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<title>dm: fix various targets to dm_register_target after module __init resources created</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>monty_pavel@sina.com</name>
<email>monty_pavel@sina.com</email>
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<published>2017-11-24T17:43:50+00:00</published>
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commit 7e6358d244e4706fe612a77b9c36519a33600ac0 upstream.

A NULL pointer is seen if two concurrent "vgchange -ay -K &lt;vg name&gt;"
processes race to load the dm-thin-pool module:

 PID: 25992 TASK: ffff883cd7d23500 CPU: 4 COMMAND: "vgchange"
  #0 [ffff883cd743d600] machine_kexec at ffffffff81038fa9
  0000001 [ffff883cd743d660] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c5992
  0000002 [ffff883cd743d730] oops_end at ffffffff81515c90
  0000003 [ffff883cd743d760] no_context at ffffffff81049f1b
  0000004 [ffff883cd743d7b0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8104a1a5
  0000005 [ffff883cd743d800] bad_area at ffffffff8104a2ce
  0000006 [ffff883cd743d830] __do_page_fault at ffffffff8104aa6f
  0000007 [ffff883cd743d950] do_page_fault at ffffffff81517bae
  0000008 [ffff883cd743d980] page_fault at ffffffff81514f95
     [exception RIP: kmem_cache_alloc+108]
     RIP: ffffffff8116ef3c RSP: ffff883cd743da38 RFLAGS: 00010046
     RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: ffffffff81121b90 RCX: ffff881bf1e78cc0
     RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 0000000000000000
     RBP: ffff883cd743da68 R8: ffff881bf1a4eb00 R9: 0000000080042000
     R10: 0000000000002000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000d0
     R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: 0000000000000246
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
  0000009 [ffff883cd743da70] mempool_alloc_slab at ffffffff81121ba5
 0000010 [ffff883cd743da80] mempool_create_node at ffffffff81122083
 0000011 [ffff883cd743dad0] mempool_create at ffffffff811220f4
 0000012 [ffff883cd743dae0] pool_ctr at ffffffffa08de049 [dm_thin_pool]
 0000013 [ffff883cd743dbd0] dm_table_add_target at ffffffffa0005f2f [dm_mod]
 0000014 [ffff883cd743dc30] table_load at ffffffffa0008ba9 [dm_mod]
 0000015 [ffff883cd743dc90] ctl_ioctl at ffffffffa0009dc4 [dm_mod]

The race results in a NULL pointer because:

Process A (vgchange -ay -K):
 	a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
 	b. pool_target not registered;
 	c. modprobe dm_thin_pool and wait until end.

Process B (vgchange -ay -K):
 	a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
 	b. pool_target registered;
 	c. table_load-&gt;dm_table_add_target-&gt;pool_ctr;
 	d. _new_mapping_cache is NULL and panic.
Note:
 	1. process A and process B are two concurrent processes.
 	2. pool_target can be detected by process B but
 	_new_mapping_cache initialization has not ended.

To fix dm-thin-pool, and other targets (cache, multipath, and snapshot)
with the same problem, simply dm_register_target() after all resources
created during module init (as labelled with __init) are finished.

Signed-off-by: monty &lt;monty_pavel@sina.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 7e6358d244e4706fe612a77b9c36519a33600ac0 upstream.

A NULL pointer is seen if two concurrent "vgchange -ay -K &lt;vg name&gt;"
processes race to load the dm-thin-pool module:

 PID: 25992 TASK: ffff883cd7d23500 CPU: 4 COMMAND: "vgchange"
  #0 [ffff883cd743d600] machine_kexec at ffffffff81038fa9
  0000001 [ffff883cd743d660] crash_kexec at ffffffff810c5992
  0000002 [ffff883cd743d730] oops_end at ffffffff81515c90
  0000003 [ffff883cd743d760] no_context at ffffffff81049f1b
  0000004 [ffff883cd743d7b0] __bad_area_nosemaphore at ffffffff8104a1a5
  0000005 [ffff883cd743d800] bad_area at ffffffff8104a2ce
  0000006 [ffff883cd743d830] __do_page_fault at ffffffff8104aa6f
  0000007 [ffff883cd743d950] do_page_fault at ffffffff81517bae
  0000008 [ffff883cd743d980] page_fault at ffffffff81514f95
     [exception RIP: kmem_cache_alloc+108]
     RIP: ffffffff8116ef3c RSP: ffff883cd743da38 RFLAGS: 00010046
     RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: ffffffff81121b90 RCX: ffff881bf1e78cc0
     RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 0000000000000000
     RBP: ffff883cd743da68 R8: ffff881bf1a4eb00 R9: 0000000080042000
     R10: 0000000000002000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000000d0
     R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: 0000000000000246
     ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
  0000009 [ffff883cd743da70] mempool_alloc_slab at ffffffff81121ba5
 0000010 [ffff883cd743da80] mempool_create_node at ffffffff81122083
 0000011 [ffff883cd743dad0] mempool_create at ffffffff811220f4
 0000012 [ffff883cd743dae0] pool_ctr at ffffffffa08de049 [dm_thin_pool]
 0000013 [ffff883cd743dbd0] dm_table_add_target at ffffffffa0005f2f [dm_mod]
 0000014 [ffff883cd743dc30] table_load at ffffffffa0008ba9 [dm_mod]
 0000015 [ffff883cd743dc90] ctl_ioctl at ffffffffa0009dc4 [dm_mod]

The race results in a NULL pointer because:

Process A (vgchange -ay -K):
 	a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
 	b. pool_target not registered;
 	c. modprobe dm_thin_pool and wait until end.

Process B (vgchange -ay -K):
 	a. send DM_LIST_VERSIONS_CMD ioctl;
 	b. pool_target registered;
 	c. table_load-&gt;dm_table_add_target-&gt;pool_ctr;
 	d. _new_mapping_cache is NULL and panic.
Note:
 	1. process A and process B are two concurrent processes.
 	2. pool_target can be detected by process B but
 	_new_mapping_cache initialization has not ended.

To fix dm-thin-pool, and other targets (cache, multipath, and snapshot)
with the same problem, simply dm_register_target() after all resources
created during module init (as labelled with __init) are finished.

Signed-off-by: monty &lt;monty_pavel@sina.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: fix hung bios when copy error occurs</title>
<updated>2016-02-02T19:09:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-09T00:07:55+00:00</published>
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commit 385277bfb57faac44e92497104ba542cdd82d5fe upstream.

When there is an error copying a chunk dm-snapshot can incorrectly hold
associated bios indefinitely, resulting in hung IO.

The function copy_callback sets pe-&gt;error if there was error copying the
chunk, and then calls complete_exception.  complete_exception calls
pending_complete on error, otherwise it calls commit_exception with
commit_callback (and commit_callback calls complete_exception).

The persistent exception store (dm-snap-persistent.c) assumes that calls
to prepare_exception and commit_exception are paired.
persistent_prepare_exception increases ps-&gt;pending_count and
persistent_commit_exception decreases it.

If there is a copy error, persistent_prepare_exception is called but
persistent_commit_exception is not.  This results in the variable
ps-&gt;pending_count never returning to zero and that causes some pending
exceptions (and their associated bios) to be held forever.

Fix this by unconditionally calling commit_exception regardless of
whether the copy was successful.  A new "valid" parameter is added to
commit_exception -- when the copy fails this parameter is set to zero so
that the chunk that failed to copy (and all following chunks) is not
recorded in the snapshot store.  Also, remove commit_callback now that
it is merely a wrapper around pending_complete.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 385277bfb57faac44e92497104ba542cdd82d5fe upstream.

When there is an error copying a chunk dm-snapshot can incorrectly hold
associated bios indefinitely, resulting in hung IO.

The function copy_callback sets pe-&gt;error if there was error copying the
chunk, and then calls complete_exception.  complete_exception calls
pending_complete on error, otherwise it calls commit_exception with
commit_callback (and commit_callback calls complete_exception).

The persistent exception store (dm-snap-persistent.c) assumes that calls
to prepare_exception and commit_exception are paired.
persistent_prepare_exception increases ps-&gt;pending_count and
persistent_commit_exception decreases it.

If there is a copy error, persistent_prepare_exception is called but
persistent_commit_exception is not.  This results in the variable
ps-&gt;pending_count never returning to zero and that causes some pending
exceptions (and their associated bios) to be held forever.

Fix this by unconditionally calling commit_exception regardless of
whether the copy was successful.  A new "valid" parameter is added to
commit_exception -- when the copy fails this parameter is set to zero so
that the chunk that failed to copy (and all following chunks) is not
recorded in the snapshot store.  Also, remove commit_callback now that
it is merely a wrapper around pending_complete.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: suspend merging snapshot when doing exception handover</title>
<updated>2015-03-30T10:10:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-26T16:41:28+00:00</published>
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commit 09ee96b21456883e108c3b00597bb37ec512151b upstream.

The "dm snapshot: suspend origin when doing exception handover" commit
fixed a exception store handover bug associated with pending exceptions
to the "snapshot-origin" target.

However, a similar problem exists in snapshot merging.  When snapshot
merging is in progress, we use the target "snapshot-merge" instead of
"snapshot-origin".  Consequently, during exception store handover, we
must find the snapshot-merge target and suspend its associated
mapped_device.

To avoid lockdep warnings, the target must be suspended and resumed
without holding _origins_lock.

Introduce a dm_hold() function that grabs a reference on a
mapped_device, but unlike dm_get(), it doesn't crash if the device has
the DMF_FREEING flag set, it returns an error in this case.

In snapshot_resume() we grab the reference to the origin device using
dm_hold() while holding _origins_lock (_origins_lock guarantees that the
device won't disappear).  Then we release _origins_lock, suspend the
device and grab _origins_lock again.

NOTE to stable@ people:
When backporting to kernels 3.18 and older, use dm_internal_suspend and
dm_internal_resume instead of dm_internal_suspend_fast and
dm_internal_resume_fast.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: as suggested by the author:
  - replaced dm_internal_suspend_fast by dm_internal_suspend
  - replaced dm_internal_resume_fast by dm_internal_resume ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 09ee96b21456883e108c3b00597bb37ec512151b upstream.

The "dm snapshot: suspend origin when doing exception handover" commit
fixed a exception store handover bug associated with pending exceptions
to the "snapshot-origin" target.

However, a similar problem exists in snapshot merging.  When snapshot
merging is in progress, we use the target "snapshot-merge" instead of
"snapshot-origin".  Consequently, during exception store handover, we
must find the snapshot-merge target and suspend its associated
mapped_device.

To avoid lockdep warnings, the target must be suspended and resumed
without holding _origins_lock.

Introduce a dm_hold() function that grabs a reference on a
mapped_device, but unlike dm_get(), it doesn't crash if the device has
the DMF_FREEING flag set, it returns an error in this case.

In snapshot_resume() we grab the reference to the origin device using
dm_hold() while holding _origins_lock (_origins_lock guarantees that the
device won't disappear).  Then we release _origins_lock, suspend the
device and grab _origins_lock again.

NOTE to stable@ people:
When backporting to kernels 3.18 and older, use dm_internal_suspend and
dm_internal_resume instead of dm_internal_suspend_fast and
dm_internal_resume_fast.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: as suggested by the author:
  - replaced dm_internal_suspend_fast by dm_internal_suspend
  - replaced dm_internal_resume_fast by dm_internal_resume ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: suspend origin when doing exception handover</title>
<updated>2015-03-30T10:10:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-26T16:40:35+00:00</published>
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commit b735fede8d957d9d255e9c5cf3964cfa59799637 upstream.

In the function snapshot_resume we perform exception store handover.  If
there is another active snapshot target, the exception store is moved
from this target to the target that is being resumed.

The problem is that if there is some pending exception, it will point to
an incorrect exception store after that handover, causing a crash due to
dm-snap-persistent.c:get_exception()'s BUG_ON.

This bug can be triggered by repeatedly changing snapshot permissions
with "lvchange -p r" and "lvchange -p rw" while there are writes on the
associated origin device.

To fix this bug, we must suspend the origin device when doing the
exception store handover to make sure that there are no pending
exceptions:
- introduce _origin_hash that keeps track of dm_origin structures.
- introduce functions __lookup_dm_origin, __insert_dm_origin and
  __remove_dm_origin that manipulate the origin hash.
- modify snapshot_resume so that it calls dm_internal_suspend_fast() and
  dm_internal_resume_fast() on the origin device.

NOTE to stable@ people:

When backporting to kernels 3.12-3.18, use dm_internal_suspend and
dm_internal_resume instead of dm_internal_suspend_fast and
dm_internal_resume_fast.

When backporting to kernels older than 3.12, you need to pick functions
dm_internal_suspend and dm_internal_resume from the commit
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: as suggested by the author:
  - replaced dm_internal_suspend_fast by dm_internal_suspend
  - replaced dm_internal_resume_fast by dm_internal_resume ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit b735fede8d957d9d255e9c5cf3964cfa59799637 upstream.

In the function snapshot_resume we perform exception store handover.  If
there is another active snapshot target, the exception store is moved
from this target to the target that is being resumed.

The problem is that if there is some pending exception, it will point to
an incorrect exception store after that handover, causing a crash due to
dm-snap-persistent.c:get_exception()'s BUG_ON.

This bug can be triggered by repeatedly changing snapshot permissions
with "lvchange -p r" and "lvchange -p rw" while there are writes on the
associated origin device.

To fix this bug, we must suspend the origin device when doing the
exception store handover to make sure that there are no pending
exceptions:
- introduce _origin_hash that keeps track of dm_origin structures.
- introduce functions __lookup_dm_origin, __insert_dm_origin and
  __remove_dm_origin that manipulate the origin hash.
- modify snapshot_resume so that it calls dm_internal_suspend_fast() and
  dm_internal_resume_fast() on the origin device.

NOTE to stable@ people:

When backporting to kernels 3.12-3.18, use dm_internal_suspend and
dm_internal_resume instead of dm_internal_suspend_fast and
dm_internal_resume_fast.

When backporting to kernels older than 3.12, you need to pick functions
dm_internal_suspend and dm_internal_resume from the commit
fd2ed4d252701d3bbed4cd3e3d267ad469bb832a.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
[ luis: backported to 3.16: as suggested by the author:
  - replaced dm_internal_suspend_fast by dm_internal_suspend
  - replaced dm_internal_resume_fast by dm_internal_resume ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: fix a possible invalid memory access on unload</title>
<updated>2015-03-02T15:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-17T19:34:00+00:00</published>
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commit 22aa66a3ee5b61e0f4a0bfeabcaa567861109ec3 upstream.

When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero.  Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.

pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&amp;s-&gt;lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences  s-&gt;origin.  These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.

This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 22aa66a3ee5b61e0f4a0bfeabcaa567861109ec3 upstream.

When the snapshot target is unloaded, snapshot_dtr() waits until
pending_exceptions_count drops to zero.  Then, it destroys the snapshot.
Therefore, the function that decrements pending_exceptions_count
should not touch the snapshot structure after the decrement.

pending_complete() calls free_pending_exception(), which decrements
pending_exceptions_count, and then it performs up_write(&amp;s-&gt;lock) and it
calls retry_origin_bios() which dereferences  s-&gt;origin.  These two
memory accesses to the fields of the snapshot may touch the dm_snapshot
struture after it is freed.

This patch moves the call to free_pending_exception() to the end of
pending_complete(), so that the snapshot will not be destroyed while
pending_complete() is in progress.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dm-3.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T20:33:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T20:33:29+00:00</published>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
 "This pull request is later than I'd have liked because I was waiting
  for some performance data to help finally justify sending the
  long-standing dm-crypt cpu scalability improvements upstream.

  Unfortunately we came up short, so those dm-crypt changes will
  continue to wait, but it seems we're not far off.

   . Add dm_accept_partial_bio interface to DM core to allow DM targets
     to only process a portion of a bio, the remainder being sent in the
     next bio.  This enables the old dm snapshot-origin target to only
     split write bios on chunk boundaries, read bios are now sent to the
     origin device unchanged.

   . Add DM core support for disabling WRITE SAME if the underlying SCSI
     layer disables it due to command failure.

   . Reduce lock contention in DM's bio-prison.

   . A few small cleanups and fixes to dm-thin and dm-era"

* tag 'dm-3.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm thin: update discard_granularity to reflect the thin-pool blocksize
  dm bio prison: implement per bucket locking in the dm_bio_prison hash table
  dm: remove symbol export for dm_set_device_limits
  dm: disable WRITE SAME if it fails
  dm era: check for a non-NULL metadata object before closing it
  dm thin: return ENOSPC instead of EIO when error_if_no_space enabled
  dm thin: cleanup noflush_work to use a proper completion
  dm snapshot: do not split read bios sent to snapshot-origin target
  dm snapshot: allocate a per-target structure for snapshot-origin target
  dm: introduce dm_accept_partial_bio
  dm: change sector_count member in clone_info from sector_t to unsigned
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
 "This pull request is later than I'd have liked because I was waiting
  for some performance data to help finally justify sending the
  long-standing dm-crypt cpu scalability improvements upstream.

  Unfortunately we came up short, so those dm-crypt changes will
  continue to wait, but it seems we're not far off.

   . Add dm_accept_partial_bio interface to DM core to allow DM targets
     to only process a portion of a bio, the remainder being sent in the
     next bio.  This enables the old dm snapshot-origin target to only
     split write bios on chunk boundaries, read bios are now sent to the
     origin device unchanged.

   . Add DM core support for disabling WRITE SAME if the underlying SCSI
     layer disables it due to command failure.

   . Reduce lock contention in DM's bio-prison.

   . A few small cleanups and fixes to dm-thin and dm-era"

* tag 'dm-3.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm thin: update discard_granularity to reflect the thin-pool blocksize
  dm bio prison: implement per bucket locking in the dm_bio_prison hash table
  dm: remove symbol export for dm_set_device_limits
  dm: disable WRITE SAME if it fails
  dm era: check for a non-NULL metadata object before closing it
  dm thin: return ENOSPC instead of EIO when error_if_no_space enabled
  dm thin: cleanup noflush_work to use a proper completion
  dm snapshot: do not split read bios sent to snapshot-origin target
  dm snapshot: allocate a per-target structure for snapshot-origin target
  dm: introduce dm_accept_partial_bio
  dm: change sector_count member in clone_info from sector_t to unsigned
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<title>dm snapshot: do not split read bios sent to snapshot-origin target</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T17:44:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T22:43:07+00:00</published>
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Change the snapshot-origin target so that only write bios are split on
chunk boundary.  Read bios are passed unchanged to the underlying
device, so they don't have to be split.

Later, we could change the target so that it accepts a larger write bio
if it spans an area that is completely covered by snapshot exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Change the snapshot-origin target so that only write bios are split on
chunk boundary.  Read bios are passed unchanged to the underlying
device, so they don't have to be split.

Later, we could change the target so that it accepts a larger write bio
if it spans an area that is completely covered by snapshot exceptions.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: allocate a per-target structure for snapshot-origin target</title>
<updated>2014-06-03T17:44:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T22:42:12+00:00</published>
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Allocate a per-target dm_origin structure.  This is a prerequisite for
the next commit ("dm snapshot: do not split read bios sent to
snapshot-origin target") which adds a new member to this structure.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Allocate a per-target dm_origin structure.  This is a prerequisite for
the next commit ("dm snapshot: do not split read bios sent to
snapshot-origin target") which adds a new member to this structure.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()</title>
<updated>2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-17T17:06:10+00:00</published>
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&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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