linux/mm/backing-dev.c, branch v5.8

bdi: remove the name field in struct backing_dev_info

2020-05-09T22:15:13Z

The name is only printed for a not registered bdi in writeback. Use the device name there as is more useful anyway for the unlike case that the warning triggers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: simplify bdi_alloc

2020-05-09T22:15:13Z

Merge the _node vs normal version and drop the superflous gfp_t argument. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: remove bdi_register_owner

2020-05-09T22:15:13Z

Split out a new bdi_set_owner helper to set the owner, and move the policy for creating the bdi name back into genhd.c, where it belongs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: unexport bdi_register_va

2020-05-09T22:15:13Z

bdi_register_va is only used by super.c, which can't be modular. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: add a ->dev_name field to struct backing_dev_info

2020-05-09T22:07:57Z

Cache a copy of the name for the life time of the backing_dev_info structure so that we can reference it even after unregistering. Fixes: 68f23b89067f ("memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears") Reported-by: Yufen Yu Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

bdi: move bdi_dev_name out of line

2020-05-07T14:45:47Z

bdi_dev_name is not a fast path function, move it out of line. This prepares for using it from modular callers without having to export an implementation detail like bdi_unknown_name. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blkcg: rename blkcg->cgwb_refcnt to ->online_pin and always use it

2020-04-01T20:56:42Z

blkcg->cgwb_refcnt is used to delay blkcg offlining so that blkgs don't get offlined while there are active cgwbs on them. However, it ends up making offlining unordered sometimes causing parents to be offlined before children. To fix it, we want child blkcgs to pin the parents' online states turning the refcnt into a more generic online pinning mechanism. In prepartion, * blkcg->cgwb_refcnt -> blkcg->online_pin * blkcg_cgwb_get/put() -> blkcg_pin/unpin_online() * Take them out of CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

memcg: fix a crash in wb_workfn when a device disappears

2020-01-31T18:30:36Z

Without memcg, there is a one-to-one mapping between the bdi and bdi_writeback structures. In this world, things are fairly straightforward; the first thing bdi_unregister() does is to shutdown the bdi_writeback structure (or wb), and part of that writeback ensures that no other work queued against the wb, and that the wb is fully drained. With memcg, however, there is a one-to-many relationship between the bdi and bdi_writeback structures; that is, there are multiple wb objects which can all point to a single bdi. There is a refcount which prevents the bdi object from being released (and hence, unregistered). So in theory, the bdi_unregister() *should* only get called once its refcount goes to zero (bdi_put will drop the refcount, and when it is zero, release_bdi gets called, which calls bdi_unregister). Unfortunately, del_gendisk() in block/gen_hd.c never got the memo about the Brave New memcg World, and calls bdi_unregister directly. It does this without informing the file system, or the memcg code, or anything else. This causes the root wb associated with the bdi to be unregistered, but none of the memcg-specific wb's are shutdown. So when one of these wb's are woken up to do delayed work, they try to dereference their wb->bdi->dev to fetch the device name, but unfortunately bdi->dev is now NULL, thanks to the bdi_unregister() called by del_gendisk(). As a result, *boom*. Fortunately, it looks like the rest of the writeback path is perfectly happy with bdi->dev and bdi->owner being NULL, so the simplest fix is to create a bdi_dev_name() function which can handle bdi->dev being NULL. This also allows us to bulletproof the writeback tracepoints to prevent them from dereferencing a NULL pointer and crashing the kernel if one is tracing with memcg's enabled, and an iSCSI device dies or a USB storage stick is pulled. The most common way of triggering this will be hotremoval of a device while writeback with memcg enabled is going on. It was triggering several times a day in a heavily loaded production environment. Google Bug Id: 145475544 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227194829.150110-1-tytso@mit.edu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191228005211.163952-1-tytso@mit.edu Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bdi: Do not use freezable workqueue

2019-10-06T15:11:35Z

A removable block device, such as NVMe or SSD connected over Thunderbolt can be hot-removed any time including when the system is suspended. When device is hot-removed during suspend and the system gets resumed, kernel first resumes devices and then thaws the userspace including freezable workqueues. What happens in that case is that the NVMe driver notices that the device is unplugged and removes it from the system. This ends up calling bdi_unregister() for the gendisk which then schedules wb_workfn() to be run one more time. However, since the bdi_wq is still frozen flush_delayed_work() call in wb_shutdown() blocks forever halting system resume process. User sees this as hang as nothing is happening anymore. Triggering sysrq-w reveals this: Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work [nvme] Call Trace: ? __schedule+0x2c5/0x630 ? wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x120 schedule+0x3e/0xc0 schedule_timeout+0x1c9/0x320 ? resched_curr+0x1f/0xd0 ? wait_for_completion+0xa4/0x120 wait_for_completion+0xc3/0x120 ? wake_up_q+0x60/0x60 __flush_work+0x131/0x1e0 ? flush_workqueue_prep_pwqs+0x130/0x130 bdi_unregister+0xb9/0x130 del_gendisk+0x2d2/0x2e0 nvme_ns_remove+0xed/0x110 [nvme_core] nvme_remove_namespaces+0x96/0xd0 [nvme_core] nvme_remove+0x5b/0x160 [nvme] pci_device_remove+0x36/0x90 device_release_driver_internal+0xdf/0x1c0 nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work+0x14/0x30 [nvme] process_one_work+0x1c2/0x3f0 worker_thread+0x48/0x3e0 kthread+0x100/0x140 ? current_work+0x30/0x30 ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 This is not limited to NVMes so exactly same issue can be reproduced by hot-removing SSD (over Thunderbolt) while the system is suspended. Prevent this from happening by removing WQ_FREEZABLE from bdi_wq. Reported-by: AceLan Kao Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138695698516487 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204385 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191002122136.GD2819@lahna.fi.intel.com/#t Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: Separate out wb_get_lookup() from wb_get_create()

2019-08-27T15:22:38Z

Separate out wb_get_lookup() which doesn't try to create one if there isn't already one from wb_get_create(). This will be used by later patches. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe