Sagi Grimberg [Sat, 3 Aug 2019 01:11:42 +0000 (18:11 -0700)]
nvme: make nvme_identify_ns propagate errors back
right now callers of nvme_identify_ns only know that it failed,
but don't know why. Make nvme_identify_ns propagate the error back.
Because nvme_submit_sync_cmd may return a positive status code, we
make nvme_identify_ns receive the id by reference and return that
status up the call chain, but make sure not to leak positive nvme
status codes to the upper layers.
Reviewed-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
James Smart [Tue, 6 Aug 2019 07:14:06 +0000 (00:14 -0700)]
nvme-fc: Fail transport errors with NVME_SC_HOST_PATH
NVME_SC_INTERNAL should indicate an internal controller errors
and not host transport errors. These errors will propagate to
upper layers (essentially nvme core) and be interpereted as
transport errors which should not be taken into account for
namespace state or condition.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Sagi Grimberg [Sat, 3 Aug 2019 01:04:12 +0000 (18:04 -0700)]
nvme: fail cancelled commands with NVME_SC_HOST_PATH_ERROR
NVME_SC_ABORT_REQ means that the request was aborted due to
an abort command received. In our case, this is a transport
cancellation, so host pathing error is much more appropriate.
Also, convert NVME_SC_HOST_PATH_ERROR to BLK_STS_TRANSPORT for
such that callers can understand that the status is a transport
related error. This will be used by the ns scanning code to
understand if it got an error from the controller or that the
controller happens to be unreachable by the transport.
Reviewed-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Ming Lei [Thu, 12 Sep 2019 04:02:24 +0000 (12:02 +0800)]
block: fix race between switching elevator and removing queues
cecf5d87ff20 ("block: split .sysfs_lock into two locks") starts to
release & actuire sysfs_lock again during switching elevator. So it
isn't enough to prevent switching elevator from happening by simply
clearing QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED with holding sysfs_lock, because
in-progress switch still can move on after re-acquiring the lock,
meantime the flag of QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED won't get checked.
Fixes this issue by checking 'q->elevator' directly & locklessly after
q->kobj is removed in blk_unregister_queue(), this way is safe because
q->elevator can't be changed at that time.
Fixes: cecf5d87ff20 ("block: split .sysfs_lock into two locks") Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Stanley Chu [Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:35:27 +0000 (16:35 +0800)]
block: bypass blk_set_runtime_active for uninitialized q->dev
Some devices may skip blk_pm_runtime_init() and have null pointer
in its request_queue->dev. For example, SCSI devices of UFS Well-Known
LUNs.
Currently the null pointer is checked by the user of
blk_set_runtime_active(), i.e., scsi_dev_type_resume(). It is better to
check it by blk_set_runtime_active() itself instead of by its users.
Signed-off-by: Stanley Chu <stanley.chu@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
André Almeida [Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:46:36 +0000 (11:46 -0300)]
null_blk: validate the number of devices
A negative number of devices is nonsensical, so change the type to
unsigned. If the number of devices is 0, it is impossible for userspace
to interact with the module, so refuse loading the driver for that case.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
André Almeida [Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:46:34 +0000 (11:46 -0300)]
docs: block: null_blk: enhance document style
Use proper ReST syntax for chapters. Add more information to enhance
standardization in the file and to make the rendering more homogeneous.
Add a SPDX identifier. Mark single-queue mode as deprecated.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
iocost_monitor: Always use strings for json values
Json has limited accuracy for numbers and can silently truncate 64bit
values, which can be extremely confusing. Let's consistently use
string encapsulated values for json output.
While at it, convert an unnecesary f-string to str().
blk-iocost: Don't let merges push vtime into the future
Merges have the same problem that forced-bios had which is fixed by
the previous patch. The cost of a merge is calculated at the time of
issue and force-advances vtime into the future. Until global vtime
catches up, how the cgroup's hweight changes in the meantime doesn't
matter and it often leads to situations where the cost is calculated
at one hweight and paid at a very different one. See the previous
patch for more details.
Fix it by never advancing vtime into the future for merges. If budget
is available, vtime is advanced. Otherwise, the cost is charged as
debt.
This brings merge cost handling in line with issue cost handling in
ioc_rqos_throttle().
blk-iocost: Account force-charged overage in absolute vtime
Currently, when a bio needs to be force-charged and there isn't enough
budget, vtime is simply pushed into the future. This means that the
cost of the whole bio is scaled using the current hweight and then
charged immediately. Until the global vtime advances beyond this
future vtime, the cgroup won't be allowed to issue normal IOs.
This is incorrect and can lead to, for example, exploding vrate or
extended stalls if vrate range is constrained. Consider the following
scenario.
1. A cgroup with a very low hweight runs out of budget.
2. A storm of swap-out happens on it. All of them are scaled
according to the current low hweight and charged to vtime pushing
it to a far future.
3. All other cgroups go idle and now the above cgroup has access to
the whole device. However, because vtime is already wound using
the past low hweight, what its current hweight is doesn't matter
until global vtime catches up to the local vtime.
4. As a result, either vrate gets ramped up extremely or the IOs stall
while the underlying device is idle.
This is because the hweight the overage is calculated at is different
from the hweight that it's being paid at.
Fix it by remembering the overage in absoulte vtime and continuously
paying with the actual budget according to the current hweight at each
period.
Note that non-forced bios which wait already remembers the cost in
absolute vtime. This brings forced-bio accounting in line.
blk-iocost: Fix incorrect operation order during iocg free
ioc_pd_free() first cancels the hrtimers and then deactivates the
iocg. However, the iocg timer can run inbetween and reschedule the
hrtimers which will end up running after the iocg is freed leading to
crashes like the following.
Fam Zheng [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 03:54:53 +0000 (11:54 +0800)]
bfq: Add per-device weight
This adds to BFQ the missing per-device weight interfaces:
blkio.bfq.weight_device on legacy and io.bfq.weight on unified. The
implementation pretty closely resembles what we had in CFQ and the parsing code
is basically reused.
Tests
=====
Using two cgroups and three block devices, having weights setup as:
Fam Zheng [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 03:54:51 +0000 (11:54 +0800)]
bfq: Fix the missing barrier in __bfq_entity_update_weight_prio
The comment of bfq_group_set_weight says the reading of prio_changed
should happen before the reading of weight, but a memory barrier is
missing here. Add it now, to match the smp_wmb() there.
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:35 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
sd: Set ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE for ZBC disks
Using the helper blk_queue_required_elevator_features(), set the
elevator feature ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE as required for the request
queue of SCSI ZBC disks.
This feature requirement can always be satisfied as the mq-deadline
elevator is always selected for in-kernel compilation when
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED (zoned block device support) is enabled.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:34 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
block: Set ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE for nullblk zoned disks
Using the helper blk_queue_required_elevator_features(), set the
elevator feature ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE as required for the request
queue of null_blk devices created with zoned mode enabled.
This feature requirement can always be satisfied as the mq-deadline
elevator is always selected for in-kernel compilation when
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED (zoned block device support) is enabled.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:33 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
block: Delay default elevator initialization
When elevator_init_mq() is called from blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(),
the only information known about the device is the number of hardware
queues as the block device scan by the device driver is not completed
yet for most drivers. The device type and elevator required features
are not set yet, preventing to correctly select the default elevator
most suitable for the device.
This currently affects all multi-queue zoned block devices which default
to the "none" elevator instead of the required "mq-deadline" elevator.
These drives currently include host-managed SMR disks connected to a
smartpqi HBA and null_blk block devices with zoned mode enabled.
Upcoming NVMe Zoned Namespace devices will also be affected.
Fix this by adding the boolean elevator_init argument to
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() to control the execution of
elevator_init_mq(). Two cases exist:
1) elevator_init = false is used for calls to
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() within blk_mq_init_queue(). In this
case, a call to elevator_init_mq() is added to __device_add_disk(),
resulting in the delayed initialization of the queue elevator
after the device driver finished probing the device information. This
effectively allows elevator_init_mq() access to more information
about the device.
2) elevator_init = true preserves the current behavior of initializing
the elevator directly from blk_mq_init_allocated_queue(). This case
is used for the special request based DM devices where the device
gendisk is created before the queue initialization and device
information (e.g. queue limits) is already known when the queue
initialization is executed.
Additionally, to make sure that the elevator initialization is never
done while requests are in-flight (there should be none when the device
driver calls device_add_disk()), freeze and quiesce the device request
queue before calling blk_mq_init_sched() in elevator_init_mq().
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:32 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
block: Improve default elevator selection
For block devices that do not specify required features, preserve the
current default elevator selection (mq-deadline for single queue
devices, none for multi-queue devices). However, for devices specifying
required features (e.g. zoned block devices ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE
feature), select the first available elevator providing the required
features.
In all cases, default to "none" if no elevator is available or if the
initialization of the default elevator fails.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:31 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
block: Introduce elevator features
Introduce the definition of elevator features through the
elevator_features flags in the elevator_type structure. Each flag can
represent a feature supported by an elevator. The first feature defined
by this patch is support for zoned block device sequential write
constraint with the flag ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE, which is implemented
by the mq-deadline elevator using zone write locking.
Other possible features are IO priorities, write hints, latency targets
or single-LUN dual-actuator disks (for which the elevator could maintain
one LBA ordered list per actuator).
The required_elevator_features field is also added to the request_queue
structure to allow a device driver to specify elevator feature flags
that an elevator must support for the correct operation of the device
(e.g. device drivers for zoned block devices can have the
ELEVATOR_F_ZBD_SEQ_WRITE flag as a required feature).
The helper function blk_queue_required_elevator_features() is
defined for setting this new field.
With these two new fields in place, the elevator functions
elevator_match() and elevator_find() are modified to allow a user to set
only an elevator with a set of features that satisfies the device
required features. Elevators not matching the device requirements are
not shown in the device sysfs queue/scheduler file to prevent their use.
The "none" elevator can always be selected as before.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:30 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
block: Change elevator_init_mq() to always succeed
If the default elevator chosen is mq-deadline, elevator_init_mq() may
return an error if mq-deadline initialization fails, leading to
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue() returning an error, which in turn will
cause the block device initialization to fail and the device not being
exposed.
Instead of taking such extreme measure, handle mq-deadline
initialization failures in the same manner as when mq-deadline is not
available (no module to load), that is, default to the "none" scheduler.
With this change, elevator_init_mq() return type can be changed to void.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Damien Le Moal [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 09:51:29 +0000 (18:51 +0900)]
block: Cleanup elevator_init_mq() use
Instead of checking a queue tag_set BLK_MQ_F_NO_SCHED flag before
calling elevator_init_mq() to make sure that the queue supports IO
scheduling, use the elevator.c function elv_support_iosched() in
elevator_init_mq(). This does not introduce any functional change but
ensure that elevator_init_mq() does the right thing based on the queue
settings.
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Minwoo Im [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 19:04:33 +0000 (21:04 +0200)]
lightnvm: print error when target is not found
If userspace requests target to be removed, nvm_remove_tgt() will
iterate the nvm_devices to find out the given target, but if not
found, then it should print out an error.
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com>
Updated output string and patch description. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Merge branch 'md-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md into for-5.4/block
Pull MD fixes from Song.
* 'md-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md:
md/raid5: use bio_end_sector to calculate last_sector
md/raid1: fail run raid1 array when active disk less than one
md raid0/linear: Mark array as 'broken' and fail BIOs if a member is gone
mdadm run fail with kernel message as follow:
[ 172.986064] md: kicking non-fresh sdb from array!
[ 173.004210] md: kicking non-fresh sdc from array!
[ 173.022383] md/raid1:md1: active with 0 out of 4 mirrors
[ 173.022406] md1: failed to create bitmap (-5)
In fact, when active disk in raid1 array less than one, we
need to return fail in raid1_run().
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
md raid0/linear: Mark array as 'broken' and fail BIOs if a member is gone
Currently md raid0/linear are not provided with any mechanism to validate
if an array member got removed or failed. The driver keeps sending BIOs
regardless of the state of array members, and kernel shows state 'clean'
in the 'array_state' sysfs attribute. This leads to the following
situation: if a raid0/linear array member is removed and the array is
mounted, some user writing to this array won't realize that errors are
happening unless they check dmesg or perform one fsync per written file.
Despite udev signaling the member device is gone, 'mdadm' cannot issue the
STOP_ARRAY ioctl successfully, given the array is mounted.
In other words, no -EIO is returned and writes (except direct ones) appear
normal. Meaning the user might think the wrote data is correctly stored in
the array, but instead garbage was written given that raid0 does stripping
(and so, it requires all its members to be working in order to not corrupt
data). For md/linear, writes to the available members will work fine, but
if the writes go to the missing member(s), it'll cause a file corruption
situation, whereas the portion of the writes to the missing devices aren't
written effectively.
This patch changes this behavior: we check if the block device's gendisk
is UP when submitting the BIO to the array member, and if it isn't, we flag
the md device as MD_BROKEN and fail subsequent I/Os to that device; a read
request to the array requiring data from a valid member is still completed.
While flagging the device as MD_BROKEN, we also show a rate-limited warning
in the kernel log.
A new array state 'broken' was added too: it mimics the state 'clean' in
every aspect, being useful only to distinguish if the array has some member
missing. We rely on the MD_BROKEN flag to put the array in the 'broken'
state. This state cannot be written in 'array_state' as it just shows
one or more members of the array are missing but acts like 'clean', it
wouldn't make sense to write it.
With this patch, the filesystem reacts much faster to the event of missing
array member: after some I/O errors, ext4 for instance aborts the journal
and prevents corruption. Without this change, we're able to keep writing
in the disk and after a machine reboot, e2fsck shows some severe fs errors
that demand fixing. This patch was tested in ext4 and xfs filesystems, and
requires a 'mdadm' counterpart to handle the 'broken' state.
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Kent Overstreet [Tue, 3 Sep 2019 13:25:45 +0000 (21:25 +0800)]
closures: fix a race on wakeup from closure_sync
The race was when a thread using closure_sync() notices cl->s->done == 1
before the thread calling closure_put() calls wake_up_process(). Then,
it's possible for that thread to return and exit just before
wake_up_process() is called - so we're trying to wake up a process that
no longer exists.
rcu_read_lock() is sufficient to protect against this, as there's an rcu
barrier somewhere in the process teardown path.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Documentation:kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt: Remove reference to elevator=
This argument was not being considered since blk-mq was set by default,
so removed this documentation to avoid confusion.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
.txt file is now .rst
Documenation: switching-sched: Remove notes about elevator argument
This argument was ignored since blk-mq was set as default, so remove it
from documentation.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
.txt file is now .rst
block: elevator.c: Remove now unused elevator= argument
Since the inclusion of blk-mq, elevator argument was not being
considered anymore, and it's utility died long with the legacy IO path,
now removed too.
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
Fold with doc removal patch.
Damien Le Moal [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 04:40:20 +0000 (13:40 +0900)]
block: mq-deadline: Fix queue restart handling
Commit 7211aef86f79 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion
handling") added a call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() in
dd_dispatch_request() to make sure that write request dispatching does
not stall when all target zones are locked. This fix left a subtle race
when a write completion happens during a dispatch execution on another
CPU:
CPU 0: Dispatch CPU1: write completion
dd_dispatch_request()
lock(&dd->lock);
...
lock(&dd->zone_lock); dd_finish_request()
rq = find request lock(&dd->zone_lock);
unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
zone write unlock
unlock(&dd->zone_lock);
...
__blk_mq_free_request
check restart flag (not set)
-> queue not run
...
if (!rq && have writes)
blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx()
unlock(&dd->lock)
Since the dispatch context finishes after the write request completion
handling, marking the queue as needing a restart is not seen from
__blk_mq_free_request() and blk_mq_sched_restart() not executed leading
to the dispatch stall under 100% write workloads.
Fix this by moving the call to blk_mq_sched_mark_restart_hctx() from
dd_dispatch_request() into dd_finish_request() under the zone lock to
ensure full mutual exclusion between write request dispatch selection
and zone unlock on write request completion.
Fixes: 7211aef86f79 ("block: mq-deadline: Fix write completion handling") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Hans Holmberg <Hans.Holmberg@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tejun Heo [Fri, 30 Aug 2019 23:39:54 +0000 (16:39 -0700)]
writeback: don't access page->mapping directly in track_foreign_dirty TP
page->mapping may encode different values in it and page_mapping()
should always be used to access the mapping pointer.
track_foreign_dirty tracepoint was incorrectly accessing page->mapping
directly. Use page_mapping() instead. Also, add NULL checks while at
it.
Fixes: 3a8e9ac89e6a ("writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks") Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Jens Axboe [Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:21:27 +0000 (14:21 -0600)]
Merge branch 'nvme-5.4' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme into for-5.4/block
Pull NVMe changes from Sagi:
"The nvme updates include:
- ana log parse fix from Anton
- nvme quirks support for Apple devices from Ben
- fix missing bio completion tracing for multipath stack devices from
Hannes and Mikhail
- IP TOS settings for nvme rdma and tcp transports from Israel
- rq_dma_dir cleanups from Israel
- tracing for Get LBA Status command from Minwoo
- Some nvme-tcp cleanups from Minwoo, Potnuri and Myself
- Some consolidation between the fabrics transports for handling the CAP
register
- reset race with ns scanning fix for fabrics (move fabrics commands to
a dedicated request queue with a different lifetime from the admin
request queue)."
* 'nvme-5.4' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme: (30 commits)
nvme-rdma: Use rq_dma_dir macro
nvme-fc: Use rq_dma_dir macro
nvme-pci: Tidy up nvme_unmap_data
nvme: make fabrics command run on a separate request queue
nvme-pci: Support shared tags across queues for Apple 2018 controllers
nvme-pci: Add support for Apple 2018+ models
nvme-pci: Add support for variable IO SQ element size
nvme-pci: Pass the queue to SQ_SIZE/CQ_SIZE macros
nvme: trace bio completion
nvme-multipath: fix ana log nsid lookup when nsid is not found
nvmet-tcp: Add TOS for tcp transport
nvme-tcp: Add TOS for tcp transport
nvme-tcp: Use struct nvme_ctrl directly
nvme-rdma: Add TOS for rdma transport
nvme-fabrics: Add type of service (TOS) configuration
nvmet-tcp: fix possible memory leak
nvmet-tcp: fix possible NULL deref
nvmet: trace: parse Get LBA Status command in detail
nvme: trace: parse Get LBA Status command in detail
nvme: trace: support for Get LBA Status opcode parsed
...
Tejun Heo [Thu, 29 Aug 2019 22:47:19 +0000 (15:47 -0700)]
writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks
cgroup foreign inode handling has quite a bit of heuristics and
internal states which sometimes makes it difficult to understand
what's going on. Add tracepoints to improve visibility.
Israel Rukshin [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:11:49 +0000 (14:11 +0300)]
nvme-fc: Use rq_dma_dir macro
Remove code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Israel Rukshin [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 11:11:48 +0000 (14:11 +0300)]
nvme-pci: Tidy up nvme_unmap_data
Remove pointless local variable and use rq_dma_dir macro.
Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Sagi Grimberg [Sat, 3 Aug 2019 02:33:59 +0000 (19:33 -0700)]
nvme: make fabrics command run on a separate request queue
We have a fundamental issue that fabric commands use the admin_q.
The reason is, that admin-connect, register reads and writes and
admin commands cannot be guaranteed ordering while we are running
controller resets.
For example, when we reset a controller we perform:
1. disable the controller
2. teardown the admin queue
3. re-establish the admin queue
4. enable the controller
In order to perform (3), we need to unquiesce the admin queue, however
we may have some admin commands that are already pending on the
quiesced admin_q and will immediate execute when we unquiesce it before
we execute (4). The host must not send admin commands to the controller
before enabling the controller.
To fix this, we have the fabric commands (admin connect and property
get/set, but not I/O queue connect) use a separate fabrics_q and make
sure to quiesce the admin_q before we disable the controller, and
unquiesce it only after we enable the controller.
This fixes the error prints from nvmet in a controller reset storm test:
kernel: nvmet: got cmd 6 while CC.EN == 0 on qid = 0
Which indicate that the host is sending an admin command when the
controller is not enabled.
Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
nvme-pci: Support shared tags across queues for Apple 2018 controllers
Another issue with the Apple T2 based 2018 controllers seem to be
that they blow up (and shut the machine down) if there's a tag
collision between the IO queue and the Admin queue.
My suspicion is that they use our tags for their internal tracking
and don't mix them with the queue id. They also seem to not like
when tags go beyond the IO queue depth, ie 128 tags.
This adds a quirk that marks tags 0..31 of the IO queue reserved
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Acked-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Based on reverse engineering and original patch by
Paul Pawlowski <paul@mrarm.io>
This adds support for Apple weird implementation of NVME in their
2018 or later machines. It accounts for the twice-as-big SQ entries
for the IO queues, and the fact that only interrupt vector 0 appears
to function properly.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reviewed-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Anton Eidelman [Fri, 16 Aug 2019 20:00:10 +0000 (13:00 -0700)]
nvme-multipath: fix ana log nsid lookup when nsid is not found
ANA log parsing invokes nvme_update_ana_state() per ANA group desc.
This updates the state of namespaces with nsids in desc->nsids[].
Both ctrl->namespaces list and desc->nsids[] array are sorted by nsid.
Hence nvme_update_ana_state() performs a single walk over ctrl->namespaces:
- if current namespace matches the current desc->nsids[n],
this namespace is updated, and n is incremented.
- the process stops when it encounters the end of either
ctrl->namespaces end or desc->nsids[]
In case desc->nsids[n] does not match any of ctrl->namespaces,
the remaining nsids following desc->nsids[n] will not be updated.
Such situation was considered abnormal and generated WARN_ON_ONCE.
However ANA log MAY contain nsids not (yet) found in ctrl->namespaces.
For example, lets consider the following scenario:
- nvme0 exposes namespaces with nsids = [2, 3] to the host
- a new namespace nsid = 1 is added dynamically
- also, a ANA topology change is triggered
- NS_CHANGED aen is generated and triggers scan_work
- before scan_work discovers nsid=1 and creates a namespace, a NOTICE_ANA
aen was issues and ana_work receives ANA log with nsids=[1, 2, 3]
Result: ana_work fails to update ANA state on existing namespaces [2, 3]
Solution:
Change the way nvme_update_ana_state() namespace list walk
checks the current namespace against desc->nsids[n] as follows:
a) ns->head->ns_id < desc->nsids[n]: keep walking ctrl->namespaces.
b) ns->head->ns_id == desc->nsids[n]: match, update the namespace
c) ns->head->ns_id >= desc->nsids[n]: skip to desc->nsids[n+1]
This enables correct operation in the scenario described above.
This also allows ANA log to contain nsids currently invisible
to the host, i.e. inactive nsids.
Signed-off-by: Anton Eidelman <anton@lightbitslabs.com> Reviewed-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Israel Rukshin [Sun, 18 Aug 2019 09:08:54 +0000 (12:08 +0300)]
nvme-tcp: Add TOS for tcp transport
TOS provide clients the ability to segregate traffic flows for
different type of data.
One of the TOS usage is bandwidth management which allows setting bandwidth
limits for QoS classes, e.g. 80% bandwidth to controllers at QoS class A
and 20% to controllers at QoS class B.
Israel Rukshin [Sun, 18 Aug 2019 09:08:52 +0000 (12:08 +0300)]
nvme-rdma: Add TOS for rdma transport
For RDMA transports, TOS is an extension of IB QoS to provide clients
the ability to segregate traffic flows for different type of data.
RDMA CM abstract it for ULPs using rdma_set_service_type().
Internally, each traffic flow is represented by a connection with all of
its independent resources like that of a normal connection, and is
differentiated by service type. In other words, there can be multiple qp
connections between an IP pair and each supports a unique service type.
One of the TOS usage is bandwidth management which allows setting bandwidth
limits for QoS classes, e.g. 80% bandwidth to controllers at QoS class A
and 20% to controllers at QoS class B.
Note: In addition to the TOS configuration, QOS must be configured on the
relevant HCA on the target (send RDMA commands) and initiator to effect
the traffic.
Minwoo Im [Sun, 4 Aug 2019 07:50:48 +0000 (16:50 +0900)]
nvme: trace: support for Get LBA Status opcode parsed
This patch adds Get LBA Status command's opcode to the macro that is
used by the trace feature. Now we can see "get_lba_status" instead of
the opcode value itself.
Signed-off-by: Minwoo Im <minwoo.im.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Tom Wu [Thu, 8 Aug 2019 02:22:36 +0000 (02:22 +0000)]
nvmet: fix data units read and written counters in SMART log
In nvme spec 1.3 there is a definition for data write/read counters
from SMART log, (See section 5.14.1.2):
This value is reported in thousands (i.e., a value of 1
corresponds to 1000 units of 512 bytes read) and is rounded up.
However, in nvme target where value is reported with actual units,
but not thousands of units as the spec requires.
Signed-off-by: Tom Wu <tomwu@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Simple polling support via socket busy_poll interface.
Although we do not shutdown interrupts but simply hammer
the socket poll, we can sometimes find completions faster
than the normal interrupt driven RX path.
We add per queue nr_cqe counter that resets every time
RX path is invoked such that .poll callback can return it
to stay consistent with the semantics.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
nvme-tcp: Use protocol specific operations while reading socket
Using socket specific read_sock() calls instead of directly calling
tcp_read_sock() helps lld module registered handlers if any, to be called
from nvme-tcp host.
This patch therefore replaces the tcp_read_sock() with socket specific
prot_ops.
Tejun Heo [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:05:58 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
blkcg: implement blk-iocost
This patchset implements IO cost model based work-conserving
proportional controller.
While io.latency provides the capability to comprehensively prioritize
and protect IOs depending on the cgroups, its protection is binary -
the lowest latency target cgroup which is suffering is protected at
the cost of all others. In many use cases including stacking multiple
workload containers in a single system, it's necessary to distribute
IO capacity with better granularity.
One challenge of controlling IO resources is the lack of trivially
observable cost metric. The most common metrics - bandwidth and iops
- can be off by orders of magnitude depending on the device type and
IO pattern. However, the cost isn't a complete mystery. Given
several key attributes, we can make fairly reliable predictions on how
expensive a given stream of IOs would be, at least compared to other
IO patterns.
The function which determines the cost of a given IO is the IO cost
model for the device. This controller distributes IO capacity based
on the costs estimated by such model. The more accurate the cost
model the better but the controller adapts based on IO completion
latency and as long as the relative costs across differents IO
patterns are consistent and sensible, it'll adapt to the actual
performance of the device.
Currently, the only implemented cost model is a simple linear one with
a few sets of default parameters for different classes of device.
This covers most common devices reasonably well. All the
infrastructure to tune and add different cost models is already in
place and a later patch will also allow using bpf progs for cost
models.
Please see the top comment in blk-iocost.c and documentation for
more details.
v2: Rebased on top of RQ_ALLOC_TIME changes and folded in Rik's fix
for a divide-by-zero bug in current_hweight() triggered by zero
inuse_sum.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Newell <newella@fb.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tejun Heo [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:05:57 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
blk-mq: add optional request->alloc_time_ns
There are currently two start time timestamps - start_time_ns and
io_start_time_ns. The former marks the request allocation and and the
second issue-to-device time. The planned io.weight controller needs
to measure the total time bios take to execute after it leaves rq_qos
including the time spent waiting for request to become available,
which can easily dominate on saturated devices.
This patch adds request->alloc_time_ns which records when the request
allocation attempt started. As it isn't used for the usual stats,
make it optional behind CONFIG_BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME and
QUEUE_FLAG_RQ_ALLOC_TIME so that it can be compiled out when there are
no users and it's active only on queues which need it even when
compiled in.
v2: s/pre_start_time/alloc_time/ and add CONFIG_BLK_RQ_ALLOC_TIME
gating as suggested by Jens.
wbt already gets queue depth changed notification through
wbt_set_queue_depth(). Generalize it into
rq_qos_ops->queue_depth_changed() so that other rq_qos policies can
easily hook into the events too.
Tejun Heo [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:05:53 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
blkcg: separate blkcg_conf_get_disk() out of blkg_conf_prep()
Separate out blkcg_conf_get_disk() so that it can be used by blkcg
policy interface file input parsers before the policy is actually
enabled. This doesn't introduce any functional changes.
Tejun Heo [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:05:51 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
blkcg: pass @q and @blkcg into blkcg_pol_alloc_pd_fn()
Instead of @node, pass in @q and @blkcg so that the alloc function has
more context. This doesn't cause any behavior change and will be used
by io.weight implementation.
Jens Axboe [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:56:59 +0000 (13:56 -0600)]
Merge branch 'md-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md into for-5.4/block
Pull MD fixes from Song.
* 'md-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md:
raid5 improve too many read errors msg by adding limits
md: don't report active array_state until after revalidate_disk() completes.
md: only call set_in_sync() when it is expected to succeed.
Nigel Croxon [Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:27:08 +0000 (09:27 -0400)]
raid5 improve too many read errors msg by adding limits
Often limits can be changed by admin. When discussing such things
it helps if you can provide "self-sustained" facts. Also
sometimes the admin thinks he changed a limit, but it did not
take effect for some reason or he changed the wrong thing.
V3: Only pr_warn when Faulty is 0.
V2: Add read_errors value to pr_warn.
Signed-off-by: Nigel Croxon <ncroxon@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
NeilBrown [Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:21:09 +0000 (10:21 +1000)]
md: don't report active array_state until after revalidate_disk() completes.
Until revalidate_disk() has completed, the size of a new md array will
appear to be zero.
So we shouldn't report, through array_state, that the array is active
until that time.
udev rules check array_state to see if the array is ready. As soon as
it appear to be zero, fsck can be run. If it find the size to be
zero, it will fail.
So add a new flag to provide an interlock between do_md_run() and
array_state_show(). This flag is set while do_md_run() is active and
it prevents array_state_show() from reporting that the array is
active.
Before do_md_run() is called, ->pers will be NULL so array is
definitely not active.
After do_md_run() is called, revalidate_disk() will have run and the
array will be completely ready.
We also move various sysfs_notify*() calls out of md_run() into
do_md_run() after MD_NOT_READY is cleared. This ensure the
information is ready before the notification is sent.
Prior to v4.12, array_state_show() was called with the
mddev->reconfig_mutex held, which provided exclusion with do_md_run().
Note that MD_NOT_READY cleared twice. This is deliberate to cover
both success and error paths with minimal noise.
Fixes: b7b17c9b67e5 ("md: remove mddev_lock() from md_attr_show()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.12++) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
NeilBrown [Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:21:09 +0000 (10:21 +1000)]
md: only call set_in_sync() when it is expected to succeed.
Since commit 4ad23a976413 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for
writes_pending"), set_in_sync() is substantially more expensive: it
can wait for a full RCU grace period which can be 10s of milliseconds.
So we should only call it when the cost is justified.
md_check_recovery() currently calls set_in_sync() every time it finds
anything to do (on non-external active arrays). For an array
performing resync or recovery, this will be quite often.
Each call will introduce a delay to the md thread, which can noticeable
affect IO submission latency.
In md_check_recovery() we only need to call set_in_sync() if
'safemode' was non-zero at entry, meaning that there has been not
recent IO. So we save this "safemode was nonzero" state, and only
call set_in_sync() if it was non-zero.
This measurably reduces mean and maximum IO submission latency during
resync/recovery.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@cloud.ionos.com> Fixes: 4ad23a976413 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.12+) Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Ming Lei [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:01:48 +0000 (19:01 +0800)]
block: split .sysfs_lock into two locks
The kernfs built-in lock of 'kn->count' is held in sysfs .show/.store
path. Meantime, inside block's .show/.store callback, q->sysfs_lock is
required.
However, when mq & iosched kobjects are removed via
blk_mq_unregister_dev() & elv_unregister_queue(), q->sysfs_lock is held
too. This way causes AB-BA lock because the kernfs built-in lock of
'kn-count' is required inside kobject_del() too, see the lockdep warning[1].
On the other hand, it isn't necessary to acquire q->sysfs_lock for
both blk_mq_unregister_dev() & elv_unregister_queue() because
clearing REGISTERED flag prevents storing to 'queue/scheduler'
from being happened. Also sysfs write(store) is exclusive, so no
necessary to hold the lock for elv_unregister_queue() when it is
called in switching elevator path.
So split .sysfs_lock into two: one is still named as .sysfs_lock for
covering sync .store, the other one is named as .sysfs_dir_lock
for covering kobjects and related status change.
sysfs itself can handle the race between add/remove kobjects and
showing/storing attributes under kobjects. For switching scheduler
via storing to 'queue/scheduler', we use the queue flag of
QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED with .sysfs_lock for avoiding the race, then
we can avoid to hold .sysfs_lock during removing/adding kobjects.
[1] lockdep warning
======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.3.0-rc3-00044-g73277fc75ea0 #1380 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
rmmod/777 is trying to acquire lock: 00000000ac50e981 (kn->count#202){++++}, at: kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x59/0x72
but task is already holding lock: 00000000fb16ae21 (&q->sysfs_lock){+.+.}, at: blk_unregister_queue+0x78/0x10b
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Ming Lei [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:01:47 +0000 (19:01 +0800)]
block: add helper for checking if queue is registered
There are 4 users which check if queue is registered, so add one helper
to check it.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Ming Lei [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:01:46 +0000 (19:01 +0800)]
blk-mq: don't hold q->sysfs_lock in blk_mq_map_swqueue
blk_mq_map_swqueue() is called from blk_mq_init_allocated_queue()
and blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues(). For the former caller, the kobject
isn't exposed to userspace yet. For the latter caller, hctx sysfs entries
and debugfs are un-registered before updating nr_hw_queues.
On the other hand, commit 2f8f1336a48b ("blk-mq: always free hctx after
request queue is freed") moves freeing hctx into queue's release
handler, so there won't be race with queue release path too.
So don't hold q->sysfs_lock in blk_mq_map_swqueue().
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Ming Lei [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:01:45 +0000 (19:01 +0800)]
block: don't hold q->sysfs_lock in elevator_init_mq
The original comment says:
q->sysfs_lock must be held to provide mutual exclusion between
elevator_switch() and here.
Which is simply wrong. elevator_init_mq() is only called from
blk_mq_init_allocated_queue, which is always called before the request
queue is registered via blk_register_queue(), for dm-rq or normal rq
based driver. However, queue's kobject is only exposed and added to sysfs
in blk_register_queue(). So there isn't such race between elevator_switch()
and elevator_init_mq().
So avoid to hold q->sysfs_lock in elevator_init_mq().
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Bart Van Assche [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:01:44 +0000 (19:01 +0800)]
block: Remove blk_mq_register_dev()
This function has no callers. Hence remove it.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
There's an inherent mismatch between memcg and writeback. The former
trackes ownership per-page while the latter per-inode. This was a
deliberate design decision because honoring per-page ownership in the
writeback path is complicated, may lead to higher CPU and IO overheads
and deemed unnecessary given that write-sharing an inode across
different cgroups isn't a common use-case.
Combined with inode majority-writer ownership switching, this works
well enough in most cases but there are some pathological cases. For
example, let's say there are two cgroups A and B which keep writing to
different but confined parts of the same inode. B owns the inode and
A's memory is limited far below B's. A's dirty ratio can rise enough
to trigger balance_dirty_pages() sleeps but B's can be low enough to
avoid triggering background writeback. A will be slowed down without
a way to make writeback of the dirty pages happen.
This patch implements foreign dirty recording and foreign mechanism so
that when a memcg encounters a condition as above it can trigger
flushes on bdi_writebacks which can clean its pages. Please see the
comment on top of mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() for
details.