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Add atomic write support, as follows:
- add helper functions to get request_queue atomic write limits
- report request_queue atomic write support limits to sysfs and update Doc
- support to safely merge atomic writes
- deal with splitting atomic writes
- misc helper functions
- add a per-request atomic write flag
New request_queue limits are added, as follows:
- atomic_write_hw_max is set by the block driver and is the maximum length
of an atomic write which the device may support. It is not
necessarily a power-of-2.
- atomic_write_max_sectors is derived from atomic_write_hw_max_sectors and
max_hw_sectors. It is always a power-of-2. Atomic writes may be merged,
and atomic_write_max_sectors would be the limit on a merged atomic write
request size. This value is not capped at max_sectors, as the value in
max_sectors can be controlled from userspace, and it would only cause
trouble if userspace could limit atomic_write_unit_max_bytes and the
other atomic write limits.
- atomic_write_hw_unit_{min,max} are set by the block driver and are the
min/max length of an atomic write unit which the device may support. They
both must be a power-of-2. Typically atomic_write_hw_unit_max will hold
the same value as atomic_write_hw_max.
- atomic_write_unit_{min,max} are derived from
atomic_write_hw_unit_{min,max}, max_hw_sectors, and block core limits.
Both min and max values must be a power-of-2.
- atomic_write_hw_boundary is set by the block driver. If non-zero, it
indicates an LBA space boundary at which an atomic write straddles no
longer is atomically executed by the disk. The value must be a
power-of-2. Note that it would be acceptable to enforce a rule that
atomic_write_hw_boundary_sectors is a multiple of
atomic_write_hw_unit_max, but the resultant code would be more
complicated.
All atomic writes limits are by default set 0 to indicate no atomic write
support. Even though it is assumed by Linux that a logical block can always
be atomically written, we ignore this as it is not of particular interest.
Stacked devices are just not supported either for now.
An atomic write must always be submitted to the block driver as part of a
single request. As such, only a single BIO must be submitted to the block
layer for an atomic write. When a single atomic write BIO is submitted, it
cannot be split. As such, atomic_write_unit_{max, min}_bytes are limited
by the maximum guaranteed BIO size which will not be required to be split.
This max size is calculated by request_queue max segments and the number
of bvecs a BIO can fit, BIO_MAX_VECS. Currently we rely on userspace
issuing a write with iovcnt=1 for pwritev2() - as such, we can rely on each
segment containing PAGE_SIZE of data, apart from the first+last, which each
can fit logical block size of data. The first+last will be LBS
length/aligned as we rely on direct IO alignment rules also.
New sysfs files are added to report the following atomic write limits:
- atomic_write_unit_max_bytes - same as atomic_write_unit_max_sectors in
bytes
- atomic_write_unit_min_bytes - same as atomic_write_unit_min_sectors in
bytes
- atomic_write_boundary_bytes - same as atomic_write_hw_boundary_sectors in
bytes
- atomic_write_max_bytes - same as atomic_write_max_sectors in bytes
Atomic writes may only be merged with other atomic writes and only under
the following conditions:
- total resultant request length <= atomic_write_max_bytes
- the merged write does not straddle a boundary
Helper function bdev_can_atomic_write() is added to indicate whether
atomic writes may be issued to a bdev. If a bdev is a partition, the
partition start must be aligned with both atomic_write_unit_min_sectors
and atomic_write_hw_boundary_sectors.
FSes will rely on the block layer to validate that an atomic write BIO
submitted will be of valid size, so add blk_validate_atomic_write_op_size()
for this purpose. Userspace expects an atomic write which is of invalid
size to be rejected with -EINVAL, so add BLK_STS_INVAL for this. Also use
BLK_STS_INVAL for when a BIO needs to be split, as this should mean an
invalid size BIO.
Flag REQ_ATOMIC is used for indicating an atomic write.
Co-developed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620125359.2684798-6-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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One the one hand, it's marked EXPERIMENTAL since 2017, and looks like
there are no users since then, and no testers and no developers, it's
just not active at all.
On the other hand, even if the config is disabled, there are still many
fields in throtl_grp and throtl_data and many functions that are only
used for throtl low.
At last, currently blk-throtl is initialized during disk initialization,
and destroyed during disk removal, and it exposes many functions to be
called directly from block layer.
Remove throtl low to make code much more cleaner and follow up work much
easier.
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509121107.3195568-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Userspace had been unknowingly relying on a non-stable interface of
kernel internals to determine if partition scanning is enabled for a
given disk. Provide a stable interface for this purpose instead.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.3+
Depends-on: 140ce28dd3be ("block: add a disk_has_partscan helper")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZhQJf8mzq_wipkBH@gardel-login/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502130033.1958492-3-hch@lst.de
[axboe: add links and commit message from Keith]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Fix typos in Documentation/ABI. The changes are in descriptions or
comments where they shouldn't affect use of the ABIs.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-2-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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io_uring provides the only way user space can poll completions, and that
always sets BLK_POLL_NOSLEEP. This effectively makes hybrid polling dead
code, so remove it and everything supporting it.
Hybrid polling was effectively killed off with 9650b453a3d4b1, "block:
ignore RWF_HIPRI hint for sync dio", but still potentially reachable
through io_uring until d729cf9acb93119, "io_uring: don't sleep when
polling for I/O", but hybrid polling probably should not have been
reachable through that async interface from the beginning.
Fixes: 9650b453a3d4 ("block: ignore RWF_HIPRI hint for sync dio")
Fixes: d729cf9acb93 ("io_uring: don't sleep when polling for I/O")
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230320194926.3353144-1-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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/sys/block/<disk>/hidden is undocumented. Document it.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230303084323.228098-1-sagi@grimberg.me
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The user can set the max_sectors limit to any valid value via sysfs
/sys/block/<dev>/queue/max_sectors_kb attribute. If the device limits
are ever rescanned, though, the limit reverts back to the potentially
artificially low BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS value.
Preserve the user's setting as the max_sectors limit as long as it's
valid. The user can reset back to defaults by writing 0 to the sysfs
file.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105205146.3610282-3-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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User space may want to know how to align their buffers to avoid
bouncing. Export the queue attribute.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220610195830.3574005-4-kbusch@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Add sysfs files that expose the inline encryption capabilities of
request queues:
/sys/block/$disk/queue/crypto/max_dun_bits
/sys/block/$disk/queue/crypto/modes/$mode
/sys/block/$disk/queue/crypto/num_keyslots
Userspace can use these new files to decide what encryption settings to
use, or whether to use inline encryption at all. This also brings the
crypto capabilities in line with the other queue properties, which are
already discoverable via the queue directory in sysfs.
Design notes:
- Place the new files in a new subdirectory "crypto" to group them
together and to avoid complicating the main "queue" directory. This
also makes it possible to replace "crypto" with a symlink later if
we ever make the blk_crypto_profiles into real kobjects (see below).
- It was necessary to define a new kobject that corresponds to the
crypto subdirectory. For now, this kobject just contains a pointer
to the blk_crypto_profile. Note that multiple queues (and hence
multiple such kobjects) may refer to the same blk_crypto_profile.
An alternative design would more closely match the current kernel
data structures: the blk_crypto_profile could be a kobject itself,
located directly under the host controller device's kobject, while
/sys/block/$disk/queue/crypto would be a symlink to it.
I decided not to do that for now because it would require a lot more
changes, such as no longer embedding blk_crypto_profile in other
structures, and also because I'm not sure we can rule out moving the
crypto capabilities into 'struct queue_limits' in the future. (Even
if multiple queues share the same crypto engine, maybe the supported
data unit sizes could differ due to other queue properties.) It
would also still be possible to switch to that design later without
breaking userspace, by replacing the directory with a symlink.
- Use "max_dun_bits" instead of "max_dun_bytes". Currently, the
kernel internally stores this value in bytes, but that's an
implementation detail. It probably makes more sense to talk about
this value in bits, and choosing bits is more future-proof.
- "modes" is a sub-subdirectory, since there may be multiple supported
crypto modes, sysfs is supposed to have one value per file, and it
makes sense to group all the mode files together.
- Each mode had to be named. The crypto API names like "xts(aes)" are
not appropriate because they don't specify the key size. Therefore,
I assigned new names. The exact names chosen are arbitrary, but
they happen to match the names used in log messages in fs/crypto/.
- The "num_keyslots" file is a bit different from the others in that
it is only useful to know for performance reasons. However, it's
included as it can still be useful. For example, a user might not
want to use inline encryption if there aren't very many keyslots.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124215938.2769-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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/sys/block/<disk>/queue/virt_boundary_mask is completely undocumented.
Document it.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209003833.6396-7-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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/sys/block/<disk>/queue/stable_writes is completely undocumented.
Document it.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209003833.6396-6-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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sysfs documentation is supposed to go in Documentation/ABI/.
However, /sys/block/<disk>/queue/* are documented in
Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.rst, and sometimes redundantly in
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block too.
Let's consolidate this documentation into Documentation/ABI/.
Therefore, copy the relevant docs from queue-sysfs.rst into sysfs-block.
This primarily means adding the 25 missing files that were documented in
queue-sysfs.rst only, as well as mentioning the RO/RW status of files.
Documentation/ABI/ requires "Date" and "Contact" fields. For the Date
fields, I used the date of the commit which added support for each file.
For the "Contact" fields, I used linux-block.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209003833.6396-5-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The nomerges file was missing a "Contact" entry. Use linux-block.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209003833.6396-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Sort the documentation for the files alphabetically by file path so that
there is a logical order and it's clear where to add new files.
With two small exceptions, this patch doesn't change the documentation
itself and just reorders it:
- In /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat, I replaced <part> with <partition>
to be consistent with the other files.
- The description for /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat referred to another
file "above", which I reworded.
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209003833.6396-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The block layer sysfs ABI is widely used by userspace software and is
considered stable.
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209003833.6396-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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