linux.git/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_actlog.c, branch v4.6

drbd: avoid potential deadlock during handshake

2015-11-25T16:22:03+00:00

During handshake communication, we also reconsider our device size,
using drbd_determine_dev_size(). Just in case we need to change the
offsets or layout of our on-disk metadata, we lock out application
and other meta data IO, and wait for the activity log to be "idle"
(no more referenced extents).

If this handshake happens just after a connection loss, with a fencing
policy of "resource-and-stonith", we have frozen IO.

If, additionally, the activity log was "starving" (too many incoming
random writes at that point in time), it won't become idle, ever,
because of the frozen IO, and this would be a lockup of the receiver
thread, and consquentially of DRBD.

Previous logic (re-)initialized with a special "empty" transaction
block, which required the activity log to fully drain first.

Instead, write out some standard activity log transactions.
Using lc_try_lock_for_transaction() instead of lc_try_lock() does not
care about pending activity log references, avoiding the potential
deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: separate out __al_write_transaction helper function

2015-11-25T16:22:03+00:00

To be able to "force out" an activity log transaction,
even if there are no pending updates.

This will be used to relocate the on-disk activity log,
if the on-disk offsets have to be changed,
without the need to empty the activity log first.

While at it, move the definition,
so we can drop the forward declaration of a static helper.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

2015-07-29T14:55:15+00:00

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: Minor cleanups

2014-11-10T16:27:30+00:00

 . Update comments
 . drbd_set_{in,out_of}_sync(): Remove unused parameters
 . Move common code into adm_del_resource()
 . Redefine ERR_MINOR_EXISTS -> ERR_MINOR_OR_VOLUME_EXISTS

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: Use consistent names for all the bi_end_io callbacks

2014-09-11T14:41:29+00:00

Now they follow the _endio naming sheme.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

drbd: drop spurious parameters from _drbd_md_sync_page_io

2014-07-10T16:35:22+00:00

size is always 4096,
page is always device->md_io.page.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: resync should only lock out specific ranges

2014-07-10T16:35:21+00:00

During resync, if we need to block some specific incoming write because
of active resync requests to that same range, we potentially caused
*all* new application writes (to "cold" activity log extents) to block
until this one request has been processed.

Improve the do_submit() logic to
 * grab all incoming requests to some "incoming" list
 * process this list
   - move aside requests that are blocked by resync
   - prepare activity log transactions,
   - commit transactions and submit corresponding requests
   - if there are remaining requests that only wait for
     activity log extents to become free, stop the fast path
     (mark activity log as "starving")
   - iterate until no more requests are waiting for the activity log,
     but all potentially remaining requests are only blocked by resync
 * only then grab new incoming requests

That way, very busy IO on currently "hot" activity log extents cannot
starve scattered IO to "cold" extents. And blocked-by-resync requests
are processed once resync traffic on the affected region has ceased,
without blocking anything else.

The only blocking mode left is when we cannot start requests to "cold"
extents because all currently "hot" extents are actually used.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: improve throttling decisions of background resynchronisation

2014-07-10T16:35:13+00:00

Background resynchronisation does some "side-stepping", or throttles
itself, if it detects application IO activity, and the current resync
rate estimate is above the configured "cmin-rate".

What was not detected: if there is no application IO,
because it blocks on activity log transactions.

Introduce a new atomic_t ap_actlog_cnt, tracking such blocked requests,
and count non-zero as application IO activity.
This counter is exposed at proc_details level 2 and above.

Also make sure to release the currently locked resync extent
if we side-step due to such voluntary throttling.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: track meta data IO intent, start and submit time

2014-07-10T16:35:10+00:00

For diagnostic purposes, track intent, start time
and latest submit time of meta data IO.

Move separate members from struct drbd_device
into the embeded struct drbd_md_io.
s/md_io_(page|in_use)/md_io.\1/

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg

drbd: get rid of drbd_queue_work_front

2014-07-10T16:34:56+00:00

The last user was al_write_transaction, if called with "delegate",
and the last user to call it with "delegate = true" was the receiver
thread, which has no need to delegate, but can call it himself.

Finally drop the delegate parameter, drop the extra
w_al_write_transaction callback, and drop drbd_queue_work_front.

Do not (yet) change dequeue_work_item to dequeue_work_batch, though.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner 
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg