linux-stable.git/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c, branch linux-3.9.y

drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second

2012-11-09T13:11:43+00:00

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: always write bitmap on detach

2012-11-09T13:11:41+00:00

If we detach due to local read-error (which sets a bit in the bitmap),
stay Primary, and then re-attach (which re-reads the bitmap from disk),
we potentially lost the "out-of-sync" (or, "bad block") information in
the bitmap.

Always (try to) write out the changed bitmap pages before going diskless.

That way, we don't lose the bit for the bad block,
the next resync will fetch it from the peer, and rewrite
it locally, which may result in block reallocation in some
lower layer (or the hardware), and thereby "heal" the bad blocks.

If the bitmap writeout errors out as well, we will (again: try to)
mark the "we need a full sync" bit in our super block,
if it was a READ error; writes are covered by the activity log already.

If that superblock does not make it to disk either, we are sorry.

Maybe we just lost an entire disk or controller (or iSCSI connection),
and there actually are no bad blocks at all, so we don't need to
re-fetch from the peer, there is no "auto-healing" necessary.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: a few more GFP_KERNEL -> GFP_NOIO

2012-11-09T13:11:40+00:00

This has not yet been observed, but conceivably, when using GFP_KERNEL
allocations from drbd_md_sync(), drbd_flush_after_epoch() or
receive_SyncParam(), we could trigger additional IO to our own device,
or an other device in a criss-cross setup, and end up in a local
deadlock, or potentially a distributed deadlock in a criss-cross setup
involving the peer blocked in a similar way waiting for us to make
progress.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: use list_move_tail instead of list_del/list_add_tail

2012-11-09T13:11:39+00:00

Using list_move_tail() instead of list_del() + list_add_tail().

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: panic on delayed completion of aborted requests

2012-11-09T13:11:39+00:00

"aborting" requests, or force-detaching the disk, is intended for
completely blocked/hung local backing devices which do no longer
complete requests at all, not even do error completions.  In this
situation, usually a hard-reset and failover is the only way out.

By "aborting", basically faking a local error-completion,
we allow for a more graceful swichover by cleanly migrating services.
Still the affected node has to be rebooted "soon".

By completing these requests, we allow the upper layers to re-use
the associated data pages.

If later the local backing device "recovers", and now DMAs some data
from disk into the original request pages, in the best case it will
just put random data into unused pages; but typically it will corrupt
meanwhile completely unrelated data, causing all sorts of damage.

Which means delayed successful completion,
especially for READ requests,
is a reason to panic().

We assume that a delayed *error* completion is OK,
though we still will complain noisily about it.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: dequeue single work items in wait_for_work()

2012-11-09T13:08:21+00:00

As long as we still use drbd_queue_work_front(),
we must only dequeue the single first item during normal operation.

The comment in drbd_worker() even says so,
but bc8a5a1 drbd: remove struct drbd_tl_epoch objects (barrier works)
introduced the batch dequeueing again via list_splice_init() in
wait_for_work().

Change back to list_move() of the first item, if any.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: don't send out P_BARRIER with stale information

2012-11-09T13:08:19+00:00

We must only send P_BARRIER for epochs we actually sent P_DATA in.

If we (re-)establish a connection, we reinitialized the
send.current_epoch_nr, but forgot to reset send.current_epoch_writes.

This could result in a spurious P_BARRIER with stale epoch information,
and a disconnect/reconnect cycle once the then "unexpected"
P_BARRIER_ACK is received:
  BAD! BarrierAck #28823 received, expected #28829!

Introduce re_init_if_first_write() and maybe_send_barrier() helpers,
and call them appropriately for read/write/set-out-of-sync requests.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: introduce stop-sector to online verify

2012-11-09T13:05:32+00:00

We now can schedule only a specific range of sectors for online verify,
or interrupt a running verify without interrupting the connection.

Had to bump the protocol version differently, we are now 101.
Added verify_can_do_stop_sector() { protocol >= 97 && protocol != 100; }

Also, the return value convention for worker callbacks has changed,
we returned "true/false" for "keep the connection up" in 8.3,
we return 0 for success and <= for failure in 8.4.
Affected: receive_state()

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: do not reset rs_pending_cnt too early

2012-11-08T15:58:40+00:00

Fix asserts like
  block drbd0: in got_BlockAck:4634: rs_pending_cnt = -35 < 0 !

We reset the resync lru cache and related information (rs_pending_cnt),
once we successfully finished a resync or online verify, or if the
replication connection is lost.

We also need to reset it if a resync or online verify is aborted
because a lower level disk failed.

In that case the replication link is still established,
and we may still have packets queued in the network buffers
which want to touch rs_pending_cnt.

We do not have any synchronization mechanism to know for sure when all
such pending resync related packets have been drained.

To avoid this counter to go negative (and violate the ASSERT that it
will always be >= 0), just do not reset it when we lose a disk.

It is good enough to make sure it is re-initialized before the next
resync can start: reset it when we re-attach a disk.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: differentiate between normal and forced detach

2012-11-08T15:58:39+00:00

Aborting local requests (not waiting for completion from the lower level
disk) is dangerous: if the master bio has been completed to upper
layers, data pages may be re-used for other things already.
If local IO is still pending and later completes,
this may cause crashes or corrupt unrelated data.

Only abort local IO if explicitly requested.
Intended use case is a lower level device that turned into a tarpit,
not completing io requests, not even doing error completion.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg