Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 2 authors, 2012-06-01

Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] virtio-blk: Use block layer provided spinlock

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-05-25 13:10:47
Also in: kvm

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 04:03:27PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
Block layer will allocate a spinlock for the queue if the driver does
not provide one in blk_init_queue().

The reason to use the internal spinlock is that blk_cleanup_queue() will
switch to use the internal spinlock in the cleanup code path.

        if (q->queue_lock != &q->__queue_lock)
                q->queue_lock = &q->__queue_lock;

However, processes which are in D state might have taken the driver
provided spinlock, when the processes wake up, they would release the
block provided spinlock.

=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
3.4.0-rc7+ #238 Not tainted
-------------------------------------
fio/3587 is trying to release lock (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock) at:
[<ffffffff813274d2>] blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380
but there are no more locks to release!

other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by fio/3587:
 #0:  (&(&vblk->lock)->rlock){......}, at:
[<ffffffff8132661a>] get_request_wait+0x19a/0x250
The above is fixed by your patch
block: Fix lock unbalance caused by lock disconnect
so it really seems beside the point here.
So I think the part of the commit log that
makes sense starts here?

Other drivers use block layer provided spinlock as well, e.g. SCSI.

Switching to the block layer provided spinlock saves a bit of memory and
does not increase lock contention. Performance test shows no real
difference is observed before and after this patch.

Changes in v2: Improve commit log as Michael suggested.

Cc: Rusty Russell <redacted>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Asias He <redacted>
Well why not.

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |    9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
index b4fa2d7..774c31d 100644
--- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
+++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ struct workqueue_struct *virtblk_wq;
 
 struct virtio_blk
 {
-	spinlock_t lock;
-
 	struct virtio_device *vdev;
 	struct virtqueue *vq;
 
@@ -65,7 +63,7 @@ static void blk_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
 	unsigned int len;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(vblk->disk->queue->queue_lock, flags);
 	while ((vbr = virtqueue_get_buf(vblk->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
 		int error;
 
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ static void blk_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
 	}
 	/* In case queue is stopped waiting for more buffers. */
 	blk_start_queue(vblk->disk->queue);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(vblk->disk->queue->queue_lock, flags);
 }
 
 static bool do_req(struct request_queue *q, struct virtio_blk *vblk,
@@ -431,7 +429,6 @@ static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		goto out_free_index;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_init(&vblk->lock);
 	vblk->vdev = vdev;
 	vblk->sg_elems = sg_elems;
 	sg_init_table(vblk->sg, vblk->sg_elems);
@@ -456,7 +453,7 @@ static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 		goto out_mempool;
 	}
 
-	q = vblk->disk->queue = blk_init_queue(do_virtblk_request, &vblk->lock);
+	q = vblk->disk->queue = blk_init_queue(do_virtblk_request, NULL);
 	if (!q) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_put_disk;
-- 
1.7.10.2

_______________________________________________
Virtualization mailing list
Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help