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Jeff Moyer
080d676de0 aio: allocate kiocbs in batches
In testing aio on a fast storage device, I found that the context lock
takes up a fair amount of cpu time in the I/O submission path.  The reason
is that we take it for every I/O submitted (see __aio_get_req).  Since we
know how many I/Os are passed to io_submit, we can preallocate the kiocbs
in batches, reducing the number of times we take and release the lock.

In my testing, I was able to reduce the amount of time spent in
_raw_spin_lock_irq by .56% (average of 3 runs).  The command I used to
test this was:

   aio-stress -O -o 2 -o 3 -r 8 -d 128 -b 32 -i 32 -s 16384 <dev>

I also tested the patch with various numbers of events passed to
io_submit, and I ran the xfstests aio group of tests to ensure I didn't
break anything.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02 16:07:03 -07:00
Christopher Yeoh
fcf634098c Cross Memory Attach
The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.

The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call.  There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.

- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
  using it:
  - Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
    preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
  written to would need to be contiguous.
  - Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
  ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
  from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
  but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
  (reason  appears to have been lost)
  - Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
  domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
  especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
  of processes  that all need to do this with each other
  - Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
  consider adding in the future (see below)
  - Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
  involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)

As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems.  Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block.  Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive.  In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock.  And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.

There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could.  For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy.  We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source.  I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.

Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI).  This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication.  And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.

There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2

There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:

http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt

This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.

For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:

http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz

Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Roland Dreier
e91f90bb0b aio: wake all waiters when destroying ctx
The test program below will hang because io_getevents() uses
add_wait_queue_exclusive(), which means the wake_up() in io_destroy() only
wakes up one of the threads.  Fix this by using wake_up_all() in the aio
code paths where we want to make sure no one gets stuck.

	// t.c -- compile with gcc -lpthread -laio t.c

	#include <libaio.h>
	#include <pthread.h>
	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <unistd.h>

	static const int nthr = 2;

	void *getev(void *ctx)
	{
		struct io_event ev;
		io_getevents(ctx, 1, 1, &ev, NULL);
		printf("io_getevents returned\n");
		return NULL;
	}

	int main(int argc, char *argv[])
	{
		io_context_t ctx = 0;
		pthread_t thread[nthr];
		int i;

		io_setup(1024, &ctx);

		for (i = 0; i < nthr; ++i)
			pthread_create(&thread[i], NULL, getev, ctx);

		sleep(1);

		io_destroy(ctx);

		for (i = 0; i < nthr; ++i)
			pthread_join(thread[i], NULL);

		return 0;
	}

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bd2895eead Merge branch 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
  workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
  rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
  net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
  net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
  xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
  reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
  ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
  ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
  scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
  scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
  misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
  i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
  acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
  fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
  input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
  cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
  wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
  arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
  workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
2011-03-16 08:20:19 -07:00
Jens Axboe
4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe
cf15900e12 aio: remove request submission batching
This should be useless now that we have on-stack plugging. So lets just
kill it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Shaohua Li
9f5b942546 fs: make aio plug
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
Jens Axboe
7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Jan Kara
7137c6bd45 aio: fix race between io_destroy() and io_submit()
A race can occur when io_submit() races with io_destroy():

 CPU1						CPU2
io_submit()
  do_io_submit()
    ...
    ctx = lookup_ioctx(ctx_id);
						io_destroy()
    Now do_io_submit() holds the last reference to ctx.
    ...
    queue new AIO
    put_ioctx(ctx) - frees ctx with active AIOs

We solve this issue by checking whether ctx is being destroyed in AIO
submission path after adding new AIO to ctx.  Then we are guaranteed that
either io_destroy() waits for new AIO or we see that ctx is being
destroyed and bail out.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25 15:07:37 -08:00
Nick Piggin
3bd9a5d734 aio: fix rcu ioctx lookup
aio-dio-invalidate-failure GPFs in aio_put_req from io_submit.

lookup_ioctx doesn't implement the rcu lookup pattern properly.
rcu_read_lock does not prevent refcount going to zero, so we might take
a refcount on a zero count ioctx.

Fix the bug by atomically testing for zero refcount before incrementing.

[jack@suse.cz: added comment into the code]
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25 15:07:37 -08:00
Tejun Heo
d37adaa159 fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
aio_wq isn't used during memory reclaim.  Convert to alloc_workqueue()
without WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.  It's possible to use system_wq but given that
the number of work items is determined from userland and the work item
may block, enforcing strict concurrency limit would be a good idea.

Also, move fput_work to system_wq so that aio_wq is used soley to
throttle the max concurrency of aio work items and fput_work doesn't
interact with other work items.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org
2011-01-26 17:42:27 +01:00
Namhyung Kim
27eaa1c90c aio: check return value of create_workqueue()
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-01-17 05:12:44 -05:00
Jeff Moyer
d3486f8b9e aio: remove unused aio_run_iocbs()
aio_run_iocbs() is not used at all, so get rid of it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:22 -08:00
Namhyung Kim
2e41025598 aio: remove unnecessary check
'nr >= min_nr >= 0' always satisfies 'nr >= 0' so the check is unnecesary.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:22 -08:00
Al Viro
7de9c6ee3e new helper: ihold()
Clones an existing reference to inode; caller must already hold one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-10-25 21:26:11 -04:00
Chris Mason
306fb09794 aio: bump i_count instead of using igrab
The aio batching code is using igrab to get an extra reference on the
inode so it can safely batch.  igrab will go ahead and take the global
inode spinlock, which can be a bottleneck on large machines doing lots
of AIO.

In this case, igrab isn't required because we already have a reference
on the file handle.  It is safe to just bump the i_count directly
on the inode.

Benchmarking shows this patch brings IOP/s on tons of flash up by about
2.5X.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2010-10-25 21:18:23 -04:00
Jan Kara
a0c42bac79 aio: do not return ERESTARTSYS as a result of AIO
OCFS2 can return ERESTARTSYS from its write function when the process is
signalled while waiting for a cluster lock (and the filesystem is mounted
with intr mount option).  Generally, it seems reasonable to allow
filesystems to return this error code from its IO functions.  As we must
not leak ERESTARTSYS (and similar error codes) to userspace as a result of
an AIO operation, we have to properly convert it to EINTR inside AIO code
(restarting the syscall isn't really an option because other AIO could
have been already submitted by the same io_submit syscall).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-22 17:22:39 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
75e1c70fc3 aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit
Tavis Ormandy pointed out that do_io_submit does not do proper bounds
checking on the passed-in iocb array:

       if (unlikely(nr < 0))
               return -EINVAL;

       if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, iocbpp, (nr*sizeof(iocbpp)))))
               return -EFAULT;                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The attached patch checks for overflow, and if it is detected, the
number of iocbs submitted is scaled down to a number that will fit in
the long.  This is an ok thing to do, as sys_io_submit is documented as
returning the number of iocbs submitted, so callers should handle a
return value of less than the 'nr' argument passed in.

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-14 17:02:37 -07:00
Satoru Takeuchi
642b5123ac aio: fix wrong subsystem comments
- sys_io_destroy(): acutually return -EINVAL if the context pointed to
   is invalidIndex: linux-2.6.33-rc4/fs/aio.c
 - sys_io_getevents(): An argument specifying timeout is not `when',
   but `timeout'.
 - sys_io_getevents(): Should describe what is returned if this syscall
   succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05 13:21:23 -07:00
Al Viro
d7065da038 get rid of the magic around f_count in aio
__aio_put_req() plays sick games with file refcount.  What
it wants is fput() from atomic context; it's almost always
done with f_count > 1, so they only have to deal with delayed
work in rare cases when their reference happens to be the
last one.  Current code decrements f_count and if it hasn't
hit 0, everything is fine.  Otherwise it keeps a pointer
to struct file (with zero f_count!) around and has delayed
work do __fput() on it.

Better way to do it: use atomic_long_add_unless( , -1, 1)
instead of !atomic_long_dec_and_test().  IOW, decrement it
only if it's not the last reference, leave refcount alone
if it was.  And use normal fput() in delayed work.

I've made that atomic_long_add_unless call a new helper -
fput_atomic().  Drops a reference to file if it's safe to
do in atomic (i.e. if that's not the last one), tells if
it had been able to do that.  aio.c converted to it, __fput()
use is gone.  req->ki_file *always* contributes to refcount
now.  And __fput() became static.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-27 22:03:07 -04:00
Jeff Moyer
9d85cba718 aio: fix the compat vectored operations
The aio compat code was not converting the struct iovecs from 32bit to
64bit pointers, causing either EINVAL to be returned from io_getevents, or
EFAULT as the result of the I/O.  This patch passes a compat flag to
io_submit to signal that pointer conversion is necessary for a given iocb
array.

A variant of this was tested by Michael Tokarev.  I have also updated the
libaio test harness to exercise this code path with good success.
Further, I grabbed a copy of ltp and ran the
testcases/kernel/syscall/readv and writev tests there (compiled with -m32
on my 64bit system).  All seems happy, but extra eyes on this would be
welcome.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_COMPAT=n build]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.35.1]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:53 -07:00
Shaohua Li
fac046ad0b aio: remove unused field
Don't know the reason, but it appears ki_wait field of iocb never gets used.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:13 -08:00
Jens Axboe
b9d128f108 block: move bdi/address_space unplug functions to backing-dev.h
There's nothing block related about them, the backing device
is used by things like NFS etc as well. This gets rid of the
need to protect such calls by CONFIG_BLOCK.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-29 13:59:26 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
cfb1e33eed aio: implement request batching
Hi,

Some workloads issue batches of small I/O, and the performance is poor
due to the call to blk_run_address_space for every single iocb.  Nathan
Roberts pointed this out, and suggested that by deferring this call
until all I/Os in the iocb array are submitted to the block layer, we
can realize some impressive performance gains (up to 30% for sequential
4k reads in batches of 16).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-28 09:29:25 +01:00
H Hartley Sweeten
385773e048 aio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function
As mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, move EXPORT* macro's
to the line immediately after the closing function brace line.

Also, move the __initcall() similarly.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
3d2d827f5c mm: move use_mm/unuse_mm from aio.c to mm/
Anyone who wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, needs
use_mm (like what fs/aio has).  Move that into mm/, to make reusing and
exporting easier down the line, and make aio use it.  Next intended user,
besides aio, will be vhost-net.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
133890103b eventfd: revised interface and cleanups
Change the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd memory context, from
the file pointer instance.

Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the
POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away.  Also,
now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead of the
file*.

This patch is required by KVM's IRQfd code, which is still under
development.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:55:58 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
65c24491b4 aio: lookup_ioctx can return the wrong value when looking up a bogus context
The libaio test harness turned up a problem whereby lookup_ioctx on a
bogus io context was returning the 1 valid io context from the list
(harness/cases/3.p).

Because of that, an extra put_iocontext was done, and when the process
exited, it hit a BUG_ON in the put_iocontext macro called from exit_aio
(since we expect a users count of 1 and instead get 0).

The problem was introduced by "aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless"
(commit abf137dd77).

Thanks to Zach for pointing out that hlist_for_each_entry_rcu will not
return with a NULL tpos at the end of the loop, even if the entry was
not found.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-19 15:57:18 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
87c3a86e1c eventfd: remove fput() call from possible IRQ context
Remove a source of fput() call from inside IRQ context.  Myself, like Eric,
wasn't able to reproduce an fput() call from IRQ context, but Jeff said he was
able to, with the attached test program.  Independently from this, the bug is
conceptually there, so we might be better off fixing it.  This patch adds an
optimization similar to the one we already do on ->ki_filp, on ->ki_eventfd.
Playing with ->f_count directly is not pretty in general, but the alternative
here would be to add a brand new delayed fput() infrastructure, that I'm not
sure is worth it.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-19 15:57:18 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
002c8976ee [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 16
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14 14:15:25 +01:00
Jens Axboe
abf137dd77 aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock,
so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx
lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into
an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of
the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion.

There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense
to look into fancier data structures.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-29 08:29:50 +01:00
Al Viro
516e0cc564 [PATCH] f_count may wrap around
make it atomic_long_t; while we are at it, get rid of useless checks in affs,
hfs and hpfs - ->open() always has it equal to 1, ->release() - to 0.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-26 20:53:40 -04:00
Oleg Nesterov
246bb0b1de kill PF_BORROWED_MM in favour of PF_KTHREAD
Kill PF_BORROWED_MM.  Change use_mm/unuse_mm to not play with ->flags, and
do s/PF_BORROWED_MM/PF_KTHREAD/ for a couple of other users.

No functional changes yet.  But this allows us to do further
fixes/cleanups.

oom_kill/ptrace/etc often check "p->mm != NULL" to filter out the
kthreads, this is wrong because of use_mm().  The problem with
PF_BORROWED_MM is that we need task_lock() to avoid races.  With this
patch we can check PF_KTHREAD directly, or use a simple lockless helper:

	/* The result must not be dereferenced !!! */
	struct mm_struct *__get_task_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
	{
		if (tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
			return NULL;
		return tsk->mm;
	}

Note also ecard_task().  It runs with ->mm != NULL, but it's the kernel
thread without PF_BORROWED_MM.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:39 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
aab2545fdd uml: activate_mm: remove the dead PF_BORROWED_MM check
use_mm() was changed to use switch_mm() instead of activate_mm(), since
then nobody calls (and nobody should call) activate_mm() with
PF_BORROWED_MM bit set.

As Jeff Dike pointed out, we can also remove the "old != new" check, it is
always true.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06 11:36:22 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
c6f3a97f86 debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging code
Add calls to the generic object debugging infrastructure and provide fixup
functions which allow to keep the system alive when recoverable problems have
been detected by the object debugging core code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:53 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
39fa00311f aio: fix misleading comments
The FIXME comments are inaccurate.
The locking comment over lookup_ioctx() is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:29 -07:00
Hirofumi Nakagawa
801678c5a3 Remove duplicated unlikely() in IS_ERR()
Some drivers have duplicated unlikely() macros.  IS_ERR() already has
unlikely() in itself.

This patch cleans up such pointless code.

Signed-off-by: Hirofumi Nakagawa <hnakagawa@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:25 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
d5470b596a fs/aio.c: make 3 functions static
Make the following needlessly global functions static:

- __put_ioctx()
- lookup_ioctx()
- io_submit_one()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:00 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
e92adcba26 aio: io_getevents() should return if io_destroy() is invoked
This patch wakes up a thread waiting in io_getevents if another thread
destroys the context.  This was tested using a small program that spawns a
thread to wait in io_getevents while the parent thread destroys the io context
and then waits for the getevents thread to exit.  Without this patch, the
program hangs indefinitely.  With the patch, the program exits as expected.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Christopher Smith <x@xman.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:17 -07:00
Davide Libenzi
8d1c98b0b5 eventfd/kaio integration fix
Jeff Roberson discovered a race when using kaio eventfd based notifications.
When it occurs it can lead tomissed wakeups and hung userspace.

This patch fixes the race by moving the notification inside the spinlocked
section of kaio.  The operation is safe since eventfd spinlock and kaio one
are unrelated.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-11 08:06:43 -07:00
Roland McGrath
598af051a7 asmlinkage_protect sys_io_getevents
Use asmlinkage_protect in sys_io_getevents, because GCC for i386 with
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n can decide to clobber an argument word on the
stack, i.e. the user struct pt_regs.  Here the problem is not a tail
call, but just the compiler's use of the stack when it inlines and
optimizes the body of the called function.  This seems to avoid it.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-10 17:28:26 -07:00
Quentin Barnes
6cb2a21049 aio: bad AIO race in aio_complete() leads to process hang
My group ran into a AIO process hang on a 2.6.24 kernel with the process
sleeping indefinitely in io_getevents(2) waiting for the last wakeup to come
and it never would.

We ran the tests on x86_64 SMP.  The hang only occurred on a Xeon box
("Clovertown") but not a Core2Duo ("Conroe").  On the Xeon, the L2 cache isn't
shared between all eight processors, but is L2 is shared between between all
two processors on the Core2Duo we use.

My analysis of the hang is if you go down to the second while-loop
in read_events(), what happens on processor #1:
	1) add_wait_queue_exclusive() adds thread to ctx->wait
	2) aio_read_evt() to check tail
	3) if aio_read_evt() returned 0, call [io_]schedule() and sleep

In aio_complete() with processor #2:
	A) info->tail = tail;
	B) waitqueue_active(&ctx->wait)
	C) if waitqueue_active() returned non-0, call wake_up()

The way the code is written, step 1 must be seen by all other processors
before processor 1 checks for pending events in step 2 (that were recorded by
step A) and step A by processor 2 must be seen by all other processors
(checked in step 2) before step B is done.

The race I believed I was seeing is that steps 1 and 2 were
effectively swapped due to the __list_add() being delayed by the L2
cache not shared by some of the other processors.  Imagine:
proc 2: just before step A
proc 1, step 1: adds to ctx->wait, but is not visible by other processors yet
proc 1, step 2: checks tail and sees no pending events
proc 2, step A: updates tail
proc 1, step 3: calls [io_]schedule() and sleeps
proc 2, step B: checks ctx->wait, but sees no one waiting, skips wakeup
                so proc 1 sleeps indefinitely

My patch adds a memory barrier between steps A and B.  It ensures that the
update in step 1 gets seen on processor 2 before continuing.  If processor 1
was just before step 1, the memory barrier makes sure that step A (update
tail) gets seen by the time processor 1 makes it to step 2 (check tail).

Before the patch our AIO process would hang virtually 100% of the time.  After
the patch, we have yet to see the process ever hang.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Barnes <qbarnes+linux@yahoo-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ We should probably disallow that "if (waitqueue_active()) wake_up()"
  coding pattern, because it's so often buggy wrt memory ordering ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-19 18:53:35 -07:00
Rusty Russell
c2ec66828f aio: negative offset should return -EINVAL
An AIO read or write should return -EINVAL if the offset is negative.
This check matches the one in pread and pwrite.

This was found by the libaio test suite.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:33 -08:00
Rusty Russell
7adfa2ff3e aio: partial write should not return error code
When an AIO write gets an error after writing some data (eg.  ENOSPC), it
should return the amount written already, not the error.  Just like write()
is supposed to.

This was found by the libaio test suite.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-By: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:33 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
fc9b52cd8f fs: remove fastcall, it is always empty
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
56c4da454d core: remove last users of empty FASTCALL macro
FASTCALL is always empty after the x86 removal.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:31:17 +01:00
Jeff Moyer
e00ba3dae0 aio: only account I/O wait time in read_events if there are active requests
On 2.6.24, top started showing 100% iowait on one CPU when a UML instance was
running (but completely idle).  The UML code sits in io_getevents waiting for
an event to be submitted and completed.

Fix this by checking ctx->reqs_active before scheduling to determine whether
or not we are waiting for I/O.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05 09:21:18 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
6212e3a388 Remove struct task_struct::io_wait
Hell knows what happened in commit 63b05203af57e7de4f3bb63b8b81d43bc196d32b
during 2.6.9 development.  Commit introduced io_wait field which remained
write-only than and still remains write-only.

Also garbage collect macros which "use" io_wait.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:20 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
41d10da371 aio: account I/O wait time properly
Some months back I proposed changing the schedule() call in
read_events to an io_schedule():
	http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.aio.general/2006-10/msg00024.html
This was rejected as there are AIO operations that do not initiate
disk I/O.  I've had another look at the problem, and the only AIO
operation that will not initiate disk I/O is IOCB_CMD_NOOP.  However,
this command isn't even wired up!

Given that it doesn't work, and hasn't for *years*, I'm going to
suggest again that we do proper I/O accounting when using AIO.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:53 -07:00