Revision 6460495709aeb651896bc8e5c134b2e4ca7d34a8 authored by James Wang on 08 June 2017, 06:52:51 UTC, committed by Jens Axboe on 08 June 2017, 14:04:18 UTC
While installing SLES-12 (based on v4.4), I found that the installer
will stall for 60+ seconds during LVM disk scan.  The root cause was
determined to be the removal of a bound device check in loop_flush()
by commit b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq").

Restoring this check, examining ->lo_state as set by loop_set_fd()
eliminates the bad behavior.

Test method:
modprobe loop max_loop=64
dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=512 count=200K
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do losetup -f disk; done
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/loop0
for((i=0;i<4;i++))do mkdir t$i; mount /dev/loop$i t$i;done
for f in `ls /dev/loop[0-9]*|sort`; do \
	echo $f; dd if=$f of=/dev/null  bs=512 count=1; \
	done

Test output:  stock          patched
/dev/loop0    18.1217e-05    8.3842e-05
/dev/loop1     6.1114e-05    0.000147979
/dev/loop10    0.414701      0.000116564
/dev/loop11    0.7474        6.7942e-05
/dev/loop12    0.747986      8.9082e-05
/dev/loop13    0.746532      7.4799e-05
/dev/loop14    0.480041      9.3926e-05
/dev/loop15    1.26453       7.2522e-05

Note that from loop10 onward, the device is not mounted, yet the
stock kernel consumes several orders of magnitude more wall time
than it does for a mounted device.
(Thanks for Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, give a changelog review.)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Wang <jnwang@suse.com>
Fixes: b5dd2f6047ca ("block: loop: improve performance via blk-mq")
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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mmzone.c
/*
 * linux/mm/mmzone.c
 *
 * management codes for pgdats, zones and page flags
 */


#include <linux/stddef.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mmzone.h>

struct pglist_data *first_online_pgdat(void)
{
	return NODE_DATA(first_online_node);
}

struct pglist_data *next_online_pgdat(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
{
	int nid = next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);

	if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
		return NULL;
	return NODE_DATA(nid);
}

/*
 * next_zone - helper magic for for_each_zone()
 */
struct zone *next_zone(struct zone *zone)
{
	pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;

	if (zone < pgdat->node_zones + MAX_NR_ZONES - 1)
		zone++;
	else {
		pgdat = next_online_pgdat(pgdat);
		if (pgdat)
			zone = pgdat->node_zones;
		else
			zone = NULL;
	}
	return zone;
}

static inline int zref_in_nodemask(struct zoneref *zref, nodemask_t *nodes)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
	return node_isset(zonelist_node_idx(zref), *nodes);
#else
	return 1;
#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */
}

/* Returns the next zone at or below highest_zoneidx in a zonelist */
struct zoneref *__next_zones_zonelist(struct zoneref *z,
					enum zone_type highest_zoneidx,
					nodemask_t *nodes)
{
	/*
	 * Find the next suitable zone to use for the allocation.
	 * Only filter based on nodemask if it's set
	 */
	if (unlikely(nodes == NULL))
		while (zonelist_zone_idx(z) > highest_zoneidx)
			z++;
	else
		while (zonelist_zone_idx(z) > highest_zoneidx ||
				(z->zone && !zref_in_nodemask(z, nodes)))
			z++;

	return z;
}

#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
bool memmap_valid_within(unsigned long pfn,
					struct page *page, struct zone *zone)
{
	if (page_to_pfn(page) != pfn)
		return false;

	if (page_zone(page) != zone)
		return false;

	return true;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL */

void lruvec_init(struct lruvec *lruvec)
{
	enum lru_list lru;

	memset(lruvec, 0, sizeof(struct lruvec));

	for_each_lru(lru)
		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&lruvec->lists[lru]);
}

#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING) && !defined(LAST_CPUPID_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS)
int page_cpupid_xchg_last(struct page *page, int cpupid)
{
	unsigned long old_flags, flags;
	int last_cpupid;

	do {
		old_flags = flags = page->flags;
		last_cpupid = page_cpupid_last(page);

		flags &= ~(LAST_CPUPID_MASK << LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT);
		flags |= (cpupid & LAST_CPUPID_MASK) << LAST_CPUPID_PGSHIFT;
	} while (unlikely(cmpxchg(&page->flags, old_flags, flags) != old_flags));

	return last_cpupid;
}
#endif
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