linux.git/drivers/md/dm-thin.c, branch v3.14

dm thin: fix noflush suspend IO queueing

2014-03-05T20:26:59+00:00

i) by the time DM core calls the postsuspend hook the dm_noflush flag
has been cleared.  So the old thin_postsuspend did nothing.  We need to
use the presuspend hook instead.

ii) There was a race between bios leaving DM core and arriving in the
deferred queue.

thin_presuspend now sets a 'requeue' flag causing all bios destined for
that thin to be requeued back to DM core.  Then it requeues all held IO,
and all IO on the deferred queue (destined for that thin).  Finally
postsuspend clears the 'requeue' flag.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm thin: fix deadlock in __requeue_bio_list

2014-03-05T20:26:58+00:00

The spin lock in requeue_io() was held for too long, allowing deadlock.
Don't worry, due to other issues addressed in the following "dm thin:
fix noflush suspend IO queueing" commit, this code was never called.

Fix this by taking the spin lock for a much shorter period of time.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm thin: fix out of data space handling

2014-03-05T20:26:58+00:00

Ideally a thin pool would never run out of data space; the low water
mark would trigger userland to extend the pool before we completely run
out of space.  However, many small random IOs to unprovisioned space can
consume data space at an alarming rate.  Adjust your low water mark if
you're frequently seeing "out-of-data-space" mode.

Before this fix, if data space ran out the pool would be put in
PM_READ_ONLY mode which also aborted the pool's current metadata
transaction (data loss for any changes in the transaction).  This had a
side-effect of needlessly compromising data consistency.  And retry of
queued unserviceable bios, once the data pool was resized, could
initiate changes to potentially inconsistent pool metadata.

Now when the pool's data space is exhausted transition to a new pool
mode (PM_OUT_OF_DATA_SPACE) that allows metadata to be changed but data
may not be allocated.  This allows users to remove thin volumes or
discard data to recover data space.

The pool is no longer put in PM_READ_ONLY mode in response to the pool
running out of data space.  And PM_READ_ONLY mode no longer aborts the
pool's current metadata transaction.  Also, set_pool_mode() will now
notify userspace when the pool mode is changed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm thin: ensure user takes action to validate data and metadata consistency

2014-03-05T20:25:35+00:00

If a thin metadata operation fails the current transaction will abort,
whereby causing potential for IO layers up the stack (e.g. filesystems)
to have data loss.  As such, set THIN_METADATA_NEEDS_CHECK_FLAG in the
thin metadata's superblock which:
1) requires the user verify the thin metadata is consistent (e.g. use
   thin_check, etc)
2) suggests the user verify the thin data is consistent (e.g. use fsck)

The only way to clear the superblock's THIN_METADATA_NEEDS_CHECK_FLAG is
to run thin_repair.

On metadata operation failure: abort current metadata transaction, set
pool in read-only mode, and now set the needs_check flag.

As part of this change, constraints are introduced or relaxed:
* don't allow a pool to transition to write mode if needs_check is set
* don't allow data or metadata space to be resized if needs_check is set
* if a thin pool's metadata space is exhausted: the kernel will now
  force the user to take the pool offline for repair before the kernel
  will allow the metadata space to be extended.

Also, update Documentation to include information about when the thin
provisioning target commits metadata, how it handles metadata failures
and running out of space.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber

dm thin: synchronize the pool mode during suspend

2014-03-04T16:17:51+00:00

Commit b5330655 ("dm thin: handle metadata failures more consistently")
increased potential for the pool's mode to be changed in response to
metadata operation failures.

When the pool mode is changed it isn't synchronized with the mode in
pool_features stored in the target's context (ti->private) that is used
as the basis for (re)establishing the pool mode during resume via
bind_control_target.

It is important that we synchronize the pool mode when it is changed
otherwise the pool may experience and unexpected mode transition on the
next resume (especially if there was no new table load).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Joe Thornber

dm thin: allow metadata space larger than supported to go unused

2014-02-27T16:49:08+00:00

It was always intended that a user could provide a thin metadata device
that is larger than the max supported by the on-disk format.  The extra
space would just go unused.

Unfortunately that never worked.  If the user attempted to use a larger
metadata device on creation they would get an error like the following:

 device-mapper: space map common: space map too large
 device-mapper: transaction manager: couldn't create metadata space map
 device-mapper: thin metadata: tm_create_with_sm failed
 device-mapper: table: 252:17: thin-pool: Error creating metadata object
 device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

Fix this by allowing the initial metadata space map creation to cap its
size at the max number of blocks supported (DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS).
get_metadata_dev_size() must also impose DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS (via
THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS), otherwise extending metadata would cap at
THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS_WARNING (which is larger than supported).

Also, the calculation for THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS didn't account for
the sizeof the disk_bitmap_header.  So the supported maximum metadata
size is a bit smaller (reduced from 33423360 to 33292800 sectors).

Lastly, remove the "excess space will not be used" warning message from
get_metadata_dev_size(); it resulted in printing the warning multiple
times.  Factor out warn_if_metadata_device_too_big(), call it from
pool_ctr() and maybe_resize_metadata_dev().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Joe Thornber

dm thin: fix the error path for the thin device constructor

2014-02-24T16:41:18+00:00

dm_pool_close_thin_device() must be called if dm_set_target_max_io_len()
fails in thin_ctr().  Otherwise __pool_destroy() will fail because the
pool will still have an open thin device:

 device-mapper: thin metadata: attempt to close pmd when 1 device(s) are still open
 device-mapper: thin: __pool_destroy: dm_pool_metadata_close() failed.

Also, must establish error code if failing thin_ctr() because the pool
is in fail_io mode.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Joe Thornber 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

dm thin: avoid metadata commit if a pool's thin devices haven't changed

2014-02-17T16:00:05+00:00

Commit 905e51b ("dm thin: commit outstanding data every second")
introduced a periodic commit.  This commit occurs regardless of whether
any thin devices have made changes.

Fix the periodic commit to check if any of a pool's thin devices have
changed using dm_pool_changed_this_transaction().

Reported-by: Alexander Larsson 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Joe Thornber 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00

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->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()
  ...

dm thin: fix pool feature parsing

2014-01-16T02:16:24+00:00

Commit 787a996cb251e20 ("dm thin: add error_if_no_space feature")
mistakenly forgot to increase the number of feature args supported.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer