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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:51:11 -0400
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, hch@...radead.org,
axboe@...nel.dk, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: xen/blkback: Add support for old BARRIER requests -
'feature-barrier', was "Help with implementing some form of barriers in 3.0
kernels."
> > + if (drain) {
> > + struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(preq.bdev);
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > +
> > + if (!q->elevator) {
> > + __end_block_io_op(pending_req, -EOPNOTSUPP);
> > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > + }
>
> You shouldn't return here - barrier requests may be "non-empty" (i.e.
> carry data to be written), and hence you'd need to make sure the
> writes get carried out nevertheless.
In theory (and in practice) the 'feature-barrier' is set to zero
if !q->elevator. So the frontend should not even try WRITE_BARRIER.
I think the better approach will be to outright fail the WRITE_BARRIER
request if 'feature-barrier=0' instead of just trying (which is what
this tries).
On a unrelated topic is what to do with devices which are bio based
but not request based. From the DM directory, only multipath is capable
of doing requests, while the rest are all bio. There is code to
quisce the bio's: dm_suspend, but it is not apparent to me how to
make it be exposed.
>
> Jan - this suggests that the placement isn't correct either: The
> draining of the queue - as I understand it - should be happening
> *after* these writes completed, not before they get started.
So that looks like it should be just moved a bit, like this new patch:
commit 315c0cf1a5174b9aed494d7903133ce9ac76d6f1
Author: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Date: Tue Sep 13 11:44:07 2011 +0100
xen: Add support for old BARRIER requests to xenblk driver
Recent kernels do not support BARRIER operation but only FLUSH operation. But
older xenblk frontends still use the BARRIER operation to achieve data
integrity requirements. So add support for BARRIER operation into xenblk
backend so that all guests do not corrupt their filesystem on host crash.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>
[v1: Added some extra functions, and other cases]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index a3b64bc..b2143a8 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ void elv_drain_elevator(struct request_queue *q)
q->elevator->elevator_type->elevator_name, q->nr_sorted);
}
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_drain_elevator);
/*
* Call with queue lock held, interrupts disabled
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
index 9713d5a..1df773c 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c
@@ -464,6 +464,11 @@ static void __end_block_io_op(struct pending_req *pending_req, int error)
pr_debug(DRV_PFX "flush diskcache op failed, not supported\n");
xen_blkbk_flush_diskcache(XBT_NIL, pending_req->blkif->be, 0);
pending_req->status = BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP;
+ } else if ((pending_req->operation == BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER) &&
+ (error == -EOPNOTSUPP)) {
+ pr_debug(DRV_PFX "write barrier op failed, not supported\n");
+ xen_blkbk_barrier(XBT_NIL, pending_req->blkif->be, 0);
+ pending_req->status = BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP;
} else if (error) {
pr_debug(DRV_PFX "Buffer not up-to-date at end of operation,"
" error=%d\n", error);
@@ -590,6 +595,7 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
struct bio *biolist[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
int i, nbio = 0;
int operation;
+ bool drain = false;
struct blk_plug plug;
switch (req->operation) {
@@ -601,6 +607,8 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
blkif->st_wr_req++;
operation = WRITE_ODIRECT;
break;
+ case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
+ drain = true;
case BLKIF_OP_FLUSH_DISKCACHE:
blkif->st_f_req++;
operation = WRITE_FLUSH;
@@ -609,7 +617,6 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
blkif->st_ds_req++;
operation = REQ_DISCARD;
break;
- case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
default:
operation = 0; /* make gcc happy */
goto fail_response;
@@ -668,6 +675,17 @@ static int dispatch_rw_block_io(struct xen_blkif *blkif,
}
}
+ if (drain) {
+ struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(preq.bdev);
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ /* Emulate the original behavior of write barriers */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
+ elv_drain_elevator(q);
+ __blk_run_queue(q);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
+ }
+
/*
* If we have failed at this point, we need to undo the M2P override,
* set gnttab_set_unmap_op on all of the grant references and perform
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
index bfb532e..42b0e46 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h
@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ int xen_blkif_schedule(void *arg);
int xen_blkbk_flush_diskcache(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
struct backend_info *be, int state);
+int xen_blkbk_barrier(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
+ struct backend_info *be, int state);
struct xenbus_device *xen_blkbk_xenbus(struct backend_info *be);
diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
index 2b3aef0..b477aee 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -421,6 +421,20 @@ int xen_blkbk_flush_diskcache(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
return err;
}
+int xen_blkbk_barrier(struct xenbus_transaction xbt,
+ struct backend_info *be, int state)
+{
+ struct xenbus_device *dev = be->dev;
+ int err;
+
+ err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-barrier",
+ "%d", state);
+ if (err)
+ xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "writing feature-barrier");
+
+ return err;
+}
+
int xen_blkbk_discard(struct xenbus_transaction xbt, struct backend_info *be)
{
struct xenbus_device *dev = be->dev;
@@ -706,6 +720,8 @@ again:
if (err)
goto abort;
+ err = xen_blkbk_barrier(xbt, be, be->blkif->vbd.flush_support);
+
err = xen_blkbk_discard(xbt, be);
err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "sectors", "%llu",
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