Instead of directly poking into the struct device add a new numa_node
field to struct nvme_ctrl. This allows fabrics drivers where ctrl->dev
is a virtual device to support NUMA affinity as well.
Also expose the field as a sysfs attribute, and populate it for the
RDMA and FC transports.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The ->poll_fn has been stale for a while, as a lot of places check for mq
ops. But there is no real point in it anyway, as we don't even use
the multipath code for subsystems without multiple ports, which is usually
what we do high performance I/O to. If it really becomes an issue we
should rework the nvme code to also skip the multipath code for any
private namespace, even if that could mean some trouble when rescanning.
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_poll() has always kept spinning until it found an IO. This is
fine for SYNC polling, since we need to find one request we have
pending, but in preparation for ASYNC polling it can be beneficial
to just check if we have any entries available or not.
Existing callers are converted to pass in 'spin == true', to retain
the old behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We currently only really support sync poll, ie poll with 1 IO in flight.
This prepares us for supporting async poll.
Note that the returned value isn't necessarily 100% accurate. If poll
races with IRQ completion, we assume that the fact that the task is now
runnable means we found at least one entry. In reality it could be more
than 1, or not even 1. This is fine, the caller will just need to take
this into account.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Merge tag 'v4.20-rc3' into for-4.21/block
Merge in -rc3 to resolve a few conflicts, but also to get a few
important fixes that have gone into mainline since the block
4.21 branch was forked off (most notably the SCSI queue issue,
which is both a conflict AND needed fix).
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
With the legacy request path gone there is no real need to override the
queue_lock.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Whenever we update ns_head info, we need to make sure it is still
compatible with all underlying backing devices because although nvme
multipath doesn't have any explicit use of these limits, other devices
can still be stacked on top of it which may rely on the underlying limits.
Start with unlimited stacking limits, and every info update iterate over
siblings and adjust queue limits.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The nvme namespace paths were being updated only when the current path
was not set or nonoptimized. If a new path comes online that is a better
path for its NUMA node, the multipath selector may continue using the
previously set path on a potentially further node.
This patch re-runs the path assignment after successfully adding a new
optimized path.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Make current_path an array with an entry for every possible node, and
cache the best path on a per-node basis. Take the node distance into
account when selecting it. This is primarily useful for dual-ported PCIe
devices which are connected to PCIe root ports on different sockets.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
When an io is rejected by nvmf_check_ready() due to validation of the
controller state, the nvmf_fail_nonready_command() will normally return
BLK_STS_RESOURCE to requeue and retry. However, if the controller is
dying or the I/O is marked for NVMe multipath, the I/O is failed so that
the controller can terminate or so that the io can be issued on a
different path. Unfortunately, as this reject point is before the
transport has accepted the command, blk-mq ends up completing the I/O
and never calls nvme_complete_rq(), which is where multipath may preserve
or re-route the I/O. The end result is, the device user ends up seeing an
EIO error.
Example: single path connectivity, controller is under load, and a reset
is induced. An I/O is received:
a) while the reset state has been set but the queues have yet to be
stopped; or
b) after queues are started (at end of reset) but before the reconnect
has completed.
The I/O finishes with an EIO status.
This patch makes the following changes:
- Adds the HOST_PATH_ERROR pathing status from TP4028
- Modifies the reject point such that it appears to queue successfully,
but actually completes the io with the new pathing status and calls
nvme_complete_rq().
- nvme_complete_rq() recognizes the new status, avoids resetting the
controller (likely was already done in order to get this new status),
and calls the multipather to clear the current path that errored.
This allows the next command (retry or new command) to select a new
path if there is one.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Merge tag 'v4.19-rc6' into for-4.20/block
Merge -rc6 in, for two reasons:
1) Resolve a trivial conflict in the blk-mq-tag.c documentation
2) A few important regression fixes went into upstream directly, so
they aren't in the 4.20 branch.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
* tag 'v4.19-rc6': (780 commits)
Linux 4.19-rc6
MAINTAINERS: fix reference to moved drivers/{misc => auxdisplay}/panel.c
cpufreq: qcom-kryo: Fix section annotations
perf/core: Add sanity check to deal with pinned event failure
xen/blkfront: correct purging of persistent grants
Revert "xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer"
selftests/powerpc: Fix Makefiles for headers_install change
blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace
dax: Fix deadlock in dax_lock_mapping_entry()
x86/boot: Fix kexec booting failure in the SEV bit detection code
bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid deadlock
drm/amd/display: Fix Edid emulation for linux
drm/amd/display: Fix Vega10 lightup on S3 resume
drm/amdgpu: Fix vce work queue was not cancelled when suspend
Revert "drm/panel: Add device_link from panel device to DRM device"
xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer
clocksource/drivers/timer-atmel-pit: Properly handle error cases
block: fix deadline elevator drain for zoned block devices
ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Don't scan for non-hotplug bridges if slot is not bridge
drm/syncobj: Don't leak fences when WAIT_FOR_SUBMIT is set
...
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We should be registering the ns_id attribute as default sysfs
attribute groups, otherwise we have a race condition between
the uevent and the attributes appearing in sysfs.
Suggested-by: Bart van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Update device_add_disk() to take an 'groups' argument so that
individual drivers can register a device with additional sysfs
attributes.
This avoids race condition the driver would otherwise have if these
groups were to be created with sysfs_add_groups().
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When the initial discovery fails the subsystem hasn't been setup yet
in nvme_mpath_stop, and we can't dereference ctrl->subsys.
Fixes: 0d0b660f ("nvme: add ANA support")
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Add support for Asynchronous Namespace Access as specified in NVMe 1.3
TP 4004. With ANA each namespace attached to a controller belongs to an
ANA group that describes the characteristics of accessing the namespaces
through this controller. In the optimized and non-optimized states
namespaces can be accessed regularly, although in a multi-pathing
environment we should always prefer to access a namespace through a
controller where an optimized relationship exists. Namespaces in
Inaccessible, Permanent-Loss or Change state for a given controller
should not be accessed.
The states are updated through reading the ANA log page, which is read
once during controller initialization, whenever the ANA change notice
AEN is received, or when one of the ANA specific status codes that
signal a state change is received on a command.
The ANA state is kept in the nvme_ns structure, which makes the checks in
the fast path very simple. Updating the ANA state when reading the log
page is also very simple, the only downside is that finding the initial
ANA state when scanning for namespaces is a bit cumbersome.
The gendisk for a ns_head is only registered once a live path for it
exists. Without that the kernel would hang during partition scanning.
Includes fixes and improvements from Hannes Reinecke.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Now that we just call out to blk_path_error there isn't really any good
reason to not merge it into the only caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Adding a tracepoint to trace bio remapping for native nvme multipath.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH is set, but we're not using nvme to multipath,
namespaces with multiple paths were not creating unique names due to
reusing the same instance number from the namespace's head.
This patch fixes this by falling back to the non-multipath naming method
when the parameter disabled using multipath.
Reported-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We can't allow the user to change multipath settings at runtime, as this
will create naming conflicts due to the different naming schemes used
for each mode.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Merge tag 'for-4.17/block-20180402' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"It's a pretty quiet round this time, which is nice. This contains:
- series from Bart, cleaning up the way we set/test/clear atomic
queue flags.
- series from Bart, fixing races between gendisk and queue
registration and removal.
- set of bcache fixes and improvements from various folks, by way of
Michael Lyle.
- set of lightnvm updates from Matias, most of it being the 1.2 to
2.0 transition.
- removal of unused DIO flags from Nikolay.
- blk-mq/sbitmap memory ordering fixes from Omar.
- divide-by-zero fix for BFQ from Paolo.
- minor documentation patches from Randy.
- timeout fix from Tejun.
- Alpha "can't write a char atomically" fix from Mikulas.
- set of NVMe fixes by way of Keith.
- bsg and bsg-lib improvements from Christoph.
- a few sed-opal fixes from Jonas.
- cdrom check-disk-change deadlock fix from Maurizio.
- various little fixes, comment fixes, etc from various folks"
* tag 'for-4.17/block-20180402' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (139 commits)
blk-mq: Directly schedule q->timeout_work when aborting a request
blktrace: fix comment in blktrace_api.h
lightnvm: remove function name in strings
lightnvm: pblk: remove some unnecessary NULL checks
lightnvm: pblk: don't recover unwritten lines
lightnvm: pblk: implement 2.0 support
lightnvm: pblk: implement get log report chunk
lightnvm: pblk: rename ppaf* to addrf*
lightnvm: pblk: check for supported version
lightnvm: implement get log report chunk helpers
lightnvm: make address conversions depend on generic device
lightnvm: add support for 2.0 address format
lightnvm: normalize geometry nomenclature
lightnvm: complete geo structure with maxoc*
lightnvm: add shorten OCSSD version in geo
lightnvm: add minor version to generic geometry
lightnvm: simplify geometry structure
lightnvm: pblk: refactor init/exit sequences
lightnvm: Avoid validation of default op value
lightnvm: centralize permission check for lightnvm ioctl
...
namespaces_mutext is used to synchronize the operations on ctrl
namespaces list. Most of the time, it is a read operation.
On the other hand, there are many interfaces in nvme core that
need this lock, such as nvme_wait_freeze, and even more interfaces
will be added. If we use mutex here, circular dependency could be
introduced easily. For example:
context A context B
nvme_xxx nvme_xxx
hold namespaces_mutext require namespaces_mutext
sync context B
So it is better to change it from mutex to rwsem.
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch has been generated as follows:
for verb in set_unlocked clear_unlocked set clear; do
replace-in-files queue_flag_${verb} blk_queue_flag_${verb%_unlocked} \
$(git grep -lw queue_flag_${verb} drivers block/bsg*)
done
Except for protecting all queue flag changes with the queue lock
this patch does not change any functionality.
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This reverts commit e9a48034d7.
The slaves and holders link for the hidden gendisks confuse lsblk so that
it errors out on, or doesn't report the nvme multipath devices. Given
that we don't need holder relationships for something that can't even be
directly accessed we should just stop creating those links.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja <bharat@chelsio.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
This patch does not change any functionality.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
If multipathing is enabled, each NVMe subsystem creates a head
namespace (e.g., nvme0n1) and multiple private namespaces
(e.g., nvme0c0n1 and nvme0c1n1) in sysfs. When creating links for
private namespaces, links of head namespace are used, so the
namespace creation order must be followed (e.g., nvme0n1 ->
nvme0c1n1). If the order is not followed, links of sysfs will be
incomplete or kernel panic will occur.
The kernel panic was:
kernel BUG at fs/sysfs/symlink.c:27!
Call Trace:
nvme_mpath_add_disk_links+0x5d/0x80 [nvme_core]
nvme_validate_ns+0x5c2/0x850 [nvme_core]
nvme_scan_work+0x1af/0x2d0 [nvme_core]
Correct order
Context A Context B
nvme0n1
nvme0c0n1 nvme0c1n1
Incorrect order
Context A Context B
nvme0c1n1
nvme0n1
nvme0c0n1
The nvme_mpath_add_disk (for creating head namespace) is called
just before the nvme_mpath_add_disk_links (for creating private
namespaces). In nvme_mpath_add_disk, the first context acquires
the lock of subsystem and creates a head namespace, and other
contexts do nothing by checking GENHD_FL_UP of a head namespace
after waiting to acquire the lock. We verified the code with or
without multipathing using three vendors of dual-port NVMe SSDs.
Signed-off-by: Baegjae Sung <baegjae@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Uses common code for determining if an error should be retried on
alternate path.
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This removes nvme multipath's specific status decoding to see if failover
is needed, using the generic blk_status_t that was decoded earlier. This
abstraction from the raw NVMe status means all status decoding exists
in one place.
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Trivial fix to spelling mistake in dev_warn_ratelimited message text
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When creating nvme multipath devices we should populate the 'slaves' and
'holders' directorys properly to aid userspace topology detection.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
[hch: split from a larger patch, compile fix for CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH=n]
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We do this by adding a helper that returns the ns_head for a device that
can belong to either the per-controller or per-subsystem block device
nodes, and otherwise reuse all the existing code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch adds native multipath support to the nvme driver. For each
namespace we create only single block device node, which can be used
to access that namespace through any of the controllers that refer to it.
The gendisk for each controllers path to the name space still exists
inside the kernel, but is hidden from userspace. The character device
nodes are still available on a per-controller basis. A new link from
the sysfs directory for the subsystem allows to find all controllers
for a given subsystem.
Currently we will always send I/O to the first available path, this will
be changed once the NVMe Asynchronous Namespace Access (ANA) TP is
ratified and implemented, at which point we will look at the ANA state
for each namespace. Another possibility that was prototyped is to
use the path that is closes to the submitting NUMA code, which will be
mostly interesting for PCI, but might also be useful for RDMA or FC
transports in the future. There is not plan to implement round robin
or I/O service time path selectors, as those are not scalable with
the performance rates provided by NVMe.
The multipath device will go away once all paths to it disappear,
any delay to keep it alive needs to be implemented at the controller
level.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
