Block layer will allocate a spinlock for the queue if the driver does
not provide one in blk_init_queue().
The reason to use the internal spinlock is that blk_cleanup_queue() will
switch to use the internal spinlock in the cleanup code path.
if (q->queue_lock != &q->__queue_lock)
q->queue_lock = &q->__queue_lock;
However, processes which are in D state might have taken the driver
provided spinlock, when the processes wake up, they would release the
block provided spinlock.
=====================================
[ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
3.4.0-rc7+ #238 Not tainted
-------------------------------------
fio/3587 is trying to release lock (&(&q->__queue_lock)->rlock) at:
[<
ffffffff813274d2>] blk_queue_bio+0x2a2/0x380
but there are no more locks to release!
other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by fio/3587:
#0: (&(&vblk->lock)->rlock){......}, at:
[<
ffffffff8132661a>] get_request_wait+0x19a/0x250
Other drivers use block layer provided spinlock as well, e.g. SCSI.
Switching to the block layer provided spinlock saves a bit of memory and
does not increase lock contention. Performance test shows no real
difference is observed before and after this patch.
Changes in v2: Improve commit log as Michael suggested.
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
struct virtio_blk
{
- spinlock_t lock;
-
struct virtio_device *vdev;
struct virtqueue *vq;
unsigned int len;
unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&vblk->lock, flags);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(vblk->disk->queue->queue_lock, flags);
while ((vbr = virtqueue_get_buf(vblk->vq, &len)) != NULL) {
int error;
}
/* In case queue is stopped waiting for more buffers. */
blk_start_queue(vblk->disk->queue);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&vblk->lock, flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(vblk->disk->queue->queue_lock, flags);
}
static bool do_req(struct request_queue *q, struct virtio_blk *vblk,
goto out_free_index;
}
- spin_lock_init(&vblk->lock);
vblk->vdev = vdev;
vblk->sg_elems = sg_elems;
sg_init_table(vblk->sg, vblk->sg_elems);
goto out_mempool;
}
- q = vblk->disk->queue = blk_init_queue(do_virtblk_request, &vblk->lock);
+ q = vblk->disk->queue = blk_init_queue(do_virtblk_request, NULL);
if (!q) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_put_disk;