Re: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: use a different scatterlist for each request

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On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 06:40:27PM +0200, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> In blkif_queue_request blkfront iterates over the scatterlist in order
> to set the segments of the request, and in blkif_completion blkfront
> iterates over the raw request, which makes it hard to know the exact
> position of the source and destination memory positions.
> 
> This can be solved by allocating a scatterlist for each request, that
> will be keep until the request is finished, allowing us to copy the
> data back to the original memory without having to iterate over the
> raw request.
> 
> This is a backport of b7649158a0d241f8d53d13ff7441858539e16656 to
> apply against the 3.10-stable tree.

Thank you!
> 
> Oracle-Bug: 16660413 - LARGE ASYNCHRONOUS READS APPEAR BROKEN ON 2.6.39-400
> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Anne Milicia <anne.milicia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Anne Milicia <anne.milicia@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |   36 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> index d89ef86..69b45fc 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ struct blk_shadow {
>  	struct blkif_request req;
>  	struct request *request;
>  	struct grant *grants_used[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
> +	struct scatterlist sg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
>  };
>  
>  static DEFINE_MUTEX(blkfront_mutex);
> @@ -98,7 +99,6 @@ struct blkfront_info
>  	enum blkif_state connected;
>  	int ring_ref;
>  	struct blkif_front_ring ring;
> -	struct scatterlist sg[BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST];
>  	unsigned int evtchn, irq;
>  	struct request_queue *rq;
>  	struct work_struct work;
> @@ -422,11 +422,11 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
>  			ring_req->u.discard.flag = 0;
>  	} else {
>  		ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments = blk_rq_map_sg(req->q, req,
> -							   info->sg);
> +							   info->shadow[id].sg);
>  		BUG_ON(ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments >
>  		       BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
>  
> -		for_each_sg(info->sg, sg, ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments, i) {
> +		for_each_sg(info->shadow[id].sg, sg, ring_req->u.rw.nr_segments, i) {
>  			fsect = sg->offset >> 9;
>  			lsect = fsect + (sg->length >> 9) - 1;
>  
> @@ -867,12 +867,12 @@ static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s, struct blkfront_info *info,
>  			     struct blkif_response *bret)
>  {
>  	int i = 0;
> -	struct bio_vec *bvec;
> -	struct req_iterator iter;
> -	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct scatterlist *sg;
>  	char *bvec_data;
>  	void *shared_data;
> -	unsigned int offset = 0;
> +	int nseg;
> +
> +	nseg = s->req.u.rw.nr_segments;
>  
>  	if (bret->operation == BLKIF_OP_READ) {
>  		/*
> @@ -881,19 +881,16 @@ static void blkif_completion(struct blk_shadow *s, struct blkfront_info *info,
>  		 * than PAGE_SIZE, we have to keep track of the current offset,
>  		 * to be sure we are copying the data from the right shared page.
>  		 */
> -		rq_for_each_segment(bvec, s->request, iter) {
> -			BUG_ON((bvec->bv_offset + bvec->bv_len) > PAGE_SIZE);
> -			if (bvec->bv_offset < offset)
> -				i++;
> -			BUG_ON(i >= s->req.u.rw.nr_segments);
> +		for_each_sg(s->sg, sg, nseg, i) {
> +			BUG_ON(sg->offset + sg->length > PAGE_SIZE);
>  			shared_data = kmap_atomic(
>  				pfn_to_page(s->grants_used[i]->pfn));
> -			bvec_data = bvec_kmap_irq(bvec, &flags);
> -			memcpy(bvec_data, shared_data + bvec->bv_offset,
> -				bvec->bv_len);
> -			bvec_kunmap_irq(bvec_data, &flags);
> +			bvec_data = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
> +			memcpy(bvec_data   + sg->offset,
> +			       shared_data + sg->offset,
> +			       sg->length);
> +			kunmap_atomic(bvec_data);
>  			kunmap_atomic(shared_data);
> -			offset = bvec->bv_offset + bvec->bv_len;
>  		}
>  	}
>  	/* Add the persistent grant into the list of free grants */
> @@ -1022,7 +1019,7 @@ static int setup_blkring(struct xenbus_device *dev,
>  			 struct blkfront_info *info)
>  {
>  	struct blkif_sring *sring;
> -	int err;
> +	int err, i;
>  
>  	info->ring_ref = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
>  
> @@ -1034,7 +1031,8 @@ static int setup_blkring(struct xenbus_device *dev,
>  	SHARED_RING_INIT(sring);
>  	FRONT_RING_INIT(&info->ring, sring, PAGE_SIZE);
>  
> -	sg_init_table(info->sg, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
> +	for (i = 0; i < BLK_RING_SIZE; i++)
> +		sg_init_table(info->shadow[i].sg, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
>  
>  	/* Allocate memory for grants */
>  	err = fill_grant_buffer(info, BLK_RING_SIZE *
> -- 
> 1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)
> 
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