[PATCH 4/5] xen-blkfront: pre-allocate pages for requests

[Roger Pau Monne]

This prevents us from having to call alloc_page while we are preparing
the request. Since blkfront was calling alloc_page with a spinlock
held we used GFP_ATOMIC, which can fail if we are requesting a lot of
pages since it is using the emergency memory pools.

Allocating all the pages at init prevents us from having to call
alloc_page, thus preventing possible failures.

Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monnà <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Changes since RFC:
 * Move page buffer initialization to setup_blkring
---
 drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |  120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
index 97324cd1..c640433 100644
--- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
+++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
@@ -165,6 +165,69 @@ static int add_id_to_freelist(struct blkfront_info *info,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int fill_grant_buffer(struct blkfront_info *info, int num)
+{
+	struct page *granted_page;
+	struct grant *gnt_list_entry, *n;
+	int i = 0;
+
+	while(i < num) {
+		gnt_list_entry = kzalloc(sizeof(struct grant), GFP_NOIO);
+		if (!gnt_list_entry)
+			goto out_of_memory;
+
+		granted_page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO);
+		if (!granted_page) {
+			kfree(gnt_list_entry);
+			goto out_of_memory;
+		}
+
+		gnt_list_entry->pfn = page_to_pfn(granted_page);
+		gnt_list_entry->gref = GRANT_INVALID_REF;
+		list_add(&gnt_list_entry->node, &info->persistent_gnts);
+		i++;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+
+out_of_memory:
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(gnt_list_entry, n,
+	                         &info->persistent_gnts, node) {
+		list_del(&gnt_list_entry->node);
+		__free_page(pfn_to_page(gnt_list_entry->pfn));
+		kfree(gnt_list_entry);
+		i--;
+	}
+	BUG_ON(i != 0);
+	return -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static struct grant *get_grant(grant_ref_t *gref_head,
+                               struct blkfront_info *info)
+{
+	struct grant *gnt_list_entry;
+	unsigned long buffer_mfn;
+
+	BUG_ON(list_empty(&info->persistent_gnts));
+	gnt_list_entry = list_first_entry(&info->persistent_gnts, struct grant,
+	                                  node);
+	list_del(&gnt_list_entry->node);
+
+	if (gnt_list_entry->gref != GRANT_INVALID_REF) {
+		info->persistent_gnts_c--;
+		return gnt_list_entry;
+	}
+
+	/* Assign a gref to this page */
+	gnt_list_entry->gref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(gref_head);
+	BUG_ON(gnt_list_entry->gref == -ENOSPC);
+	buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(gnt_list_entry->pfn);
+	gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(gnt_list_entry->gref,
+	                                info->xbdev->otherend_id,
+	                                buffer_mfn, 0);
+	return gnt_list_entry;
+}
+
 static const char *op_name(int op)
 {
 	static const char *const names[] = {
@@ -306,7 +369,6 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 	 */
 	bool new_persistent_gnts;
 	grant_ref_t gref_head;
-	struct page *granted_page;
 	struct grant *gnt_list_entry = NULL;
 	struct scatterlist *sg;
 
@@ -370,42 +432,9 @@ static int blkif_queue_request(struct request *req)
 			fsect = sg->offset >> 9;
 			lsect = fsect + (sg->length >> 9) - 1;
 
-			if (info->persistent_gnts_c) {
-				BUG_ON(list_empty(&info->persistent_gnts));
-				gnt_list_entry = list_first_entry(
-				                      &info->persistent_gnts,
-				                      struct grant, node);
-				list_del(&gnt_list_entry->node);
-
-				ref = gnt_list_entry->gref;
-				buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(gnt_list_entry->pfn);
-				info->persistent_gnts_c--;
-			} else {
-				ref = gnttab_claim_grant_reference(&gref_head);
-				BUG_ON(ref == -ENOSPC);
-
-				gnt_list_entry =
-					kmalloc(sizeof(struct grant),
-							 GFP_ATOMIC);
-				if (!gnt_list_entry)
-					return -ENOMEM;
-
-				granted_page = alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC);
-				if (!granted_page) {
-					kfree(gnt_list_entry);
-					return -ENOMEM;
-				}
-
-				gnt_list_entry->pfn =
-					page_to_pfn(granted_page);
-				gnt_list_entry->gref = ref;
-
-				buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(page_to_pfn(
-								granted_page));
-				gnttab_grant_foreign_access_ref(ref,
-					info->xbdev->otherend_id,
-					buffer_mfn, 0);
-			}
+			gnt_list_entry = get_grant(&gref_head, info);
+			ref = gnt_list_entry->gref;
+			buffer_mfn = pfn_to_mfn(gnt_list_entry->pfn);
 
 			info->shadow[id].grants_used[i] = gnt_list_entry;
 
@@ -803,17 +832,20 @@ static void blkif_free(struct blkfront_info *info, int suspend)
 		blk_stop_queue(info->rq);
 
 	/* Remove all persistent grants */
-	if (info->persistent_gnts_c) {
+	if (!list_empty(&info->persistent_gnts)) {
 		list_for_each_entry_safe(persistent_gnt, n,
 		                         &info->persistent_gnts, node) {
 			list_del(&persistent_gnt->node);
-			gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref, 0, 0UL);
+			if (persistent_gnt->gref != GRANT_INVALID_REF) {
+				gnttab_end_foreign_access(persistent_gnt->gref,
+				                          0, 0UL);
+				info->persistent_gnts_c--;
+			}
 			__free_page(pfn_to_page(persistent_gnt->pfn));
 			kfree(persistent_gnt);
-			info->persistent_gnts_c--;
 		}
-		BUG_ON(info->persistent_gnts_c != 0);
 	}
+	BUG_ON(info->persistent_gnts_c != 0);
 
 	/* No more gnttab callback work. */
 	gnttab_cancel_free_callback(&info->callback);
@@ -1008,6 +1040,12 @@ static int setup_blkring(struct xenbus_device *dev,
 
 	sg_init_table(info->sg, BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
 
+	/* Allocate memory for grants */
+	err = fill_grant_buffer(info, BLK_RING_SIZE *
+	                              BLKIF_MAX_SEGMENTS_PER_REQUEST);
+	if (err)
+		goto fail;
+
 	err = xenbus_grant_ring(dev, virt_to_mfn(info->ring.sring));
 	if (err < 0) {
 		free_page((unsigned long)sring);
-- 
1.7.7.5 (Apple Git-26)

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