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[for-4.16,1/2] block: cope with gendisk's 'queue' being added later

Message ID 20180109221039.33282-2-snitzer@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
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Mike Snitzer Jan. 9, 2018, 10:10 p.m. UTC
Since I can remember DM has forced the block layer to allow the
allocation and initialization of the request_queue to be distinct
operations.  Reason for this was block/genhd.c:add_disk() has required
that the request_queue (and associated bdi) be tied to the gendisk
before add_disk() is called -- because add_disk() also deals with
exposing the request_queue via blk_register_queue().

DM's dynamic creation of arbitrary device types (and associated
request_queue types) requires the DM device's gendisk be available so
that DM table loads can establish a master/slave relationship with
subordinate devices that are referenced by loaded DM tables -- using
bd_link_disk_holder().  But until these DM tables, and their associated
subordinate devices, are known DM cannot know what type of request_queue
it needs -- nor what its queue_limits should be.

This chicken and egg scenario has created all manner of problems for DM
and, at times, the block layer.

Summary of changes:

- Adjust device_add_disk() so that that it can cope with the gendisk _not_
  having its 'queue' established yet.

- Remove del_gendisk()'s WARN_ON() if disk->queue is NULL

- Move "bdi" symlink creation from register_disk() to the end of
  blk_register_queue() -- it is more logical in that the bdi is part of
  the request_queue.

- Move extra request_queue reference count (on behalf of gendisk) from
  device_add_disk() to end of blk_register_queue().

- Make device_add_disk()'s calls to bdi_register_owner() and
  blk_register_queue() conditional on disk->queue not being NULL.

- Export blk_register_queue()

These changes allow DM to use device_add_disk() to anchor its gendisk as
the "master" for master/slave relationships DM must establish with
subordinate devices referenced in DM tables that get loaded.  Once all
"slave" devices for a DM device are known a request_queue can be
properly initialized and then advertised via sysfs -- important
improvement being that no request_queue resource initialization is
missed.

These changes have been tested to work without any IO races because the
request_queue and associated bdi don't even exist at the time that the
gendisk's "struct device"s are established by device_add_disk().  I've
been mindful of historic bugs, and haven't experienced them with DM,
e.g.: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312 (fixed by commit
01ea5063 "block: Fix race during disk initialization")

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
---
 block/blk-sysfs.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 block/genhd.c     | 28 ++++++++--------------------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Comments

Bart Van Assche Jan. 9, 2018, 11:04 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 17:10 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c

> index 870484eaed1f..0b0dda8e2420 100644

> --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c

> +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c

> @@ -919,8 +919,20 @@ int blk_register_queue(struct gendisk *disk)

>  	ret = 0;

>  unlock:

>  	mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);

> +

> +	/*

> +	 * Take an extra ref on queue which will be put on disk_release()

> +	 * so that it sticks around as long as @disk is there.

> +	 */

> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!blk_get_queue(q));

> +

> +	WARN_ON(sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj,

> +				  &q->backing_dev_info->dev->kobj,

> +				  "bdi"));

> +

>  	return ret;

>  }

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_register_queue);


Hello Mike,

So the sysfs_create_link() call is moved from register_disk() into
blk_register_queue() but the sysfs_remove_link() call stays in del_gendisk()?
Are you sure that you want this asymmetry?

Thanks,

Bart.
Mike Snitzer Jan. 9, 2018, 11:41 p.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, Jan 09 2018 at  6:04pm -0500,
Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 17:10 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > index 870484eaed1f..0b0dda8e2420 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > @@ -919,8 +919,20 @@ int blk_register_queue(struct gendisk *disk)
> >  	ret = 0;
> >  unlock:
> >  	mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
> > +
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Take an extra ref on queue which will be put on disk_release()
> > +	 * so that it sticks around as long as @disk is there.
> > +	 */
> > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!blk_get_queue(q));
> > +
> > +	WARN_ON(sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj,
> > +				  &q->backing_dev_info->dev->kobj,
> > +				  "bdi"));
> > +
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_register_queue);
> 
> Hello Mike,
> 
> So the sysfs_create_link() call is moved from register_disk() into
> blk_register_queue() but the sysfs_remove_link() call stays in del_gendisk()?
> Are you sure that you want this asymmetry?

My focus was on the add_disk() side of things, due to disk->queue
possibly being NULL on add.  But on remove all was basically left
unmodified (aside from removing the WARN_ON).

I dont think the asymmetry is a big deal but I can fix it.  I'll wait
for more feedback before sending out a v2 though.

Thanks,
Mike
Mike Snitzer Jan. 10, 2018, 12:33 a.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, Jan 09 2018 at  6:41pm -0500,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 09 2018 at  6:04pm -0500,
> Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 17:10 -0500, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> > > diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > > index 870484eaed1f..0b0dda8e2420 100644
> > > --- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > > +++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
> > > @@ -919,8 +919,20 @@ int blk_register_queue(struct gendisk *disk)
> > >  	ret = 0;
> > >  unlock:
> > >  	mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
> > > +
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Take an extra ref on queue which will be put on disk_release()
> > > +	 * so that it sticks around as long as @disk is there.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(!blk_get_queue(q));
> > > +
> > > +	WARN_ON(sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj,
> > > +				  &q->backing_dev_info->dev->kobj,
> > > +				  "bdi"));
> > > +
> > >  	return ret;
> > >  }
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_register_queue);
> > 
> > Hello Mike,
> > 
> > So the sysfs_create_link() call is moved from register_disk() into
> > blk_register_queue() but the sysfs_remove_link() call stays in del_gendisk()?
> > Are you sure that you want this asymmetry?
> 
> My focus was on the add_disk() side of things, due to disk->queue
> possibly being NULL on add.  But on remove all was basically left
> unmodified (aside from removing the WARN_ON).
> 
> I dont think the asymmetry is a big deal but I can fix it.  I'll wait
> for more feedback before sending out a v2 though.

But while reviewing this asymetry I found that the sysfs_create_link()
that I moved to blk_register_queue() needs to be guarded against
GENHD_FL_HIDDEN -- I didn't notice the GENHD_FL_HIDDEN early return in
register_disk().  I'll get that fixed up.

But unrelated to my patch: I think I found another curious imbalance, in
current upstream code, relative to GENHD_FL_HIDDEN.
bdi_register_owner() is only called if !GENHD_FL_HIDDEN but
bdi_unregister() is called unconditionally.  Not sure what is needed to
address that issue because I'd have thought that the bdi would be needed
regardless of GENHD_FL_HIDDEN.  Christoph?
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Patch

diff --git a/block/blk-sysfs.c b/block/blk-sysfs.c
index 870484eaed1f..0b0dda8e2420 100644
--- a/block/blk-sysfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-sysfs.c
@@ -919,8 +919,20 @@  int blk_register_queue(struct gendisk *disk)
 	ret = 0;
 unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
+
+	/*
+	 * Take an extra ref on queue which will be put on disk_release()
+	 * so that it sticks around as long as @disk is there.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!blk_get_queue(q));
+
+	WARN_ON(sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj,
+				  &q->backing_dev_info->dev->kobj,
+				  "bdi"));
+
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_register_queue);
 
 void blk_unregister_queue(struct gendisk *disk)
 {
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 96a66f671720..13aa80319b3b 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -621,11 +621,6 @@  static void register_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk)
 	while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter)))
 		kobject_uevent(&part_to_dev(part)->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
-
-	err = sysfs_create_link(&ddev->kobj,
-				&disk->queue->backing_dev_info->dev->kobj,
-				"bdi");
-	WARN_ON(err);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -671,24 +666,19 @@  void device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk)
 		disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO;
 		disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN;
 	} else {
-		int ret;
-
-		/* Register BDI before referencing it from bdev */
 		disk_to_dev(disk)->devt = devt;
-		ret = bdi_register_owner(disk->queue->backing_dev_info,
-						disk_to_dev(disk));
-		WARN_ON(ret);
+		/* Register BDI before referencing it from bdev */
+		if (disk->queue) {
+			retval = bdi_register_owner(disk->queue->backing_dev_info,
+						    disk_to_dev(disk));
+			WARN_ON(retval);
+		}
 		blk_register_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors, NULL,
 				    exact_match, exact_lock, disk);
 	}
 	register_disk(parent, disk);
-	blk_register_queue(disk);
-
-	/*
-	 * Take an extra ref on queue which will be put on disk_release()
-	 * so that it sticks around as long as @disk is there.
-	 */
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(!blk_get_queue(disk->queue));
+	if (disk->queue)
+		blk_register_queue(disk);
 
 	disk_add_events(disk);
 	blk_integrity_add(disk);
@@ -727,8 +717,6 @@  void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 		 */
 		bdi_unregister(disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
 		blk_unregister_queue(disk);
-	} else {
-		WARN_ON(1);
 	}
 
 	if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN))