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Javier González 02a1520d56 lightnvm: pblk: add SPDX license tag
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>
2018-10-09 08:25:08 -06:00
Javier González af3fac1664 lightnvm: pblk: refactor metadata paths
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>
2018-10-09 08:25:07 -06:00
Hans Holmberg f29372322e lightnvm: pblk: add trace events for line state changes
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>
2018-10-09 08:25:07 -06:00
Matias Bjørling 4e495a46b1 lightnvm: pblk: expose generic disk name on pr_* msgs
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>
2018-07-13 08:14:43 -06:00
Matias Bjørling 880eda5440 lightnvm: move NVM_DEBUG to pblk
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>
2018-07-13 08:14:31 -06:00
Kees Cook 42bc47b353 treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc()
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>
2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
Colin Ian King 0ec6937e8e lightnvm: pblk: fix resource leak of invalid_bitmap
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: 48b8d20895 ("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>
2018-06-05 09:20:27 -06:00
Hans Holmberg 48b8d20895 lightnvm: pblk: garbage collect lines with failed writes
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>
2018-06-01 09:02:53 -06:00
Javier González a7c9e9109c lightnvm: pass flag on graceful teardown to targets
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>
2018-06-01 07:43:53 -06:00
Dan Carpenter 5565b0ca50 lightnvm: pblk: remove some unnecessary NULL checks
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>
2018-03-29 17:29:09 -06:00
Javier González e46f4e4822 lightnvm: simplify geometry structure
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>
2018-03-29 17:29:09 -06:00
Markus Elfring 5da84cf603 lightnvm/pblk-gc: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in 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>
2018-03-29 17:29:09 -06:00
Hans Holmberg aed49e195a lightnvm: pblk: remove pblk_gc_stop
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>
2018-01-05 08:50:12 -07:00
Hans Holmberg 06bc072b3f lightnvm: pblk: refactor emeta consistency check
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>
2018-01-05 08:50:12 -07:00
Kees Cook 87c1d2d373 lightnvm: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
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>
2017-11-21 15:46:44 -08:00
Javier González 8da10cce7c lightnvm: pblk: avoid being reported as hung on rated GC
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González 8bd400204b lightnvm: pblk: cleanup unused and static functions
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Hans Holmberg d6b992f7ab lightnvm: pblk: gc all lines in the pipeline before exit
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Hans Holmberg 1edebacf8b lightnvm: pblk: shut down gc gracefully during exit
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Hans Holmberg 03661b5f75 lightnvm: pblk: start gc if needed during init
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Hans Holmberg 37ce33d575 lightnvm: pblk: free full lines during recovery
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Hans Holmberg 3e3a5b8ebd lightnvm: pblk: prevent gc kicks when gc is not operational
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González 2a19b10d42 lightnvm: pblk: refactor read path on GC
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González d340121eb7 lightnvm: pblk: simplify data validity check on GC
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González 3627896a4b lightnvm: pblk: use constant for GC max inflight
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González b84ae4a8b8 lightnvm: pblk: simplify work_queue mempool
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>
2017-10-13 08:34:57 -06:00
Javier González de54e703a4 lightnvm: pblk: use vmalloc for GC data buffer
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>
2017-06-30 11:08:18 -06:00
Javier González f417aa0bd8 lightnvm: pblk: fix bad le64 assignations
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>
2017-06-30 11:08:18 -06:00
Javier González b20ba1bc74 lightnvm: pblk: redesign GC algorithm
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>
2017-06-26 16:27:39 -06:00
Javier González d45ebd470b lightnvm: pblk: choose optimal victim GC line
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>
2017-06-26 16:27:39 -06:00
Javier González dd2a434373 lightnvm: pblk: sched. metadata on write thread
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>
2017-06-26 16:27:39 -06:00
Javier González a44f53faf4 lightnvm: pblk: fix erase counters on error fail
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: a4bd217b43 "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>
2017-04-23 16:57:52 -06:00
Dan Carpenter 503ec94eca lightnvm: pblk-gc: fix an error pointer dereference in init
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>
2017-04-16 10:06:34 -06:00
Javier González a4bd217b43 lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target
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>
2017-04-16 10:06:33 -06:00