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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-03-05 13:15:27 -0800
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2012-03-06 21:27:24 +0100
commit852c788f8365062c8a383c5a93f7f7289977cb50 (patch)
tree561b69e7f2b6bcc16de165b3b988990de7913615 /fs/bio.c
parentf6e8d01bee036460e03bd4f6a79d014f98ba712e (diff)
downloadlinux-852c788f8365062c8a383c5a93f7f7289977cb50.tar.gz
block: implement bio_associate_current()
IO scheduling and cgroup are tied to the issuing task via io_context
and cgroup of %current.  Unfortunately, there are cases where IOs need
to be routed via a different task which makes scheduling and cgroup
limit enforcement applied completely incorrectly.

For example, all bios delayed by blk-throttle end up being issued by a
delayed work item and get assigned the io_context of the worker task
which happens to serve the work item and dumped to the default block
cgroup.  This is double confusing as bios which aren't delayed end up
in the correct cgroup and makes using blk-throttle and cfq propio
together impossible.

Any code which punts IO issuing to another task is affected which is
getting more and more common (e.g. btrfs).  As both io_context and
cgroup are firmly tied to task including userland visible APIs to
manipulate them, it makes a lot of sense to match up tasks to bios.

This patch implements bio_associate_current() which associates the
specified bio with %current.  The bio will record the associated ioc
and blkcg at that point and block layer will use the recorded ones
regardless of which task actually ends up issuing the bio.  bio
release puts the associated ioc and blkcg.

It grabs and remembers ioc and blkcg instead of the task itself
because task may already be dead by the time the bio is issued making
ioc and blkcg inaccessible and those are all block layer cares about.

elevator_set_req_fn() is updated such that the bio elvdata is being
allocated for is available to the elevator.

This doesn't update block cgroup policies yet.  Further patches will
implement the support.

-v2: #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP added around bio->bi_ioc dereference in
     rq_ioc() to fix build breakage.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/bio.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/bio.c61
1 files changed, 61 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index b980ecde026a..142214b80039 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -19,12 +19,14 @@
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/bio.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
+#include <linux/iocontext.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
+#include <linux/cgroup.h>
 #include <scsi/sg.h>		/* for struct sg_iovec */
 
 #include <trace/events/block.h>
@@ -418,6 +420,7 @@ void bio_put(struct bio *bio)
 	 * last put frees it
 	 */
 	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bio->bi_cnt)) {
+		bio_disassociate_task(bio);
 		bio->bi_next = NULL;
 		bio->bi_destructor(bio);
 	}
@@ -1641,6 +1644,64 @@ bad:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(bioset_create);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP
+/**
+ * bio_associate_current - associate a bio with %current
+ * @bio: target bio
+ *
+ * Associate @bio with %current if it hasn't been associated yet.  Block
+ * layer will treat @bio as if it were issued by %current no matter which
+ * task actually issues it.
+ *
+ * This function takes an extra reference of @task's io_context and blkcg
+ * which will be put when @bio is released.  The caller must own @bio,
+ * ensure %current->io_context exists, and is responsible for synchronizing
+ * calls to this function.
+ */
+int bio_associate_current(struct bio *bio)
+{
+	struct io_context *ioc;
+	struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
+
+	if (bio->bi_ioc)
+		return -EBUSY;
+
+	ioc = current->io_context;
+	if (!ioc)
+		return -ENOENT;
+
+	/* acquire active ref on @ioc and associate */
+	get_io_context_active(ioc);
+	bio->bi_ioc = ioc;
+
+	/* associate blkcg if exists */
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	css = task_subsys_state(current, blkio_subsys_id);
+	if (css && css_tryget(css))
+		bio->bi_css = css;
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * bio_disassociate_task - undo bio_associate_current()
+ * @bio: target bio
+ */
+void bio_disassociate_task(struct bio *bio)
+{
+	if (bio->bi_ioc) {
+		put_io_context(bio->bi_ioc);
+		bio->bi_ioc = NULL;
+	}
+	if (bio->bi_css) {
+		css_put(bio->bi_css);
+		bio->bi_css = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP */
+
 static void __init biovec_init_slabs(void)
 {
 	int i;