The output of 'dmsetup table' includes an internal field that should not
be there.  This patch removes it.  To make the fix simpler, we first
reorder a constructor argument

The 'device size' argument is generated internally.  Currently it is
placed as the last space-separated word of the constructor string.
However, we need to use a version of the string without this word, so we
move it to the beginning instead so it is trivial to skip past it.

We keep a copy of the arguments passed to userspace for creating a log,
just in case we need to resend them.  These are the same arguments that
are desired in the STATUSTYPE_TABLE request, except for one.  When
creating the userspace log, the userspace daemon must know the size of
the mirror, so that is added to the arguments given in the constructor
table.  We were printing this extra argument out as well, which is a
mistake.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Fix 'dmsetup table' output.

There is a missing ' ' at the end of the string causing two
words to run together.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

This patch contains a device-mapper mirror log module that forwards
requests to userspace for processing.

The structures used for communication between kernel and userspace are
located in include/linux/dm-log-userspace.h.  Due to the frequency,
diversity, and 2-way communication nature of the exchanges between
kernel and userspace, 'connector' was chosen as the interface for
communication.

The first log implementations written in userspace - "clustered-disk"
and "clustered-core" - support clustered shared storage.   A userspace
daemon (in the LVM2 source code repository) uses openAIS/corosync to
process requests in an ordered fashion with the rest of the nodes in the
cluster so as to prevent log state corruption.  Other implementations
with no association to LVM or openAIS/corosync, are certainly possible.

(Imagine if two machines are writing to the same region of a mirror.
They would both mark the region dirty, but you need a cluster-aware
entity that can handle properly marking the region clean when they are
done.  Otherwise, you might clear the region when the first machine is
done, not the second.)
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>