linux/kernel/trace/blktrace.c, branch v4.14

blktrace: Fix potential deadlock between delete & sysfs ops

2017-09-25T14:56:05Z

The lockdep code had reported the following unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex/1); lock(s_active#228); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** The deadlock may happen when one task (CPU1) is trying to delete a partition in a block device and another task (CPU0) is accessing tracing sysfs file (e.g. /sys/block/dm-1/trace/act_mask) in that partition. The s_active isn't an actual lock. It is a reference count (kn->count) on the sysfs (kernfs) file. Removal of a sysfs file, however, require a wait until all the references are gone. The reference count is treated like a rwsem using lockdep instrumentation code. The fact that a thread is in the sysfs callback method or in the ioctl call means there is a reference to the opended sysfs or device file. That should prevent the underlying block structure from being removed. Instead of using bd_mutex in the block_device structure, a new blk_trace_mutex is now added to the request_queue structure to protect access to the blk_trace structure. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Fix typo in patch subject line, and prune a comment detailing how the code used to work. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index

2017-08-23T18:49:55Z

This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code). For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists once per block device. But given that the block layer also does partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is used for said remapping in generic_make_request. Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all over the stack. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: use standard blktrace API to output cgroup info for debug notes

2017-07-29T15:00:03Z

Currently cfq/bfq/blk-throttle output cgroup info in trace in their own way. Now we have standard blktrace API for this, so convert them to use it. Note, this changes the behavior a little bit. cgroup info isn't output by default, we only do this with 'blk_cgroup' option enabled. cgroup info isn't output as a string by default too, we only do this with 'blk_cgname' option enabled. Also cgroup info is output in different position of the note string. I think these behavior changes aren't a big issue (actually we make trace data shorter which is good), since the blktrace note is solely for debugging. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blktrace: add an option to allow displaying cgroup path

2017-07-29T15:00:03Z

By default we output cgroup id in blktrace. This adds an option to display cgroup path. Since get cgroup path is a relativly heavy operation, we don't enable it by default. with the option enabled, blktrace will output something like this: dd-1353 [007] d..2 293.015252: 8,0 /test/level D R 24 + 8 [dd] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blktrace: export cgroup info in trace

2017-07-29T15:00:03Z

Currently blktrace isn't cgroup aware. blktrace prints out task name of current context, but the task of current context isn't always in the cgroup where the BIO comes from. We can't use task name to find out IO cgroup. For example, Writeback BIOs always comes from flusher thread but the BIOs are for different blk cgroups. Request could be requeued and dispatched from completely different tasks. MD/DM are another examples. This patch tries to fix the gap. We print out cgroup fhandle info in blktrace. Userspace can use open_by_handle_at() syscall to find the cgroup by fhandle. Or userspace can use name_to_handle_at() syscall to find fhandle for a cgroup and use a BPF program to filter out blktrace for a specific cgroup. We add a new 'blk_cgroup' trace option for blk tracer. It's default off. Application which doesn't know the new option isn't affected. When it's on, we output fhandle info right after blk_io_trace with an extra bit set in event action. So from application point of view, blktrace with the option will output new actions. I didn't change blk trace event yet, since I'm not sure if changing the trace event output is an ABI issue. If not, I'll do it later. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: switch bios to blk_status_t

2017-06-09T15:27:32Z

Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion. Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a proper blk_status_t value. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blktrace: fix integer parse

2017-05-19T15:21:15Z

sscanf is a very poor way to parse integer. For example, I input "discard" for act_mask, it gets 0xd and completely messes up. Using correct API to do integer parse. This patch also makes attributes accept any base of integer. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove the errors field from struct request

2017-04-20T18:16:10Z

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blktrace: remove the unused block_rq_abort tracepoint

2017-04-20T18:16:10Z

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blktrace: use existing disk debugfs directory

2017-02-02T17:20:16Z

We may already have a directory to put the blktrace stuff in if 1. The disk uses blk-mq 2. CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS is enabled 3. We are tracing the whole disk and not a partition Instead of hardcoding this very specific case, let's use the new debugfs_lookup(). If the directory exists, we use it, otherwise we create one and clean it up later. Fixes: 07e4fead45e6 ("blk-mq: create debugfs directory tree") Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe