linux-stable.git/drivers/block/nbd.c, branch linux-3.8.y

nbd: fsync and kill block device on shutdown

2013-03-03T22:03:36+00:00

commit 3a2d63f87989e01437ba994df5f297528c353d7d upstream.

There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.

1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.

   This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
   NBD_DISCONNECT handler.  This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
   to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
   possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
   either).

2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
   come from the same backing storage.

   The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
   clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
   page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.

Example:

    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
    # qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
    # qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
    # file -s /dev/nbd0
    /dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.

While /dev/sda has:

    # file -s /dev/sda
    /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Acked-by: Paul Clements 
Cc: Alex Bligh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nbd: handle discard requests

2012-10-05T18:05:24+00:00

Add discard support to nbd.  If the nbd-server supports discard, it will
send NBD_FLAG_SEND_TRIM to the client.  The client will then set the flag
in the kernel via NBD_SET_FLAGS, which tells the kernel to enable discards
for the device (QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD).

If discard support is enabled, then when the nbd client system receives a
discard request, this will be passed along to the nbd-server.  When the
discard request is received by the nbd-server, it will perform:

	fallocate(.. FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE ..)

To punch a hole in the backend storage, which is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: add set flags ioctl

2012-10-05T18:05:23+00:00

Add a set-flags ioctl, allowing various option flags to be set on an nbd
device.  This allows the nbd-client to set the device flags (to enable
read-only mode, or enable discard support, etc.).

Flags are typically specified by the nbd-server.  During the negotiation
phase of the nbd connection, the server sends its flags to the client.
The client then uses NBD_SET_FLAGS to inform the kernel of the options.

Also included is a one-line fix to debug output for the set-timeout ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nbd: clear waiting_queue on shutdown

2012-09-17T22:00:37+00:00

Fix a serious but uncommon bug in nbd which occurs when there is heavy
I/O going to the nbd device while, at the same time, a failure (server,
network) or manual disconnect of the nbd connection occurs.

There is a small window between the time that the nbd_thread is stopped
and the socket is shutdown where requests can continue to be queued to
nbd's internal waiting_queue.  When this happens, those requests are
never completed or freed.

The fix is to clear the waiting_queue on shutdown of the nbd device, in
the same way that the nbd request queue (queue_head) is already being
cleared.

Signed-off-by: Paul Clements 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-08-01T16:06:47+00:00

Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:

 - Making the plugging support for drivers a bit more sane from Neil.
   This supersedes the plugging change from Shaohua as well.

 - The usual round of drbd updates.

 - Using a tail add instead of a head add in the request completion for
   ndb, making us find the most completed request more quickly.

 - A few floppy changes, getting rid of a duplicated flag and also
   running the floppy init async (since it takes forever in boot terms)
   from Andi.

* 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  floppy: remove duplicated flag FD_RAW_NEED_DISK
  blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.
  block: stack unplug
  blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.
  md: remove plug_cnt feature of plugging.
  block/nbd: micro-optimization in nbd request completion
  drbd: announce FLUSH/FUA capability to upper layers
  drbd: fix max_bio_size to be unsigned
  drbd: flush drbd work queue before invalidate/invalidate remote
  drbd: fix potential access after free
  drbd: call local-io-error handler early
  drbd: do not reset rs_pending_cnt too early
  drbd: reset congestion information before reporting it in /proc/drbd
  drbd: report congestion if we are waiting for some userland callback
  drbd: differentiate between normal and forced detach
  drbd: cleanup, remove two unused global flags
  floppy: Run floppy initialization asynchronous

nbd: set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves

2012-08-01T01:42:46+00:00

Set SOCK_MEMALLOC on the NBD socket to allow access to PFMEMALLOC reserves
so pages backed by NBD, particularly if swap related, can be cleaned to
prevent the machine being deadlocked.  It is still possible that the
PFMEMALLOC reserves get depleted resulting in deadlock but this can be
resolved by the administrator by increasing min_free_kbytes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Mike Christie 
Cc: Eric B Munson 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

block/nbd: micro-optimization in nbd request completion

2012-07-31T06:47:13+00:00

Add in-flight cmds to the tail. That way while searching
(during request completion),we will always get a hit on the
first element.

Signed-off-by: Chetan Loke 
Acked-by: Paul.Clements@steeleye.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-03-29T00:19:28+00:00

Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton:
 - Some MM stragglers
 - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask)
 - Some IPI optimisations
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - IPMI
 - the radix-tree iterator work
 - various other misc bits.

 "That'll do for -rc1.  I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send
  those along when they've baked a little more."

* emailed from Andrew Morton : (35 commits)
  backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c
  crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option
  mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm
  mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm
  mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm
  selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all'
  selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile
  radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions
  radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator
  radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator
  fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty
  nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd
  pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall
  sysctl: use bitmap library functions
  ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot
  ipmi: simplify locking
  ipmi: fix message handling during panics
  ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages
  ipmi: increase KCS timeouts
  ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
  ...

nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd

2012-03-29T00:14:37+00:00

rename the nbd_device variable from "lo" to "nbd", since "lo" is just a name
copied from loop.c.

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao 
Cc: Paul Clements 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells