shut down devices asynchronously
From: | Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes-AT-gmail.com> | |
To: | linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh-AT-linuxfoundation.org>, "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael-AT-kernel.org>, Martin Belanger <Martin.Belanger-AT-dell.com>, Oliver O'Halloran <oohall-AT-gmail.com>, Daniel Wagner <dwagner-AT-suse.de>, Keith Busch <kbusch-AT-kernel.org>, Lukas Wunner <lukas-AT-wunner.de>, David Jeffery <djeffery-AT-redhat.com>, Jeremy Allison <jallison-AT-ciq.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe-AT-fb.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch-AT-lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi-AT-grimberg.me>, linux-nvme-AT-lists.infradead.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan-AT-kernel.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka-AT-seimens.com>, Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf-AT-web.de> | |
Subject: | [PATCH v10 0/5] shut down devices asynchronously | |
Date: | Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:18:48 -0500 | |
Message-ID: | <20250625201853.84062-1-stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> | |
Cc: | Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes-AT-gmail.com> | |
Archive-link: | Article |
This adds the ability for the kernel to shutdown devices asynchronously. Only devices with drivers that enable it are shut down asynchronously. This can dramatically reduce system shutdown/reboot time on systems that have multiple devices that take many seconds to shut down (like certain NVMe drives). On one system tested, the shutdown time went from 11 minutes without this patch to 55 seconds with the patch. Changes from V9: Address resource and timing issues when spawning a unique async thread for every device during shutdown: * Make the asynchronous threads able to shut down multiple devices, instead of spawning a unique thread for every device. * Modify core kernel async code with a custom wake function so it doesn't wake up threads waiting to synchronize every time the cookie changes Changes from V8: Deal with shutdown hangs resulting when a parent/supplier device is later in the devices_kset list than its children/consumers: * Ignore sync_state_only devlinks for shutdown dependencies * Ignore shutdown_after for devices that don't want async shutdown * Add a sanity check to revert to sync shutdown for any device that would otherwise wait for a child/consumer shutdown that hasn't already been scheduled Changes from V7: Do not expose driver async_shutdown_enable in sysfs. Wrapped a long line. Changes from V6: Removed a sysfs attribute that allowed the async device shutdown to be "on" (with driver opt-out), "safe" (driver opt-in), or "off"... what was previously "safe" is now the only behavior, so drivers now only need to have the option to enable or disable async shutdown. Changes from V5: Separated into multiple patches to make review easier. Reworked some code to make it more readable Made devices wait for consumers to shut down, not just children (suggested by David Jeffery) Changes from V4: Change code to use cookies for synchronization rather than async domains Allow async shutdown to be disabled via sysfs, and allow driver opt-in or opt-out of async shutdown (when not disabled), with ability to control driver opt-in/opt-out via sysfs Changes from V3: Bug fix (used "parent" not "dev->parent" in device_shutdown) Changes from V2: Removed recursive functions to schedule children to be shutdown before parents, since existing device_shutdown loop will already do this Changes from V1: Rewritten using kernel async code (suggested by Lukas Wunner) David Jeffery (1): kernel/async: streamline cookie synchronization Stuart Hayes (4): driver core: don't always lock parent in shutdown driver core: separate function to shutdown one device driver core: shut down devices asynchronously nvme-pci: Make driver prefer asynchronous shutdown drivers/base/base.h | 8 ++ drivers/base/core.c | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 1 + include/linux/device/driver.h | 2 + kernel/async.c | 42 ++++++- 5 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) -- 2.39.3