linux.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch v4.12

dm: make flush bios explicitly sync

2017-05-31T14:50:23+00:00

Commit b685d3d65ac7 ("block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous") removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_{FUA|PREFLUSH|...}
definitions.  generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA and
REQ_PREFLUSH flags from a bio when the storage doesn't report volatile
write cache and thus write effectively becomes asynchronous which can
lead to performance regressions.

Fix the problem by making sure all bios which are synchronous are
properly marked with REQ_SYNC.

Fixes: b685d3d65ac7 ("block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as synchronous")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2017-05-06T01:49:20+00:00

Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The bulk of this has been in multiple -next releases. There were a few
  late breaking fixes and small features that got added in the last
  couple days, but the whole set has received a build success
  notification from the kbuild robot.

  Change summary:

   - Region media error reporting: A libnvdimm region device is the
     parent to one or more namespaces. To date, media errors have been
     reported via the "badblocks" attribute attached to pmem block
     devices for namespaces in "raw" or "memory" mode. Given that
     namespaces can be in "device-dax" or "btt-sector" mode this new
     interface reports media errors generically, i.e. independent of
     namespace modes or state.

     This subsequently allows userspace tooling to craft "ACPI 6.1
     Section 9.20.7.6 Function Index 4 - Clear Uncorrectable Error"
     requests and submit them via the ioctl path for NVDIMM root bus
     devices.

   - Introduce 'struct dax_device' and 'struct dax_operations': Prompted
     by a request from Linus and feedback from Christoph this allows for
     dax capable drivers to publish their own custom dax operations.
     This fixes the broken assumption that all dax operations are
     related to a persistent memory device, and makes it easier for
     other architectures and platforms to add customized persistent
     memory support.

   - 'libnvdimm' core updates: A new "deep_flush" sysfs attribute is
     available for storage appliance applications to manually trigger
     memory controllers to drain write-pending buffers that would
     otherwise be flushed automatically by the platform ADR
     (asynchronous-DRAM-refresh) mechanism at a power loss event.
     Support for "locked" DIMMs is included to prevent namespaces from
     surfacing when the namespace label data area is locked. Finally,
     fixes for various reported deadlocks and crashes, also tagged for
     -stable.

   - ACPI / nfit driver updates: General updates of the nfit driver to
     add DSM command overrides, ACPI 6.1 health state flags support, DSM
     payload debug available by default, and various fixes.

  Acknowledgements that came after the branch was pushed:

   - commmit 565851c972b5 "device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock":
     Tested-by: Yi Zhang 

   - commit 23f498448362 "libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing"
     Tested-by: Toshi Kani "

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (52 commits)
  libnvdimm, pfn: fix 'npfns' vs section alignment
  libnvdimm: handle locked label storage areas
  libnvdimm: convert NDD_ flags to use bitops, introduce NDD_LOCKED
  brd: fix uninitialized use of brd->dax_dev
  block, dax: use correct format string in bdev_dax_supported
  device-dax: fix sysfs attribute deadlock
  libnvdimm: restore "libnvdimm: band aid btt vs clear poison locking"
  libnvdimm: fix nvdimm_bus_lock() vs device_lock() ordering
  libnvdimm: rework region badblocks clearing
  acpi, nfit: kill ACPI_NFIT_DEBUG
  libnvdimm: fix clear length of nvdimm_forget_poison()
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix a NULL pointer BUG in nd_pmem_notify
  libnvdimm, region: sysfs trigger for nvdimm_flush()
  libnvdimm: fix phys_addr for nvdimm_clear_poison
  x86, dax, pmem: remove indirection around memcpy_from_pmem()
  block: remove block_device_operations ->direct_access()
  block, dax: convert bdev_dax_supported() to dax_direct_access()
  filesystem-dax: convert to dax_direct_access()
  Revert "block: use DAX for partition table reads"
  ext2, ext4, xfs: retrieve dax_device for iomap operations
  ...

Merge tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2017-05-03T17:31:20+00:00

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding
   whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache. The bio-prison-v2
   interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of
   work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work
   dispatch to the DM cache core. So the dm-cache policies are much more
   nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit. One immediate
   benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more
   adaptive to changing workloads.

 - Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has
   additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity
   information.

 - Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target
   that builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target.

 - Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update
   the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back
   support.

 - Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash
   crypto API (this helps work better with architectures that have
   access to off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU
   utilization).

 - Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from
   Bart and Christoph.

 - A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each
   discard IFF discard passdown is enabled.

 - A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the
   new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin
   changes to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable.

 - A couple DM core cleanups.

* tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (50 commits)
  dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds
  dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
  dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes
  dm mpath: cleanup QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH bit manipulation by introducing assign_bit()
  dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH
  dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code
  dm mpath: verify __pg_init_all_paths locking assumptions at runtime
  dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime
  dm block manager: remove an unused argument from dm_block_manager_create()
  dm rq: check blk_mq_register_dev() return value in dm_mq_init_request_queue()
  dm mpath: delay requeuing while path initialization is in progress
  dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop
  dm mpath: split and rename activate_path() to prepare for its expanded use
  dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call
  dm integrity: use previously calculated log2 of sectors_per_block
  dm integrity: use hex2bin instead of open-coded variant
  dm crypt: replace custom implementation of hex2bin()
  dm crypt: remove obsolete references to per-CPU state
  dm verity: switch to using asynchronous hash crypto API
  dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues
  ...

dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes

2017-04-27T21:08:47+00:00

I/O errors triggered by multipathd incorrectly not enabling the no-flush
flag for DM_DEVICE_SUSPEND or DM_DEVICE_RESUME are hard to debug.  Add
more logging to make it easier to debug this.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code

2017-04-27T21:08:44+00:00

Introduce an enumeration type for the queue mode.  This patch does
not change any functionality but makes the DM code easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime

2017-04-27T21:08:42+00:00

Ensure that the assumptions about the caller holding suspend_lock
are checked at runtime if lockdep is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

block: remove block_device_operations ->direct_access()

2017-04-25T20:20:46+00:00

Now that all the producers and consumers of dax interfaces have been
converted to using dax_operations on a dax_device, remove the block
device direct_access enabling.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

dm: teach dm-targets to use a dax_device + dax_operations

2017-04-25T20:20:36+00:00

Arrange for dm to lookup the dax services available from member devices.
Update the dax-capable targets, linear and stripe, to route dax
operations to the underlying device. Changes the target-internal
->direct_access() method to more closely align with the dax_operations
->direct_access() calling convention.

Cc: Toshi Kani 
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

dm: mark targets that pass integrity data

2017-04-24T16:04:32+00:00

A dm-crypt on dm-integrity device incorrectly advertises an integrity
profile on the DM crypt device.  It can be seen in the files
"/sys/block/dm-*/integrity/*" that both dm-integrity and dm-crypt target
advertise the integrity profile.  That is incorrect, only the
dm-integrity target should advertise the integrity profile.

A general problem in DM is that if we have a DM device that depends on
another device with an integrity profile, the upper device will always
advertise the integrity profile, even when the target driver doesn't
support handling integrity data.

Most targets don't support integrity data, so we provide a whitelist of
targets that support it (linear, delay and striped).  The targets that
support passing integrity data to the lower device are marked with the
flag DM_TARGET_PASSES_INTEGRITY.  The DM core will now advertise
integrity data on a DM device only if all the targets support the
integrity data.

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

dm: add dax_device and dax_operations support

2017-04-20T18:57:52+00:00

Allocate a dax_device to represent the capacity of a device-mapper
instance. Provide a ->direct_access() method via the new dax_operations
indirection that mirrors the functionality of the current direct_access
support via block_device_operations.  Once fs/dax.c has been converted
to use dax_operations the old dm_blk_direct_access() will be removed.

A new helper dm_dax_get_live_target() is introduced to separate some of
the dm-specifics from the direct_access implementation.

This enabling is only for the top-level dm representation to upper
layers. Converting target direct_access implementations is deferred to a
separate patch.

Cc: Toshi Kani 
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams