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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>dm table: fix missing dm_put_target_type() in dm_table_add_target()</title>
<updated>2016-11-24T01:59:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>tang.junhui</name>
<email>tang.junhui@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-21T01:35:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dafa724bf582181d9a7d54f5cb4ca0bf8ef29269 ]

dm_get_target_type() was previously called so any error returned from
dm_table_add_target() must first call dm_put_target_type().  Otherwise
the DM target module's reference count will leak and the associated
kernel module will be unable to be removed.

Also, leverage the fact that r is already -EINVAL and remove an extra
newline.

Fixes: 36a0456 ("dm table: add immutable feature")
Fixes: cc6cbe1 ("dm table: add always writeable feature")
Fixes: 3791e2f ("dm table: add singleton feature")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
Signed-off-by: tang.junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dafa724bf582181d9a7d54f5cb4ca0bf8ef29269 ]

dm_get_target_type() was previously called so any error returned from
dm_table_add_target() must first call dm_put_target_type().  Otherwise
the DM target module's reference count will leak and the associated
kernel module will be unable to be removed.

Also, leverage the fact that r is already -EINVAL and remove an extra
newline.

Fixes: 36a0456 ("dm table: add immutable feature")
Fixes: cc6cbe1 ("dm table: add always writeable feature")
Fixes: 3791e2f ("dm table: add singleton feature")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2+
Signed-off-by: tang.junhui &lt;tang.junhui@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm snapshot: disallow the COW and origin devices from being identical</title>
<updated>2016-07-11T03:06:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>DingXiang</name>
<email>dingxiang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-02T04:29:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4df2bf466a9c9c92f40d27c4aa9120f4e8227bfc ]

Otherwise loading a "snapshot" table using the same device for the
origin and COW devices, e.g.:

echo "0 20971520 snapshot 253:3 253:3 P 8" | dmsetup create snap

will trigger:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098
[ 1958.979934] IP: [&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;] dm_exception_store_set_chunk_size+0x7a/0x110 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1958.989655] PGD 0
[ 1958.991903] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
[ 1959.059647] CPU: 9 PID: 3556 Comm: dmsetup Tainted: G          IO    4.5.0-rc5.snitm+ #150
...
[ 1959.083517] task: ffff8800b9660c80 ti: ffff88032a954000 task.ti: ffff88032a954000
[ 1959.091865] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;] dm_exception_store_set_chunk_size+0x7a/0x110 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.104295] RSP: 0018:ffff88032a957b30  EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 1959.110219] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 1959.118180] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff880329334a00
[ 1959.126141] RBP: ffff88032a957b50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 1959.134102] R10: 000000000000000a R11: f000000000000000 R12: ffff880330884d80
[ 1959.142061] R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffffc90001c13088 R15: ffff880330884d80
[ 1959.150021] FS:  00007f8926ba3840(0000) GS:ffff880333440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1959.159047] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1959.165456] CR2: 0000000000000098 CR3: 000000032f48b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 1959.173415] Stack:
[ 1959.175656]  ffffc90001c13040 ffff880329334a00 ffff880330884ed0 ffff88032a957bdc
[ 1959.183946]  ffff88032a957bb8 ffffffffa040f225 ffff880329334a30 ffff880300000000
[ 1959.192233]  ffffffffa04133e0 ffff880329334b30 0000000830884d58 00000000569c58cf
[ 1959.200521] Call Trace:
[ 1959.203248]  [&lt;ffffffffa040f225&gt;] dm_exception_store_create+0x1d5/0x240 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.211986]  [&lt;ffffffffa040d310&gt;] snapshot_ctr+0x140/0x630 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.219469]  [&lt;ffffffffa0005c44&gt;] ? dm_split_args+0x64/0x150 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.226656]  [&lt;ffffffffa0005ea7&gt;] dm_table_add_target+0x177/0x440 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.234328]  [&lt;ffffffffa0009203&gt;] table_load+0x143/0x370 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.241129]  [&lt;ffffffffa00090c0&gt;] ? retrieve_status+0x1b0/0x1b0 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.248607]  [&lt;ffffffffa0009e35&gt;] ctl_ioctl+0x255/0x4d0 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.255307]  [&lt;ffffffff813304e2&gt;] ? memzero_explicit+0x12/0x20
[ 1959.261816]  [&lt;ffffffffa000a0c3&gt;] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.268615]  [&lt;ffffffff81215eb6&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa6/0x5c0
[ 1959.274637]  [&lt;ffffffff81120d2f&gt;] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xaf/0x100
[ 1959.281726]  [&lt;ffffffff81003176&gt;] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
[ 1959.288814]  [&lt;ffffffff81216449&gt;] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
[ 1959.294450]  [&lt;ffffffff8167e4ae&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
...
[ 1959.323277] RIP  [&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;] dm_exception_store_set_chunk_size+0x7a/0x110 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.333090]  RSP &lt;ffff88032a957b30&gt;
[ 1959.336978] CR2: 0000000000000098
[ 1959.344121] ---[ end trace b049991ccad1169e ]---

Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195899
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang &lt;dingxiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4df2bf466a9c9c92f40d27c4aa9120f4e8227bfc ]

Otherwise loading a "snapshot" table using the same device for the
origin and COW devices, e.g.:

echo "0 20971520 snapshot 253:3 253:3 P 8" | dmsetup create snap

will trigger:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098
[ 1958.979934] IP: [&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;] dm_exception_store_set_chunk_size+0x7a/0x110 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1958.989655] PGD 0
[ 1958.991903] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
[ 1959.059647] CPU: 9 PID: 3556 Comm: dmsetup Tainted: G          IO    4.5.0-rc5.snitm+ #150
...
[ 1959.083517] task: ffff8800b9660c80 ti: ffff88032a954000 task.ti: ffff88032a954000
[ 1959.091865] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;] dm_exception_store_set_chunk_size+0x7a/0x110 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.104295] RSP: 0018:ffff88032a957b30  EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 1959.110219] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 0000000000000001
[ 1959.118180] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff880329334a00
[ 1959.126141] RBP: ffff88032a957b50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 1959.134102] R10: 000000000000000a R11: f000000000000000 R12: ffff880330884d80
[ 1959.142061] R13: 0000000000000008 R14: ffffc90001c13088 R15: ffff880330884d80
[ 1959.150021] FS:  00007f8926ba3840(0000) GS:ffff880333440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1959.159047] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1959.165456] CR2: 0000000000000098 CR3: 000000032f48b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 1959.173415] Stack:
[ 1959.175656]  ffffc90001c13040 ffff880329334a00 ffff880330884ed0 ffff88032a957bdc
[ 1959.183946]  ffff88032a957bb8 ffffffffa040f225 ffff880329334a30 ffff880300000000
[ 1959.192233]  ffffffffa04133e0 ffff880329334b30 0000000830884d58 00000000569c58cf
[ 1959.200521] Call Trace:
[ 1959.203248]  [&lt;ffffffffa040f225&gt;] dm_exception_store_create+0x1d5/0x240 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.211986]  [&lt;ffffffffa040d310&gt;] snapshot_ctr+0x140/0x630 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.219469]  [&lt;ffffffffa0005c44&gt;] ? dm_split_args+0x64/0x150 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.226656]  [&lt;ffffffffa0005ea7&gt;] dm_table_add_target+0x177/0x440 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.234328]  [&lt;ffffffffa0009203&gt;] table_load+0x143/0x370 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.241129]  [&lt;ffffffffa00090c0&gt;] ? retrieve_status+0x1b0/0x1b0 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.248607]  [&lt;ffffffffa0009e35&gt;] ctl_ioctl+0x255/0x4d0 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.255307]  [&lt;ffffffff813304e2&gt;] ? memzero_explicit+0x12/0x20
[ 1959.261816]  [&lt;ffffffffa000a0c3&gt;] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20 [dm_mod]
[ 1959.268615]  [&lt;ffffffff81215eb6&gt;] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa6/0x5c0
[ 1959.274637]  [&lt;ffffffff81120d2f&gt;] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xaf/0x100
[ 1959.281726]  [&lt;ffffffff81003176&gt;] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
[ 1959.288814]  [&lt;ffffffff81216449&gt;] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
[ 1959.294450]  [&lt;ffffffff8167e4ae&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
...
[ 1959.323277] RIP  [&lt;ffffffffa040efba&gt;] dm_exception_store_set_chunk_size+0x7a/0x110 [dm_snapshot]
[ 1959.333090]  RSP &lt;ffff88032a957b30&gt;
[ 1959.336978] CR2: 0000000000000098
[ 1959.344121] ---[ end trace b049991ccad1169e ]---

Fixes: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1195899
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang &lt;dingxiang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices</title>
<updated>2015-05-29T17:41:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junichi Nomura</name>
<email>j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-29T08:51:03+00:00</published>
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dm-multipath accepts 0 path mapping.

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup create newdev

Such a mapping can be used to release underlying devices while still
holding requests in its queue until working paths come back.

However, once the multipath device is created over blk-mq devices,
it rejects reloading of 0 path mapping:

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 1 1 queue-length 0 1 1 /dev/sda 1' \
      | dmsetup create mpath1
  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup load mpath1
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on mpath1 failed: Invalid argument
  Command failed

With following kernel message:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

DM tries to inherit the current table type using dm_table_set_type()
but it doesn't work as expected because of unnecessary check about
whether the target type is hybrid or not.

Hybrid type is for targets that work as either request-based or bio-based
and not required for blk-mq or non blk-mq checking.

Fixes: 65803c205983 ("dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate")
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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dm-multipath accepts 0 path mapping.

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup create newdev

Such a mapping can be used to release underlying devices while still
holding requests in its queue until working paths come back.

However, once the multipath device is created over blk-mq devices,
it rejects reloading of 0 path mapping:

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 1 1 queue-length 0 1 1 /dev/sda 1' \
      | dmsetup create mpath1
  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup load mpath1
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on mpath1 failed: Invalid argument
  Command failed

With following kernel message:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

DM tries to inherit the current table type using dm_table_set_type()
but it doesn't work as expected because of unnecessary check about
whether the target type is hybrid or not.

Hybrid type is for targets that work as either request-based or bio-based
and not required for blk-mq or non blk-mq checking.

Fixes: 65803c205983 ("dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate")
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm table: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T16:10:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-30T17:43:18+00:00</published>
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Use the normal return values for bool functions.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Use the normal return values for bool functions.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T16:10:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Ehrenberg</name>
<email>dehrenberg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T23:20:51+00:00</published>
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If a device is used as the root filesystem, it can't be built
off of devices which are within the root filesystem (just like
command line arguments to root=).  For this reason, Linux has a
pseudo-filesystem for root= and MD initialization (based on the
function name_to_dev_t) which handles different ways of specifying
devices including PARTUUID and major:minor.

Switch to using name_to_dev_t() in dm_get_device().  Rather than
having DM assume that all things which are not major:minor are paths in
an already-mounted filesystem, change dm_get_device() to first attempt
to look up the device in the filesystem, and if not found it will fall
back to using name_to_dev_t().

In terms of backwards compatibility, there are some cases where
behavior will be different:
- If you have a file in the current working directory named 1:2 and
  you initialze DM there, then it will try to use that file rather
  than the disk with that major:minor pair as a backing device.
- Similarly for other bdev types which name_to_dev_t() knows how to
  interpret, the previous behavior was to repeatedly check for the
  existence of the file (e.g., while waiting for rootfs to come up)
  but the new behavior is to use the name_to_dev_t() interpretation.
  For example, if you have a file named /dev/ubiblock0_0 which is
  a symlink to /dev/sda3, but it is not yet present when DM starts
  to initialize, then the name_to_dev_t() interpretation will take
  precedence.

These incompatibilities would only show up in really strange setups
with bad practices so we shouldn't have to worry about them.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg &lt;dehrenberg@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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If a device is used as the root filesystem, it can't be built
off of devices which are within the root filesystem (just like
command line arguments to root=).  For this reason, Linux has a
pseudo-filesystem for root= and MD initialization (based on the
function name_to_dev_t) which handles different ways of specifying
devices including PARTUUID and major:minor.

Switch to using name_to_dev_t() in dm_get_device().  Rather than
having DM assume that all things which are not major:minor are paths in
an already-mounted filesystem, change dm_get_device() to first attempt
to look up the device in the filesystem, and if not found it will fall
back to using name_to_dev_t().

In terms of backwards compatibility, there are some cases where
behavior will be different:
- If you have a file in the current working directory named 1:2 and
  you initialze DM there, then it will try to use that file rather
  than the disk with that major:minor pair as a backing device.
- Similarly for other bdev types which name_to_dev_t() knows how to
  interpret, the previous behavior was to repeatedly check for the
  existence of the file (e.g., while waiting for rootfs to come up)
  but the new behavior is to use the name_to_dev_t() interpretation.
  For example, if you have a file named /dev/ubiblock0_0 which is
  a symlink to /dev/sda3, but it is not yet present when DM starts
  to initialize, then the name_to_dev_t() interpretation will take
  precedence.

These incompatibilities would only show up in really strange setups
with bad practices so we shouldn't have to worry about them.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg &lt;dehrenberg@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T16:10:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-11T19:01:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=17e149b8f73ba116e71e25930dd6f2eb3828792d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.

Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq

This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md-&gt;io_pool and md-&gt;rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.

Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq

This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md-&gt;io_pool and md-&gt;rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T16:10:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-08T05:51:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bfebd1cdb497a57757c83f5fbf1a29931591e2a4'/>
<id>bfebd1cdb497a57757c83f5fbf1a29931591e2a4</id>
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Commit e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on
blk-mq devices") served as the first step toward fully utilizing blk-mq
in request-based DM -- it enabled stacking an old-style (request_fn)
request_queue ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  That first step
didn't improve performance of DM multipath ontop of fast blk-mq devices
(e.g. NVMe) because the top-level old-style request_queue was severely
limited by the queue_lock.

The second step offered here enables stacking a blk-mq request_queue
ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  This unlocks significant
performance gains on fast blk-mq devices, Keith Busch tested on his NVMe
testbed and offered this really positive news:

 "Just providing a performance update. All my fio tests are getting
  roughly equal performance whether accessed through the raw block
  device or the multipath device mapper (~470k IOPS). I could only push
  ~20% of the raw iops through dm before this conversion, so this latest
  tree is looking really solid from a performance standpoint."

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
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Commit e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on
blk-mq devices") served as the first step toward fully utilizing blk-mq
in request-based DM -- it enabled stacking an old-style (request_fn)
request_queue ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  That first step
didn't improve performance of DM multipath ontop of fast blk-mq devices
(e.g. NVMe) because the top-level old-style request_queue was severely
limited by the queue_lock.

The second step offered here enables stacking a blk-mq request_queue
ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  This unlocks significant
performance gains on fast blk-mq devices, Keith Busch tested on his NVMe
testbed and offered this really positive news:

 "Just providing a performance update. All my fio tests are getting
  roughly equal performance whether accessed through the raw block
  device or the multipath device mapper (~470k IOPS). I could only push
  ~20% of the raw iops through dm before this conversion, so this latest
  tree is looking really solid from a performance standpoint."

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
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<title>dm: remove request-based DM queue's lld_busy_fn hook</title>
<updated>2015-03-31T16:03:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-24T00:10:15+00:00</published>
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DM multipath is the only caller of blk_lld_busy() -- which calls a
queue's lld_busy_fn hook.  Request-based DM doesn't support stacking
multipath devices so there is no reason to register the lld_busy_fn hook
on a multipath device's queue using blk_queue_lld_busy().

As such, remove functions dm_lld_busy and dm_table_any_busy_target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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DM multipath is the only caller of blk_lld_busy() -- which calls a
queue's lld_busy_fn hook.  Request-based DM doesn't support stacking
multipath devices so there is no reason to register the lld_busy_fn hook
on a multipath device's queue using blk_queue_lld_busy().

As such, remove functions dm_lld_busy and dm_table_any_busy_target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: inherit QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from underlying queues</title>
<updated>2015-02-11T15:25:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>keith.busch@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-24T22:10:49+00:00</published>
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A DM device must inherit the QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from its
underlying block devices' request queues.

This fixes problems when submitting cloned requests to multipathed
devices requiring virtually contiguous buffers.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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A DM device must inherit the QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from its
underlying block devices' request queues.

This fixes problems when submitting cloned requests to multipathed
devices requiring virtually contiguous buffers.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;keith.busch@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate</title>
<updated>2015-02-09T18:06:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-18T21:26:47+00:00</published>
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Otherwise replacing the multipath target with the error target fails:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

The error target was mistakenly considered to be target type
DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED rather than DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED even if the
target it was to replace was of type DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Otherwise replacing the multipath target with the error target fails:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

The error target was mistakenly considered to be target type
DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED rather than DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED even if the
target it was to replace was of type DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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