linux.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch v3.17

dm: allocate a special workqueue for deferred device removal

2014-07-10T20:44:13+00:00

The commit 2c140a246dc ("dm: allow remove to be deferred") introduced a
deferred removal feature for the device mapper.  When this feature is
used (by passing a flag DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE to DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD ioctl)
and the user tries to remove a device that is currently in use, the
device will be removed automatically in the future when the last user
closes it.

Device mapper used the system workqueue to perform deferred removals.
However, some targets (dm-raid1, dm-mpath, dm-stripe) flush work items
scheduled for the system workqueue from their destructor.  If the
destructor itself is called from the system workqueue during deferred
removal, it introduces a possible deadlock - the workqueue tries to flush
itself.

Fix this possible deadlock by introducing a new workqueue for deferred
removals.  We allocate just one workqueue for all dm targets.  The
ability of dm targets to process IOs isn't dependent on deferred removal
of unused targets, so a deadlock due to shared workqueue isn't possible.

Also, cleanup local_init() to eliminate potential for returning success
on failure.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13+

Merge tag 'dm-3.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2014-06-12T20:33:29+00:00

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
"This pull request is later than I'd have liked because I was waiting
for some performance data to help finally justify sending the
long-standing dm-crypt cpu scalability improvements upstream.

Unfortunately we came up short, so those dm-crypt changes will
continue to wait, but it seems we're not far off.

. Add dm_accept_partial_bio interface to DM core to allow DM targets
to only process a portion of a bio, the remainder being sent in the
next bio. This enables the old dm snapshot-origin target to only
split write bios on chunk boundaries, read bios are now sent to the
origin device unchanged.

. Add DM core support for disabling WRITE SAME if the underlying SCSI
layer disables it due to command failure.

. Reduce lock contention in DM's bio-prison.

. A few small cleanups and fixes to dm-thin and dm-era"

* tag 'dm-3.16-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm thin: update discard_granularity to reflect the thin-pool blocksize
dm bio prison: implement per bucket locking in the dm_bio_prison hash table
dm: remove symbol export for dm_set_device_limits
dm: disable WRITE SAME if it fails
dm era: check for a non-NULL metadata object before closing it
dm thin: return ENOSPC instead of EIO when error_if_no_space enabled
dm thin: cleanup noflush_work to use a proper completion
dm snapshot: do not split read bios sent to snapshot-origin target
dm snapshot: allocate a per-target structure for snapshot-origin target
dm: introduce dm_accept_partial_bio
dm: change sector_count member in clone_info from sector_t to unsigned

dm: remove symbol export for dm_set_device_limits

2014-06-04T13:46:34+00:00

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

dm: disable WRITE SAME if it fails

2014-06-04T13:45:52+00:00

Add DM core support for disabling WRITE SAME on first failure to both
request-based and bio-based targets.  The need to disable WRITE SAME
stems from SCSI enabling it by default but then disabling it when it
fails.  When SCSI does this it returns "permanent target failure, do
not retry" using -EREMOTEIO.  Update DM core to only disable WRITE SAME
on failure if the returned error is -EREMOTEIO.

Commit f84cb8a4 ("dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails")
implemented multipath specific disabling of WRITE SAME if it fails.
However, as that commit detailed, the multipath-only solution doesn't go
far enough if bio-based DM targets are stacked ontop of the
request-based dm-multipath target (as is commonly done using dm-linear
to support partitions on multipath devices, via kpartx).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Tested-by: Alex Chen

Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next

2014-06-03T19:57:53+00:00

Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...

dm: introduce dm_accept_partial_bio

2014-06-03T17:44:06+00:00

The function dm_accept_partial_bio allows the target to specify how many
sectors of the current bio it will process.  If the target only wants to
accept part of the bio, it calls dm_accept_partial_bio and the DM core
sends the rest of the data in next bio.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: change sector_count member in clone_info from sector_t to unsigned

2014-06-03T17:44:06+00:00

It is impossible to create bios with 2^23 or more sectors (the size is
stored as a 32-bit byte count in the bio). So we convert some sector_t
values to unsigned integers.

This is needed for the next commit ("dm: introduce
dm_accept_partial_bio") that replaces integer value arguments with
pointers, so the size of the integer must match.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()

2014-04-18T12:20:48+00:00

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

block: remove struct request buffer member

2014-04-15T20:03:02+00:00

This was used in the olden days, back when onions were proper
yellow. Basically it mapped to the current buffer to be
transferred. With highmem being added more than a decade ago,
most drivers map pages out of a bio, and rq->buffer isn't
pointing at anything valid.

Convert old style drivers to just use bio_data().

For the discard payload use case, just reference the page
in the bio.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm table: add dm_table_run_md_queue_async

2014-03-27T20:56:24+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Jun'ichi Nomura