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2019-05-06lightnvm: pblk: GC error handlingIgor Konopko
Currently when there is an IO error (or similar) on GC read path, pblk still move the line, which was currently under GC process to free state. Such a behaviour can lead to silent data mismatch issue. With this patch, the line which was under GC process on which some IO errors occurred, will be putted back to closed state (instead of free state as it was without this patch) and the L2P mapping for such a failed sectors will not be updated. Then in case of any user IOs to such a failed sectors, pblk would be able to return at least real IO error instead of stale data as it is right now. Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-06lightnvm: pblk: fix race during put lineIgor Konopko
In the pblk_put_line_back function, a race condition with __pblk_map_invalidate can make a line not part of any lists. Fix gc_list by resetting it to null fixes the above issue. Fixes: a4bd217 ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target") Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-06lightnvm: pblk: gracefully handle GC vmalloc failIgor Konopko
Currently when we fail on rq data allocation in gc, it skips moving active data and moves line straigt to its free state. Losing user data in the process. Move the data allocation to an earlier phase of GC, where we can still fail gracefully by moving line back to the closed state. Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-06lightnvm: pblk: rollback on error during gc readIgor Konopko
A line is left unsigned to the blocks lists in case pblk_gc_line returns an error. This moves the line back to be appropriate list, which can then be picked up by the garbage collector. Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-05-06lightnvm: pblk: line reference fix in GCIgor Konopko
Fixes the GC error case when moving a line back to closed state while releasing additional references. Signed-off-by: Igor Konopko <igor.j.konopko@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-02-11lightnvm: pblk: fix race condition on GCHeiner Litz
This patch fixes a race condition where a write is mapped to the last sectors of a line. The write is synced to the device but the L2P is not updated yet. When the line is garbage collected before the L2P update is performed, the sectors are ignored by the GC logic and the line is freed before all sectors are moved. When the L2P is finally updated, it contains a mapping to a freed line, subsequent reads of the corresponding LBAs fail. This patch introduces a per line counter specifying the number of sectors that are synced to the device but have not been updated in the L2P. Lines with a counter of greater than zero will not be selected for GC. Signed-off-by: Heiner Litz <hlitz@ucsc.edu> Reviewed-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-09lightnvm: pblk: add SPDX license tagJavier González
Add GLP-2.0 SPDX license tag to all pblk files Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-09lightnvm: pblk: refactor metadata pathsJavier González
pblk maintains two different metadata paths for smeta and emeta, which store metadata at the start of the line and at the end of the line, respectively. Until now, these path has been common for writing and retrieving metadata, however, as these paths diverge, the common code becomes less clear and unnecessary complicated. In preparation for further changes to the metadata write path, this patch separates the write and read paths for smeta and emeta and removes the synchronous emeta path as it not used anymore (emeta is scheduled asynchronously to prevent jittering due to internal I/Os). Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-09lightnvm: pblk: add trace events for line state changesHans Holmberg
Add trace events for logging for line state changes. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-13lightnvm: pblk: expose generic disk name on pr_* msgsMatias Bjørling
The error messages in pblk does not say which pblk instance that a message occurred from. Update each error message to reflect the instance it belongs to, and also prefix it with pblk, so we know the message comes from the pblk module. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-07-13lightnvm: move NVM_DEBUG to pblkMatias Bjørling
There is no users of CONFIG_NVM_DEBUG in the LightNVM subsystem. All users are in pblk. Rename NVM_DEBUG to NVM_PBLK_DEBUG and enable only for pblk. Also fix up the CONFIG_NVM_PBLK entry to follow the code style for Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-12treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc()Kees Cook
The vmalloc() function has no 2-factor argument form, so multiplication factors need to be wrapped in array_size(). This patch replaces cases of: vmalloc(a * b) with: vmalloc(array_size(a, b)) as well as handling cases of: vmalloc(a * b * c) with: vmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c)) This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like: vmalloc(4 * 1024) though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion. Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were dropped, since they're redundant. The Coccinelle script used for this was: // Fix redundant parens around sizeof(). @@ type TYPE; expression THING, E; @@ ( vmalloc( - (sizeof(TYPE)) * E + sizeof(TYPE) * E , ...) | vmalloc( - (sizeof(THING)) * E + sizeof(THING) * E , ...) ) // Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens. @@ expression COUNT; typedef u8; typedef __u8; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) ) // 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant. @@ type TYPE; expression THING; identifier COUNT_ID; constant COUNT_CONST; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID) + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST) + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID) + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID + array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST) + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST + array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 2-factor product, only identifiers. @@ identifier SIZE, COUNT; @@ vmalloc( - SIZE * COUNT + array_size(COUNT, SIZE) , ...) // 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with // redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING; identifier STRIDE, COUNT; type TYPE; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING1, THING2; identifier COUNT; type TYPE1, TYPE2; @@ ( vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | vmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed. @@ identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT; @@ ( vmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | vmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) ) // Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products // when they're not all constants... @@ expression E1, E2, E3; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( vmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | vmalloc( - E1 * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) ) // And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants. @@ expression E1, E2; constant C1, C2; @@ ( vmalloc(C1 * C2, ...) | vmalloc( - E1 * E2 + array_size(E1, E2) , ...) ) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2018-06-05lightnvm: pblk: fix resource leak of invalid_bitmapColin Ian King
Currently the error exit path when the emeta could not be interpreted is via fail_free_ws and this fails to free invalid_bitmap. Fix this by adding another exit label and exiting via this to kfree invalid_bitmap. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469659 ("Resource leak") Fixes: 48b8d20895f8 ("lightnvm: pblk: garbage collect lines with failed writes") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01lightnvm: pblk: garbage collect lines with failed writesHans Holmberg
Write failures should not happen under normal circumstances, so in order to bring the chunk back into a known state as soon as possible, evacuate all the valid data out of the line and let the fw judge if the block can be written to in the next reset cycle. Do this by introducing a new gc list for lines with failed writes, and ensure that the rate limiter allocates a small portion of the write bandwidth to get the job done. The lba list is saved in memory for use during gc as we cannot gurantee that the emeta data is readable if a write error occurred. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-06-01lightnvm: pass flag on graceful teardown to targetsJavier González
If the namespace is unregistered before the LightNVM target is removed (e.g., on hot unplug) it is too late for the target to store any metadata on the device - any attempt to write to the device will fail. In this case, pass on a "gracefull teardown" flag to the target to let it know when this happens. In the case of pblk, we pad the open line (close all open chunks) to improve data retention. In the event of an ungraceful shutdown, avoid this part and just clean up. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-03-29lightnvm: pblk: remove some unnecessary NULL checksDan Carpenter
Smatch complains that flush_workqueue() dereferences the work queue pointer but then we check if it's NULL on the next line when it's too late. These NULL checks can be removed because the module won't load if we can't allocate the work queues. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-03-29lightnvm: simplify geometry structureJavier González
Currently, the device geometry is stored redundantly in the nvm_id and nvm_geo structures at a device level. Moreover, when instantiating targets on a specific number of LUNs, these structures are replicated and manually modified to fit the instance channel and LUN partitioning. Instead, create a generic geometry around nvm_geo, which can be used by (i) the underlying device to describe the geometry of the whole device, and (ii) instances to describe their geometry independently. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-03-29lightnvm/pblk-gc: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in ↵Markus Elfring
pblk_gc_line_prepare_ws() Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-05lightnvm: pblk: remove pblk_gc_stopHans Holmberg
pblk_gc_stop just sets pblk->gc->gc_active to zero, ignoring the flush parameter. This is plain confusing, so remove the function and set the gc active flag at the call points instead. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-01-05lightnvm: pblk: refactor emeta consistency checkHans Holmberg
Currently pblk_recov_get_lba list does two separate things: it checks the consistency of the emeta and extracts the lba list. This patch separates the consistency check to make the code easier to read and to prepare for version checks of the line emeta persistent data format version. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-11-21lightnvm: Convert timers to use timer_setup()Kees Cook
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer() to pass the timer pointer explicitly. Cc: Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: avoid being reported as hung on rated GCJavier González
The amount of GC I/O on the write buffer is managed by the rate-limiter, which is calculated as a function of the number of available free blocks. When reaching the stable point, we risk having scheduled more I/Os for GC than are allowed on the write buffer. This would result on the GC semaphore balancing the outstanding read GC I/Os to be reported as "hung", though the behavior is normal. Solve this by allowing to schedule when we detect that the read GC path is not moving forward. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: cleanup unused and static functionsJavier González
Cleanup up unused and static functions across the whole codebase. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: gc all lines in the pipeline before exitHans Holmberg
Finish garbage collect of the lines that are in the gc pipeline before exiting. Ensure that all lines already in in the pipeline goes through, from read to write. Do this by keeping track of how many lines are in the pipeline and waiting for that number to reach zero before exiting the gc reader task. Since we're adding a new gc line counter, change the name of inflight_gc to read_inflight_gc to make the distinction clear. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: shut down gc gracefully during exitHans Holmberg
Shut down the GC workqueues and tasks in the right order. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: start gc if needed during initHans Holmberg
Start GC if needed, directly after init, as we might need to garbage collect in order to make room for user writes. Create a helper function that allows to kick GC without exposing the internals of the GC/rate-limiter interaction. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: free full lines during recoveryHans Holmberg
When rebuilding the L2P table, any full lines (lines without any valid sectors) will be identified. If these lines are not freed, we risk not being able to allocate the first data line. This patch refactors the part of GC that frees empty lines into a separate function and adds a call to this after the L2P table has been rebuilt. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: prevent gc kicks when gc is not operationalHans Holmberg
GC can be kicked after it has been shut down when closing the last line during exit, resulting in accesses to freed structures. Make sure that GC is not triggered while it is not operational. Also make sure that GC won't be re-activated during exit when running on another processor by using timer_del_sync. Signed-off-by: Hans Holmberg <hans.holmberg@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: refactor read path on GCJavier González
Simplify the part of the garbage collector where data is read from the line being recycled and moved into an internal queue before being copied to the memory buffer. This allows to get rid of a dedicated function, which introduces an unnecessary dependency on the code. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: simplify data validity check on GCJavier González
When a line is selected for recycling by the garbage collector (GC), the line state changes and the invalid bitmap is frozen, preventing invalidations from happening. Throughout the GC, the L2P map is checked to verify that not data being recycled has been updated. The last check is done before the new map is being stored on the L2P table. Though this algorithm works, it requires a number of corner cases to be checked each time the L2P table is being updated. This complicates readability and is error prone in case that the recycling algorithm is modified. Instead, this patch makes the invalid bitmap accessible even when the line is being recycled. When recycled data is being remapped, it is enough to check the invalid bitmap for the line before updating the L2P table. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: use constant for GC max inflightJavier González
Use a constant to set the maximum number of inflight GC requests allowed. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-13lightnvm: pblk: simplify work_queue mempoolJavier González
In pblk, we have a mempool to allocate a generic structure that we pass along workqueues. This is heavily used in the GC path in order to have enough inflight reads and fully utilize the GC bandwidth. However, the current GC path copies data to the host memory and puts it back into the write buffer. This requires a vmalloc allocation for the data and a memory copy. Thus, guaranteeing the allocation by using a mempool for the structure in itself does not give us much. Until we implement support for vector copy to avoid moving data through the host, just allocate the workqueue structure using kmalloc. This allows us to have a much smaller mempool. Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-30lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data bufferJavier González
For now, we allocate a per I/O buffer for GC data. Since the potential size of the buffer is 256KB and GC is not in the fast path, do this allocation with vmalloc. This puts lets pressure on the memory allocator at no performance cost. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-30lightnvm: pblk: fix bad le64 assignationsJavier González
Use the right types and conversions on le64 variables. Reported by sparse. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26lightnvm: pblk: redesign GC algorithmJavier González
At the moment, in order to get enough read parallelism, we have recycled several lines at the same time. This approach has proven not to work well when reaching capacity, since we end up mixing valid data from all lines, thus not maintaining a sustainable free/recycled line ratio. The new design, relies on a two level workqueue mechanism. In the first level, we read the metadata for a number of lines based on the GC list they reside on (this is governed by the number of valid sectors in each line). In the second level, we recycle a single line at a time. Here, we issue reads in parallel, while a single GC write thread places data in the write buffer. This design allows to (i) only move data from one line at a time, thus maintaining a sane free/recycled ration and (ii) maintain the GC writer busy with recycled data. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26lightnvm: pblk: choose optimal victim GC lineJavier González
At the moment, we separate the closed lines on three different list based on their number of valid sectors. GC recycles lines from each list based on capacity. Lines from each list are taken in a FIFO fashion. Since the number of lines is limited (it corresponds to the number of blocks in a LUN, which is somewhere between 1000-2000), we can afford scanning the lists to choose the optimal line to be recycled. This helps specially in lines with a high number of valid sectors. If the number of blocks per LUN increases, we will consider a more efficient policy. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-06-26lightnvm: pblk: sched. metadata on write threadJavier González
At the moment, line metadata is persisted on a separate work queue, that is kicked each time that a line is closed. The assumption when designing this was that freeing the write thread from creating a new write request was better than the potential impact of writes colliding on the media (user I/O and metadata I/O). Experimentation has proven that this assumption is wrong; collision can cause up to 25% of bandwidth and introduce long tail latencies on the write thread, which potentially cause user write threads to spend more time spinning to get a free entry on the write buffer. This patch moves the metadata logic to the write thread. When a line is closed, remaining metadata is written in memory and is placed on a metadata queue. The write thread then takes the metadata corresponding to the previous line, creates the write request and schedules it to minimize collisions on the media. Using this approach, we see that we can saturate the media's bandwidth, which helps reducing both write latencies and the spinning time for user writer threads. Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-04-23lightnvm: pblk: fix erase counters on error failJavier González
When block erases fail, these blocks are marked bad. The number of valid blocks in the line was not updated, which could cause an infinite loop on the erase path. Fix this atomic counter and, in order to avoid taking an irq lock on the interrupt context, make the erase counters atomic too. Also, in the case that a significant number of blocks become bad in a line, the result is the double shared metadata buffer (emeta) to stop the pipeline until all metadata is flushed to the media. Increase the number of metadata lines from 2 to 4 to avoid this case. Fixes: a4bd217b4326 "lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target" Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Reviewed-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-16lightnvm: pblk-gc: fix an error pointer dereference in initDan Carpenter
These labels are reversed so we could end up dereferencing an error pointer or leaking. Fixes: 7f347ba6bb3a ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-16lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) targetJavier González
This patch introduces pblk, a host-side translation layer for Open-Channel SSDs to expose them like block devices. The translation layer allows data placement decisions, and I/O scheduling to be managed by the host, enabling users to optimize the SSD for their specific workloads. An open-channel SSD has a set of LUNs (parallel units) and a collection of blocks. Each block can be read in any order, but writes must be sequential. Writes may also fail, and if a block requires it, must also be reset before new writes can be applied. To manage the constraints, pblk maintains a logical to physical address (L2P) table, write cache, garbage collection logic, recovery scheme, and logic to rate-limit user I/Os versus garbage collection I/Os. The L2P table is fully-associative and manages sectors at a 4KB granularity. Pblk stores the L2P table in two places, in the out-of-band area of the media and on the last page of a line. In the cause of a power failure, pblk will perform a scan to recover the L2P table. The user data is organized into lines. A line is data striped across blocks and LUNs. The lines enable the host to reduce the amount of metadata to maintain besides the user data and makes it easier to implement RAID or erasure coding in the future. pblk implements multi-tenant support and can be instantiated multiple times on the same drive. Each instance owns a portion of the SSD - both regarding I/O bandwidth and capacity - providing I/O isolation for each case. Finally, pblk also exposes a sysfs interface that allows user-space to peek into the internals of pblk. The interface is available at /dev/block/*/pblk/ where * is the block device name exposed. This work also contains contributions from: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Simon A. F. Lund <slund@cnexlabs.com> Young Tack Jin <youngtack.jin@gmail.com> Huaicheng Li <huaicheng@cs.uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <matias@cnexlabs.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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