linux.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch v3.13

dm: allow remove to be deferred

2013-11-09T23:20:22+00:00

This patch allows the removal of an open device to be deferred until
it is closed.  (Previously such a removal attempt would fail.)

The deferred remove functionality is enabled by setting the flag
DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE in the ioctl structure on DM_DEV_REMOVE or
DM_REMOVE_ALL ioctl.

On return from DM_DEV_REMOVE, the flag DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE indicates if
the device was removed immediately or flagged to be removed on close -
if the flag is clear, the device was removed.

On return from DM_DEV_STATUS and other ioctls, the flag
DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE is set if the device is scheduled to be removed on
closure.

A device that is scheduled to be deleted can be revived using the
message "@cancel_deferred_remove". This message clears the
DMF_DEFERRED_REMOVE flag so that the device won't be deleted on close.

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

dm: add reserved_bio_based_ios module parameter

2013-09-23T14:42:24+00:00

Allow user to change the number of IOs that are reserved by
bio-based DM's mempools by writing to this file:
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/reserved_bio_based_ios

The default value is RESERVED_BIO_BASED_IOS (16).  The maximum allowed
value is RESERVED_MAX_IOS (1024).

Export dm_get_reserved_bio_based_ios() for use by DM targets and core
code.  Switch to sizing dm-io's mempool and bioset using DM core's
configurable 'reserved_bio_based_ios'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar

dm: add reserved_rq_based_ios module parameter

2013-09-23T14:42:24+00:00

Allow user to change the number of IOs that are reserved by
request-based DM's mempools by writing to this file:
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/reserved_rq_based_ios

The default value is RESERVED_REQUEST_BASED_IOS (256).  The maximum
allowed value is RESERVED_MAX_IOS (1024).

Export dm_get_reserved_rq_based_ios() for use by DM targets and core
code.  Switch to sizing dm-mpath's mempool using DM core's configurable
'reserved_rq_based_ios'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar 
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm: lower bio-based mempool reservation

2013-09-23T14:42:23+00:00

Bio-based device mapper processing doesn't need larger mempools (like
request-based DM does), so lower the number of reserved entries for
bio-based operation.  16 was already used for bio-based DM's bioset
but mistakenly wasn't used for it's _io_cache.

Formalize difference between bio-based and request-based defaults by
introducing RESERVED_BIO_BASED_IOS and RESERVED_REQUEST_BASED_IOS.

(based on older code from Mikulas Patocka)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar 
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails

2013-09-20T14:36:34+00:00

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 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+

dm: add statistics support

2013-09-06T00:46:06+00:00

Support the collection of I/O statistics on user-defined regions of
a DM device.  If no regions are defined no statistics are collected so
there isn't any performance impact.  Only bio-based DM devices are
currently supported.

Each user-defined region specifies a starting sector, length and step.
Individual statistics will be collected for each step-sized area within
the range specified.

The I/O statistics counters for each step-sized area of a region are
in the same format as /sys/block/*/stat or /proc/diskstats but extra
counters (12 and 13) are provided: total time spent reading and
writing in milliseconds.  All these counters may be accessed by sending
the @stats_print message to the appropriate DM device via dmsetup.

The creation of DM statistics will allocate memory via kmalloc or
fallback to using vmalloc space.  At most, 1/4 of the overall system
memory may be allocated by DM statistics.  The admin can see how much
memory is used by reading
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/stats_current_allocated_bytes

See Documentation/device-mapper/statistics.txt for more details.

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

dm ioctl: increase granularity of type_lock when loading table

2013-09-06T00:46:06+00:00

Hold the mapped device's type_lock before calling populate_table() since
it is where the table's type is determined based on the specified
targets.  There is no need to allow concurrent table loads to race to
establish the table's targets or type.

This eliminates the need to grab the lock in dm_table_set_type().

Also verify that the type_lock is held in both dm_set_md_type() and
dm_get_md_type().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: stop using WQ_NON_REENTRANT

2013-08-23T13:02:13+00:00

dbf2576e37 ("workqueue: make all workqueues non-reentrant") made
WQ_NON_REENTRANT no-op and the flag is going away.  Remove its usages.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Acked-by: Joe Thornber

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