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authorDamien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>2019-07-10 18:18:31 +0200
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2019-07-10 22:18:01 +0200
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parentblock: Fix elevator name declaration (diff)
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block: Disable write plugging for zoned block devices
Simultaneously writing to a sequential zone of a zoned block device from multiple contexts requires mutual exclusion for BIO issuing to ensure that writes happen sequentially. However, even for a well behaved user correctly implementing such synchronization, BIO plugging may interfere and result in BIOs from the different contextx to be reordered if plugging is done outside of the mutual exclusion section, e.g. the plug was started by a function higher in the call chain than the function issuing BIOs. Context A Context B | blk_start_plug() | ... | seq_write_zone() | mutex_lock(zone) | bio-0->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-0) | submit_bio(bio-0) | bio-1->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-1) | submit_bio(bio-1) | mutex_unlock(zone) | return | -----------------------> | seq_write_zone() | mutex_lock(zone) | bio-2->bi_iter.bi_sector = zone->wp | zone->wp += bio_sectors(bio-2) | submit_bio(bio-2) | mutex_unlock(zone) | <------------------------- | | blk_finish_plug() In the above example, despite the mutex synchronization ensuring the correct BIO issuing order 0, 1, 2, context A BIOs 0 and 1 end up being issued after BIO 2 of context B, when the plug is released with blk_finish_plug(). While this problem can be addressed using the blk_flush_plug_list() function (in the above example, the call must be inserted before the zone mutex lock is released), a simple generic solution in the block layer avoid this additional code in all zoned block device user code. The simple generic solution implemented with this patch is to introduce the internal helper function blk_mq_plug() to access the current context plug on BIO submission. This helper returns the current plug only if the target device is not a zoned block device or if the BIO to be plugged is not a write operation. Otherwise, the caller context plug is ignored and NULL returned, resulting is all writes to zoned block device to never be plugged. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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