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2013-03-01dm: rename request variables to biosAlasdair G Kergon
Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal block layer use of 'request'. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01dm thin: use block_size_is_power_of_twoMike Snitzer
Use block_size_is_power_of_two() rather than checking sectors_per_block_shift directly. Also introduce local pool variable in get_bio_block() to eliminate redundant tc->pool dereferences. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01dm thin: support a non power of 2 discard_granularityMike Snitzer
Support a non-power-of-2 discard granularity in dm-thin, now that the block layer supports this(via 8dd2cb7e880d2f77fba53b523c99133ad5054cfd "block: discard granularity might not be power of 2" and 59771079c18c44e39106f0f30054025acafadb41 "blk: avoid divide-by-zero with zero discard granularity"). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01dm: fix truncated status stringsMikulas Patocka
Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the buffer. When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status calls ti->type->status. If ti->type->status returns non-zero, retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG. However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method on overflow. Most targets returns always zero. If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned. In the current code, the targets behave in the following way: * dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows. * dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened. This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow. * all the other targets always return 0. This patch changes the ti->type->status function to return void (because most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-01-31dm thin: fix queue limits stackingMike Snitzer
thin_io_hints() is blindly copying the queue limits from the thin-pool which can lead to incorrect limits being set. The fix here simply deletes the thin_io_hints() hook which leaves the existing stacking infrastructure to set the limits correctly. When a thin-pool uses an MD device for the data device a thin device from the thin-pool must respect MD's constraints about disallowing a bio from spanning multiple chunks. Otherwise we can see problems. If the raid0 chunksize is 1152K and thin-pool chunksize is 256K I see the following md/raid0 error (with extra debug tracing added to thin_endio) when mkfs.xfs is executed against the thin device: md/raid0:md99: make_request bug: can't convert block across chunks or bigger than 1152k 6688 127 device-mapper: thin: bio sector=2080 err=-5 bi_size=130560 bi_rw=17 bi_vcnt=32 bi_idx=0 This extra DM debugging shows that the failing bio is spanning across the first and second logical 1152K chunk (sector 2080 + 255 takes the bio beyond the first chunk's boundary of sector 2304). So the bio splitting that DM is doing clearly isn't respecting the MD limits. max_hw_sectors_kb is 127 for both the thin-pool and thin device (queue_max_hw_sectors returns 255 so we'll excuse sysfs's lack of precision). So this explains why bi_size is 130560. But the thin device's max_hw_sectors_kb should be 4 (PAGE_SIZE) given that it doesn't have a .merge function (for bio_add_page to consult indirectly via dm_merge_bvec) yet the thin-pool does sit above an MD device that has a compulsory merge_bvec_fn. This scenario is exactly why DM must resort to sending single PAGE_SIZE bios to the underlying layer. Some additional context for this is available in the header for commit 8cbeb67a ("dm: avoid unsupported spanning of md stripe boundaries"). Long story short, the reason a thin device doesn't properly get configured to have a max_hw_sectors_kb of 4 (PAGE_SIZE) is that thin_io_hints() is blindly copying the queue limits from the thin-pool device directly to the thin device's queue limits. Fix this by eliminating thin_io_hints. Doing so is safe because the block layer's queue limits stacking already enables the upper level thin device to inherit the thin-pool device's discard and minimum_io_size and optimal_io_size limits that get set in pool_io_hints. But avoiding the queue limits copy allows the thin and thin-pool limits to be different where it is important, namely max_hw_sectors_kb. Reported-by: Daniel Browning <db@kavod.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm: remove map_infoMikulas Patocka
This patch removes map_info from bio-based device mapper targets. map_info is still used for request-based targets. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: dont use map_contextMikulas Patocka
This patch removes endio_hook_pool from dm-thin and uses per-bio data instead. This patch removes any use of map_info in preparation for the next patch that removes map_info from bio-based device mapper. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zeroMike Snitzer
Add WRITE SAME support to dm-io and make it accessible to dm_kcopyd_zero(). dm_kcopyd_zero() provides an asynchronous interface whereas the blkdev_issue_write_same() interface is synchronous. WRITE SAME is a SCSI command that can be leveraged for more efficient zeroing of a specified logical extent of a device which supports it. Only a single zeroed logical block is transfered to the target for each WRITE SAME and the target then writes that same block across the specified extent. The dm thin target uses this. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: use DMERR_LIMIT for errorsMike Snitzer
Throttle all errors logged from the IO path by dm thin. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: cleanup dead codeJoe Thornber
Remove unused @data_block parameter from cell_defer. Change thin_bio_map to use many returns rather than setting a variable. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: rename cell_defer_except to cell_defer_no_holderJoe Thornber
Rename cell_defer_except() to cell_defer_no_holder() which describes its function more clearly. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: emit ignore_discard in status when discards disabledMike Snitzer
If "ignore_discard" is specified when creating the thin pool device then discard support is disabled for that device. The pool device's status should reflect this fact rather than stating "no_discard_passdown" (which implies discards are enabled but passdown is disabled). Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: wake worker when discard is preparedJoe Thornber
When discards are prepared it is best to directly wake the worker that will process them. The worker will be woken anyway, via periodic commit, but there is no reason to not wake_worker here. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-12-21dm thin: fix race between simultaneous io and discards to same blockJoe Thornber
There is a race when discard bios and non-discard bios are issued simultaneously to the same block. Discard support is expensive for all thin devices precisely because you have to be careful to quiesce the area you're discarding. DM thin must handle this conflicting IO pattern (simultaneous non-discard vs discard) even though a sane application shouldn't be issuing such IO. The race manifests as follows: 1. A non-discard bio is mapped in thin_bio_map. This doesn't lock out parallel activity to the same block. 2. A discard bio is issued to the same block as the non-discard bio. 3. The discard bio is locked in a dm_bio_prison_cell in process_discard to lock out parallel activity against the same block. 4. The non-discard bio's mapping continues and its all_io_entry is incremented so the bio is accounted for in the thin pool's all_io_ds which is a dm_deferred_set used to track time locality of non-discard IO. 5. The non-discard bio is finally locked in a dm_bio_prison_cell in process_bio. The race can result in deadlock, leaving the block layer hanging waiting for completion of a discard bio that never completes, e.g.: INFO: task ruby:15354 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. ruby D ffffffff8160f0e0 0 15354 15314 0x00000000 ffff8802fb08bc58 0000000000000082 ffff8802fb08bfd8 0000000000012900 ffff8802fb08a010 0000000000012900 0000000000012900 0000000000012900 ffff8802fb08bfd8 0000000000012900 ffff8803324b9480 ffff88032c6f14c0 Call Trace: [<ffffffff814e5a19>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [<ffffffff814e3d85>] schedule_timeout+0x195/0x220 [<ffffffffa06b9bc1>] ? _dm_request+0x111/0x160 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff814e589e>] wait_for_common+0x11e/0x190 [<ffffffff8107a170>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x2b0/0x2b0 [<ffffffff814e59ed>] wait_for_completion+0x1d/0x20 [<ffffffff81233289>] blkdev_issue_discard+0x219/0x260 [<ffffffff81233e79>] blkdev_ioctl+0x6e9/0x7b0 [<ffffffff8119a65c>] block_ioctl+0x3c/0x40 [<ffffffff8117539c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x340 [<ffffffff8119a547>] ? block_llseek+0x67/0xb0 [<ffffffff811756f1>] sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0 [<ffffffff810561f6>] ? sys_rt_sigprocmask+0x86/0xd0 [<ffffffff814ef099>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b The thinp-test-suite's test_discard_random_sectors reliably hits this deadlock on fast SSD storage. The fix for this race is that the all_io_entry for a bio must be incremented whilst the dm_bio_prison_cell is held for the bio's associated virtual and physical blocks. That cell locking wasn't occurring early enough in thin_bio_map. This patch fixes this. Care is taken to always call the new function inc_all_io_entry() with the relevant cells locked, but they are generally unlocked before calling issue() to try to avoid holding the cells locked across generic_submit_request. Also, now that thin_bio_map may lock bios in a cell, process_bio() is no longer the only thread that will do so. Because of this we must be sure to use cell_defer_except() to release all non-holder entries, that were added by the other thread, because they must be deferred. This patch depends on "dm thin: replace dm_cell_release_singleton with cell_defer_except". Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2012-12-21dm thin: replace dm_cell_release_singleton with cell_defer_exceptJoe Thornber
Change existing users of the function dm_cell_release_singleton to share cell_defer_except instead, and then remove the now-unused function. Everywhere that calls dm_cell_release_singleton, the bio in question is the holder of the cell. If there are no non-holder entries in the cell then cell_defer_except behaves exactly like dm_cell_release_singleton. Conversely, if there *are* non-holder entries then dm_cell_release_singleton must not be used because those entries would need to be deferred. Consequently, it is safe to replace use of dm_cell_release_singleton with cell_defer_except. This patch is a pre-requisite for "dm thin: fix race between simultaneous io and discards to same block". Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-10-12dm thin: move bio_prison code to separate moduleMike Snitzer
The bio prison code will be useful to other future DM targets so move it to a separate module. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-10-12dm thin: prepare to separate bio_prison codeMike Snitzer
The bio prison code will be useful to share with future DM targets. Prepare to move this code into a separate module, adding a dm prefix to structures and functions that will be exported. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-10-12dm thin: support discard with non power of two block sizeMike Snitzer
Support discards when the pool's block size is not a power of 2. The block layer assumes discard_granularity is a power of 2 (in blkdev_issue_discard), so we set this to the largest power of 2 that is a divides into the number of sectors in each block, but never less than DATA_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_MIN_SECTORS. This patch eliminates the "Discard support must be disabled when the block size is not a power of 2" constraint that was imposed in commit 55f2b8b ("dm thin: support for non power of 2 pool blocksize"). That commit was incomplete: using a block size that is not a power of 2 shouldn't mean disabling discard support on the device completely. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-09-26dm thin: fix discard support for data devicesMike Snitzer
The discard limits that get established for a thin-pool or thin device may be incompatible with the pool's data device. Avoid this by checking the discard limits of the pool's data device. If an incompatibility is found then the pool's 'discard passdown' feature is disabled. Change thin_io_hints to ensure that a thin device always uses the same queue limits as its pool device. Introduce requested_pf to track whether or not the table line originally contained the no_discard_passdown flag and use this directly for table output. We prepare the correct setting for discard_passdown directly in bind_control_target (called from pool_io_hints) and store it in adjusted_pf rather than waiting until we have access to pool->pf in pool_preresume. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-09-26dm thin: tidy discard supportMike Snitzer
A little thin discard code refactoring to make the next patch (dm thin: fix discard support for data devices) more readable. Pull out a couple of functions (and uses bools instead of unsigned for features). No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-09-26dm thin: do not set discard_zeroes_dataMike Snitzer
The dm thin pool target claims to support the zeroing of discarded data areas. This turns out to be incorrect when processing discards that do not exactly cover a complete number of blocks, so the target must always set discard_zeroes_data_unsupported. The thin pool target will zero blocks when they are allocated if the skip_block_zeroing feature is not specified. The block layer may send a discard that only partly covers a block. If a thin pool block is partially discarded then there is no guarantee that the discarded data will get zeroed before it is accessed again. Due to this, thin devices cannot claim discards will always zero data. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+ Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: commit before gathering statusAlasdair G Kergon
Commit outstanding metadata before returning the status for a dm thin pool so that the numbers reported are as up-to-date as possible. The commit is not performed if the device is suspended or if the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG is supplied by userspace and passed to the target through a new 'status_flags' parameter in the target's dm_status_fn. The userspace dmsetup tool will support the --noflush flag with the 'dmsetup status' and 'dmsetup wait' commands from version 1.02.76 onwards. Tested-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: add read only and fail io modesJoe Thornber
Add read-only and fail-io modes to thin provisioning. If a transaction commit fails the pool's metadata device will transition to "read-only" mode. If a commit fails once already in read-only mode the transition to "fail-io" mode occurs. Once in fail-io mode the pool and all associated thin devices will report a status of "Fail". Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: reduce number of metadata commitsJoe Thornber
Reduce the number of metadata commits by using dm_thin_changed_this_transaction to check if metadata was changed on a per thin device granularity. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin metadata: add format option to dm_pool_metadata_openJoe Thornber
Add a parameter to dm_pool_metadata_open to indicate whether or not an unformatted metadata area should be formatted. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm: use bool bitfields in struct dm_targetAlasdair G Kergon
Use boolean bit fields for flags in struct dm_target. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: set flush_supportedJoe Thornber
The thin provisioning target commits internal metadata on flush. So it should receive flushes regardless of whether the underlying devices support them. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: avoid unnecessarily breaking sharing for flushesJoe Thornber
There's no need to break sharing, triggering a copy, for a write that has no data (i.e. a flush). Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: fix memory leak in process_prepared_mapping error pathsJoe Thornber
Fix memory leak in process_prepared_mapping by always freeing the dm_thin_new_mapping structs from the mapping_pool mempool on the error paths. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: optimize power of two block sizeMikulas Patocka
dm-thin will be most likely used with a block size that is a power of two. So it should be optimized for this case. This patch changes division and modulo operations to shifts and bit masks if block size is a power of two. A test that bi_sector is divisible by a block size is removed from io_overlaps_block. Device mapper never sends bios that span a block boundary. Consequently, if we tested that bi_size is equivalent to block size, bi_sector must already be on a block boundary. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: split discards on block boundaryMikulas Patocka
This patch sets the variable "ti->split_discard_requests" for the dm thin target so that device mapper core splits discard requests on a block boundary. Consequently, a discard request that spans multiple blocks is never sent to dm-thin. The patch also removes some code in process_discard that deals with discards that span multiple blocks. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: support for non power of 2 pool blocksizeMike Snitzer
Non power of 2 blocksize support is needed to properly align thinp IO on storage that has non power of 2 optimal IO sizes (e.g. RAID6 10+2). Use sector_div to support non power of 2 blocksize for the pool's data device. This provides comparable performance to the power of 2 math that was performed until now (as tested on modern x86_64 hardware). The kernel currently assumes that limits->discard_granularity is a power of two so the thin target only enables discard support if the block size is a power of two. Eliminate pool structure's 'block_shift', 'offset_mask' and remaining 4 byte holes. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm: support non power of two target max_io_lenMike Snitzer
Remove the restriction that limits a target's specified maximum incoming I/O size to be a power of 2. Rename this setting from 'split_io' to the less-ambiguous 'max_io_len'. Change it from sector_t to uint32_t, which is plenty big enough, and introduce a wrapper function dm_set_target_max_io_len() to set it. Use sector_div() to process it now that it is not necessarily a power of 2. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: provide specific errors for two table load failure casesMike Snitzer
Provide specific error message strings for two pool_ctr() failure cases that currently give just "Unknown error". Reference: test_two_pools_pointing_to_the_same_metadata_fails and test_different_pool_cant_replace_pool in thinp-test-suite. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: clean up compiler warningMike Snitzer
Clean up "warning: dubious: !x & y". Also make it clear that __snapshotted_since() returns a bool and that dm_thin_lookup_result's 'shared' member is a flag. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27dm thin: reduce endio_hook pool sizeAlasdair G Kergon
Reduce the slab size used for the dm_thin_endio_hook mempool. Allocation has been seen to fail on machines with smaller amounts of memory due to fragmentation. lvm: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0xd0 device-mapper: table: 253:38: thin-pool: Error creating pool's endio_hook mempool Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-20dm thin: do not send discards to shared blocksMikulas Patocka
When process_discard receives a partial discard that doesn't cover a full block, it sends this discard down to that block. Unfortunately, the block can be shared and the discard would corrupt the other snapshots sharing this block. This patch detects block sharing and ends the discard with success when sending it to the shared block. The above change means that if the device supports discard it can't be guaranteed that a discard request zeroes data. Therefore, we set ti->discard_zeroes_data_unsupported. Thin target discard support with this bug arrived in commit 104655fd4dcebd50068ef30253a001da72e3a081 (dm thin: support discards). Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-03dm thin: commit metadata before creating metadata snapshotJoe Thornber
Userland sometimes sees a corrupt metadata block if metadata is changing rapidly when a metadata snapshot is reserved for userland, To make the problem go away, commit before we take the metadata snapshot (which is a sensible thing to do anyway). The checksums mean userland spots this corruption immediately so there's no risk of acting on incorrect data. No corruption exists from the kernel's point of view, and thin_check passes after pool shutdown. I believe this is to do with shared blocks at the first level of the {device, mapping} btree. Prior to the metadata-snap support no sharing at this level was possible, so this patch is only required after commit cc8394d86f045b86ff303d3c9e4ce47d97148951 ("dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata"). Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-06-03dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadataJoe Thornber
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This, read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the live target. Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status line will give the block location for the current msnap. Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows: thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev> Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things that have traditionally been kernel side tasks: i) Incremental backups. By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure the data doesn't change while we back it up. A short proof of concept script can be found here: https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another. iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin. iv) Asyncronous replication. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-06-03dm thin: use slab mempoolsMike Snitzer
Use dedicated caches prefixed with a "dm_" name rather than relying on kmalloc mempools backed by generic slab caches so the memory usage of thin provisioning (and any leaks) can be accounted for independently. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-05-19dm thin: fix table output when pool target disables discard passdown internallyMike Snitzer
When the thin pool target clears the discard_passdown parameter internally, it incorrectly changes the table line reported to userspace. This breaks dumb string comparisons on these table lines in generic userspace device-mapper library code and leads to tables being reloaded repeatedly when nothing is actually meant to be changing. This patch corrects this by no longer changing the table line when discard passdown was disabled. We can still tell when discard passdown is overridden by looking for the message "Discard unsupported by data device (sdX): Disabling discard passdown." This automatic detection is also moved from the 'load' to the 'resume' so that it is re-evaluated should the properties of underlying devices change. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-05-12dm thin: correct module descriptionAlasdair G Kergon
Remove duplicate copy of string "device-mapper" (DM_NAME) from MODULE_DESCRIPTION. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-05-12dm thin: fix unprotected use of prepared_discards listMike Snitzer
Fix two places in commit 104655fd4dce ("dm thin: support discards") that didn't use pool->lock to protect against concurrent changes to the prepared_discards list. Without this fix, thin_endio() can race with process_discard(), leading to concurrent list_add()s that result in the processes locking up with an error like the following: WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:32 __list_add+0x8f/0xa0() ... list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff880323b96140), but was ffff8801d2c48440. (next=ffff8801d2c485c0). ... Pid: 17205, comm: kworker/u:1 Tainted: G W O 3.4.0-rc3.snitm+ #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8103ca1f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff8103cb16>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 [<ffffffffa04f6ce6>] ? bio_detain+0xc6/0x210 [dm_thin_pool] [<ffffffff8124ff3f>] __list_add+0x8f/0xa0 [<ffffffffa04f70d2>] process_discard+0x2a2/0x2d0 [dm_thin_pool] [<ffffffffa04f6a78>] ? remap_and_issue+0x38/0x50 [dm_thin_pool] [<ffffffffa04f7c3b>] process_deferred_bios+0x7b/0x230 [dm_thin_pool] [<ffffffffa04f7df0>] ? process_deferred_bios+0x230/0x230 [dm_thin_pool] [<ffffffffa04f7e42>] do_worker+0x52/0x60 [dm_thin_pool] [<ffffffff81056fa9>] process_one_work+0x129/0x450 [<ffffffff81059b9c>] worker_thread+0x17c/0x3c0 [<ffffffff81059a20>] ? manage_workers+0x120/0x120 [<ffffffff8105eabe>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0 [<ffffffff814ceda4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff8105ea20>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff814ceda0>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 ---[ end trace 7e0a523bc5e52692 ]--- Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-05-12dm thin: reinstate missing mempool_free in cell_release_singletonMike Snitzer
Fix a significant memory leak inadvertently introduced during simplification of cell_release_singleton() in commit 6f94a4c45a6f744383f9f695dde019998db3df55 ("dm thin: fix stacked bi_next usage"). A cell's hlist_del() must be accompanied by a mempool_free(). Use __cell_release() to do this, like before. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28dm thin: add pool target flags to control discardJoe Thornber
Add dm thin target arguments to control discard support. ignore_discard: Disables discard support no_discard_passdown: Don't pass discards down to the underlying data device, but just remove the mapping within the thin provisioning target. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28dm thin: support discardsJoe Thornber
Support discards in the thin target. On discard the corresponding mapping(s) are removed from the thin device. If the associated block(s) are no longer shared the discard is passed to the underlying device. All bios other than discards now have an associated deferred_entry that is saved to the 'all_io_entry' in endio_hook. When non-discard IO completes and associated mappings are quiesced any discards that were deferred, via ds_add_work() in process_discard(), will be queued for processing by the worker thread. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 158 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
2012-03-28dm thin: prepare to support discardJoe Thornber
This patch contains the ground work needed for dm-thin to support discard. - Adds endio function that replaces shared_read_endio. - Introduce an explicit 'quiesced' flag into the new_mapping structure. Before, this was implicitly indicated by m->list being empty. - The map_info->ptr remains constant for the duration of a bio's trip through the thin target. Make it easier to reason about it. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28dm thin: use dm_target_offsetAlasdair G Kergon
Use dm_target_offset wrapper instead of referencing the awkward ti->begin explicitly. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28dm thin: support read only external snapshot originsJoe Thornber
Support the use of an external _read only_ device as an origin for a thin device. Any read to an unprovisioned area of the thin device will be passed through to the origin. Writes trigger allocation of new blocks as usual. One possible use case for this would be VM hosts that want to run guests on thinly-provisioned volumes but have the base image on another device (possibly shared between many VMs). Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-03-28dm thin: relax hard limit on the maximum size of a metadata deviceMike Snitzer
The thin metadata format can only make use of a device that is <= THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS (currently 15.9375 GB). Therefore, there is no practical benefit to using a larger device. However, it may be that other factors impose a certain granularity for the space that is allocated to a device (E.g. lvm2 can impose a coarse granularity through the use of large, >= 1 GB, physical extents). Rather than reject a larger metadata device, during thin-pool device construction, switch to allowing it but issue a warning if a device larger than THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS_WARNING (16 GB) is provided. Any space over 15.9375 GB will not be used. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>