linux-stable.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch linux-3.11.y

dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails

2013-10-05T14:17:57+00:00

commit f84cb8a46a771f36a04a02c61ea635c968ed5f6a upstream.

Workaround the SCSI layer's problematic WRITE SAME heuristics by
disabling WRITE SAME in the DM multipath device's queue_limits if an
underlying device disabled it.

The WRITE SAME heuristics, with both the original commit 5db44863b6eb
("[SCSI] sd: Implement support for WRITE SAME") and the updated commit
66c28f971 ("[SCSI] sd: Update WRITE SAME heuristics"), default to enabling
WRITE SAME(10) even without successfully determining it is supported.
After the first failed WRITE SAME the SCSI layer will disable WRITE SAME
for the device (by setting sdkp->device->no_write_same which results in
'max_write_same_sectors' in device's queue_limits to be set to 0).

When a device is stacked ontop of such a SCSI device any changes to that
SCSI device's queue_limits do not automatically propagate up the stack.
As such, a DM multipath device will not have its WRITE SAME support
disabled.  This causes the block layer to continue to issue WRITE SAME
requests to the mpath device which causes paths to fail and (if mpath IO
isn't configured to queue when no paths are available) it will result in
actual IO errors to the upper layers.

This fix doesn't help configurations that have additional devices
stacked ontop of the mpath device (e.g. LVM created linear DM devices
ontop).  A proper fix that restacks all the queue_limits from the bottom
of the device stack up will need to be explored if SCSI will continue to
use this model of optimistically allowing op codes and then disabling
them after they fail for the first time.

Before this patch:

EXT4-fs (dm-6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: got -EREMOTEIO (-121)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: failing WRITE SAME IO with error=-121
end_request: critical target error, dev dm-6, sector 528
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:112.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 4616
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 4616
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 5640
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 6664
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 7688
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524288
Buffer I/O error on device dm-6, logical block 65536
lost page write due to I/O error on dm-6
JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for dm-6-8.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524296
Aborting journal on device dm-6-8.
end_request: I/O error, dev dm-6, sector 524288
Buffer I/O error on device dm-6, logical block 65536
lost page write due to I/O error on dm-6
JBD2: Error -5 detected when updating journal superblock for dm-6-8.

# cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0
# cat /sys/block/dm-6/queue/write_same_max_bytes
33553920

After this patch:

EXT4-fs (dm-6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: got -EREMOTEIO (-121)
device-mapper: multipath: XXX snitm debugging: WRITE SAME I/O failed with error=-121
end_request: critical target error, dev dm-6, sector 528
dm-6: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing.

# cat /sys/block/sdh/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0
# cat /sys/block/dm-6/queue/write_same_max_bytes
0

It should be noted that WRITE SAME support wasn't enabled in DM
multipath until v3.10.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: Martin K. Petersen 
Cc: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: optimize reorder structure

2013-07-10T22:41:18+00:00

This reorder actually improves performance by 20% (from 39.1s to 32.8s)
on x86-64 quad core Opteron.

I have no explanation for this, possibly it makes some other entries are
better cache-aligned.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: optimize use SRCU and RCU

2013-07-10T22:41:18+00:00

This patch removes "io_lock" and "map_lock" in struct mapped_device and
"holders" in struct dm_table and replaces these mechanisms with
sleepable-rcu.

Previously, the code would call "dm_get_live_table" and "dm_table_put" to
get and release table. Now, the code is changed to call "dm_get_live_table"
and "dm_put_live_table". dm_get_live_table locks sleepable-rcu and
dm_put_live_table unlocks it.

dm_get_live_table_fast/dm_put_live_table_fast can be used instead of
dm_get_live_table/dm_put_live_table. These *_fast functions use
non-sleepable RCU, so the caller must not block between them.

If the code changes active or inactive dm table, it must call
dm_sync_table before destroying the old table.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm mpath: fix ioctl deadlock when no paths

2013-07-10T22:41:15+00:00

When multipath needs to retry an ioctl the reference to the
current live table needs to be dropped. Otherwise a deadlock
occurs when all paths are down:
- dm_blk_ioctl takes a reference to the current table
  and spins in multipath_ioctl().
- A new table is being loaded, but upon resume the process
  hangs in dm_table_destroy() waiting for references to
  drop to zero.

With this patch the reference to the old table is dropped
prior to retry, thereby avoiding the deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

block_device_operations->release() should return void

2013-05-07T06:16:21+00:00

The value passed is 0 in all but "it can never happen" cases (and those
only in a couple of drivers) *and* it would've been lost on the way
out anyway, even if something tried to pass something meaningful.
Just don't bother.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"

2013-04-18T16:00:26+00:00

This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f.

Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.

Jens says:
 "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
  the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).

  The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
  queueing up a revert and pull request."

Reported-by: Wanlong Gao 
Requested-by: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dm: add target num_write_bios fn

2013-03-01T22:45:49+00:00

Add a num_write_bios function to struct target.

If an instance of a target sets this, it will be queried before the
target's mapping function is called on a write bio, and the response
controls the number of copies of the write bio that the target will
receive.

This provides a convenient way for a target to send the same data to
more than one device.  The new cache target uses this in writethrough
mode, to send the data both to the cache and the backing device.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: merge io_pool and tio_pool

2013-03-01T22:45:48+00:00

This patch merges io_pool and tio_pool into io_pool and cleans up
related functions.

Though device-mapper used to have 2 pools of objects for each dm device,
the use of bioset frontbad for per-bio data has shrunk the number of
pools to 1 for both bio-based and request-based device types.
(See c0820cf5 "dm: introduce per_bio_data" and
 94818742 "dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info")

So dm no longer has to maintain 2 different pointers.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: remove unused _rq_bio_info_cache

2013-03-01T22:45:48+00:00

Remove _rq_bio_info_cache, which is no longer used.
No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: fix limits initialization when there are no data devices

2013-03-01T22:45:48+00:00

dm_calculate_queue_limits will first reset the provided limits to
defaults using blk_set_stacking_limits; whereby defeating the purpose of
retaining the original live table's limits -- as was intended via commit
3ae706561637331aa578e52bb89ecbba5edcb7a9 ("dm: retain table limits when
swapping to new table with no devices").

Fix this improper limits initialization (in the no data devices case) by
avoiding the call to dm_calculate_queue_limits.

[patch header revised by Mike Snitzer]

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon