Re: [PATCH 1/1] [virt] virtio-blk: Use ida to allocate disk index

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:12:20PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:41:56AM -0400, Mark Wu wrote:
> > On 06/09/2011 05:14 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:51:05AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > >> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:08:29 -0400, Mark Wu <dwu@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >>> Hi Rusty,
> > >>> Yes, I can't figure out an instance of disk probing in parallel either, but as
> > >>> per the following commit, I think we still need use lock for safety. What's your opinion?
> > >>>
> > >>> commit 4034cc68157bfa0b6622efe368488d3d3e20f4e6
> > >>> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > >>> Date:   Sat Feb 21 11:04:45 2009 +0900
> > >>>
> > >>>     [SCSI] sd: revive sd_index_lock
> > >>>
> > >>>     Commit f27bac2761cab5a2e212dea602d22457a9aa6943 which converted sd to
> > >>>     use ida instead of idr incorrectly removed sd_index_lock around id
> > >>>     allocation and free.  idr/ida do have internal locks but they protect
> > >>>     their free object lists not the allocation itself.  The caller is
> > >>>     responsible for that.  This missing synchronization led to the same id
> > >>>     being assigned to multiple devices leading to oops.
> > >>
> > >> I'm confused.  Tejun, Greg, anyone can probes happen in parallel?
> > >>
> > >> If so, I'll have to review all my drivers.
> > > 
> > > Unless async is explicitly used, probe happens sequentially.  IOW, if
> > > there's no async_schedule() call, things won't happen in parallel.
> > > That said, I think it wouldn't be such a bad idea to protect ida with
> > > spinlock regardless unless the probe code explicitly requires
> > > serialization.
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > Since virtio blk driver doesn't use async probe, it needn't use spinlock to protect ida.
> > So remove the lock from patch.
> > 
> > >From fbb396df9dbf8023f1b268be01b43529a3993d57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Mark Wu <dwu@redhat.com>
> > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 06:34:07 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] [virt] virtio-blk: Use ida to allocate disk index
> > 
> > Current index allocation in virtio-blk is based on a monotonically
> > increasing variable "index". It could cause some confusion about disk
> > name in the case of hot-plugging disks. And it's impossible to find the
> > lowest available index by just maintaining a simple index. So it's
> > changed to use ida to allocate index via referring to the index
> > allocation in scsi disk.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Wu <dwu@redhat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> This got lost in the noise and missed 3.1 which is unfortunate.
> How about we apply this as is and look at cleanups as a next step?

Rusty, any opinion on merging this for 3.2?
I expect merge window will open right after the summit,
so need to decide soon ...

> > ---
> >  drivers/block/virtio_blk.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> > index 079c088..bf81ab6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> > +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
> > @@ -8,10 +8,13 @@
> >  #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
> >  #include <linux/string_helpers.h>
> >  #include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
> > +#include <linux/idr.h>
> >  
> >  #define PART_BITS 4
> >  
> > -static int major, index;
> > +static int major;
> > +static DEFINE_IDA(vd_index_ida);
> > +
> >  struct workqueue_struct *virtblk_wq;
> >  
> >  struct virtio_blk
> > @@ -23,6 +26,7 @@ struct virtio_blk
> >  
> >  	/* The disk structure for the kernel. */
> >  	struct gendisk *disk;
> > +	u32 index;
> >  
> >  	/* Request tracking. */
> >  	struct list_head reqs;
> > @@ -343,12 +347,23 @@ static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >  	struct request_queue *q;
> >  	int err;
> >  	u64 cap;
> > -	u32 v, blk_size, sg_elems, opt_io_size;
> > +	u32 v, blk_size, sg_elems, opt_io_size, index;
> >  	u16 min_io_size;
> >  	u8 physical_block_exp, alignment_offset;
> >  
> > -	if (index_to_minor(index) >= 1 << MINORBITS)
> > -		return -ENOSPC;
> > +	do {
> > +		if (!ida_pre_get(&vd_index_ida, GFP_KERNEL))
> > +			return -ENOMEM;
> > +		err = ida_get_new(&vd_index_ida, &index);
> > +	} while (err == -EAGAIN);
> > +
> > +	if (err)
> > +		return err;
> > +
> > +	if (index_to_minor(index) >= 1 << MINORBITS) {
> > +		err =  -ENOSPC;
> > +		goto out_free_index;
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	/* We need to know how many segments before we allocate. */
> >  	err = virtio_config_val(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_SEG_MAX,
> > @@ -421,7 +436,7 @@ static int __devinit virtblk_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >  	vblk->disk->private_data = vblk;
> >  	vblk->disk->fops = &virtblk_fops;
> >  	vblk->disk->driverfs_dev = &vdev->dev;
> > -	index++;
> > +	vblk->index = index;
> >  
> >  	/* configure queue flush support */
> >  	if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_BLK_F_FLUSH))
> > @@ -516,6 +531,8 @@ out_free_vq:
> >  	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
> >  out_free_vblk:
> >  	kfree(vblk);
> > +out_free_index:
> > +	ida_remove(&vd_index_ida, index);
> >  out:
> >  	return err;
> >  }
> > @@ -538,6 +555,7 @@ static void __devexit virtblk_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >  	mempool_destroy(vblk->pool);
> >  	vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev);
> >  	kfree(vblk);
> > +	ida_remove(&vd_index_ida, vblk->index);
> >  }
> >  
> >  static const struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
> > -- 
> > 1.7.1
> > 
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