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<title>kernel.git/drivers/md/bcache/journal.c, branch linux-5.18.y</title>
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<updated>2022-06-09T08:30:53Z</updated>
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<title>bcache: avoid journal no-space deadlock by reserving 1 journal bucket</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:30:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
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<published>2022-05-24T10:23:36Z</published>
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commit 32feee36c30ea06e38ccb8ae6e5c44c6eec790a6 upstream.

The journal no-space deadlock was reported time to time. Such deadlock
can happen in the following situation.

When all journal buckets are fully filled by active jset with heavy
write I/O load, the cache set registration (after a reboot) will load
all active jsets and inserting them into the btree again (which is
called journal replay). If a journaled bkey is inserted into a btree
node and results btree node split, new journal request might be
triggered. For example, the btree grows one more level after the node
split, then the root node record in cache device super block will be
upgrade by bch_journal_meta() from bch_btree_set_root(). But there is no
space in journal buckets, the journal replay has to wait for new journal
bucket to be reclaimed after at least one journal bucket replayed. This
is one example that how the journal no-space deadlock happens.

The solution to avoid the deadlock is to reserve 1 journal bucket in
run time, and only permit the reserved journal bucket to be used during
cache set registration procedure for things like journal replay. Then
the journal space will never be fully filled, there is no chance for
journal no-space deadlock to happen anymore.

This patch adds a new member "bool do_reserve" in struct journal, it is
inititalized to 0 (false) when struct journal is allocated, and set to
1 (true) by bch_journal_space_reserve() when all initialization done in
run_cache_set(). In the run time when journal_reclaim() tries to
allocate a new journal bucket, free_journal_buckets() is called to check
whether there are enough free journal buckets to use. If there is only
1 free journal bucket and journal-&gt;do_reserve is 1 (true), the last
bucket is reserved and free_journal_buckets() will return 0 to indicate
no free journal bucket. Then journal_reclaim() will give up, and try
next time to see whetheer there is free journal bucket to allocate. By
this method, there is always 1 jouranl bucket reserved in run time.

During the cache set registration, journal-&gt;do_reserve is 0 (false), so
the reserved journal bucket can be used to avoid the no-space deadlock.

Reported-by: Nikhil Kshirsagar &lt;nkshirsagar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220524102336.10684-5-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>bcache: put bch_bio_map() back to correct location in journal_write_unlocked()</title>
<updated>2022-04-19T17:28:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-19T16:04:24Z</published>
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Commit a7c50c940477 ("block: pass a block_device and opf to bio_reset")
moves bch_bio_map() inside journal_write_unlocked() next to the location
where the modified bio_reset() was called.

This change is wrong because calling bch_bio_map() immediately after
bio_reset(), a BUG_ON(!bio-&gt;bi_iter.bi_size) inside bch_bio_map() will
be triggered and panic the kernel.

This patch puts bch_bio_map() back to its original correct location in
journal_write_unlocked() and avoid the BUG_ON().

Fixes: a7c50c940477 ("block: pass a block_device and opf to bio_reset")
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220419160425.4148-2-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: pass a block_device and opf to bio_reset</title>
<updated>2022-02-02T14:50:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
</author>
<published>2022-01-24T09:11:07Z</published>
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Pass the block_device that we plan to use this bio for and the
operation to bio_reset to optimize the assigment.  A NULL block_device
can be passed, both for the passthrough case on a raw request_queue and
to temporarily avoid refactoring some nasty code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124091107.642561-20-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>block: pass a block_device and opf to bio_init</title>
<updated>2022-02-02T14:49:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
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<published>2022-01-24T09:11:06Z</published>
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Pass the block_device that we plan to use this bio for and the
operation to bio_init to optimize the assignment.  A NULL block_device
can be passed, both for the passthrough case on a raw request_queue and
to temporarily avoid refactoring some nasty code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124091107.642561-19-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: bcache: Trivial typo fixes in the file journal.c</title>
<updated>2021-04-11T14:37:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Bhaskar Chowdhury</name>
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<published>2021-04-11T13:43:14Z</published>
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s/condidate/candidate/
s/folowing/following/

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury &lt;unixbhaskar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210411134316.80274-6-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcache: remove PTR_CACHE</title>
<updated>2021-04-11T14:37:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
</author>
<published>2021-04-11T13:43:11Z</published>
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Remove the PTR_CACHE inline and replace it with a direct dereference
of c-&gt;cache.

(Coly Li: fix the typo from PTR_BUCKET to PTR_CACHE in commit log)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210411134316.80274-3-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcache: Move journal work to new flush wq</title>
<updated>2021-02-10T15:06:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kai Krakow</name>
</author>
<published>2021-02-10T05:07:27Z</published>
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This is potentially long running and not latency sensitive, let's get
it out of the way of other latency sensitive events.

As observed in the previous commit, the `system_wq` comes easily
congested by bcache, and this fixes a few more stalls I was observing
every once in a while.

Let's not make this `WQ_MEM_RECLAIM` as it showed to reduce performance
of boot and file system operations in my tests. Also, without
`WQ_MEM_RECLAIM`, I no longer see desktop stalls. This matches the
previous behavior as `system_wq` also does no memory reclaim:

&gt; // workqueue.c:
&gt; system_wq = alloc_workqueue("events", 0, 0);

Cc: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.4+
Signed-off-by: Kai Krakow &lt;kai@kaishome.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcache: remove embedded struct cache_sb from struct cache_set</title>
<updated>2020-10-02T20:25:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-01T06:50:56Z</published>
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Since bcache code was merged into mainline kerrnel, each cache set only
as one single cache in it. The multiple caches framework is here but the
code is far from completed. Considering the multiple copies of cached
data can also be stored on e.g. md raid1 devices, it is unnecessary to
support multiple caches in one cache set indeed.

The previous preparation patches fix the dependencies of explicitly
making a cache set only have single cache. Now we don't have to maintain
an embedded partial super block in struct cache_set, the in-memory super
block can be directly referenced from struct cache.

This patch removes the embedded struct cache_sb from struct cache_set,
and fixes all locations where the superb lock was referenced from this
removed super block by referencing the in-memory super block of struct
cache.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcache: check and set sync status on cache's in-memory super block</title>
<updated>2020-10-02T20:25:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-01T06:50:55Z</published>
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Currently the cache's sync status is checked and set on cache set's in-
memory partial super block. After removing the embedded struct cache_sb
from cache set and reference cache's in-memory super block from struct
cache_set, the sync status can set and check directly on cache's super
block.

This patch checks and sets the cache sync status directly on cache's
in-memory super block. This is a preparation for later removing embedded
struct cache_sb from struct cache_set.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcache: only use block_bytes() on struct cache</title>
<updated>2020-10-02T20:25:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Coly Li</name>
</author>
<published>2020-10-01T06:50:49Z</published>
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Because struct cache_set and struct cache both have struct cache_sb,
therefore macro block_bytes() can be used on both of them. When removing
the embedded struct cache_sb from struct cache_set, this macro won't be
used on struct cache_set anymore.

This patch unifies all block_bytes() usage only on struct cache, this is
one of the preparation to remove the embedded struct cache_sb from
struct cache_set.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li &lt;colyli@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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