- 02 2月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Jan Kara 提交于
We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional changes in this patch. Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 28 1月, 2017 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush state machine. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: NMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 08 8月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
Since commit 63a4cc24, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger, rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break at compile time instead of at runtime. No intended functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 21 7月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
The discard passdown was being issued after the block was unmapped, which meant the block could be reprovisioned whilst the passdown discard was still in flight. We can only identify unshared blocks (safe to do a passdown a discard to) once they're unmapped and their ref count hits zero. Block ref counts are now used to guard against concurrent allocation of these blocks that are being discarded. So now we unmap the block, issue passdown discards, and the immediately increment ref counts for regions that have been discarded via passed down (this is safe because allocation occurs within the same thread). We then decrement ref counts once the passdown discard IO is complete -- signaling these blocks may now be allocated. This fixes the potential for corruption that was reported here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2016-June/msg00311.htmlReported-by: NDennis Yang <dennisyang@qnap.com> Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 08 6月, 2016 4 次提交
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由 Mike Christie 提交于
To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH. Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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由 Mike Christie 提交于
Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have dm set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op. Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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由 Mike Christie 提交于
This converts the block issue discard helper and users to use the bio_set_op_attrs accessor and only pass in the operation flags like REQ_SEQURE. Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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由 Mike Christie 提交于
This has callers of submit_bio/submit_bio_wait set the bio->bi_rw instead of passing it in. This makes that use the same as generic_make_request and how we set the other bio fields. Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Fixed up fs/ext4/crypto.c Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 13 5月, 2016 3 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
There is little benefit to doing this but it does structure DM thinp's code to more cleanly use the __blkdev_issue_discard() interface -- particularly in passdown_double_checking_shared_status(). Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
With commit 38f25255 ("block: add __blkdev_issue_discard") DM thinp no longer needs to carry its own async discard method. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
DM thinp's use of bio_inc_remaining() is critical to ensure the original parent discard bio isn't completed before sub-discards have. DM thinp needs this due to the extra quiescing that occurs, via multiple DM thinp mappings, while processing large discards. As such DM thinp must build the async discard bio chain after some delay -- so bio_inc_remaining() is used to enable DM thinp to take a reference on the original parent discard bio for each mapping. This allows the immediate use of bio_endio() on that discard bio; but with the understanding that the actual completion won't occur until each of the sub-discards' per-mapping references are dropped. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
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- 06 5月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Amitoj Kaur Chawla 提交于
Return statement at the end of a void function is useless. The Coccinelle semantic patch used to make this change is as follows: //<smpl> @@ identifier f; expression e; @@ void f(...) { <... - return e; ...> } //</smpl> Signed-off-by: NAmitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 12 3月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Commit 0a927c2f ("dm thin: return -ENOSPC when erroring retry list due to out of data space") was a step in the right direction but didn't go far enough. Add a new 'out_of_data_space' flag to 'struct pool' and set it if/when the pool runs of of data space. This fixes cell_error() and error_retry_list() to not blindly return -EIO. We cannot rely on the 'error_if_no_space' feature flag since it is transient (in that it can be reset once space is added, plus it only controls whether errors are issued, it doesn't reflect whether the pool is actually out of space). Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 23 2月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Request-based DM will also make use of per_bio_data_size. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 07 1月, 2016 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Commit 3d5f6733 ("dm thin metadata: speed up discard of partially mapped volumes"), or some other dm-thinp change during the Linux 4.5 development window, really should've bumped these target versions. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 18 12月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Nikolay Borisov 提交于
When a thin pool is being destroyed delayed work items are cancelled using cancel_delayed_work(), which doesn't guarantee that on return the delayed item isn't running. This can cause the work item to requeue itself on an already destroyed workqueue. Fix this by using cancel_delayed_work_sync() which guarantees that on return the work item is not running anymore. Fixes: 905e51b3 ("dm thin: commit outstanding data every second") Fixes: 85ad643b ("dm thin: add timeout to stop out-of-data-space mode holding IO forever") Signed-off-by: NNikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 24 11月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
When establishing a thin device's discard limits we cannot rely on the underlying thin-pool device's discard capabilities (which are inherited from the thin-pool's underlying data device) given that DM thin devices must provide discard support even when the thin-pool's underlying data device doesn't support discards. Users were exposed to this thin device discard limits regression if their thin-pool's underlying data device does _not_ support discards. This regression caused all upper-layers that called the blkdev_issue_discard() interface to not be able to issue discards to thin devices (because discard_granularity was 0). This regression wasn't caught earlier because the device-mapper-test-suite's extensive 'thin-provisioning' discard tests are only ever performed against thin-pool's with data devices that support discards. Fix is to have thin_io_hints() test the pool's 'discard_enabled' feature rather than inferring whether or not a thin device's discard support should be enabled by looking at the thin-pool's discard_granularity. Fixes: 21607670 ("dm thin: disable discard support for thin devices if pool's is disabled") Reported-by: NMike Gerber <mike@sprachgewalt.de> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
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- 16 11月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
A thin-pool that is in out-of-data-space (OODS) mode may transition back to write mode -- without the admin adding more space to the thin-pool -- if/when blocks are released (either by deleting thin devices or discarding provisioned blocks). But as part of the thin-pool's earlier transition to out-of-data-space mode the thin-pool may have set the 'error_if_no_space' flag to true if the no_space_timeout expires without more space having been made available. That implementation detail, of changing the pool's error_if_no_space setting, needs to be reset back to the default that the user specified when the thin-pool's table was loaded. Otherwise we'll drop the user requested behaviour on the floor when this out-of-data-space to write mode transition occurs. Reported-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Fixes: 2c43fd26 ("dm thin: fix missing out-of-data-space to write mode transition if blocks are released") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 14 10月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Fixes: ac8c3f3d ("dm thin: generate event when metadata threshold passed") Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
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- 14 9月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
If the pool is configured with 'ignore_discard' its discard support is disabled. The pool's thin devices should also have queue_limits that reflect discards are disabled. Fixes: 34fbcf62 ("dm thin: range discard support") Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
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- 18 8月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
__blkdev_issue_discard_async() doesn't need to worry about further splitting because the upper layer blkdev_issue_discard() will have already handled splitting bios such that the bi_size isn't overflowed. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
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- 14 8月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Kent Overstreet 提交于
As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios, it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com> Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org> Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md' bits) Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> [dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: NDongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net> Signed-off-by: NMing Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 29 7月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO: (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds of error returns. So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 27 7月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Otherwise -EIO would be returned when -ENOSPC should be used consistently. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 16 7月, 2015 2 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
There is currently no way to see that the needs_check flag has been set in the metadata. Display 'needs_check' in the thin-pool status if it is set in the thinp metadata. Also, update thinp documentation. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
This fixes an issue where running out of data space would cause the thin-pool's metadata to become read-only. There was no reason to make metadata read-only -- calling set_pool_mode() with PM_READ_ONLY was a misguided way to error all queued and future write IOs. We can accomplish the same by degrading from PM_OUT_OF_DATA_SPACE to PM_OUT_OF_DATA_SPACE with error_if_no_space enabled. Otherwise, the use of PM_READ_ONLY could cause a race where commit() was started before the PM_READ_ONLY transition but dm_pool_commit_metadata() would go on to fail because the block manager had transitioned to read-only. The return of -EPERM from dm_pool_commit_metadata(), due to attempting to commit while in read-only mode, caused the thin-pool to set 'needs_check' because a metadata_operation_failed(). This needless cascade of failures makes life for users more difficult than needed. Reported-by: NVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 06 7月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
Given the pool's cell_sort_array holds 8192 pointers it triggers an order 5 allocation via kmalloc. This order 5 allocation is prone to failure as system memory gets more fragmented over time. Fix this by allocating the cell_sort_array using vmalloc. Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 12 6月, 2015 2 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Use EOPNOTSUPP, rather than EINVAL, error code when user attempts to send the pool a message. Otherwise usespace is led to believe the message failed due to invalid argument. Reported-by: NZdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
Previously REQ_DISCARD bios have been split into block sized chunks before submission to the thin target. There are a couple of issues with this: - If the block size is small, a large discard request can get broken up into a great many bios which is both slow and causes a lot of memory pressure. - The thin pool block size and the discard granularity for the underlying data device need to be compatible if we want to passdown the discard. This patch relaxes the block size granularity for thin devices. It makes use of the recent range locking added to the bio_prison to quiesce a whole range of thin blocks before unmapping them. Once a thin range has been unmapped the discard can then be passed down to the data device for those sub ranges where the data blocks are no longer used (ie. they weren't shared in the first place). This patch also doesn't make any apologies about open-coding portions of block core as a means to supporting async discard completions in the near-term -- if/when late bio splitting lands it'll all get cleaned up. Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 30 5月, 2015 2 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
The overwrite has only ever about optimizing away the need to zero a block if the entire block was being overwritten. As such it is only relevant when zeroing is enabled. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 22 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern: 1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io 2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io 3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io 4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if bio_inc_remaining() is called. For the above pattern it isn't set until step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN). As such the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with the value 1 instead of 0. When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step 3 it brought it to a value of 2. When the second bio_endio() was called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set upfront). Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining. For the above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called! Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface. Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c. Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains") Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 06 5月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Jens Axboe 提交于
Struct bio has an atomic ref count for chained bio's, and we use this to know when to end IO on the bio. However, most bio's are not chained, so we don't need to always introduce this atomic operation as part of ending IO. Add a helper to elevate the bi_remaining count, and flag the bio as now actually needing the decrement at end_io time. Rename the field to __bi_remaining to catch any current users of this doing the incrementing manually. For high IOPS workloads, this reduces the overhead of bio_endio() substantially. Tested-by: NRobert Elliott <elliott@hp.com> Acked-by: NKent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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- 27 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
It was always intended that a read to an unprovisioned block will return zeroes regardless of whether the pool is in read-only or read-write mode. thin_bio_map() was inconsistent with its handling of such reads when the pool is in read-only mode, it now properly zero-fills the bios it returns in response to unprovisioned block reads. Eliminate thin_bio_map()'s special read-only mode handling of -ENODATA and just allow the IO to be deferred to the worker which will result in pool->process_bio() handling the IO (which already properly zero-fills reads to unprovisioned blocks). Reported-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 10 2月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Manuel Schölling 提交于
To be future-proof and for better readability the time comparisons are modified to use time_in_range() and time_after() instead of plain, error-prone math. Signed-off-by: NManuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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- 28 1月, 2015 1 次提交
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
You can't modify the metadata in these modes. It's better to fail these messages immediately than let the block-manager deny write locks on metadata blocks. Otherwise these failed metadata changes will trigger 'needs_check' to get set in the metadata superblock -- requiring repair using the thin_check utility. Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 18 12月, 2014 3 次提交
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由 Marc Dionne 提交于
Commit 80e96c54 ("dm thin: do not allow thin device activation while pool is suspended") delayed the initialization of a new thin device's refcount and completion until after this new thin was added to the pool's active_thins list and the pool lock is released. This opens a race with a worker thread that walks the list and calls thin_get/put, noticing that the refcount goes to 0 and calling complete, freezing up the system and giving the oops below: kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) kernel: IP: [<ffffffff810d360b>] __wake_up_common+0x2b/0x90 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: [<ffffffff810d3683>] __wake_up_locked+0x13/0x20 kernel: [<ffffffff810d3dc7>] complete+0x37/0x50 kernel: [<ffffffffa0595c50>] thin_put+0x20/0x30 [dm_thin_pool] kernel: [<ffffffffa059aab7>] do_worker+0x667/0x870 [dm_thin_pool] kernel: [<ffffffff816a8a4c>] ? __schedule+0x3ac/0x9a0 kernel: [<ffffffff810b1aef>] process_one_work+0x14f/0x400 kernel: [<ffffffff810b206b>] worker_thread+0x6b/0x490 kernel: [<ffffffff810b2000>] ? rescuer_thread+0x260/0x260 kernel: [<ffffffff810b6a7b>] kthread+0xdb/0x100 kernel: [<ffffffff810b69a0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x170/0x170 kernel: [<ffffffff816ad7ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 kernel: [<ffffffff810b69a0>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x170/0x170 Set the thin device's initial refcount and initialize the completion before adding it to the pool's active_thins list in thin_ctr(). Signed-off-by: NMarc Dionne <marc.dionne@your-file-system.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
Discard bios and thin device deletion have the potential to release data blocks. If the thin-pool is in out-of-data-space mode, and blocks were released, transition the thin-pool back to full write mode. The correct time to do this is just after the thin-pool metadata commit. It cannot be done before the commit because the space maps will not allow immediate reuse of the data blocks in case there's a rollback following power failure. Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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由 Joe Thornber 提交于
When the pool was in PM_OUT_OF_SPACE mode its process_prepared_discard function pointer was incorrectly being set to process_prepared_discard_passdown rather than process_prepared_discard. This incorrect function pointer meant the discard was being passed down, but not effecting the mapping. As such any discard that was issued, in an attempt to reclaim blocks, would not successfully free data space. Reported-by: NEric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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- 22 11月, 2014 1 次提交
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由 Mike Snitzer 提交于
Simplify the pool_io_hints code that works to establish a max_sectors value that is a power-of-2 factor of the thin-pool's blocksize. The biggest associated improvement is that the DM thin-pool is no longer concerning itself with the data device's max_hw_sectors when adjusting max_sectors. This fixes the relative fragility of the original "dm thin: adjust max_sectors_kb based on thinp blocksize" commit that only became apparent when testing was performed using a DM thin-pool ontop of a virtio_blk device. One proposed upstream patch detailed the problems inherent in virtio_blk: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/20/611 So even though virtio_blk incorrectly set its max_hw_sectors it actually helped make it clear that we need DM thinp to be tolerant of any future Linux driver that incorrectly sets max_hw_sectors. We only need to be concerned with modifying the thin-pool device's max_sectors limit if it is smaller than the thin-pool's blocksize. In this case the value of max_sectors does become a limiting factor when upper layers (e.g. filesystems) construct their bios. But if the hardware can support IOs larger than the thin-pool's blocksize the user is encouraged to adjust the thin-pool's data device's max_sectors accordingly -- doing so will enable the thin-pool to inherit the established user-defined max_sectors. Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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