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<title>rbd: drop an unsafe assertion</title>
<updated>2014-03-29T17:38:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Elder</name>
<email>elder@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-25T13:36:02+00:00</published>
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Olivier Bonvalet reported having repeated crashes due to a failed
assertion he was hitting in rbd_img_obj_callback():

    Assertion failure in rbd_img_obj_callback() at line 2165:
	rbd_assert(which &gt;= img_request-&gt;next_completion);

With a lot of help from Olivier with reproducing the problem
we were able to determine the object and image requests had
already been completed (and often freed) at the point the
assertion failed.

There was a great deal of discussion on the ceph-devel mailing list
about this.  The problem only arose when there were two (or more)
object requests in an image request, and the problem was always
seen when the second request was being completed.

The problem is due to a race in the window between setting the
"done" flag on an object request and checking the image request's
next completion value.  When the first object request completes, it
checks to see if its successor request is marked "done", and if
so, that request is also completed.  In the process, the image
request's next_completion value is updated to reflect that both
the first and second requests are completed.  By the time the
second request is able to check the next_completion value, it
has been set to a value *greater* than its own "which" value,
which caused an assertion to fail.

Fix this problem by skipping over any completion processing
unless the completing object request is the next one expected.
Test only for inequality (not &gt;=), and eliminate the bad
assertion.

Tested-by: Olivier Bonvalet &lt;ob@daevel.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
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Olivier Bonvalet reported having repeated crashes due to a failed
assertion he was hitting in rbd_img_obj_callback():

    Assertion failure in rbd_img_obj_callback() at line 2165:
	rbd_assert(which &gt;= img_request-&gt;next_completion);

With a lot of help from Olivier with reproducing the problem
we were able to determine the object and image requests had
already been completed (and often freed) at the point the
assertion failed.

There was a great deal of discussion on the ceph-devel mailing list
about this.  The problem only arose when there were two (or more)
object requests in an image request, and the problem was always
seen when the second request was being completed.

The problem is due to a race in the window between setting the
"done" flag on an object request and checking the image request's
next completion value.  When the first object request completes, it
checks to see if its successor request is marked "done", and if
so, that request is also completed.  In the process, the image
request's next_completion value is updated to reflect that both
the first and second requests are completed.  By the time the
second request is able to check the next_completion value, it
has been set to a value *greater* than its own "which" value,
which caused an assertion to fail.

Fix this problem by skipping over any completion processing
unless the completing object request is the next one expected.
Test only for inequality (not &gt;=), and eliminate the bad
assertion.

Tested-by: Olivier Bonvalet &lt;ob@daevel.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</published>
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>libceph: rename ceph_osd_request::r_{oloc,oid} to r_base_{oloc,oid}</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T21:57:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-27T15:40:20+00:00</published>
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Rename ceph_osd_request::r_{oloc,oid} to r_base_{oloc,oid} before
introducing r_target_{oloc,oid} needed for redirects.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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Rename ceph_osd_request::r_{oloc,oid} to r_base_{oloc,oid} before
introducing r_target_{oloc,oid} needed for redirects.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libceph: introduce and start using oid abstraction</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T21:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-27T15:40:18+00:00</published>
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In preparation for tiering support, which would require having two
(base and target) object names for each osd request and also copying
those names around, introduce struct ceph_object_id (oid) and a couple
helpers to facilitate those copies and encapsulate the fact that object
name is not necessarily a NUL-terminated string.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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In preparation for tiering support, which would require having two
(base and target) object names for each osd request and also copying
those names around, introduce struct ceph_object_id (oid) and a couple
helpers to facilitate those copies and encapsulate the fact that object
name is not necessarily a NUL-terminated string.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libceph: rename MAX_OBJ_NAME_SIZE to CEPH_MAX_OID_NAME_LEN</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T21:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-27T15:40:18+00:00</published>
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In preparation for adding oid abstraction, rename MAX_OBJ_NAME_SIZE to
CEPH_MAX_OID_NAME_LEN.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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In preparation for adding oid abstraction, rename MAX_OBJ_NAME_SIZE to
CEPH_MAX_OID_NAME_LEN.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libceph: start using oloc abstraction</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T21:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-27T15:40:18+00:00</published>
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Instead of relying on pool fields in ceph_file_layout (for mapping) and
ceph_pg (for enconding), start using ceph_object_locator (oloc)
abstraction.  Note that userspace oloc currently consists of pool, key,
nspace and hash fields, while this one contains only a pool.  This is
OK, because at this point we only send (i.e. encode) olocs and never
have to receive (i.e. decode) them.

This makes keeping a copy of ceph_file_layout in every osd request
unnecessary, so ceph_osd_request::r_file_layout field is nuked.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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Instead of relying on pool fields in ceph_file_layout (for mapping) and
ceph_pg (for enconding), start using ceph_object_locator (oloc)
abstraction.  Note that userspace oloc currently consists of pool, key,
nspace and hash fields, while this one contains only a pool.  This is
OK, because at this point we only send (i.e. encode) olocs and never
have to receive (i.e. decode) them.

This makes keeping a copy of ceph_file_layout in every osd request
unnecessary, so ceph_osd_request::r_file_layout field is nuked.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sage Weil &lt;sage@inktank.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rbd: tear down watch request if rbd_dev_device_setup() fails</title>
<updated>2013-12-31T18:32:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-16T16:02:41+00:00</published>
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Tear down watch request if rbd_dev_device_setup() fails.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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Tear down watch request if rbd_dev_device_setup() fails.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rbd: introduce rbd_dev_header_unwatch_sync() and switch to it</title>
<updated>2013-12-31T18:32:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-16T16:02:40+00:00</published>
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Rename rbd_dev_header_watch_sync() to __rbd_dev_header_watch_sync() and
introduce two helpers: rbd_dev_header_{,un}watch_sync() to make it more
clear what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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Rename rbd_dev_header_watch_sync() to __rbd_dev_header_watch_sync() and
introduce two helpers: rbd_dev_header_{,un}watch_sync() to make it more
clear what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rbd: enable extended devt in single-major mode</title>
<updated>2013-12-31T18:32:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-16T17:26:32+00:00</published>
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If single-major device number allocation scheme is turned on, instead
of reserving 256 minors per device, which imposes a limit of 4096
images mapped at once, reserve 16 minors per device and enable extended
devt feature.  This results in a theoretical limit of 65536 images
mapped at once, and still allows to have more than 15 partititions:
partitions starting with 16th are mapped under major 259 (Block
Extended Major):

$ rbd showmapped
id pool image snap device
0  rbd  b5    -    /dev/rbd0    # no partitions
1  rbd  b2    -    /dev/rbd1    # 40 partitions
2  rbd  b3    -    /dev/rbd2    #  2 partitions

$ cat /proc/partitions
 251        0       1024 rbd0
 251       16       1024 rbd1
 251       17          0 rbd1p1
 251       18          0 rbd1p2
 ...
 251       30          0 rbd1p14
 251       31          0 rbd1p15
 259        0          0 rbd1p16
 259        1          0 rbd1p17
 ...
 259       23          0 rbd1p39
 259       24          0 rbd1p40
 251       32       1024 rbd2
 251       33          0 rbd2p1
 251       34          0 rbd2p2

(major 251 was assigned dynamically at module load time)

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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If single-major device number allocation scheme is turned on, instead
of reserving 256 minors per device, which imposes a limit of 4096
images mapped at once, reserve 16 minors per device and enable extended
devt feature.  This results in a theoretical limit of 65536 images
mapped at once, and still allows to have more than 15 partititions:
partitions starting with 16th are mapped under major 259 (Block
Extended Major):

$ rbd showmapped
id pool image snap device
0  rbd  b5    -    /dev/rbd0    # no partitions
1  rbd  b2    -    /dev/rbd1    # 40 partitions
2  rbd  b3    -    /dev/rbd2    #  2 partitions

$ cat /proc/partitions
 251        0       1024 rbd0
 251       16       1024 rbd1
 251       17          0 rbd1p1
 251       18          0 rbd1p2
 ...
 251       30          0 rbd1p14
 251       31          0 rbd1p15
 259        0          0 rbd1p16
 259        1          0 rbd1p17
 ...
 259       23          0 rbd1p39
 259       24          0 rbd1p40
 251       32       1024 rbd2
 251       33          0 rbd2p1
 251       34          0 rbd2p2

(major 251 was assigned dynamically at module load time)

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rbd: add support for single-major device number allocation scheme</title>
<updated>2013-12-31T18:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ilya Dryomov</name>
<email>ilya.dryomov@inktank.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-13T13:28:57+00:00</published>
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Currently each rbd device is allocated its own major number, which
leads to a hard limit of 230-250 images mapped at once.  This commit
adds support for a new single-major device number allocation scheme,
which is hidden behind a new single_major boolean module parameter and
is disabled by default for backwards compatibility reasons.  (Old
userspace cannot correctly unmap images mapped under single-major
scheme and would essentially just unmap a random image, if that.)

$ rbd showmapped
id pool image snap device
0  rbd  b100  -    /dev/rbd0
1  rbd  b101  -    /dev/rbd1
2  rbd  b102  -    /dev/rbd2
3  rbd  b103  -    /dev/rbd3

Old scheme (modprobe rbd):

$ ls -l /dev/rbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Dec 10 12:24 /dev/rbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 0 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 1 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 2 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 3 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 251, 0 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 251, 1 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd2p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 250, 0 Dec 10 12:24 /dev/rbd3

New scheme (modprobe rbd single_major=Y):

$ ls -l /dev/rbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253,   0 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 256 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 257 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 258 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 259 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 512 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 513 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd2p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 768 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd3

(major 253 was assigned dynamically at module load time)

The new limit is 4096 images mapped at once, and it comes from the fact
that, as before, 256 minor numbers are reserved for each mapping.
(A follow-up commit changes the number of minors reserved and the way
we deal with partitions over that number.)

If single_major is set to true, two new sysfs interfaces show up:
/sys/bus/rbd/{add,remove}_single_major.  These are to be used instead
of /sys/bus/rbd/{add,remove}, which are disabled for backwards
compatibility reasons outlined above.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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Currently each rbd device is allocated its own major number, which
leads to a hard limit of 230-250 images mapped at once.  This commit
adds support for a new single-major device number allocation scheme,
which is hidden behind a new single_major boolean module parameter and
is disabled by default for backwards compatibility reasons.  (Old
userspace cannot correctly unmap images mapped under single-major
scheme and would essentially just unmap a random image, if that.)

$ rbd showmapped
id pool image snap device
0  rbd  b100  -    /dev/rbd0
1  rbd  b101  -    /dev/rbd1
2  rbd  b102  -    /dev/rbd2
3  rbd  b103  -    /dev/rbd3

Old scheme (modprobe rbd):

$ ls -l /dev/rbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 Dec 10 12:24 /dev/rbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 0 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 1 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 2 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 252, 3 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd1p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 251, 0 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 251, 1 Dec 10 12:28 /dev/rbd2p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 250, 0 Dec 10 12:24 /dev/rbd3

New scheme (modprobe rbd single_major=Y):

$ ls -l /dev/rbd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253,   0 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 256 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 257 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 258 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 259 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd1p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 512 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 513 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd2p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 768 Dec 10 12:30 /dev/rbd3

(major 253 was assigned dynamically at module load time)

The new limit is 4096 images mapped at once, and it comes from the fact
that, as before, 256 minor numbers are reserved for each mapping.
(A follow-up commit changes the number of minors reserved and the way
we deal with partitions over that number.)

If single_major is set to true, two new sysfs interfaces show up:
/sys/bus/rbd/{add,remove}_single_major.  These are to be used instead
of /sys/bus/rbd/{add,remove}, which are disabled for backwards
compatibility reasons outlined above.

Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;ilya.dryomov@inktank.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Durgin &lt;josh.durgin@inktank.com&gt;
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