.2-rc6-next-20150814)

4) memory usage from /proc/meminfo
        -------------------------------------------------------------
                                   | Buffers       | Cached
        -------------------------------------------------------------
        base                       | > 760MB       | ~950MB
        -------------------------------------------------------------
        base+loop direct I/O(aio)  | < 5MB         | ~1.6GB
        -------------------------------------------------------------

- so there are much more page caches available for application with
direct I/O

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/612483/

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-09-23 11:01:16 -06:00
Ming Lei
ab1cb278bc block: loop: introduce ioctl command of LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO
If loop block is mounted via 'mount -o loop', it isn't easy
to pass file descriptor opened as O_DIRECT, so this patch
introduces a new command to support direct IO for this case.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-09-23 11:01:16 -06:00