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2006-06-26[PATCH] dm snapshot: unify chunk_sizeAlasdair G Kergon
Persistent snapshots currently store a private copy of the chunk size. Userspace also supplies the chunk size when loading a snapshot. Ensure consistency by only storing the chunk_size in one place instead of two. Currently the two sizes will differ if the chunk size supplied by userspace does not match the chunk size an existing snapshot actually uses. Amongst other problems, this causes an incorrect 'percentage full' to be reported. The patch ensures consistency by only storing the chunk_size in one place, removing it from struct pstore. Some initialisation is delayed until the correct chunk_size is known. If read_header() discovers that the wrong chunk size was supplied, the 'area' buffer (which the header already got read into) is reinitialised to the correct size. [akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled] Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] dm snapshot: fix kcopyd destructorAlasdair G Kergon
Before removing a snapshot, wait for the completion of any kcopyd jobs using it. Do this by maintaining a count (nr_jobs) of how many outstanding jobs each kcopyd_client has. The snapshot destructor first unregisters the snapshot so that no new kcopyd jobs (created by writes to the origin) will reference that particular snapshot. kcopyd_client_destroy() is now run next to wait for the completion of any outstanding jobs before the snapshot exception structures (that those jobs reference) are freed. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] dm: remove SECTOR_FORMATAndrew Morton
We don't know what type sector_t has. Sometimes it's unsigned long, sometimes it's unsigned long long. For example on ppc64 it's unsigned long with CONFIG_LBD=n and on x86_64 it's unsigned long long with CONFIG_LBD=n. The way to handle all of this is to always use unsigned long long and to always typecast the sector_t when printing it. Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: fix invalidationAlasdair G Kergon
When a snapshot becomes invalid, s->valid is set to 0. In this state, a snapshot can no longer be accessed. When s->lock is acquired, before doing anything else, s->valid must be checked to ensure the snapshot remains valid. This patch eliminates some races (that may cause panics) by adding some missing checks. At the same time, some unnecessary levels of indentation are removed and snapshot invalidation is moved into a single function that always generates a device-mapper event. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: replace sibling listAlasdair G Kergon
The siblings "list" is used unsafely at the moment. Firstly, only the element on the list being changed gets locked (via the snapshot lock), not the next and previous elements which have pointers that are also being changed. Secondly, if you have two or more snapshots and write to the same chunk a second time before every snapshot has finished making its private copy of the data, if you're unlucky, _origin_write() could attempt its list_merge() and dereference a 'last' pointer to a pending_exception structure that has just been freed. Analysis reveals that the list is actually only there for reference counting. If 5 pending_exceptions are needed in origin_write, then the 5 are joined together into a 5-element list - without a separate list head because there's nowhere suitable to store it. As the pending_exceptions complete, they are removed from the list one-by-one and any contents of origin_bios get moved across to one of the remaining pending_exceptions on the list. Whichever one is last is detected because list_empty() is then true and the origin_bios get submitted. The fix proposed here uses an alternative reference counting mechanism by choosing one of the pending_exceptions as primary and maintaining an atomic counter there. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: fix origin_write pending_exception submissionAlasdair G Kergon
Say you have several snapshots of the same origin and then you issue a write to some place in the origin for the first time. Before the device-mapper snapshot target lets the write go through to the underlying device, it needs to make a copy of the data that is about to be overwritten. Each snapshot is independent, so it makes one copy for each snapshot. __origin_write() loops through each snapshot and checks to see whether a copy is needed for that snapshot. (A copy is only needed the first time that data changes.) If a copy is needed, the code allocates a 'pending_exception' structure holding the details. It links these together for all the snapshots, then works its way through this list and submits the copying requests to the kcopyd thread by calling start_copy(). When each request is completed, the original pending_exception structure gets freed in pending_complete(). If you're very unlucky, this structure can get freed *before* the submission process has finished walking the list. This patch: 1) Creates a new temporary list pe_queue to hold the pending exception structures; 2) Does all the bookkeeping up-front, then walks through the new list safely and calls start_copy() for each pending_exception that needed it; 3) Avoids attempting to add pe->siblings to the list if it's already connected. [NB This does not fix all the races in this code. More patches will follow.] Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26[PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()Matthew Dobson
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool() rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30 lines of code and increasing readability. Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: barriers not supportedAlasdair G Kergon
The snapshot and origin targets are incapable of handling barriers and need to indicate this. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: load metadata on creationAlasdair G Kergon
Move snapshot metadata loading to happen when the table is created instead of when the device is resumed. Writes to the origin device don't trigger exceptions until each snapshot table becomes active when resume() is called on each snapshot. If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work properly you should update to lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or later. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: metadata reading separationAlasdair G Kergon
More snapshot metadata reading into separate function, to prepare for changing the place it gets called from. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] device-mapper snapshots: Handle origin extensionAlasdair G Kergon
Handle writes to a snapshot-origin device that has been extended since the snapshot was taken. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12[PATCH] device-mapper multipath: Barriers not supportedAlasdair G Kergon
dm multipath will report barriers as not supported with this patch. Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!