[PATCH 2/4] block: add support for zone offline transition

Damien Le Moal Damien.LeMoal at wdc.com
Thu Jul 2 04:52:29 EDT 2020


On 2020/07/02 17:40, Javier González wrote:
> On 02.07.2020 08:10, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> On 2020/07/02 15:55, Javier González wrote:
>>> From: Javier González <javier.gonz at samsung.com>
>>>
>>> Add support for offline transition on the zoned block device. Use the
>>> existing feature flags for the underlying driver to report support for
>>> the feature, as currently this transition is only supported in ZNS and
>>> not in ZAC/ZBC
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier.gonz at samsung.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: SelvaKumar S <selvakuma.s1 at samsung.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k at samsung.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty at samsung.com>
>>> ---
>>>  block/blk-core.c              | 2 ++
>>>  block/blk-zoned.c             | 8 +++++++-
>>>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c      | 3 +++
>>>  drivers/nvme/host/zns.c       | 2 +-
>>>  include/linux/blk_types.h     | 3 +++
>>>  include/linux/blkdev.h        | 1 -
>>>  include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h | 3 +++
>>>  7 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
>>> index 03252af8c82c..589cbdacc5ec 100644
>>> --- a/block/blk-core.c
>>> +++ b/block/blk-core.c
>>> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static const char *const blk_op_name[] = {
>>>  	REQ_OP_NAME(ZONE_CLOSE),
>>>  	REQ_OP_NAME(ZONE_FINISH),
>>>  	REQ_OP_NAME(ZONE_APPEND),
>>> +	REQ_OP_NAME(ZONE_OFFLINE),
>>>  	REQ_OP_NAME(WRITE_SAME),
>>>  	REQ_OP_NAME(WRITE_ZEROES),
>>>  	REQ_OP_NAME(SCSI_IN),
>>> @@ -1030,6 +1031,7 @@ generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio)
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_OPEN:
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_CLOSE:
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH:
>>> +	case REQ_OP_ZONE_OFFLINE:
>>>  		if (!blk_queue_is_zoned(q))
>>>  			goto not_supported;
>>>  		break;
>>> diff --git a/block/blk-zoned.c b/block/blk-zoned.c
>>> index 0f156e96e48f..b97f67f462b4 100644
>>> --- a/block/blk-zoned.c
>>> +++ b/block/blk-zoned.c
>>> @@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ int blkdev_report_zones_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>>>  }
>>>
>>>  /*
>>> - * BLKRESETZONE, BLKOPENZONE, BLKCLOSEZONE and BLKFINISHZONE ioctl processing.
>>> + * BLKRESETZONE, BLKOPENZONE, BLKCLOSEZONE, BLKFINISHZONE and BLKOFFLINEZONE
>>> + * ioctl processing.
>>>   * Called from blkdev_ioctl.
>>>   */
>>>  int blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>>> @@ -363,6 +364,11 @@ int blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>>>  	case BLKFINISHZONE:
>>>  		op = REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH;
>>>  		break;
>>> +	case BLKOFFLINEZONE:
>>> +		if (!(q->zone_flags & BLK_ZONE_REP_OFFLINE))
>>> +			return -EINVAL;
>>
>> return -ENOTTY here.
>>
>> That is the error returned for regular block devices when a zone ioctl is
>> received, indicating the lack of support for these ioctls. Since this is also a
>> lack  of support by the device here too, we may as well keep the same error
>> code. Returning -EINVAL should be reserved for cases where the device can accept
>> the ioctl but start sector or number of sectors is invalid.
> 
> Ok.
> 
>>
>>
>>> +		op = REQ_OP_ZONE_OFFLINE;
>>> +		break;
>>>  	default:
>>>  		return -ENOTTY;
>>>  	}
>>> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
>>> index e5f754889234..1f5c7fc3d2c9 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
>>> @@ -776,6 +776,9 @@ blk_status_t nvme_setup_cmd(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct request *req,
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH:
>>>  		ret = nvme_setup_zone_mgmt_send(ns, req, cmd, NVME_ZONE_FINISH);
>>>  		break;
>>> +	case REQ_OP_ZONE_OFFLINE:
>>> +		ret = nvme_setup_zone_mgmt_send(ns, req, cmd, NVME_ZONE_OFFLINE);
>>> +		break;
>>>  	case REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES:
>>>  		ret = nvme_setup_write_zeroes(ns, req, cmd);
>>>  		break;
>>> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c b/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c
>>> index 888264261ba3..b34d2ed13825 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c
>>> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ int nvme_update_zone_info(struct gendisk *disk, struct nvme_ns *ns,
>>>  	}
>>>
>>>  	q->limits.zoned = BLK_ZONED_HM;
>>> -	q->zone_flags = BLK_ZONE_REP_CAPACITY;
>>> +	q->zone_flags = BLK_ZONE_REP_CAPACITY | BLK_ZONE_REP_OFFLINE;
>>
>> The name BLK_ZONE_REP_OFFLINE is not ideal.  This flag is not about if offline
>> condition will be reported or not. It is about the drive supporting an explicit
>> offlining zone operation.
> 
> I wanted to follow the same convention. I can change the name in the
> same enum for the report flags.
> 
>>
>>>  	blk_queue_flag_set(QUEUE_FLAG_ZONE_RESETALL, q);
>>>  free_data:
>>>  	kfree(id);
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
>>> index ccb895f911b1..c0123c643e2f 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
>>> @@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ enum req_opf {
>>>  	REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH	= 12,
>>>  	/* write data at the current zone write pointer */
>>>  	REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND	= 13,
>>> +	/* Transition a zone to offline */
>>> +	REQ_OP_ZONE_OFFLINE	= 14,
>>>
>>>  	/* SCSI passthrough using struct scsi_request */
>>>  	REQ_OP_SCSI_IN		= 32,
>>> @@ -455,6 +457,7 @@ static inline bool op_is_zone_mgmt(enum req_opf op)
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_OPEN:
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_CLOSE:
>>>  	case REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH:
>>> +	case REQ_OP_ZONE_OFFLINE:
>>>  		return true;
>>>  	default:
>>>  		return false;
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
>>> index 3f2e3425fa53..e489b646486d 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
>>> @@ -370,7 +370,6 @@ extern int blkdev_report_zones_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>>>  				     unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
>>>  extern int blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>>>  				  unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
>>> -
>>>  #else /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED */
>>>
>>>  static inline unsigned int blkdev_nr_zones(struct gendisk *disk)
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h b/include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h
>>> index 42c3366cc25f..e5adf4a9f4b0 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/blkzoned.h
>>> @@ -77,9 +77,11 @@ enum blk_zone_cond {
>>>   * enum blk_zone_report_flags - Feature flags of reported zone descriptors.
>>>   *
>>>   * @BLK_ZONE_REP_CAPACITY: Zone descriptor has capacity field.
>>> + * @BLK_ZONE_REP_OFFLINE : Zone device supports offline transition.
>>
>> The device supports explicit zone offline transition
>>
>> Since the implicit transition by the device may happen, even on SMR disks.
>>
>> But I am not sure this flags is very useful. Or rather, isn't it out of place
>> here ? Device features are normally reported through sysfs (e.g. discard, etc).
>> It is certainly confusing and not matching the user doc for rep.flag which
>> states that the flags are about the zone descriptors, not what the device can
>> do. So at the very least, the comments need to change.
>>
>> The other thing is that the implementation does not consider device mapper case
>> again: if a DM target is built on one or more ZNS drives all supporting zone
>> offline, then the target should be allowed to report zone offline support too,
>> no ? dm-linear and dm-flakey certainly should be allowed to do that. Exporting a
>> "zone_offline" (or something like named that) sysfs limit would allow that to be
>> supported easily through limit stacking and avoid the need for the report flag.
> 
> I can add that too. I left it out as I did not add any implementation on
> top of it for the device mapper itself. If this is the way that it makes
> sense, then we can add it to the different device mappers later on.

If the capability is advertised as a queue limit and the generic limit stacking
function adjusted, you get DM support for free and will not have to add anything
to targets supporting zoned block devices.

> 
>>
>> Happy to here others opinion about this one though.
>>
>>>   */
>>>  enum blk_zone_report_flags {
>>>  	BLK_ZONE_REP_CAPACITY	= (1 << 0),
>>> +	BLK_ZONE_REP_OFFLINE	= (1 << 1),
>>>  };
>>>
>>>  /**
>>> @@ -166,5 +168,6 @@ struct blk_zone_range {
>>>  #define BLKOPENZONE	_IOW(0x12, 134, struct blk_zone_range)
>>>  #define BLKCLOSEZONE	_IOW(0x12, 135, struct blk_zone_range)
>>>  #define BLKFINISHZONE	_IOW(0x12, 136, struct blk_zone_range)
>>> +#define BLKOFFLINEZONE	_IOW(0x12, 137, struct blk_zone_range)
>>>
>>>  #endif /* _UAPI_BLKZONED_H */
>>>
>>
> 
> 


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research



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