- 25 6月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
The idea is simple: there's a bit, per APIC, in guest memory, that tells the guest that it does not need EOI. Guest tests it using a single est and clear operation - this is necessary so that host can detect interrupt nesting - and if set, it can skip the EOI MSR. I run a simple microbenchmark to show exit reduction (note: for testing, need to apply follow-up patch 'kvm: host side for eoi optimization' + a qemu patch I posted separately, on host): Before: Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s': 47,357 kvm:kvm_entry [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_hypercall [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall [99.98%] 5,001 kvm:kvm_pio [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_cpuid [99.98%] 22,124 kvm:kvm_apic [99.98%] 49,849 kvm:kvm_exit [99.98%] 21,115 kvm:kvm_inj_virq [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_page_fault [99.98%] 22,937 kvm:kvm_msr [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_cr [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi [99.98%] 22,207 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq [99.98%] 22,421 kvm:kvm_eoi [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_invlpga [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_skinit [99.99%] 57 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn [99.99%] 0 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit [99.99%] 2 kvm:kvm_set_irq [99.99%] 2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq [99.99%] 23,609 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq [99.99%] 1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq [99.99%] 131 kvm:kvm_mmio [99.99%] 226 kvm:kvm_fpu [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_age_page [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed 1.002100578 seconds time elapsed After: Performance counter stats for 'sleep 1s': 28,354 kvm:kvm_entry [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_hypercall [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall [99.98%] 1,347 kvm:kvm_pio [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_cpuid [99.98%] 1,931 kvm:kvm_apic [99.98%] 29,595 kvm:kvm_exit [99.98%] 24,884 kvm:kvm_inj_virq [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_inj_exception [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_page_fault [99.98%] 1,986 kvm:kvm_msr [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_cr [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_pic_set_irq [99.98%] 0 kvm:kvm_apic_ipi [99.99%] 25,953 kvm:kvm_apic_accept_irq [99.99%] 26,132 kvm:kvm_eoi [99.99%] 26,593 kvm:kvm_pv_eoi [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmrun [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intercepts [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_vmexit_inject [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_nested_intr_vmexit [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_invlpga [99.99%] 0 kvm:kvm_skinit [99.99%] 284 kvm:kvm_emulate_insn [99.99%] 68 kvm:vcpu_match_mmio [99.99%] 68 kvm:kvm_userspace_exit [99.99%] 2 kvm:kvm_set_irq [99.99%] 2 kvm:kvm_ioapic_set_irq [99.99%] 28,288 kvm:kvm_msi_set_irq [99.99%] 1 kvm:kvm_ack_irq [99.99%] 131 kvm:kvm_mmio [100.00%] 588 kvm:kvm_fpu [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_age_page [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_try_async_get_page [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_doublefault [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_not_present [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_ready [100.00%] 0 kvm:kvm_async_pf_completed 1.002039622 seconds time elapsed We see that # of exits is almost halved. Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
We perform ISR lookups twice: during interrupt injection and on EOI. Typical workloads only have a single bit set there. So we can avoid ISR scans by 1. counting bits as we set/clear them in ISR 2. on set, caching the injected vector number 3. on clear, invalidating the cache The real purpose of this is enabling PV EOI which needs to quickly validate the vector. But non PV guests also benefit: with this patch, and without interrupt nesting, apic_find_highest_isr will always return immediately without scanning ISR. Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 19 6月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Takuya Yoshikawa 提交于
The following commit did not care about the error handling path: commit c1a7b32a KVM: Avoid wasting pages for small lpage_info arrays If memory allocation fails, vfree() will be called with the address returned by kzalloc(). This patch fixes this issue. Signed-off-by: NTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 18 6月, 2012 2 次提交
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由 Christoffer Dall 提交于
This is a preparatory patch for the KVM/ARM implementation. KVM/ARM will use the KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl, which is currently conditional on __KVM_HAVE_IOAPIC, but ARM obviously doesn't have any IOAPIC support and we need a separate define. Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Marc Zyngier 提交于
The KVM code sometimes uses CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP to protect code that is related to IRQ routing, which not all in-kernel irqchips may support. Use KVM_CAP_IRQ_ROUTING instead. Signed-off-by: NMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 14 6月, 2012 4 次提交
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由 Cornelia Huck 提交于
The list of exit reasons for the kvm_userspace_exit event was missing recent additions; bring it into sync again. Reviewed-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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由 Heinz Graalfs 提交于
For processing under KVM it is required to detect the actual SCLP console type in order to set it as preferred console. Signed-off-by: NHeinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
The initial cpu reset sets the cpu in the stopped state. Several places check for the cpu state (e.g. sigp set prefix) and not setting the STOPPED state triggered errors with newer guest kernels after reboot. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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由 Xudong Hao 提交于
EPT Dirty bit use bit 9 as Intel SDM definition, to avoid conflict, change PT_FIRST_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT to 10. Signed-off-by: NXudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NXiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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- 12 6月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Takuya Yoshikawa 提交于
Size is not needed to return one from pre-allocated objects. Signed-off-by: NTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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- 06 6月, 2012 4 次提交
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git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6由 Avi Kivity 提交于
Alex says: "Changes this time include: - Generalize KVM_GUEST support to overall ePAPR code - Fix reset for Book3S HV - Fix machine check deferral when CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y - Add support for BookE register DECAR" * 'for-upstream' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6: KVM: PPC: Not optimizing MSR_CE and MSR_ME with paravirt. KVM: PPC: booke: Added DECAR support KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Make the guest hash table size configurable KVM: PPC: Factor out guest epapr initialization Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Michael S. Tsirkin 提交于
I see this in 3.5-rc1: arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c: In function ‘kvm_test_age_rmapp’: arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c:1271: warning: ‘iter.desc’ may be used uninitialized in this function The line in question was introduced by commit 1e3f42f0 static int kvm_test_age_rmapp(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long *rmapp, unsigned long data) { - u64 *spte; + u64 *sptep; + struct rmap_iterator iter; <- line 1271 int young = 0; /* The reason I think is that the compiler assumes that the rmap value could be 0, so static u64 *rmap_get_first(unsigned long rmap, struct rmap_iterator *iter) { if (!rmap) return NULL; if (!(rmap & 1)) { iter->desc = NULL; return (u64 *)rmap; } iter->desc = (struct pte_list_desc *)(rmap & ~1ul); iter->pos = 0; return iter->desc->sptes[iter->pos]; } will not initialize iter.desc, but the compiler isn't smart enough to see that for (sptep = rmap_get_first(*rmapp, &iter); sptep; sptep = rmap_get_next(&iter)) { will immediately exit in this case. I checked by adding if (!*rmapp) goto out; on top which is clearly equivalent but disables the warning. This patch uses uninitialized_var to disable the warning without increasing code size. Signed-off-by: NMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Christoffer Dall 提交于
Introduces a couple of print functions, which are essentially wrappers around standard printk functions, with a KVM: prefix. Functions introduced or modified are: - kvm_err(fmt, ...) - kvm_info(fmt, ...) - kvm_debug(fmt, ...) - kvm_pr_unimpl(fmt, ...) - pr_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...) -> vcpu_unimpl(vcpu, fmt, ...) Signed-off-by: NChristoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
Since Carsten is now working on a different project, Cornelia will work as the 2nd s390/kvm maintainer. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> CC: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> CC: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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- 05 6月, 2012 17 次提交
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由 Orit Wasserman 提交于
For example migration between Westmere and Nehelem hosts, caught in big real mode. The code that fixes the segments for real mode guest was moved from enter_rmode to vmx_set_segments. enter_rmode calls vmx_set_segments for each segment. Signed-off-by: NOrit Wasserman <owasserm@rehdat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Gleb Natapov 提交于
mmu_shrink() needlessly iterates over all VMs even though it will not attempt to free mmu pages from more than one on them. Fix that and also check used mmu pages count outside of VM lock to skip inactive VMs faster. Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
Practically all patches to ia64 KVM are build fixes; numerous warnings remain; the last patch from the maintainer was committed more than three years ago. It is clear that no one is using this thing. Mark as BROKEN to ensure people don't get hit by pointless build problems. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Xudong Hao 提交于
Signed-off-by: NHaitao Shan <haitao.shan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NXudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Xudong Hao 提交于
In EPT page structure entry, Enable EPT A/D bits if processor supported. Signed-off-by: NHaitao Shan <haitao.shan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NXudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Xudong Hao 提交于
Add kernel parameter to control A/D bits support, it's on by default. Signed-off-by: NHaitao Shan <haitao.shan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NXudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Xudong Hao 提交于
Signed-off-by: NHaitao Shan <haitao.shan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NXudong Hao <xudong.hao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Takuya Yoshikawa 提交于
lpage_info is created for each large level even when the memory slot is not for RAM. This means that when we add one slot for a PCI device, we end up allocating at least KVM_NR_PAGE_SIZES - 1 pages by vmalloc(). To make things worse, there is an increasing number of devices which would result in more pages being wasted this way. This patch mitigates this problem by using kvm_kvzalloc(). Signed-off-by: NTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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由 Takuya Yoshikawa 提交于
Will be used for lpage_info allocation later. Signed-off-by: NTakuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa.takuya@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{signal,vfs}由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull signal and vfs compile breakage fixes from Al Viro. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: fixups for signal breakage * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French. * 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Move get_next_mid to ops struct CIFS: Make accessing is_valid_oplock/dump_detail ops struct field safe CIFS: Improve identation in cifs_unlock_range CIFS: Fix possible wrong memory allocation
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Obvious brainos spotted by Geert. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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由 Greg Ungerer 提交于
Compiling 3.5-rc1 for nommu targets gives: CC mm/nommu.o mm/nommu.c: In function ‘sys_mmap_pgoff’: mm/nommu.c:1489:2: error: ‘ret’ undeclared (first use in this function) mm/nommu.c:1489:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in It is trivially fixed by replacing 'ret' with the local variable that is already defined for the return value 'retval'. Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with some changes to the existing backends." Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code changing a line next to the new frontswap entry. This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE users. Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it too. So in it goes. By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2) via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk * tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm: frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API mm: frontswap: config and doc files mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Merge branches 'irq-urgent-for-linus' and 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq and smpboot updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Just cleanup patches with no functional change and a fix for suspend issues." * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Introduce irq_do_set_affinity() to reduce duplicated code genirq: Add IRQS_PENDING for nested and simple irq * 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: smpboot, idle: Fix comment mismatch over idle_threads_init() smpboot, idle: Optimize calls to smp_processor_id() in idle_threads_init()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option is default off, well tested and non dangerous." * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol tick: Add tick skew boot option
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Cyrill Gorcunov reports that I broke the fdinfo files with commit 30a08bf2 ("proc: move fd symlink i_mode calculations into tid_fd_revalidate()"), and he's quite right. The tid_fd_revalidate() function is not just used for the <tid>/fd symlinks, it's also used for the <tid>/fdinfo/<fd> files, and the permission model for those are different. So do the dynamic symlink permission handling just for symlinks, making the fdinfo files once more appear as the proper regular files they are. Of course, Al Viro argued (probably correctly) that we shouldn't do the symlink permission games at all, and make the symlinks always just be the normal 'lrwxrwxrwx'. That would have avoided this issue too, but since somebody noticed that the permissions had changed (which was the reason for that original commit 30a08bf2 in the first place), people do apparently use this feature. [ Basically, you can use the symlink permission data as a cheap "fdinfo" replacement, since you see whether the file is open for reading and/or writing by just looking at st_mode of the symlink. So the feature does make sense, even if the pain it has caused means we probably shouldn't have done it to begin with. ] Reported-and-tested-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 04 6月, 2012 5 次提交
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由 Kukjin Kim 提交于
Should be 'exynos5_xxx' instead of 'exonys5_xxx'. It happened at the commit 30b84288 ("Merge tag 'soc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc") during v3.5 merge window. Signed-off-by: NKukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com> [ My bad - Linus ] Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull some left-over PM patches from Rafael J. Wysocki. * 'pm-acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: ACPI / PM: Make acpi_pm_device_sleep_state() follow the specification ACPI / PM: Make __acpi_bus_get_power() cover D3cold correctly ACPI / PM: Fix error messages in drivers/acpi/bus.c rtc-cmos / PM: report wakeup event on ACPI RTC alarm ACPI / PM: Generate wakeup events on fixed power button
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This reverts commit 5ceb9ce6. That commit seems to be the cause of the mm compation list corruption issues that Dave Jones reported. The locking (or rather, absense there-of) is dubious, as is the use of the 'page' variable once it has been found to be outside the pageblock range. So revert it for now, we can re-visit this for 3.6. If we even need to: as Minchan Kim says, "The patch wasn't a bug fix and even test workload was very theoretical". Reported-and-tested-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Acked-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Hugh Dickins 提交于
New tmpfs use of !PageUptodate pages for fallocate() is triggering the WARNING: at mm/page-writeback.c:1990 when __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() is called from migrate_page_copy() for compaction. It is anomalous that migration should use __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() on an address_space that does not participate in dirty and writeback accounting; and this has also been observed to insert surprising dirty tags into a tmpfs radix_tree, despite tmpfs not using tags at all. We should probably give migrate_page_copy() a better way to preserve the tag and migrate accounting info, when mapping_cap_account_dirty(). But that needs some more work: so in the interim, avoid the warning by using a simple SetPageDirty on PageSwapBacked pages. Reported-and-tested-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
The comment above it says "Stat data, not accessed from path walking", but in fact some of inode fields we use for the common stat data was way down at the end of the inode, causing unnecessary cache misses for the common stat operations. The inode structure is pretty big, and this can change padding depending on field width, but at least on the common 64-bit configurations this doesn't change the size. Some of our inode layout has historically been to tro to avoid unnecessary padding fields, but cache locality is at least as important for layout, if not more. Noticed by looking at kernel profiles, and noticing that the "i_blkbits" access stood out like a sore thumb. Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 6月, 2012 3 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Pull device-mapper updates from Alasdair G Kergon: "Improve multipath's retrying mechanism in some defined circumstances and provide a simple reserve/release mechanism for userspace tools to access thin provisioning metadata while the pool is in use." * tag 'dm-3.5-changes-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata dm thin: use slab mempools dm mpath: allow ioctls to trigger pg init dm mpath: delay retry of bypassed pg dm mpath: reduce size of struct multipath
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
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: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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