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[Xen-devel] [patch, resend] Add support for barriers to blk{back, front}

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [patch, resend] Add support for barriers to blk{back, front} drivers.
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:08:29 +0100
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  Hi,

protocol changes:
 * There is a new operation (BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER)
   to pass on barrier requests.
 * There is a new state (BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP) to indicate
   unsupported operations (barrier writes may fail depending
   on the underlying block device).
 * A new xenstore node named "feature-barrier" indicates the
   backend is able to handle barrier writes.  The value can
   be 1 (all is fine) or 0 (underlying block device doesn't
   support barriers).

blkback changes:  Add "feature-barrier" node to indicate barrier
support, pass incoming barrier requests to the block layer using
submit_bio(WRITE_BARRIER, bio).  Some error handling fixes to
properly pass through barrier write failures, so the frontend
can turn off barriers then.

blkfront changes:  Check if the backend sets "feature-barrier", if
present switch to QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN mode.  Send off barrier
requests to the backend using the new BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER
operation.  Also some error handling for the EOPNOTSUPP case.

Background:  Barriers are needed to make journaling filesystems work
reliable.  For some requests they need order constrains to make the
transactions work correctly.  Barrier requests are used to pass that
ordering information to the block layer and/or to the device, so the
constrains are obeyed when reordering requests for better write
performance.

please apply,
  Gerd

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
---
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c   |   41 ++++++++++++++-----
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h    |    3 +
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c       |    2 
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/xenbus.c    |   31 ++++++++++++++
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c |   30 +++++++++++--
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/block.h    |    2 
 linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/vbd.c      |   20 ++++++++-
 xen/include/public/io/blkif.h                        |   10 ++--
 8 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Index: 
build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c
===================================================================
--- 
build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/blkback.c
@@ -189,9 +189,9 @@ static void fast_flush_area(pending_req_
 
 static void print_stats(blkif_t *blkif)
 {
-       printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: oo %3d  |  rd %4d  |  wr %4d\n",
+       printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: oo %3d  |  rd %4d  |  wr %4d  |  br %4d\n",
               current->comm, blkif->st_oo_req,
-              blkif->st_rd_req, blkif->st_wr_req);
+              blkif->st_rd_req, blkif->st_wr_req, blkif->st_br_req);
        blkif->st_print = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(10 * 1000);
        blkif->st_rd_req = 0;
        blkif->st_wr_req = 0;
@@ -241,12 +241,17 @@ int blkif_schedule(void *arg)
  * COMPLETION CALLBACK -- Called as bh->b_end_io()
  */
 
-static void __end_block_io_op(pending_req_t *pending_req, int uptodate)
+static void __end_block_io_op(pending_req_t *pending_req, int error)
 {
        /* An error fails the entire request. */
-       if (!uptodate) {
-               DPRINTK("Buffer not up-to-date at end of operation\n");
+       if (error) {
+               DPRINTK("Buffer not up-to-date at end of operation, 
error=%d\n", error);
                pending_req->status = BLKIF_RSP_ERROR;
+               if (pending_req->operation == BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER  &&  error 
== -EOPNOTSUPP) {
+                       pending_req->status = BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP;
+                       blkback_barrier(pending_req->blkif->be, 0);
+                       printk("blkback: write barrier op failed, not 
supported\n");
+               }
        }
 
        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&pending_req->pendcnt)) {
@@ -262,7 +267,7 @@ static int end_block_io_op(struct bio *b
 {
        if (bio->bi_size != 0)
                return 1;
-       __end_block_io_op(bio->bi_private, !error);
+       __end_block_io_op(bio->bi_private, error);
        bio_put(bio);
        return error;
 }
@@ -319,6 +324,9 @@ static int do_block_io_op(blkif_t *blkif
                        blkif->st_rd_req++;
                        dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif, req, pending_req);
                        break;
+               case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
+                       blkif->st_br_req++;
+                       /* fall through */
                case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
                        blkif->st_wr_req++;
                        dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif, req, pending_req);
@@ -340,7 +348,6 @@ static void dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif_t
                                 pending_req_t *pending_req)
 {
        extern void ll_rw_block(int rw, int nr, struct buffer_head * bhs[]);
-       int operation = (req->operation == BLKIF_OP_WRITE) ? WRITE : READ;
        struct gnttab_map_grant_ref map[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
        struct phys_req preq;
        struct { 
@@ -349,6 +356,22 @@ static void dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif_t
        unsigned int nseg;
        struct bio *bio = NULL, *biolist[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
        int ret, i, nbio = 0;
+       int operation;
+
+       switch (req->operation) {
+       case BLKIF_OP_READ:
+               operation = READ;
+               break;
+       case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
+               operation = WRITE;
+               break;
+       case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
+               operation = WRITE_BARRIER;
+               break;
+       default:
+               operation = 0; /* make gcc happy */
+               BUG();
+       }
 
        /* Check that number of segments is sane. */
        nseg = req->nr_segments;
@@ -364,7 +387,7 @@ static void dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif_t
 
        pending_req->blkif     = blkif;
        pending_req->id        = req->id;
-       pending_req->operation = operation;
+       pending_req->operation = req->operation;
        pending_req->status    = BLKIF_RSP_OKAY;
        pending_req->nr_pages  = nseg;
 
@@ -380,7 +403,7 @@ static void dispatch_rw_block_io(blkif_t
                preq.nr_sects += seg[i].nsec;
 
                flags = GNTMAP_host_map;
-               if ( operation == WRITE )
+               if ( operation != READ )
                        flags |= GNTMAP_readonly;
                gnttab_set_map_op(&map[i], vaddr(pending_req, i), flags,
                                  req->seg[i].gref, blkif->domid);
Index: build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h
===================================================================
--- 
build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/common.h
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ typedef struct blkif_st {
        int                 st_rd_req;
        int                 st_wr_req;
        int                 st_oo_req;
+       int                 st_br_req;
 
        wait_queue_head_t waiting_to_free;
 
@@ -131,4 +132,6 @@ void blkif_xenbus_init(void);
 irqreturn_t blkif_be_int(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs *regs);
 int blkif_schedule(void *arg);
 
+int blkback_barrier(struct backend_info *be, int state);
+
 #endif /* __BLKIF__BACKEND__COMMON_H__ */
Index: build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/xenbus.c
===================================================================
--- 
build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/xenbus.c
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/xenbus.c
@@ -91,11 +91,13 @@ static void update_blkif_status(blkif_t 
 VBD_SHOW(oo_req, "%d\n", be->blkif->st_oo_req);
 VBD_SHOW(rd_req, "%d\n", be->blkif->st_rd_req);
 VBD_SHOW(wr_req, "%d\n", be->blkif->st_wr_req);
+VBD_SHOW(br_req, "%d\n", be->blkif->st_br_req);
 
 static struct attribute *vbdstat_attrs[] = {
        &dev_attr_oo_req.attr,
        &dev_attr_rd_req.attr,
        &dev_attr_wr_req.attr,
+       &dev_attr_br_req.attr,
        NULL
 };
 
@@ -165,6 +167,31 @@ static int blkback_remove(struct xenbus_
        return 0;
 }
 
+int blkback_barrier(struct backend_info *be, int state)
+{
+       struct xenbus_device *dev = be->dev;
+       struct xenbus_transaction xbt;
+       int err;
+
+       do {
+               err = xenbus_transaction_start(&xbt);
+               if (err) {
+                       xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "starting transaction");
+                       return -1;
+               }
+
+               err = xenbus_printf(xbt, dev->nodename, "feature-barrier",
+                                   "%d", state);
+               if (err) {
+                       xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
+                       xenbus_dev_fatal(dev, err, "writing feature-barrier");
+                       return -1;
+               }
+
+               err = xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 0);
+       } while (err == -EAGAIN);
+       return 0;
+}
 
 /**
  * Entry point to this code when a new device is created.  Allocate the basic
@@ -201,6 +228,10 @@ static int blkback_probe(struct xenbus_d
        if (err)
                goto fail;
 
+       err = blkback_barrier(be, 1);
+       if (err)
+               goto fail;
+
        err = xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitWait);
        if (err)
                goto fail;
Index: 
build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c
===================================================================
--- 
build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c
@@ -316,6 +316,12 @@ static void connect(struct blkfront_info
                return;
        }
 
+       err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
+                           "feature-barrier", "%lu", &info->feature_barrier,
+                           NULL);
+       if (err)
+               info->feature_barrier = 0;
+
        err = xlvbd_add(sectors, info->vdevice, binfo, sector_size, info);
        if (err) {
                xenbus_dev_fatal(info->xbdev, err, "xlvbd_add at %s",
@@ -544,11 +550,14 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct re
        info->shadow[id].request = (unsigned long)req;
 
        ring_req->id = id;
-       ring_req->operation = rq_data_dir(req) ?
-               BLKIF_OP_WRITE : BLKIF_OP_READ;
        ring_req->sector_number = (blkif_sector_t)req->sector;
        ring_req->handle = info->handle;
 
+       ring_req->operation = rq_data_dir(req) ?
+               BLKIF_OP_WRITE : BLKIF_OP_READ;
+       if (blk_barrier_rq(req))
+               ring_req->operation = BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER;
+
        ring_req->nr_segments = 0;
        rq_for_each_bio (bio, req) {
                bio_for_each_segment (bvec, bio, idx) {
@@ -645,6 +654,7 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_int(int irq, vo
        RING_IDX i, rp;
        unsigned long flags;
        struct blkfront_info *info = (struct blkfront_info *)dev_id;
+       int uptodate;
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&blkif_io_lock, flags);
 
@@ -669,19 +679,27 @@ static irqreturn_t blkif_int(int irq, vo
 
                ADD_ID_TO_FREELIST(info, id);
 
+               uptodate = (bret->status == BLKIF_RSP_OKAY);
                switch (bret->operation) {
+               case BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER:
+                       if (unlikely(bret->status == BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP)) {
+                               printk("blkfront: %s: write barrier op 
failed\n",
+                                      info->gd->disk_name);
+                               uptodate = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+                               info->feature_barrier = 0;
+                               xlvbd_barrier(info);
+                       }
+                       /* fall through */
                case BLKIF_OP_READ:
                case BLKIF_OP_WRITE:
                        if (unlikely(bret->status != BLKIF_RSP_OKAY))
                                DPRINTK("Bad return from blkdev data "
                                        "request: %x\n", bret->status);
 
-                       ret = end_that_request_first(
-                               req, (bret->status == BLKIF_RSP_OKAY),
+                       ret = end_that_request_first(req, uptodate,
                                req->hard_nr_sectors);
                        BUG_ON(ret);
-                       end_that_request_last(
-                               req, (bret->status == BLKIF_RSP_OKAY));
+                       end_that_request_last(req, uptodate);
                        break;
                default:
                        BUG();
Index: build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/block.h
===================================================================
--- 
build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/block.h
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/block.h
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ struct blkfront_info
        struct gnttab_free_callback callback;
        struct blk_shadow shadow[BLK_RING_SIZE];
        unsigned long shadow_free;
+       int feature_barrier;
 
        /**
         * The number of people holding this device open.  We won't allow a
@@ -152,5 +153,6 @@ extern void do_blkif_request (request_qu
 int xlvbd_add(blkif_sector_t capacity, int device,
              u16 vdisk_info, u16 sector_size, struct blkfront_info *info);
 void xlvbd_del(struct blkfront_info *info);
+int xlvbd_barrier(struct blkfront_info *info);
 
 #endif /* __XEN_DRIVERS_BLOCK_H__ */
Index: build-64-unstable-11724/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
===================================================================
--- build-64-unstable-11724.orig/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/xen/include/public/io/blkif.h
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@
 #endif
 #define blkif_sector_t uint64_t
 
-#define BLKIF_OP_READ      0
-#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE     1
+#define BLKIF_OP_READ              0
+#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE             1
+#define BLKIF_OP_WRITE_BARRIER     2
 
 /*
  * Maximum scatter/gather segments per request.
@@ -61,8 +62,9 @@ struct blkif_response {
 };
 typedef struct blkif_response blkif_response_t;
 
-#define BLKIF_RSP_ERROR  -1 /* non-specific 'error' */
-#define BLKIF_RSP_OKAY    0 /* non-specific 'okay'  */
+#define BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP  -2 /* operation not supported (can happen on 
barrier writes) */
+#define BLKIF_RSP_ERROR       -1 /* non-specific 'error' */
+#define BLKIF_RSP_OKAY         0 /* non-specific 'okay'  */
 
 /*
  * Generate blkif ring structures and types.
Index: build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/vbd.c
===================================================================
--- build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/vbd.c
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkfront/vbd.c
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(int minor, blkif_sec
        }
 
        info->rq = gd->queue;
+       info->gd = gd;
+
+       if (info->feature_barrier)
+               xlvbd_barrier(info);
 
        if (vdisk_info & VDISK_READONLY)
                set_disk_ro(gd, 1);
@@ -267,8 +271,6 @@ xlvbd_alloc_gendisk(int minor, blkif_sec
        if (vdisk_info & VDISK_CDROM)
                gd->flags |= GENHD_FL_CD;
 
-       info->gd = gd;
-
        return 0;
 
  out:
@@ -316,3 +318,17 @@ xlvbd_del(struct blkfront_info *info)
        blk_cleanup_queue(info->rq);
        info->rq = NULL;
 }
+
+int
+xlvbd_barrier(struct blkfront_info *info)
+{
+       int err;
+
+       err = blk_queue_ordered(info->rq,
+               info->feature_barrier ? QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN : 
QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE, NULL);
+       if (err)
+               return err;
+       printk("blkfront: %s: barriers %s\n",
+              info->gd->disk_name, info->feature_barrier ? "enabled" : 
"disabled");
+       return 0;
+}
Index: build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c
===================================================================
--- build-64-unstable-11724.orig/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c
+++ build-64-unstable-11724/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/drivers/xen/blkback/vbd.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ int vbd_translate(struct phys_req *req, 
        struct vbd *vbd = &blkif->vbd;
        int rc = -EACCES;
 
-       if ((operation == WRITE) && vbd->readonly)
+       if ((operation != READ) && vbd->readonly)
                goto out;
 
        if (unlikely((req->sector_number + req->nr_sects) > vbd_sz(vbd)))

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