This patch fixes multiple spelling mistakes in comments and documentation
in the file block/blk-core.c.
No functional changes intended.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: shechenglong <shechenglong@xfusion.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- FC target fixes (Daniel)
- Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
- Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
- Target lockdep assertions (Max)
- Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
- Suspend quirk (Georg)
- MD pull request via Yu:
- Add support for a lockless bitmap.
A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
writes.
By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
need to do a full disk resync/recovery.
- Switch ->getgeo() and ->bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
than struct block_device.
- Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.
The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
`kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
to support the same use as the removed logic.
- floppy arch cleanups
- Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands
- Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
setups.
- A few s390 dasd block fixes
- Fix a few issues around atomic writes
- Improve DMA interation for integrity requests
- Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
constraints.
We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
only the request as a whole needs to.
- Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
payloads
- Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate
- Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections
- Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs
- Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device
- Various fixes and cleanups
* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
...
A recent commit skipped dumping the usual "attempt to access beyond end
of device" message if the device size is 0 sectors, as that's a common
pattern for devices that have been hot removed. But while it stopped
that message, it also prevented returning -EIO for that condition.
Reinstate the -EIO return, while retaining the quiet operation for
triggering EOD for a device with 0 sectors.
Reported-by: syzbot+4b12286339fe4c2700c1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Sahil Chandna <chandna.linuxkernel@gmail.com>
Fixes: d0a2b527d8 ("block: tone down bio_check_eod")
Tested-by: Sahil Chandna <chandna.linuxkernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Currently, split bio will be chained to original bio, and original bio
will be resubmitted to the tail of current->bio_list, waiting for
split bio to be issued. However, if split bio get split again, the IO
order will be messed up. This problem, on the one hand, will cause
performance degradation, especially for mdraid with large IO size; on
the other hand, will cause write errors for zoned block devices[1].
For example, in raid456 IO will first be split by max_sector from
md_submit_bio(), and then later be split again by chunksize for internal
handling:
For example, assume max_sectors is 1M, and chunksize is 512k
1) issue a 2M IO:
bio issuing: 0+2M
current->bio_list: NULL
2) md_submit_bio() split by max_sector:
bio issuing: 0+1M
current->bio_list: 1M+1M
3) chunk_aligned_read() split by chunksize:
bio issuing: 0+512k
current->bio_list: 1M+1M -> 512k+512k
4) after first bio issued, __submit_bio_noacct() will contuine issuing
next bio:
bio issuing: 1M+1M
current->bio_list: 512k+512k
bio issued: 0+512k
5) chunk_aligned_read() split by chunksize:
bio issuing: 1M+512k
current->bio_list: 512k+512k -> 1536k+512k
bio issued: 0+512k
6) no split afterwards, finally the issue order is:
0+512k -> 1M+512k -> 512k+512k -> 1536k+512k
This behaviour will cause large IO read on raid456 endup to be small
discontinuous IO in underlying disks. Fix this problem by placing split
bio to the head of current->bio_list.
Test script: test on 8 disk raid5 with 64k chunksize
dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=4480k iflag=direct
Test results:
Before this patch
1) iostat results:
Device r/s rMB/s rrqm/s %rrqm r_await rareq-sz aqu-sz %util
md0 52430.00 3276.87 0.00 0.00 0.62 64.00 32.60 80.10
sd* 4487.00 409.00 2054.00 31.40 0.82 93.34 3.68 71.20
2) blktrace G stage:
8,0 0 486445 11.357392936 843 G R 14071424 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 486451 11.357466360 843 G R 14071168 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 486454 11.357515868 843 G R 14071296 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 486468 11.357968099 843 G R 14072192 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 486474 11.358031320 843 G R 14071936 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 486480 11.358096298 843 G R 14071552 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 486490 11.358303858 843 G R 14071808 + 128 [dd]
3) io seek for sdx:
Noted io seek is the result from blktrace D stage, statistic of:
ABS((offset of next IO) - (offset + len of previous IO))
Read|Write seek
cnt 55175, zero cnt 25079
>=(KB) .. <(KB) : count ratio |distribution |
0 .. 1 : 25079 45.5% |########################################|
1 .. 2 : 0 0.0% | |
2 .. 4 : 0 0.0% | |
4 .. 8 : 0 0.0% | |
8 .. 16 : 0 0.0% | |
16 .. 32 : 0 0.0% | |
32 .. 64 : 12540 22.7% |##################### |
64 .. 128 : 2508 4.5% |##### |
128 .. 256 : 0 0.0% | |
256 .. 512 : 10032 18.2% |################# |
512 .. 1024 : 5016 9.1% |######### |
After this patch:
1) iostat results:
Device r/s rMB/s rrqm/s %rrqm r_await rareq-sz aqu-sz %util
md0 87965.00 5271.88 0.00 0.00 0.16 61.37 14.03 90.60
sd* 6020.00 658.44 5117.00 45.95 0.44 112.00 2.68 86.50
2) blktrace G stage:
8,0 0 206296 5.354894072 664 G R 7156992 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206305 5.355018179 664 G R 7157248 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206316 5.355204438 664 G R 7157504 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206319 5.355241048 664 G R 7157760 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206333 5.355500923 664 G R 7158016 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206344 5.355837806 664 G R 7158272 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206353 5.355960395 664 G R 7158528 + 128 [dd]
8,0 0 206357 5.356020772 664 G R 7158784 + 128 [dd]
3) io seek for sdx
Read|Write seek
cnt 28644, zero cnt 21483
>=(KB) .. <(KB) : count ratio |distribution |
0 .. 1 : 21483 75.0% |########################################|
1 .. 2 : 0 0.0% | |
2 .. 4 : 0 0.0% | |
4 .. 8 : 0 0.0% | |
8 .. 16 : 0 0.0% | |
16 .. 32 : 0 0.0% | |
32 .. 64 : 7161 25.0% |############## |
BTW, this looks like a long term problem from day one, and large
sequential IO read is pretty common case like video playing.
And even with this patch, in this test case IO is merged to at most 128k
is due to block layer plug limit BLK_PLUG_FLUSH_SIZE, increase such
limit can get even better performance. However, we'll figure out how to do
this properly later.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/e40b076d-583d-406b-b223-005910a9f46f@acm.org/
Fixes: d89d87965d ("When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls")
Reported-by: Tie Ren <tieren@fnnas.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/7dro5o7u5t64d6bgiansesjavxcuvkq5p2pok7dtwkav7b7ape@3isfr44b6352/
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Lots of checks are already done while submitting this bio the first
time, and there is no need to check them again when this bio is
resubmitted after split.
Hence open code should_fail_bio() and blk_throtl_bio() that are still
necessary from submit_bio_split_bioset().
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
bio->issue_time_ns is only used by blk-iolatency, which can only be
enabled for rq-based disk, hence it's not necessary to initialize
the time for bio-based disk.
Meanwhile, if bio is split by blk_crypto_fallback_split_bio_if_needed(),
the issue time is not initialized for new split bio, this can be fixed
as well.
Noted the next patch will optimize better that bio issue time will
only be used when blk-iolatency is really enabled by the disk.
Fixes: 488f6682c8 ("block: blk-crypto-fallback for Inline Encryption")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A queue's elevator can be updated either when modifying nr_hw_queues
or through the sysfs scheduler attribute. Currently, elevator switching/
updating is protected using q->sysfs_lock, but this has led to lockdep
splats[1] due to inconsistent lock ordering between q->sysfs_lock and
the freeze-lock in multiple block layer call sites.
As the scope of q->sysfs_lock is not well-defined, its (mis)use has
resulted in numerous lockdep warnings. To address this, introduce a new
q->elevator_lock, dedicated specifically for protecting elevator
switches/updates. And we'd now use this new q->elevator_lock instead of
q->sysfs_lock for protecting elevator switches/updates.
While at it, make elv_iosched_load_module() a static function, as it is
only called from elv_iosched_store(). Also, remove redundant parameters
from elv_iosched_load_module() function signature.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/67637e70.050a0220.3157ee.000c.GAE@google.com/
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250304102551.2533767-5-nilay@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The request queue uses ->sysfs_dir_lock for protecting the addition/
deletion of kobject entries under sysfs while we register/unregister
blk-mq. However kobject addition/deletion is already protected with
kernfs/sysfs internal synchronization primitives. So use of q->sysfs_
dir_lock seems redundant.
Moreover, q->sysfs_dir_lock is also used at few other callsites along
with q->sysfs_lock for protecting the addition/deletion of kojects.
One such example is when we register with sysfs a set of independent
access ranges for a disk. Here as well we could get rid off q->sysfs_
dir_lock and only use q->sysfs_lock.
The only variable which q->sysfs_dir_lock appears to protect is q->
mq_sysfs_init_done which is set/unset while registering/unregistering
blk-mq with sysfs. But use of q->mq_sysfs_init_done could be easily
replaced using queue registered bit QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED.
So with this patch we remove q->sysfs_dir_lock from each callsite
and replace q->mq_sysfs_init_done using QUEUE_FLAG_REGISTERED.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128143436.874357-2-nilay@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When __blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues changes the number of tag sets, it
might have to disable poll queues. Currently it does so by adjusting
the BLK_FEAT_POLL, which is a bit against the intent of features that
describe hardware / driver capabilities, but more importantly causes
nasty lock order problems with the broadly held freeze when updating the
number of hardware queues and the limits lock. Fix this by leaving
BLK_FEAT_POLL alone, and instead check for the number of poll queues in
the bio submission and poll handlers. While this adds extra work to the
fast path, the variables are in cache lines used by these operations
anyway, so it should be cheap enough.
Fixes: 8023e144f9 ("block: move the poll flag to queue_limits")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110054726.1499538-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Replace the semi-open coded request list helpers with a proper rq_list
type that mirrors the bio_list and has head and tail pointers. Besides
better type safety this actually allows to insert at the tail of the
list, which will be useful soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241113152050.157179-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
max_zone_append_sectors differs from all other queue limits in that the
final value used is not stored in the queue_limits but needs to be
obtained using queue_limits_max_zone_append_sectors helper. This not
only adds (tiny) extra overhead to the I/O path, but also can be easily
forgotten in file system code.
Add a new max_hw_zone_append_sectors value to queue_limits which is
set by the driver, and calculate max_zone_append_sectors from that and
the other inputs in blk_validate_zoned_limits, similar to how
max_sectors is calculated to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104073955.112324-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108154657.845768-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
commit f1be1788a3 ("block: model freeze & enter queue as lock for
supporting lockdep") tries to apply lockdep for verifying freeze &
unfreeze. However, the verification is only done the outmost freeze and
unfreeze. This way is actually not correct because q->mq_freeze_depth
still may drop to zero on other task instead of the freeze owner task.
Fix this issue by always verifying the last unfreeze lock on the owner
task context, and make sure both the outmost freeze & unfreeze are
verified in the current task.
Fixes: f1be1788a3 ("block: model freeze & enter queue as lock for supporting lockdep")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241031133723.303835-4-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
max_zone_append_sectors differs from all other queue limits in that the
final value used is not stored in the queue_limits but needs to be
obtained using queue_limits_max_zone_append_sectors helper. This not
only adds (tiny) extra overhead to the I/O path, but also can be easily
forgotten in file system code.
Add a new max_hw_zone_append_sectors value to queue_limits which is
set by the driver, and calculate max_zone_append_sectors from that and
the other inputs in blk_validate_zoned_limits, similar to how
max_sectors is calculated to fix this.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241104073955.112324-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Recently we got several deadlock report[1][2][3] caused by
blk_mq_freeze_queue and blk_enter_queue().
Turns out the two are just like acquiring read/write lock, so model them
as read/write lock for supporting lockdep:
1) model q->q_usage_counter as two locks(io and queue lock)
- queue lock covers sync with blk_enter_queue()
- io lock covers sync with bio_enter_queue()
2) make the lockdep class/key as per-queue:
- different subsystem has very different lock use pattern, shared lock
class causes false positive easily
- freeze_queue degrades to no lock in case that disk state becomes DEAD
because bio_enter_queue() won't be blocked any more
- freeze_queue degrades to no lock in case that request queue becomes dying
because blk_enter_queue() won't be blocked any more
3) model blk_mq_freeze_queue() as acquire_exclusive & try_lock
- it is exclusive lock, so dependency with blk_enter_queue() is covered
- it is trylock because blk_mq_freeze_queue() are allowed to run
concurrently
4) model blk_enter_queue() & bio_enter_queue() as acquire_read()
- nested blk_enter_queue() are allowed
- dependency with blk_mq_freeze_queue() is covered
- blk_queue_exit() is often called from other contexts(such as irq), and
it can't be annotated as lock_release(), so simply do it in
blk_enter_queue(), this way still covered cases as many as possible
With lockdep support, such kind of reports may be reported asap and
needn't wait until the real deadlock is triggered.
For example, lockdep report can be triggered in the report[3] with this
patch applied.
[1] occasional block layer hang when setting 'echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler'
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219166
[2] del_gendisk() vs blk_queue_enter() race condition
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20241003085610.GK11458@google.com/
[3] queue_freeze & queue_enter deadlock in scsi
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZxG38G9BuFdBpBHZ@fedora/T/#u
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241025003722.3630252-4-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch adds a poll queue check, aiming to help users use polled IO
accurately.
If users do polled IO but the device doesn't have poll queues, they will
get suboptimal performance data and waste CPU resources. Add a poll queue
check batching this. If users don't have the device properly configured,
or if it simply doesn't support polled IO, it will error the IO with
-EOPNOTSUPP. This is similar to what we used to do for sync polled IO,
which is no longer supported.
Signed-off-by: hexue <xue01.he@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718070817.1031494-1-xue01.he@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add atomic write support, as follows:
- add helper functions to get request_queue atomic write limits
- report request_queue atomic write support limits to sysfs and update Doc
- support to safely merge atomic writes
- deal with splitting atomic writes
- misc helper functions
- add a per-request atomic write flag
New request_queue limits are added, as follows:
- atomic_write_hw_max is set by the block driver and is the maximum length
of an atomic write which the device may support. It is not
necessarily a power-of-2.
- atomic_write_max_sectors is derived from atomic_write_hw_max_sectors and
max_hw_sectors. It is always a power-of-2. Atomic writes may be merged,
and atomic_write_max_sectors would be the limit on a merged atomic write
request size. This value is not capped at max_sectors, as the value in
max_sectors can be controlled from userspace, and it would only cause
trouble if userspace could limit atomic_write_unit_max_bytes and the
other atomic write limits.
- atomic_write_hw_unit_{min,max} are set by the block driver and are the
min/max length of an atomic write unit which the device may support. They
both must be a power-of-2. Typically atomic_write_hw_unit_max will hold
the same value as atomic_write_hw_max.
- atomic_write_unit_{min,max} are derived from
atomic_write_hw_unit_{min,max}, max_hw_sectors, and block core limits.
Both min and max values must be a power-of-2.
- atomic_write_hw_boundary is set by the block driver. If non-zero, it
indicates an LBA space boundary at which an atomic write straddles no
longer is atomically executed by the disk. The value must be a
power-of-2. Note that it would be acceptable to enforce a rule that
atomic_write_hw_boundary_sectors is a multiple of
atomic_write_hw_unit_max, but the resultant code would be more
complicated.
All atomic writes limits are by default set 0 to indicate no atomic write
support. Even though it is assumed by Linux that a logical block can always
be atomically written, we ignore this as it is not of particular interest.
Stacked devices are just not supported either for now.
An atomic write must always be submitted to the block driver as part of a
single request. As such, only a single BIO must be submitted to the block
layer for an atomic write. When a single atomic write BIO is submitted, it
cannot be split. As such, atomic_write_unit_{max, min}_bytes are limited
by the maximum guaranteed BIO size which will not be required to be split.
This max size is calculated by request_queue max segments and the number
of bvecs a BIO can fit, BIO_MAX_VECS. Currently we rely on userspace
issuing a write with iovcnt=1 for pwritev2() - as such, we can rely on each
segment containing PAGE_SIZE of data, apart from the first+last, which each
can fit logical block size of data. The first+last will be LBS
length/aligned as we rely on direct IO alignment rules also.
New sysfs files are added to report the following atomic write limits:
- atomic_write_unit_max_bytes - same as atomic_write_unit_max_sectors in
bytes
- atomic_write_unit_min_bytes - same as atomic_write_unit_min_sectors in
bytes
- atomic_write_boundary_bytes - same as atomic_write_hw_boundary_sectors in
bytes
- atomic_write_max_bytes - same as atomic_write_max_sectors in bytes
Atomic writes may only be merged with other atomic writes and only under
the following conditions:
- total resultant request length <= atomic_write_max_bytes
- the merged write does not straddle a boundary
Helper function bdev_can_atomic_write() is added to indicate whether
atomic writes may be issued to a bdev. If a bdev is a partition, the
partition start must be aligned with both atomic_write_unit_min_sectors
and atomic_write_hw_boundary_sectors.
FSes will rely on the block layer to validate that an atomic write BIO
submitted will be of valid size, so add blk_validate_atomic_write_op_size()
for this purpose. Userspace expects an atomic write which is of invalid
size to be rejected with -EINVAL, so add BLK_STS_INVAL for this. Also use
BLK_STS_INVAL for when a BIO needs to be split, as this should mean an
invalid size BIO.
Flag REQ_ATOMIC is used for indicating an atomic write.
Co-developed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620125359.2684798-6-john.g.garry@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Move the poll flag into the queue_limits feature field so that it can
be set atomically with the queue frozen.
Stacking drivers are simplified in that they now can simply set the
flag, and blk_stack_limits will clear it when the features is not
supported by any of the underlying devices.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617060532.127975-22-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Move the cache control settings into the queue_limits so that the flags
can be set atomically with the device queue frozen.
Add new features and flags field for the driver set flags, and internal
(usually sysfs-controlled) flags in the block layer. Note that we'll
eventually remove enough field from queue_limits to bring it back to the
previous size.
The disable flag is inverted compared to the previous meaning, which
means it now survives a rescan, similar to the max_sectors and
max_discard_sectors user limits.
The FLUSH and FUA flags are now inherited by blk_stack_limits, which
simplified the code in dm a lot, but also causes a slight behavior
change in that dm-switch and dm-unstripe now advertise a write cache
despite setting num_flush_bios to 0. The I/O path will handle this
gracefully, but as far as I can tell the lack of num_flush_bios
and thus flush support is a pre-existing data integrity bug in those
targets that really needs fixing, after which a non-zero num_flush_bios
should be required in dm for targets that map to underlying devices.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617060532.127975-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe:
"Followup block updates, mostly due to NVMe being a bit late to the
party. But nothing major in there, so not a big deal.
In detail, this contains:
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- Fabrics connection retries (Daniel, Hannes)
- Fabrics logging enhancements (Tokunori)
- RDMA delete optimization (Sagi)
- ublk DMA alignment fix (me)
- null_blk sparse warning fixes (Bart)
- Discard support for brd (Keith)
- blk-cgroup list corruption fixes (Ming)
- blk-cgroup stat propagation fix (Waiman)
- Regression fix for plugging stall with md (Yu)
- Misc fixes or cleanups (David, Jeff, Justin)"
* tag 'block-6.10-20240523' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (24 commits)
null_blk: fix null-ptr-dereference while configuring 'power' and 'submit_queues'
blk-throttle: remove unused struct 'avg_latency_bucket'
block: fix lost bio for plug enabled bio based device
block: t10-pi: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
blk-mq: add helper for checking if one CPU is mapped to specified hctx
blk-cgroup: Properly propagate the iostat update up the hierarchy
blk-cgroup: fix list corruption from reorder of WRITE ->lqueued
blk-cgroup: fix list corruption from resetting io stat
cdrom: rearrange last_media_change check to avoid unintentional overflow
nbd: Fix signal handling
nbd: Remove a local variable from nbd_send_cmd()
nbd: Improve the documentation of the locking assumptions
nbd: Remove superfluous casts
nbd: Use NULL to represent a pointer
brd: implement discard support
null_blk: Fix two sparse warnings
ublk_drv: set DMA alignment mask to 3
nvme-rdma, nvme-tcp: include max reconnects for reconnect logging
nvmet-rdma: Avoid o(n^2) loop in delete_ctrl
nvme: do not retry authentication failures
...
With the following two conditions, bio will be lost:
1) blk plug is not enabled, for example, __blkdev_direct_IO_simple() and
__blkdev_direct_IO_async();
2) bio plug is enabled, for example write IO for raid1/raid10 while
bitmap is enabled;
Root cause is that blk_finish_plug() will add the bio to
curent->bio_list, while such bio will not be handled:
__submit_bio_noacct
current->bio_list = bio_list_on_stack;
blk_start_plug
do {
dm_submit_bio
md_handle_request
raid10_write_request
-> generate new bio for underlying disks
raid1_add_bio_to_plug -> bio is added to plug
} while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&bio_list_on_stack[0])))
-> previous bio are all handled
blk_finish_plug
raid10_unplug
raid1_submit_write
submit_bio_noacct
if (current->bio_list)
bio_list_add(¤t->bio_list[0], bio)
-> add new bio
current->bio_list = NULL
-> new bio is lost
Fix the problem by moving the plug into the while loop, so that
current->bio_list will still be handled after blk_finish_plug().
By the way, enable plug for raid1/raid10 in this case will also prevent
delay IO handling into daemon thread, which should also improve IO
performance.
Fixes: 060406c61c ("block: add plug while submitting IO")
Reported-by: Changhui Zhong <czhong@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGVVp+Xsmzy2G9YuEatfMT6qv1M--YdOCQ0g7z7OVmcTbBxQAg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Changhui Zhong <czhong@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240521200308.983986-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull bdev flags update from Al Viro:
"Compactifying bdev flags.
We can easily have up to 24 flags with sane atomicity, _without_
pushing anything out of the first cacheline of struct block_device"
* tag 'pull-bd_flags-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
bdev: move ->bd_make_it_fail to ->__bd_flags
bdev: move ->bd_ro_warned to ->__bd_flags
bdev: move ->bd_has_subit_bio to ->__bd_flags
bdev: move ->bd_write_holder into ->__bd_flags
bdev: move ->bd_read_only to ->__bd_flags
bdev: infrastructure for flags
wrapper for access to ->bd_partno
Use bdev_is_paritition() instead of open-coding it
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Add a partscan attribute in sysfs, fixing an issue with systemd
relying on an internal interface that went away.
- Attempt #2 at making long running discards interruptible. The
previous attempt went into 6.9, but we ended up mostly reverting it
as it had issues.
- Remove old ida_simple API in bcache
- Support for zoned write plugging, greatly improving the performance
on zoned devices.
- Remove the old throttle low interface, which has been experimental
since 2017 and never made it beyond that and isn't being used.
- Remove page->index debugging checks in brd, as it hasn't caught
anything and prepares us for removing in struct page.
- MD pull request from Song
- Don't schedule block workers on isolated CPUs
* tag 'for-6.10/block-20240511' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (84 commits)
blk-throttle: delay initialization until configuration
blk-throttle: remove CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
block: fix that util can be greater than 100%
block: support to account io_ticks precisely
block: add plug while submitting IO
bcache: fix variable length array abuse in btree_iter
bcache: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
md: Revert "md: Fix overflow in is_mddev_idle"
blk-lib: check for kill signal in ioctl BLKDISCARD
block: add a bio_await_chain helper
block: add a blk_alloc_discard_bio helper
block: add a bio_chain_and_submit helper
block: move discard checks into the ioctl handler
block: remove the discard_granularity check in __blkdev_issue_discard
block/ioctl: prefer different overflow check
null_blk: Fix the WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
block: fix and simplify blkdevparts= cmdline parsing
block: refine the EOF check in blkdev_iomap_begin
block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
block: add a disk_has_partscan helper
...
Currently, io_ticks is accounted based on sampling, specifically
update_io_ticks() will always account io_ticks by 1 jiffies from
bdev_start_io_acct()/blk_account_io_start(), and the result can be
inaccurate, for example(HZ is 250):
Test script:
fio -filename=/dev/sda -bs=4k -rw=write -direct=1 -name=test -thinktime=4ms
Test result: util is about 90%, while the disk is really idle.
This behaviour is introduced by commit 5b18b5a737 ("block: delete
part_round_stats and switch to less precise counting"), however, there
was a key point that is missed that this patch also improve performance
a lot:
Before the commit:
part_round_stats:
if (part->stamp != now)
stats |= 1;
part_in_flight()
-> there can be lots of task here in 1 jiffies.
part_round_stats_single()
__part_stat_add()
part->stamp = now;
After the commit:
update_io_ticks:
stamp = part->bd_stamp;
if (time_after(now, stamp))
if (try_cmpxchg())
__part_stat_add()
-> only one task can reach here in 1 jiffies.
Hence in order to account io_ticks precisely, we only need to know if
there are IO inflight at most once in one jiffies. Noted that for
rq-based device, iterating tags should not be used here because
'tags->lock' is grabbed in blk_mq_find_and_get_req(), hence
part_stat_lock_inc/dec() and part_in_flight() is used to trace inflight.
The additional overhead is quite little:
- per cpu add/dec for each IO for rq-based device;
- per cpu sum for each jiffies;
And it's verified by null-blk that there are no performance degration
under heavy IO pressure.
Fixes: 5b18b5a737 ("block: delete part_round_stats and switch to less precise counting")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240509123717.3223892-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In bdev_alloc() we have all flags initialized to false, so
assignment to ->bh_has_submit_bio n there is a no-op unless
we have partno != 0 and flag already set on entire device.
In device_add_disk() we have just allocated the block_device
in question and it had been a full-device one, so the flag
is guaranteed to be still clear when we get to assignment.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With the block layer zone write plugging being automatically done for
any write operation to a zone of a zoned block device, a regular request
plugging handled through current->plug can only ever see at most a
single write request per zone. In such case, any potential reordering
of the plugged requests will be harmless. We can thus remove the special
casing for write operations to zones and have these requests plugged as
well. This allows removing the function blk_mq_plug and instead directly
using current->plug where needed.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Dennis Maisenbacher <dennis.maisenbacher@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408014128.205141-29-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Zone append operations are only allowed to target sequential write
required zones. blk_check_zone_append() uses bio_zone_is_seq() to check
this. However, this check is not necessary because:
1) For NVMe ZNS namespace devices, only sequential write required zones
exist, making the zone type check useless.
2) For null_blk, the driver will fail the request anyway, thus notifying
the user that a conventional zone was targeted.
3) For all other zoned devices, zone append is now emulated using zone
write plugging, which checks that a zone append operation does not
target a conventional zone.
In preparation for the removal of zone write locking and its
conventional zone bitmap (used by bio_zone_is_seq()), remove the
bio_zone_is_seq() call from blk_check_zone_append().
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Dennis Maisenbacher <dennis.maisenbacher@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408014128.205141-24-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
In preparation for adding a generic zone append emulation using zone
write plugging, allow device drivers supporting zoned block device to
set a the max_zone_append_sectors queue limit of a device to 0 to
indicate the lack of native support for zone append operations and that
the block layer should emulate these operations using regular write
operations.
blk_queue_max_zone_append_sectors() is modified to allow passing 0 as
the max_zone_append_sectors argument. The function
queue_max_zone_append_sectors() is also modified to ensure that the
minimum of the max_hw_sectors and chunk_sectors limit is used whenever
the max_zone_append_sectors limit is 0. This minimum is consistent with
the value set for the max_zone_append_sectors limit by the function
blk_validate_zoned_limits() when limits for a queue are validated.
The helper functions queue_emulates_zone_append() and
bdev_emulates_zone_append() are added to test if a queue (or block
device) emulates zone append operations.
In order for blk_revalidate_disk_zones() to accept zoned block devices
relying on zone append emulation, the direct check to the
max_zone_append_sectors queue limit of the disk is replaced by a check
using the value returned by queue_max_zone_append_sectors(). Similarly,
queue_zone_append_max_show() is modified to use the same accessor so
that the sysfs attribute advertizes the non-zero limit that will be
used, regardless if it is for native or emulated commands.
For stacking drivers, a top device should not need to care if the
underlying devices have native or emulated zone append operations.
blk_stack_limits() is thus modified to set the top device
max_zone_append_sectors limit using the new accessor
queue_limits_max_zone_append_sectors(). queue_max_zone_append_sectors()
is modified to use this function as well. Stacking drivers that require
zone append emulation, e.g. dm-crypt, can still request this feature by
calling blk_queue_max_zone_append_sectors() with a 0 limit.
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Dennis Maisenbacher <dennis.maisenbacher@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408014128.205141-10-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
While monitoring the throttle time of IO from iocost, it's found that
such time is always zero after the io_schedule() from ioc_rqos_throttle,
for example, with the following debug patch:
+ printk("%s-%d: %s enter %llu\n", current->comm, current->pid, __func__, blk_time_get_ns());
while (true) {
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
if (wait.committed)
break;
io_schedule();
}
+ printk("%s-%d: %s exit %llu\n", current->comm, current->pid, __func__, blk_time_get_ns());
It can be observerd that blk_time_get_ns() always return the same time:
[ 1068.096579] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle enter 1067901962288
[ 1068.272587] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle exit 1067901962288
[ 1068.274389] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle enter 1067901962288
[ 1068.472690] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle exit 1067901962288
[ 1068.474485] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle enter 1067901962288
[ 1068.672656] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle exit 1067901962288
[ 1068.674451] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle enter 1067901962288
[ 1068.872655] fio-1268: ioc_rqos_throttle exit 1067901962288
And I think the root cause is that 'PF_BLOCK_TS' is always cleared
by blk_flush_plug() before scheduel(), hence blk_plug_invalidate_ts()
will never be called:
blk_time_get_ns
plug->cur_ktime = ktime_get_ns();
current->flags |= PF_BLOCK_TS;
io_schedule:
io_schedule_prepare
blk_flush_plug
__blk_flush_plug
/* the flag is cleared, while time is not */
current->flags &= ~PF_BLOCK_TS;
schedule
sched_update_worker
/* the flag is not set, hence plug->cur_ktime is not cleared */
if (tsk->flags & PF_BLOCK_TS)
blk_plug_invalidate_ts()
blk_time_get_ns
/* got the time stashed before schedule */
return plug->cur_ktime;
Fix the problem by clearing cached time in __blk_flush_plug().
Fixes: 06b23f92af ("block: update cached timestamp post schedule/preemption")
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411032349.3051233-2-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Multiple gendisk instances can allocated/added for single request queue
in case of disk rebind. blkg may still stay in q->blkg_list when calling
blkcg_init_disk() for rebind, then q->blkg_list becomes corrupted.
Fix the list corruption issue by:
- add blkg_init_queue() to initialize q->blkg_list & q->blkcg_mutex only
- move calling blkg_init_queue() into blk_alloc_queue()
The list corruption should be started since commit f1c006f1c6 ("blk-cgroup:
synchronize pd_free_fn() from blkg_free_workfn() and blkcg_deactivate_policy()")
which delays removing blkg from q->blkg_list into blkg_free_workfn().
Fixes: f1c006f1c6 ("blk-cgroup: synchronize pd_free_fn() from blkg_free_workfn() and blkcg_deactivate_policy()")
Fixes: 1059699f87 ("block: move blkcg initialization/destroy into disk allocation/release handler")
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240407125910.4053377-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pass a queue_limits to blk_alloc_queue and apply it after validating and
capping the values using blk_validate_limits. This will allow allocating
queues with valid queue limits instead of setting the values one at a
time later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213073425.1621680-9-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a new queue_limits_{start,commit}_update pair of functions that
allows taking an atomic snapshot of queue limits, update it, and
commit it if it passes validity checking. Also use the low-level
validation helper to implement blk_set_default_limits instead of
duplicating the initialization.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213073425.1621680-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mark the task as having a cached timestamp when set assign it, so we
can efficiently check if it needs updating post being scheduled back in.
This covers both the actual schedule out case, which would've flushed
the plug, and the preemption case which doesn't touch the plugged
requests (for many reasons, one of them being then we'd need to have
preemption disabled around plug state manipulation).
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Querying the current time is the most costly thing we do in the block
layer per IO, and depending on kernel config settings, we may do it
many times per IO.
None of the callers actually need nsec granularity. Take advantage of
that by caching the current time in the plug, with the assumption here
being that any time checking will be temporally close enough that the
slight loss of precision doesn't matter.
If the block plug gets flushed, eg on preempt or schedule out, then
we invalidate the cached clock.
On a basic peak IOPS test case with iostats enabled, this changes
the performance from:
IOPS=108.41M, BW=52.93GiB/s, IOS/call=31/31
IOPS=108.43M, BW=52.94GiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=108.29M, BW=52.88GiB/s, IOS/call=31/32
IOPS=108.35M, BW=52.91GiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=108.42M, BW=52.94GiB/s, IOS/call=31/31
IOPS=108.40M, BW=52.93GiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=108.31M, BW=52.89GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
to
IOPS=118.79M, BW=58.00GiB/s, IOS/call=31/32
IOPS=118.62M, BW=57.92GiB/s, IOS/call=31/31
IOPS=118.80M, BW=58.01GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=118.78M, BW=58.00GiB/s, IOS/call=32/32
IOPS=118.69M, BW=57.95GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=118.62M, BW=57.92GiB/s, IOS/call=32/31
IOPS=118.63M, BW=57.92GiB/s, IOS/call=31/32
which is more than a 9% improvement in performance. Looking at perf diff,
we can see a huge reduction in time overhead:
10.55% -9.88% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] read_tsc
1.31% -1.22% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] ktime_get
Note that since this relies on blk_plug for the caching, it's only
applicable to the issue side. But this is where most of the time calls
happen anyway. On the completion side, cached time stamping is done with
struct io_comp patch, as long as the driver supports it.
It's also worth noting that the above testing doesn't enable any of the
higher cost CPU items on the block layer side, like wbt, cgroups,
iocost, etc, which all would add additional time querying and hence
overhead. IOW, results would likely look even better in comparison with
those enabled, as distros would do.
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Commit 82b74cac28 ("blk-ioprio: Convert from rqos policy to direct
call") pushed setting bio I/O priority down into blk_mq_submit_bio()
-- which is too low within block core's submit_bio() because it
skips setting I/O priority for block drivers that implement
fops->submit_bio() (e.g. DM, MD, etc).
Fix this by moving bio_set_ioprio() up from blk-mq.c to blk-core.c and
call it from submit_bio(). This ensures all block drivers call
bio_set_ioprio() during initial bio submission.
Fixes: a78418e6a0 ("block: Always initialize bio IO priority on submit")
Co-developed-by: Yibin Ding <yibin.ding@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Yibin Ding <yibin.ding@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongyu Jin <hongyu.jin@unisoc.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
[snitzer: revised commit header]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130202638.62600-2-snitzer@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
"Pretty quiet round this time around. This contains:
- NVMe updates via Keith:
- nvme fabrics spec updates (Guixin, Max)
- nvme target udpates (Guixin, Evan)
- nvme attribute refactoring (Daniel)
- nvme-fc numa fix (Keith)
- MD updates via Song:
- Fix/Cleanup RCU usage from conf->disks[i].rdev (Yu Kuai)
- Fix raid5 hang issue (Junxiao Bi)
- Add Yu Kuai as Reviewer of the md subsystem
- Remove deprecated flavors (Song Liu)
- raid1 read error check support (Li Nan)
- Better handle events off-by-1 case (Alex Lyakas)
- Efficiency improvements for passthrough (Kundan)
- Support for mapping integrity data directly (Keith)
- Zoned write fix (Damien)
- rnbd fixes (Kees, Santosh, Supriti)
- Default to a sane discard size granularity (Christoph)
- Make the default max transfer size naming less confusing
(Christoph)
- Remove support for deprecated host aware zoned model (Christoph)
- Misc fixes (me, Li, Matthew, Min, Ming, Randy, liyouhong, Daniel,
Bart, Christoph)"
* tag 'for-6.8/block-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (78 commits)
block: Treat sequential write preferred zone type as invalid
block: remove disk_clear_zoned
sd: remove the !ZBC && blk_queue_is_zoned case in sd_read_block_characteristics
drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h: Fix spelling typo in comment
blk-cgroup: fix rcu lockdep warning in blkg_lookup()
blk-cgroup: don't use removal safe list iterators
block: floor the discard granularity to the physical block size
mtd_blkdevs: use the default discard granularity
bcache: use the default discard granularity
zram: use the default discard granularity
null_blk: use the default discard granularity
nbd: use the default discard granularity
ubd: use the default discard granularity
block: default the discard granularity to sector size
bcache: discard_granularity should not be smaller than a sector
block: remove two comments in bio_split_discard
block: rename and document BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
loop: don't abuse BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
aoe: don't abuse BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
null_blk: don't cap max_hw_sectors to BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS
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