On 2/24/25 14:30, Nilay Shroff wrote:
There're few sysfs attributes in block layer which don't really need
acquiring q->sysfs_lock while accessing it. The reason being, reading/
writing a value from/to such attributes are either atomic or could be
easily protected using READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(). Moreover, sysfs
attributes are inherently protected with sysfs/kernfs internal locking.
So this change help segregate all existing sysfs attributes for which
we could avoid acquiring q->sysfs_lock. For all read-only attributes
we removed the q->sysfs_lock from show method of such attributes. In
case attribute is read/write then we removed the q->sysfs_lock from
both show and store methods of these attributes.
We audited all block sysfs attributes and found following list of
attributes which shouldn't require q->sysfs_lock protection:
1. io_poll:
Write to this attribute is ignored. So, we don't need q->sysfs_lock.
2. io_poll_delay:
Write to this attribute is NOP, so we don't need q->sysfs_lock.
3. io_timeout:
Write to this attribute updates q->rq_timeout and read of this
attribute returns the value stored in q->rq_timeout Moreover, the
q->rq_timeout is set only once when we init the queue (under blk_mq_
init_allocated_queue()) even before disk is added. So that means
that we don't need to protect it with q->sysfs_lock. As this
attribute is not directly correlated with anything else simply using
READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE should be enough.
4. nomerges:
Write to this attribute file updates two q->flags : QUEUE_FLAG_
NOMERGES and QUEUE_FLAG_NOXMERGES. These flags are accessed during
bio-merge which anyways doesn't run with q->sysfs_lock held.
Moreover, the q->flags are updated/accessed with bitops which are
atomic. So, protecting it with q->sysfs_lock is not necessary.
That's not the point; point is that the queue is frozen when updating so
blk-merge will never see an incomplete update.
But that's a minor issue and doesn't affect the patch itself.
5. rq_affinity:
Write to this attribute file makes atomic updates to q->flags:
QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_COMP and QUEUE_FLAG_SAME_FORCE. These flags are
also accessed from blk_mq_complete_need_ipi() using test_bit macro.
As read/write to q->flags uses bitops which are atomic, protecting
it with q->stsys_lock is not necessary.
6. nr_zones:
Write to this attribute happens in the driver probe method (except
nvme) before disk is added and outside of q->sysfs_lock or any other
lock. Moreover nr_zones is defined as "unsigned int" and so reading
this attribute, even when it's simultaneously being updated on other
cpu, should not return torn value on any architecture supported by
linux. So we can avoid using q->sysfs_lock or any other lock/
protection while reading this attribute.
7. discard_zeroes_data:
Reading of this attribute always returns 0, so we don't require
holding q->sysfs_lock.
8. write_same_max_bytes
Reading of this attribute always returns 0, so we don't require
holding q->sysfs_lock.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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block/blk-settings.c | 2 +-
block/blk-sysfs.c | 81 +++++++++++++++-----------------------------
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Hannes
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