linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 3/8] dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio

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Message-Id: <1346876849-15820-4-git-send-email-koverstreet@google.com>
Date:	Wed,  5 Sep 2012 13:27:24 -0700
From:	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
To:	linux-bcache@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@...hat.com
Cc:	tj@...nel.org, vgoyal@...hat.com,
	Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v8 3/8] dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info

Previously, dm_rq_clone_bio_info needed to be freed by the bio's
destructor to avoid a memory leak in the blk_rq_prep_clone() error path.
This gets rid of a memory allocation and means we can kill
dm_rq_bio_destructor.

The _rq_bio_info_cache kmem cache is unused now and needs to be deleted,
but due to the way io_pool is used and overloaded this looks not quite
trivial so I'm leaving it for a later patch.

v6: Fix comment on struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info, per Tejun

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@...gle.com>
CC: Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/md/dm.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index f43aaf6..f2eb730 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -86,12 +86,17 @@ struct dm_rq_target_io {
 };
 
 /*
- * For request-based dm.
- * One of these is allocated per bio.
+ * For request-based dm - the bio clones we allocate are embedded in these
+ * structs.
+ *
+ * We allocate these with bio_alloc_bioset, using the front_pad parameter when
+ * the bioset is created - this means the bio has to come at the end of the
+ * struct.
  */
 struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info {
 	struct bio *orig;
 	struct dm_rq_target_io *tio;
+	struct bio clone;
 };
 
 union map_info *dm_get_mapinfo(struct bio *bio)
@@ -211,6 +216,11 @@ struct dm_md_mempools {
 static struct kmem_cache *_io_cache;
 static struct kmem_cache *_tio_cache;
 static struct kmem_cache *_rq_tio_cache;
+
+/*
+ * Unused now, and needs to be deleted. But since io_pool is overloaded and it's
+ * still used for _io_cache, I'm leaving this for a later cleanup
+ */
 static struct kmem_cache *_rq_bio_info_cache;
 
 static int __init local_init(void)
@@ -467,16 +477,6 @@ static void free_rq_tio(struct dm_rq_target_io *tio)
 	mempool_free(tio, tio->md->tio_pool);
 }
 
-static struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info *alloc_bio_info(struct mapped_device *md)
-{
-	return mempool_alloc(md->io_pool, GFP_ATOMIC);
-}
-
-static void free_bio_info(struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info *info)
-{
-	mempool_free(info, info->tio->md->io_pool);
-}
-
 static int md_in_flight(struct mapped_device *md)
 {
 	return atomic_read(&md->pending[READ]) +
@@ -1460,30 +1460,17 @@ void dm_dispatch_request(struct request *rq)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_dispatch_request);
 
-static void dm_rq_bio_destructor(struct bio *bio)
-{
-	struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info *info = bio->bi_private;
-	struct mapped_device *md = info->tio->md;
-
-	free_bio_info(info);
-	bio_free(bio, md->bs);
-}
-
 static int dm_rq_bio_constructor(struct bio *bio, struct bio *bio_orig,
 				 void *data)
 {
 	struct dm_rq_target_io *tio = data;
-	struct mapped_device *md = tio->md;
-	struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info *info = alloc_bio_info(md);
-
-	if (!info)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info *info =
+		container_of(bio, struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info, clone);
 
 	info->orig = bio_orig;
 	info->tio = tio;
 	bio->bi_end_io = end_clone_bio;
 	bio->bi_private = info;
-	bio->bi_destructor = dm_rq_bio_destructor;
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -2718,7 +2705,8 @@ struct dm_md_mempools *dm_alloc_md_mempools(unsigned type, unsigned integrity)
 	if (!pools->tio_pool)
 		goto free_io_pool_and_out;
 
-	pools->bs = bioset_create(pool_size, 0);
+	pools->bs = bioset_create(pool_size,
+				  offsetof(struct dm_rq_clone_bio_info, clone));
 	if (!pools->bs)
 		goto free_tio_pool_and_out;
 
-- 
1.7.12

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