Bug 204969 (halpolling) - hal polls storage devices
Summary: hal polls storage devices
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: halpolling
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hal
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
: 415091 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: wakeup 418441
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-01 19:27 UTC by Arjan van de Ven
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:46 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-07-14 16:54:05 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch to make the hal storage poll happen at the start of every other second (1.01 KB, patch)
2006-09-02 12:16 UTC, Arjan van de Ven
no flags Details | Diff
combined patches (15.16 KB, patch)
2007-07-18 21:38 UTC, David Zeuthen
no flags Details | Diff

Description Arjan van de Ven 2006-09-01 19:27:10 UTC
Description of problem:

hal polls the cd drive every 2 seconds regardless of the usage of the system. 2
seconds is very frequent in terms of power savings (it prevents hardware from
going to sleep) and also keeps the cpu more busy than needed.

If no user is logged into to GUI, this 2 second polling easily can be 10 seconds
without any user experience degredation at all.

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2006-09-02 12:16:24 UTC
Created attachment 135426 [details]
Patch to make the hal storage poll happen at the start of every other second

The patch in the attachement changes the hal-storage addon code slightly to not
blindly sleep 2 seconds, but to sleep until exactly the start of the second
that is two seconds away. This new behavior makes the wakeup and the poll
coincide with other similar wakees (including the gnome clock but many more
soon) so that the processor and the rest of the system don't wake up all the
time, but generally only at the top of the second for all such events in that
entire second at once.

This patch is independent of the actual merit of the 2 second poll; it just
optimizes the poll to take place at the best time within the second. The poll
still happens every two seconds:

(output from strace -tt to show the new behavior)
14:15:29.007623 close(4)		= 0
14:15:29.008353 nanosleep({1, 991667000}, NULL) = 0
14:15:31.000171 open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = 4
14:15:31.005705 ioctl(4, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS, 0x7fffffff) = 1
14:15:31.007658 close(4)		= 0
14:15:31.008389 nanosleep({1, 991626000}, NULL) = 0
14:15:33.000088 open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = 4
14:15:33.005625 ioctl(4, CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS, 0x7fffffff) = 1
14:15:33.007593 close(4)		= 0
14:15:33.008326 nanosleep({1, 991694000}, NULL) = 0
14:15:35.000151 open("/dev/hdb", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_EXCL) = 4

as the strace shows, the wakeups indeed happen within the first few hundred
usecs of every 2nd second.

Comment 2 Jeff Garzik 2006-12-19 21:21:57 UTC
FYI, newer SATA supports "asynchronous notification".  AN is a feature
specifically designed for one purpose:  to eliminate CD/DVD polling.  AN will
deliver a hardware interrupt to the kernel when userland should be notified.

The kernel will need to be updated to support Async Notification, and
hal must similarly be updated to poll /only/ for non-AN devices.


Comment 3 David Zeuthen 2006-12-19 21:29:00 UTC
re comment 2: Sounds awesome. What is the user space interface going to look
like? Would need an easy way to both a) determine whether the sata device
supports AN; and b) some ioctl or pollable sysfs file to get the event without
polling. Thanks.

Comment 4 David Zeuthen 2006-12-19 21:30:53 UTC
Adding jgarzik since I asked a question in the previous comment 3.
Thanks.

Comment 5 Jeff Garzik 2006-12-19 21:36:30 UTC
Two answers :)

1) We don't know yet, no userland interface planning has been done AFAIK.

2) Your suggestions towards a userland interface are good ones.


Comment 6 David Zeuthen 2006-12-19 21:43:15 UTC
Also, I know from krh that some Firewire card readers, at least, are capable of
this. Also, I know that some MMC/SD hosts can do this too. As such it would be
nice to have a general abstraction in the kernel, e.g. a file

 /sys/block/sda/media_detection
 (better name is needed though)

that gives 0 resp. 1 iff the drive supports async media change notification as
well as being poll()'able. Obviously the file would be absent if the removable
file is 0. Thanks for considering.


Comment 7 Jeff Garzik 2006-12-19 22:33:11 UTC
Actually, thinking some more, the kernel already provides notifications for
hardware that is hotplug aware, via /sbin/hotplug.

So we just need to standardize on a way to tell userspace not to poll.


Comment 8 Jeff Garzik 2006-12-19 22:36:34 UTC
Also, hal could get smarter about polling.

Maybe you could check utmp or ask X about active users, as the bug summary
suggests, and increase the polling time?

And you could apply opposite logic as well:  decrease the poll time if you know
the CD was used "recently."

Just thinking out loud.

Comment 9 David Zeuthen 2006-12-19 22:41:54 UTC
That might be interesting too.. so the kernel would emit "add" / "remove"
uevents for the child block devices appropriately. 

Sadly it won't work for optical drives as the kernel don't generate child block
devices for sessions / partitions on optical discs. That I've always considered
a bug, but I suspect there's a great deal of resistance because it might break
user space. If this happened I'd be happy to update hal so at least GNOME and
KDE would cope with such a change.

(btw, /sbin/hotplug is long gone; modern distros, including Fedora, sets
/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug to "" in early user space and instead rely on udevd to
handle uevents over the netlink socket. To avoid the fork-bomb that was
/sbin/hotplug.)


Comment 10 David Zeuthen 2006-12-19 22:46:36 UTC
HAL definitely needs to get smarter about polling and the way we're going to
solve this is through ConsoleKit,

 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=ConsoleKit.git;a=summary

to learn about logged in users since utmp/btmp/wtmp isn't reliable at all. This
will hopefully happen for F7 as we want the same infrastructure for
fast-user-switching.

Other items on the HAL TODO list includes

- Provide mechanism for tuning the readahead size. For example, a DVD
  player application (such as GNOME's Totem) might want to read ahead
  several hundreds of megabyte so the drive only needs to spin up every
  e.g. 20 minutes while watching a DVD movie. This enables the kernel
  driver to put the drive in a low-power mode to get substantially better
  battery life.

- Provide mechanism for making an application inhibit polling of a drive.
  This is useful combined with the TODO right above. It will probably mean
  that the eject button on the drive is rendered useless but that is
  justified by the DVD player application displays a soft button for ejecting
  the media.

and I bet the readahead item for DVD watching will require some kernel
assistance to pin the readahead buffers so they're not lost.


Comment 11 David Zeuthen 2006-12-19 22:50:01 UTC
And comment 10  raises the question of whether SATA optical drives can deliver
eject button notifications async too? 

Today we catch these in HAL through polling, deliver them async to the desktop
and the desktop then unmounts and ejects the media.

Comment 12 David Zeuthen 2007-03-01 09:10:16 UTC
For the record, HAL is now smarter about things (thanks to ConsoleKit) and
reduces polling when no users are logged in / sessions are idle to every 16th
second instead of every 2nd.
 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commit;h=d11a896c7cf1edd2d1d1e46647abdbdc53651224

Something like what the patch in comment 1 does is probably useful to
synchronize all wakeups to happen at the top of every Nth seconds.

Comment 13 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-03-29 00:00:35 UTC
Hi David - I implemented a mechanism to notify HAL if media is inserted/ejected
for SATA ATAPI drives - can you check out the user interface and comment on
whether this looks like something that you can use to help reduce HAL polling?

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117512562919961&w=2

Thanks,
Kristen

Comment 14 David Zeuthen 2007-03-30 04:57:40 UTC
Hi Kristen,

> This support is exposed to user space via a file in sysfs (/sys/block/sr*)
> called "media_change_events".  If the drive supports AN, this file will
> read 1, otherwise 0.  User space can disable polling for new media if this
> file reads 1.  When new media is inserted into the ATAPI drive, the ahci
> driver will send a KOBJ_CHANGE event.

I think this sounds good; I suppose the KOBJ_CHANGE event will be on the
/block/sr* object. An alternative interface would be to make the file
media_change_events poll()'able; this would allow easier distinction of events
in the event that KOBJ_CHANGE is used for other things in the future; for
example eject button notification.

(btw, is eject button notification covered by SATA 2.5 and AHCI 1.1?)


Comment 15 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-03-30 22:41:13 UTC
So, the AHCI spec does say "This feature allows an ATAPI device to send a signal
to the host when media is inserted or removed and avoids polling the device for
media changes", and in my personal experience, disk manufacturers are sending AN
for both media insert and removal.

So in the code I sent I did not put the event associated with /block/sr*, but I
am working on a revision that will do that.  the way I envisioned the
media_change_events file used would be at init time, HAL would check this file
to see if the disk supported AN.  If media_change_events == 1, then hal would
disable polling on that drive.  When a KOBJ_CHANGE event is received on that
particular drive, HAL can check for media_changed the way it always has to see
if media has changed.  I can probably change the call to use kobject_uevent_env
to pass some additional information (like "media_change_event" or something)
that would indicate what the event was for in case we ever use KOBJ_CHANGE for
other things if you think this will work for you.

Comment 16 David Zeuthen 2007-04-01 20:05:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> So, the AHCI spec does say "This feature allows an ATAPI device to send a signal
> to the host when media is inserted or removed and avoids polling the device for
> media changes", and in my personal experience, disk manufacturers are sending AN
> for both media insert and removal.

Cool. I guess to properly implement this, I would need access to hardware. I
have an eSATA II Expresscard adapter; any chance you know of any external eSATA
optical drives that support this? I also have a desktop system with a SATA
controller so I guess I could buy an internal SATA optical drive as well.

> So in the code I sent I did not put the event associated with /block/sr*, but I
> am working on a revision that will do that.  the way I envisioned the
> media_change_events file used would be at init time, HAL would check this file
> to see if the disk supported AN.  If media_change_events == 1, then hal would
> disable polling on that drive.  When a KOBJ_CHANGE event is received on that
> particular drive, HAL can check for media_changed the way it always has to see
> if media has changed.  I can probably change the call to use kobject_uevent_env
> to pass some additional information (like "media_change_event" or something)
> that would indicate what the event was for in case we ever use KOBJ_CHANGE for
> other things if you think this will work for you.

This sounds perfect to me. I'm adding Kay Sievers, the udev maintainer, to this
bug to get his comments as well. Thanks!


Comment 17 David Zeuthen 2007-04-01 20:11:38 UTC
For the record, I've also added a hal-disable-polling(1) tool to HAL and this
will hit Rawhide tomorrow. There's a man page too that hopefully sums up why we
poll and how/why it may break stuff. It's a stop gap solution really.

 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=c003685ace0936d4c813bf1ba422d521c72d4d62

It's very simply to use though

[root@zelda ~]# ps aux|grep hald-addon-storage|grep polling
root     14711  0.0  0.0   3128   956 ?        S    16:09   0:00
hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
[root@zelda ~]# hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 
Polling for drive /dev/scd0 have been disabled. The fdi file written was
  /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVD_R___UJ_857.fdi
[root@zelda ~]# ps aux|grep hald-addon-storage|grep polling
[root@zelda ~]# cat
/etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVD_R___UJ_857.fdi 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.udi"
string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_R___UJ_857">
      <merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

[root@zelda ~]# hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 --enable-polling
Polling for drive /dev/scd0 have been enabled. The fdi file deleted was
  /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check-disable-storage_model_DVD_R___UJ_857.fdi
[root@zelda ~]# ps aux|grep hald-addon-storage|grep polling
root     14730  0.0  0.0   3128   956 ?        S    16:09   0:00
hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)

Hope this helps. Thanks.

Comment 18 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-04-10 20:34:11 UTC
David - just wanted to let you know that we are working with the drive
manufacturer to get some drives for you to develop with - they need to fix their
firmware first to solve some problems we've found, but claim they will deliver
to us this week.  I'll verify the drives work as expected and send out to you ASAP.


Comment 19 Jeff Garzik 2007-04-11 22:18:06 UTC
Please send one my way too, please. I don't have any 'AN' hardware.

Comment 20 David Zeuthen 2007-05-03 16:37:06 UTC
Readjusting the Summary from

 hal polls the cd drive every 2 seconds even when no user is logged in

to

 hal polls storage devices

since we, starting from Fedora 7, actually only poll every 16th second when no
users are logged or all sessions are idle.

Comment 21 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-05-04 21:36:44 UTC
David - finally have a drive for you, will get it sent out to you on Monday. 
Unfortunately, we only have one that we can send.

Comment 22 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-05-22 00:16:39 UTC
Hi David - did you get the drive I sent you?  Geoff left it on your desk.  You
will need to use a -mm kernel to try out the patches.  Let me know what you
think  and if there is something else we need to do to help hal disable polling.

Comment 23 David Zeuthen 2007-05-23 20:31:45 UTC
Hi Kristen,

I've been out traveling the past two weeks. The drive is now on my desk and I
plan to play around with it tomorrow; I'll report progress here - stay tuned!
Thanks!

Comment 24 David Zeuthen 2007-07-18 17:13:07 UTC
Hi Kristen,

I'm now trying the drive with a recent Rawhide kernel
(kernel-2.6.23-0.29.rc0.git6.fc8) which I believe is 2.6.22-git6 + a few RH
patches. The drive is identified and works fine

scsi 4:0:0:0: CD-ROM            MTK 0617 MTK DVD-ROM 1309 A100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5

However the capabilities file is

# cat /sys/block/sr1/capability 
19

which doesn't include GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY (defined as 4) as per your
patch here

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=86ce18d7b7925bfd6b64c061828ca2a857ee83b8;hp=352823160613b65fdaa558be486720a71f75ed86

I mean, I'm supposed to see bit 2 set here if the drive supports AN, right?

For the record I'm using a SIIG Expresscard eSATA adapter with sata_sil24 and
connecting the drive to an eSATA enclosure. Could that be a problem?

Do I need to use a newer kernel or some patch not yet in Linus' tree? Or is the
firmware wrong? Thanks!


Comment 25 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-07-18 17:24:50 UTC
first, you do need a patch that has not been merged yet.  It is located here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/kristen/patches/SATA/AN/

I'm still working on getting it acceptable for merging - at this point it looks
like it will not be making it into 2.6.23.

Secondly, you need to be using the ahci driver for this patch to work.  I would
suggest not using the adapter and just plugging the drive into a port directly
on your motherboard.  Make sure your BIOS is configured to use native AHCI mode
for the disks.


Comment 26 David Zeuthen 2007-07-18 21:35:52 UTC
OK, great, thanks for the pointers. I managed to get this to work

# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22-git6 #1 SMP Wed Jul 18 17:05:48 EDT 2007 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# cat /sys/block/sr0/capability 
1d
[root@localhost ~]# ps aux|grep hald-addon-storage
root      2132  0.0  0.0   3312   984 ?        S    17:19   0:00
hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
root      2660  0.0  0.0   4004   732 pts/1    S+   17:21   0:00 grep
hald-addon-storage
[root@localhost ~]# kill 2132
[root@localhost ~]# ps aux|grep hald-addon-storage
root      2662  0.0  0.0   4004   728 pts/1    S+   17:21   0:00 grep
hald-addon-storage
[root@localhost ~]# udevmonitor 
udevmonitor will print the received events for:
UDEV the event which udev sends out after rule processing
UEVENT the kernel uevent

UEVENT[1184793703.997005] change   /block/sr0 (block)
UDEV  [1184793704.128738] change   /block/sr0 (block)
[root@localhost ~]# ps aux|grep hald-addon-storage
root      2679  0.0  0.0   4000   724 pts/1    S+   17:22   0:00 grep
hald-addon-storage

I'll teach hal about this tomorrow.

Comment 27 David Zeuthen 2007-07-18 21:38:58 UTC
Created attachment 159561 [details]
combined patches

Btw, the patches had to be tweaked slightly (main thing was a collision for the
ATA_DFLAG_AN SYMBOL; looks like some ACPI bits beat you to it); am attaching a
rolled up patch that I'm using against Rawhide's
kernel-2.6.23-0.29.rc0.git6.fc8.

Comment 28 David Zeuthen 2007-07-19 19:16:10 UTC
I've added support for SATA AN capable drives in the hal code

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=1113ce0b76bae9d48bbc894248a167f783c00428

If the kernel says the device can report media change events, we avoid starting
the hald-addon-storage process for these drives and instead rely on the "change"
uevent from the kernel.

I'll keep this bug open until this is in Rawhide; the hal bits should land on
Monday and I'll talk to davej about the kernel bits.

Comment 29 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-07-20 16:43:46 UTC
OK - but keep in mind that the kernel interface may change depending on what
gets merged upstream.

Comment 30 Kristen Carlson Accardi 2007-08-09 16:26:42 UTC
Hi David,
I've released a new version of the patches that send the uevent through the
related scsi device instead of through the block device.  Can you give it a test
and see if this interface will work?  It is in the latest -mm release if you
want to give that a try.

BTW - if you want to get wider testing for this feature, I've discovered that
the DVD that comes on the latest Intel Desktop SDP is AN capable.
Thanks,
Kristen

Comment 31 David Zeuthen 2007-12-07 16:09:43 UTC
*** Bug 415091 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 32 Oliver Henshaw 2007-12-07 17:52:21 UTC
Here from bug #415091. I had the impression that this bug was now purely about
the async notifications allowed by shiny new sata drives, but I guess I was
wrong. I filed the bug because I'm not sure what is an acceptable number of
wakeups from hald-addon-storage and because I wondered if there's anything more
that can be done to make things better for existing and/or older hardware.

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Comment 34 David Zeuthen 2008-04-03 23:47:33 UTC
Removing annoying triage alias and putting back in ASSIGNED.

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Comment 36 Jan Kratochvil 2008-05-25 21:35:33 UTC
F9: hal-0.5.11-1.fc9.x86_64 kernel-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64

I found a problem if the polling is DISABLED.  The media size does not get
updated which leads to various errors after changing DVD-RW media incl.:
# mount /mnt/cdrom
kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
kernel: sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16
Common upstream problem, never saw a solution: http://tinyurl.com/4os6dd
Longer media inserted after shorter media gets an early cut on `cat /dev/cdrom'
and it ever errors while trying to read iso9660 files located at the end.

I expect my drive does not give a media change (not speaking about AN discussed
above) so the kernel keeps its media size from the previous inserted media.  At
least I have never seen any media change message in `/var/log/*'.

Commands "eject" or "hdparm -f" do not fix it but HAL polling fixes it right.
Are you aware which HAL polling action fixes the drive?  Thanks for an info.

3 action points after your approval:

(1) Upstream kernel should probably do some media size detection more often
    - such as on an each device open.

(2) Fedora or even upstream powertop should no longer suggest such dangerous
    setting or suggest it with another caution notice.
powertop-1.9-3.fc9.x86_64
Suggestion: Disable 'hal' from polling your cdrom with:
hal-disable-polling --device /dev/scd0 'hal' is the component that auto-opens a
window if you plug in a CD but disables SATA power saving from kicking in.

(3) The man page hal-disable-polling(1) should discourage users from using it:
    Some drives not giving media notification will be unable to read new media
    after changing them.

The only drive tested - internal Lenovo T60 DVD-RW:
Vendor_info    : 'HL-DT-ST'
Identification : 'DVDRAM GSA-4083N'
Revision       : '1.08'

Tested on DVD-RW media:
# dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/sr0
INQUIRY:                [HL-DT-ST][DVDRAM GSA-4083N][1.08]
GET [CURRENT] CONFIGURATION:
 Mounted Media:         14h, DVD-RW Sequential
 Media ID:              MCC 01RW4X
 Current Write Speed:   4.0x1385=5540KB/s
 Write Speed #0:        4.0x1385=5540KB/s
 Write Speed #1:        2.0x1385=2770KB/s
GET [CURRENT] PERFORMANCE:
 Write Performance:     2.0x1385=2770KB/s@[0 -> 125951]
                        4.0x1385=5540KB/s@[125952 -> 2298495]
 Speed Descriptor#0:    02/2298495 R=3438KB/s W=5540KB/s
 Speed Descriptor#1:    02/2298495 R=3438KB/s W=2770KB/s
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#10h]:
 Media Book Type:       00h, DVD-ROM book [revision 0]
 Legacy lead-out at:    2298496*2KB=4707319808
READ DVD STRUCTURE[#0h]:
 Media Book Type:       33h, DVD-RW book [revision 3]
 Last border-out at:    2045*2KB=4188160
READ DISC INFORMATION:
 Disc status:           blank
 Number of Sessions:    1
 State of Last Session: empty
 "Next" Track:          1
 Number of Tracks:      1
READ FORMAT CAPACITIES:
 unformatted:           2297888*2048=4706074624
 00h(800):              2297888*2048=4706074624
 10h(10):               2297888*2048=4706074624
 15h(10):               2297888*2048=4706074624
READ TRACK INFORMATION[#1]:
 Track State:           invisible incremental
 Track Start Address:   0*2KB
 Next Writable Address: 0*2KB
 Free Blocks:           2297888*2KB
 Track Size:            2297888*2KB
READ CAPACITY:          0*2048=0


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Comment 38 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 16:54:05 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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