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<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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<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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<title>dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices</title>
<updated>2015-02-09T18:06:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-18T02:08:12+00:00</published>
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For blk-mq request-based DM the responsibility of allocating a cloned
request is transfered from DM core to the target type.  Doing so
enables the cloned request to be allocated from the appropriate
blk-mq request_queue's pool (only the DM target, e.g. multipath, can
know which block device to send a given cloned request to).

Care was taken to preserve compatibility with old-style block request
completion that requires request-based DM _not_ acquire the clone
request's queue lock in the completion path.  As such, there are now 2
different request-based DM target_type interfaces:
1) the original .map_rq() interface will continue to be used for
   non-blk-mq devices -- the preallocated clone request is passed in
   from DM core.
2) a new .clone_and_map_rq() and .release_clone_rq() will be used for
   blk-mq devices -- blk_get_request() and blk_put_request() are used
   respectively from these hooks.

dm_table_set_type() was updated to detect if the request-based target is
being stacked on blk-mq devices, if so DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED is set.
DM core disallows switching the DM table's type after it is set.  This
means that there is no mixing of non-blk-mq and blk-mq devices within
the same request-based DM table.

[This patch was started by Keith and later heavily modified by Mike]

Tested-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
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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For blk-mq request-based DM the responsibility of allocating a cloned
request is transfered from DM core to the target type.  Doing so
enables the cloned request to be allocated from the appropriate
blk-mq request_queue's pool (only the DM target, e.g. multipath, can
know which block device to send a given cloned request to).

Care was taken to preserve compatibility with old-style block request
completion that requires request-based DM _not_ acquire the clone
request's queue lock in the completion path.  As such, there are now 2
different request-based DM target_type interfaces:
1) the original .map_rq() interface will continue to be used for
   non-blk-mq devices -- the preallocated clone request is passed in
   from DM core.
2) a new .clone_and_map_rq() and .release_clone_rq() will be used for
   blk-mq devices -- blk_get_request() and blk_put_request() are used
   respectively from these hooks.

dm_table_set_type() was updated to detect if the request-based target is
being stacked on blk-mq devices, if so DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED is set.
DM core disallows switching the DM table's type after it is set.  This
means that there is no mixing of non-blk-mq and blk-mq devices within
the same request-based DM table.

[This patch was started by Keith and later heavily modified by Mike]

Tested-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
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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<entry>
<title>dm: add presuspend_undo hook to target_type</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T16:24:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-29T00:13:31+00:00</published>
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The DM thin-pool target now must undo the changes performed during
pool_presuspend() so introduce presuspend_undo hook in target_type.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
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The DM thin-pool target now must undo the changes performed during
pool_presuspend() so introduce presuspend_undo hook in target_type.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joe Thornber &lt;ejt@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: allow active and inactive tables to share dm_devs</title>
<updated>2014-10-06T00:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-13T18:53:43+00:00</published>
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Until this change, when loading a new DM table, DM core would re-open
all of the devices in the DM table.  Now, DM core will avoid redundant
device opens (and closes when destroying the old table) if the old
table already has a device open using the same mode.  This is achieved
by managing reference counts on the table_devices that DM core now
stores in the mapped_device structure (rather than in the dm_table
structure).  So a mapped_device's active and inactive dm_tables' dm_dev
lists now just point to the dm_devs stored in the mapped_device's
table_devices list.

This improvement in DM core's device reference counting has the
side-effect of fixing a long-standing limitation of the multipath
target: a DM multipath table couldn't include any paths that were unusable
(failed).  For example: if all paths have failed and you add a new,
working, path to the table; you can't use it since the table load would
fail due to it still containing failed paths.  Now a re-load of a
multipath table can include failed devices and when those devices become
active again they can be used instantly.

The device list code in dm.c isn't a straight copy/paste from the code in
dm-table.c, but it's very close (aside from some variable renames).  One
subtle difference is that find_table_device for the tables_devices list
will only match devices with the same name and mode.  This is because we
don't want to upgrade a device's mode in the active table when an
inactive table is loaded.

Access to the mapped_device structure's tables_devices list requires a
mutex (tables_devices_lock), so that tables cannot be created and
destroyed concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Until this change, when loading a new DM table, DM core would re-open
all of the devices in the DM table.  Now, DM core will avoid redundant
device opens (and closes when destroying the old table) if the old
table already has a device open using the same mode.  This is achieved
by managing reference counts on the table_devices that DM core now
stores in the mapped_device structure (rather than in the dm_table
structure).  So a mapped_device's active and inactive dm_tables' dm_dev
lists now just point to the dm_devs stored in the mapped_device's
table_devices list.

This improvement in DM core's device reference counting has the
side-effect of fixing a long-standing limitation of the multipath
target: a DM multipath table couldn't include any paths that were unusable
(failed).  For example: if all paths have failed and you add a new,
working, path to the table; you can't use it since the table load would
fail due to it still containing failed paths.  Now a re-load of a
multipath table can include failed devices and when those devices become
active again they can be used instantly.

The device list code in dm.c isn't a straight copy/paste from the code in
dm-table.c, but it's very close (aside from some variable renames).  One
subtle difference is that find_table_device for the tables_devices list
will only match devices with the same name and mode.  This is because we
don't want to upgrade a device's mode in the active table when an
inactive table is loaded.

Access to the mapped_device structure's tables_devices list requires a
mutex (tables_devices_lock), so that tables cannot be created and
destroyed concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T00:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Moyer</name>
<email>jmoyer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T15:03:41+00:00</published>
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Commit 05f1dd5 ("block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging")
introduced a new queue flag: QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE.  This gets set by
default in blk_mq_init_queue for mq-enabled devices.  The effect of
the flag is to bypass the SG segment merging.  Instead, the
bio-&gt;bi_vcnt is used as the number of hardware segments.

With a device mapper target on top of a device with
QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE set, we can end up sending down more segments
than a driver is prepared to handle.  I ran into this when backporting
the virtio_blk mq support.  It triggerred this BUG_ON, in
virtio_queue_rq:

        BUG_ON(req-&gt;nr_phys_segments + 2 &gt; vblk-&gt;sg_elems);

The queue's max is set here:
        blk_queue_max_segments(q, vblk-&gt;sg_elems-2);

Basically, what happens is that a bio is built up for the dm device
(which does not have the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE flag set) using
bio_add_page.  That path will call into __blk_recalc_rq_segments, so
what you end up with is bi_phys_segments being much smaller than bi_vcnt
(and bi_vcnt grows beyond the maximum sg elements).  Then, when the bio
is submitted, it gets cloned.  When the cloned bio is submitted, it will
end up in blk_recount_segments, here:

        if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &amp;q-&gt;queue_flags))
                bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments = bio-&gt;bi_vcnt;

and now we've set bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments to a number that is beyond what
was registered as queue_max_segments by the driver.

The right way to fix this is to propagate the queue flag up the stack.

The rules for propagating the flag are simple:
- if the flag is set for any underlying device, it must be set for the
  upper device
- consequently, if the flag is not set for any underlying device, it
  should not be set for the upper device.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
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Commit 05f1dd5 ("block: add queue flag for disabling SG merging")
introduced a new queue flag: QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE.  This gets set by
default in blk_mq_init_queue for mq-enabled devices.  The effect of
the flag is to bypass the SG segment merging.  Instead, the
bio-&gt;bi_vcnt is used as the number of hardware segments.

With a device mapper target on top of a device with
QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE set, we can end up sending down more segments
than a driver is prepared to handle.  I ran into this when backporting
the virtio_blk mq support.  It triggerred this BUG_ON, in
virtio_queue_rq:

        BUG_ON(req-&gt;nr_phys_segments + 2 &gt; vblk-&gt;sg_elems);

The queue's max is set here:
        blk_queue_max_segments(q, vblk-&gt;sg_elems-2);

Basically, what happens is that a bio is built up for the dm device
(which does not have the QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE flag set) using
bio_add_page.  That path will call into __blk_recalc_rq_segments, so
what you end up with is bi_phys_segments being much smaller than bi_vcnt
(and bi_vcnt grows beyond the maximum sg elements).  Then, when the bio
is submitted, it gets cloned.  When the cloned bio is submitted, it will
end up in blk_recount_segments, here:

        if (test_bit(QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE, &amp;q-&gt;queue_flags))
                bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments = bio-&gt;bi_vcnt;

and now we've set bio-&gt;bi_phys_segments to a number that is beyond what
was registered as queue_max_segments by the driver.

The right way to fix this is to propagate the queue flag up the stack.

The rules for propagating the flag are simple:
- if the flag is set for any underlying device, it must be set for the
  upper device
- consequently, if the flag is not set for any underlying device, it
  should not be set for the upper device.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
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<entry>
<title>dm table: make dm_table_supports_discards static</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T16:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-10T16:23:07+00:00</published>
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The function dm_table_supports_discards is only called from
dm-table.c:dm_table_set_restrictions().  So move it above
dm_table_set_restrictions and make it static.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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The function dm_table_supports_discards is only called from
dm-table.c:dm_table_set_restrictions().  So move it above
dm_table_set_restrictions and make it static.

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>dm: remove symbol export for dm_set_device_limits</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T13:46:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-03T14:30:28+00:00</published>
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There is no need for code other than DM core to use dm_set_device_limits
so remove its EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.  Also, cleanup a couple whitespace nits.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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There is no need for code other than DM core to use dm_set_device_limits
so remove its EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.  Also, cleanup a couple whitespace nits.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm table: add dm_table_run_md_queue_async</title>
<updated>2014-03-27T20:56:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-28T14:33:43+00:00</published>
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Introduce dm_table_run_md_queue_async() to run the request_queue of the
mapped_device associated with a request-based DM table.

Also add dm_md_get_queue() wrapper to extract the request_queue from a
mapped_device.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
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Introduce dm_table_run_md_queue_async() to run the request_queue of the
mapped_device associated with a request-based DM table.

Also add dm_md_get_queue() wrapper to extract the request_queue from a
mapped_device.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jun'ichi Nomura &lt;j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: make dm_table_alloc_md_mempools static</title>
<updated>2014-03-27T20:56:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-13T18:43:32+00:00</published>
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Make the function dm_table_alloc_md_mempools static because it is not
called from another file.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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Make the function dm_table_alloc_md_mempools static because it is not
called from another file.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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