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Mikulas Patocka
fa34ce7307 dm kcopyd: return client directly and not through a pointer
Return client directly from dm_kcopyd_client_create, not through a
parameter, making it consistent with dm_io_client_create.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:13 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
5f43ba2950 dm kcopyd: reserve fewer pages
Reserve just the minimum of pages needed to process one job.

Because we allocate pages from page allocator, we don't need to reserve
a large number of pages.  The maximum job size is SUB_JOB_SIZE and we
calculate the number of reserved pages based on this.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:11 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
bda8efec5c dm io: use fixed initial mempool size
Replace the arbitrary calculation of an initial io struct mempool size
with a constant.

The code calculated the number of reserved structures based on the request
size and used a "magic" multiplication constant of 4.  This patch changes
it to reserve a fixed number - itself still chosen quite arbitrarily.
Further testing might show if there is a better number to choose.

Note that if there is no memory pressure, we can still allocate an
arbitrary number of "struct io" structures.  One structure is enough to
process the whole request.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:09 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
d04714580f dm kcopyd: alloc pages from the main page allocator
This patch changes dm-kcopyd so that it allocates pages from the main
page allocator with __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY flags (so that it can
fail in case of memory pressure). If the allocation fails, dm-kcopyd
allocates pages from its own reserve.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:07 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
f99b55eec7 dm kcopyd: add gfp parm to alloc_pl
Introduce a parameter for gfp flags to alloc_pl() for use in following
patches.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:04 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
4cc1b4cffd dm kcopyd: remove superfluous page allocation spinlock
Remove the spinlock protecting the pages allocation.  The spinlock is only
taken on initialization or from single-threaded workqueue.  Therefore, the
spinlock is useless.

The spinlock is taken in kcopyd_get_pages and kcopyd_put_pages.

kcopyd_get_pages is only called from run_pages_job, which is only
called from process_jobs called from do_work.

kcopyd_put_pages is called from client_alloc_pages (which is initialization
function) or from run_complete_job. run_complete_job is only called from
process_jobs called from do_work.

Another spinlock, kc->job_lock is taken each time someone pushes or pops
some work for the worker thread.  Once we take kc->job_lock, we
guarantee that any written memory is visible to the other CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:02 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
c6ea41fbbe dm kcopyd: preallocate sub jobs to avoid deadlock
There's a possible theoretical deadlock in dm-kcopyd because multiple
allocations from the same mempool are required to finish a request.
Avoid this by preallocating sub jobs.

There is a mempool of 512 entries. Each request requires up to 9
entries from the mempool. If we have at least 57 concurrent requests
running, the mempool may overflow and mempool allocations may start
blocking until another entry is freed to the mempool. Because the same
thread is used to free entries to the mempool and allocate entries from
the mempool, this may result in a deadlock.

This patch changes it so that one mempool entry contains all 9 "struct
kcopyd_job" required to fulfill the whole request. The allocation is
done only once in dm_kcopyd_copy and no further mempool allocations are
done during request processing.

If dm_kcopyd_copy is not run in the completion thread, this
implementation is deadlock-free.

MIN_JOBS needs reducing accordingly and we've chosen to reduce it
further to 8.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:03:00 +01:00
Mikulas Patocka
a705a34a56 dm kcopyd: avoid pointless job splitting
Don't split SUB_JOB_SIZE jobs

If the job size equals SUB_JOB_SIZE, there is no point in splitting it.
Splitting it just unnecessarily wastes time, because the split job size
is SUB_JOB_SIZE too.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:02:58 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
6f13f6fba7 dm mpath: do not fail paths after integrity errors
Integrity errors need to be passed to the owner of the integrity
metadata for processing. Consequently EILSEQ should be passed up the
stack.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:02:55 +01:00
Milan Broz
f4808ca99a dm table: reject devices without request fns
This patch adds a check that a block device has a request function
defined before it is used.  Otherwise, misconfiguration can cause an oops.

Because we are allowing devices with zero size e.g. an offline multipath
device as in commit 2cd54d9bed
("dm: allow offline devices") there needs to be an additional check
to ensure devices are initialised.  Some block devices, like a loop
device without a backing file, exist but have no request function.

Reproducer is trivial: dm-mirror on unbound loop device
(no backing file on loop devices)

dmsetup create x --table "0 8 mirror core 2 8 sync 2 /dev/loop0 0 /dev/loop1 0"

and mirror resync will immediatelly cause OOps.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
 ? generic_make_request+0x2bd/0x590
 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xad/0x190
 submit_bio+0x53/0xe0
 ? bio_add_page+0x3b/0x50
 dispatch_io+0x1ca/0x210 [dm_mod]
 ? read_callback+0x0/0xd0 [dm_mirror]
 dm_io+0xbb/0x290 [dm_mod]
 do_mirror+0x1e0/0x748 [dm_mirror]

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 13:02:52 +01:00
Mike Snitzer
4c25932701 dm table: allow targets to support discards internally
Permit a target to support discards regardless of whether or not all its
underlying devices do.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29 12:52:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
57d19e80f4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
  Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
  cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
  Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
  doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
  perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
  md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
  treewide: fix a few typos in comments
  regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
  Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
  audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
  rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
  ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
  tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
  xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
  m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
  arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
  treewide: remove extra semicolons
  ...
2011-05-23 09:12:26 -07:00
NeilBrown
b098636cf0 md: allow resync_start to be set while an array is active.
The sysfs attribute 'resync_start' (known internally as recovery_cp),
records where a resync is up to.  A value of 0 means the array is
not known to be in-sync at all.  A value of MaxSector means the array
is believed to be fully in-sync.

When the size of member devices of an array (RAID1,RAID4/5/6) is
increased, the array can be increased to match.  This process sets
resync_start to the old end-of-device offset so that the new part of
the array gets resynced.

However with RAID1 (and RAID6) a resync is not technically necessary
and may be undesirable.  So it would be good if the implied resync
after the array is resized could be avoided.

So: change 'resync_start' so the value can be changed while the array
is active, and as a precaution only allow it to be changed while
resync/recovery is 'frozen'.  Changing it once resync has started is
not going to be useful anyway.

This allows the array to be resized without a resync by:
  write 'frozen' to 'sync_action'
  write new size to 'component_size' (this will set resync_start)
  write 'none' to 'resync_start'
  write 'idle' to 'sync_action'.

Also slightly improve some tests on recovery_cp when resizing
raid1/raid5.  Now that an arbitrary value could be set we should be
more careful in our tests.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 15:52:21 +10:00
NeilBrown
ab9d47e990 md/raid10: reformat some loops with less indenting.
When a loop ends with an 'if' with a large body, it is neater
to make the if 'continue' on the inverse condition, and then
the body is indented less.

Apply this pattern 3 times, and wrap some other long lines.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:54:41 +10:00
NeilBrown
f17ed07c85 md/raid10: remove unused variable.
This variable 'disk' is never used - how odd.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:54:32 +10:00
NeilBrown
a8830bcaf3 md/raid10: make more use of 'slot' in raid10d.
Now that we have a 'slot' variable, make better use of it to simplify
some code a little.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:54:19 +10:00
NeilBrown
7c4e06ff2b md/raid10: some tidying up in fix_read_error
Currently the rdev on which a read error happened could be removed
before we perform the fix_error handling.  This requires extra tests
for NULL.

So delay the rdev_dec_pending call until after the call to
fix_read_error so that we can be sure that the rdev still exists.

This allows an 'if' clause to be removed so the body gets re-indented
back one level.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:53:17 +10:00
NeilBrown
af6d7b760c md/raid1: improve handling of pages allocated for write-behind.
The current handling and freeing of these pages is a bit fragile.
We only keep the list of allocated pages in each bio, so we need to
still have a valid bio when freeing the pages, which is a bit clumsy.

So simply store the allocated page list in the r1_bio so it can easily
be found and freed when we are finished with the r1_bio.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:51:19 +10:00
NeilBrown
7ca78d57d1 md/raid1: try fix_sync_read_error before process_checks.
If we get a read error during resync/recovery we current repeat with
single-page reads to find out just where the error is, and possibly
read each page from a different device.

With check/repair we don't currently do that, we just fail.
However it is possible that while all devices fail on the large 64K
read, we might be able to satisfy each 4K from one device or another.

So call fix_sync_read_error before process_checks to maximise the
chance of finding good data and writing it out to the devices with
read errors.

For this to work, we need to set the 'uptodate' flags properly after
fix_sync_read_error has succeeded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:50:37 +10:00
NeilBrown
78d7f5f726 md/raid1: tidy up new functions: process_checks and fix_sync_read_error.
These changes are mostly cosmetic:

1/ change mddev->raid_disks to conf->raid_disks because the later is
   technically safer, though in current practice it doesn't matter in
   this particular context.
2/ Rearrange two for / if loops to have an early 'continue' so the
   body of the 'if' doesn't need to be indented so much.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:48:56 +10:00
NeilBrown
a68e587035 md/raid1: split out two sub-functions from sync_request_write
sync_request_write is too big and too deep.
So split out two self-contains bits of functionality into separate
function.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:40:44 +10:00
NeilBrown
6f8d0c77ce md: make error_handler functions more uniform and correct.
- there is no need to test_bit Faulty, as that was already done in
  md_error which is the only caller of these functions.
- MD_CHANGE_DEVS should be set *after* faulty is set to ensure
  metadata is updated correctly.
- spinlock should be held while updating ->degraded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:38:44 +10:00
NeilBrown
92f861a72a md/multipath: discard ->working_disks in favour of ->degraded
conf->working_disks duplicates information already available
in mddev->degraded.
So remove working_disks.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:38:02 +10:00
NeilBrown
76073054c9 md/raid1: clean up read_balance.
read_balance has two loops which both look for a 'best'
device based on slightly different criteria.
This is clumsy and makes is hard to add extra criteria.

So replace it all with a single loop that combines everything.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:34:56 +10:00
NeilBrown
56d9912106 md: simplify raid10 read_balance
raid10 read balance has two different loop for looking through
possible devices to chose the best.
Collapse those into one loop and generally make the code more
readable.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:27:03 +10:00
NeilBrown
8258c53208 md/bitmap: fix saving of events_cleared and other state.
If a bitmap is found to be 'stale' the events_cleared value
is set to match 'events'.
However if the array is degraded this does not get stored on disk.
This can subsequently lead to incorrect behaviour.

So change bitmap_update_sb to always update events_cleared in the
superblock from the known events_cleared.
For neatness also set ->state from ->flags.
This requires updating ->state whenever we update ->flags, which makes
sense anyway.

This is suitable for any active -stable release.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:26:30 +10:00
NeilBrown
bedd86b777 md: reject a re-add request that cannot be honoured.
The 'add_new_disk' ioctl can be used to add a device either as a
spare, or as an active disk that just needs to be resynced based on
write-intent-bitmap information (re-add)

Currently if a re-add is requested but fails we add as a spare
instead.  This makes it impossible for user-space to check for
failure.

So change to require that a re-add attempt will either succeed or
completely fail.  User-space can then decide what to do next.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:26:20 +10:00
NeilBrown
b0140891a8 md: Fix race when creating a new md device.
There is a race when creating an md device by opening /dev/mdXX.

If two processes do this at much the same time they will follow the
call path
  __blkdev_get -> get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup

The first will call
  -> md_probe -> md_alloc -> add_disk -> blk_register_region

and the race happens when the second gets to kobj_lookup after
add_disk has called blk_register_region but before it returns to
md_alloc.

In the case the second will not call md_probe (as the probe is already
done) but will get a handle on the gendisk, return to __blkdev_get
which will then call md_open (via the ->open) pointer.

As mddev->gendisk hasn't been set yet, md_open will think something is
wrong an return with ERESTARTSYS.

This can loop endlessly while the first thread makes no progress
through add_disk.  Nothing is blocking it, but due to scheduler
behaviour it doesn't get a turn.
So this is essentially a live-lock.

We fix this by simply moving the assignment to mddev->gendisk before
the call the add_disk() so md_open doesn't get confused.
Also move blk_queue_flush earlier because add_disk should be as late
as possible.

To make sure that md_open doesn't complete until md_alloc has done all
that is needed, we take mddev->open_mutex during the last part of
md_alloc.  md_open will wait for this.

This can cause a lock-up on boot so Cc:ing for stable.
For 2.6.36 and earlier a different patch will be needed as the
'blk_queue_flush' call isn't there.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-05-11 14:26:17 +10:00
Jesper Juhl
aeb878b096 md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
There's a small typo in a comment in drivers/md/raid5.c - 'Of course' is
misspelled as 'Ofcourse'. This patch fixes the spelling error.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-10 10:18:36 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
d76c8420c3 raid5: fix build error, sector_t usage
Change <sectors> from unsigned long long to sector_t.
This matches its source field.

  ERROR: "__udivdi3" [drivers/md/raid456.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-21 10:00:00 -07:00
Krzysztof Wojcik
fee68723cf md: Cleanup after raid45->raid0 takeover
Problem:
After raid4->raid0 takeover operation, another takeover operation
(e.g raid0->raid10) results "kernel oops".
Root cause:
Variables 'degraded' in mddev structure is not cleared
on raid45->raid0 takeover.

This patch reset this variable.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-20 15:39:53 +10:00
NeilBrown
3b71bd9337 md: Fix dev_sectors on takeover from raid0 to raid4/5
A raid0 array doesn't set 'dev_sectors' as each device might
contribute a different number of sectors.
So when converting to a RAID4 or RAID5 we need to set dev_sectors
as they need the number.
We have already verified that in fact all devices do contribute
the same number of sectors, so use that number.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-20 15:38:18 +10:00
NeilBrown
2b7da309ff md/raid5: remove setting of ->queue_lock
We previously needed to set ->queue_lock to match the raid5
device_lock so we could safely use queue_flag_* operations (e.g. for
plugging). which test the ->queue_lock is in fact locked.

However that need has completely gone away and is unlikely to come
back to remove this now-pointless setting.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-20 15:38:07 +10:00
NeilBrown
c3b328ac84 md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
We just need to make sure that an unplug event wakes up the md
thread, which is exactly what mddev_check_plugged does.

Also remove some plug-related code that is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:43 +10:00
NeilBrown
7c13edc875 md: incorporate new plugging into raid5.
In raid5 plugging is used for 2 things:
 1/ collecting writes that require a bitmap update
 2/ collecting writes in the hope that we can create full
    stripes - or at least more-full.

We now release these different sets of stripes when plug_cnt
is zero.

Also in make_request, we call mddev_check_plug to hopefully increase
plug_cnt, and wake up the thread at the end if plugging wasn't
achieved for some reason.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:43 +10:00
NeilBrown
97658cdd3a md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
When an md device adds a request to a queue, it can call
mddev_check_plugged.
If this succeeds then we know that the md thread will be woken up
shortly, and ->plug_cnt will be non-zero until then, so some
processing can be delayed.

If it fails, then no unplug callback is expected and the make_request
function needs to do whatever is required to make the request happen.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:42 +10:00
NeilBrown
482c083492 md - remove old plugging code.
md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the
normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when
called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available.

This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more.

So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5.  Subsequent patches
with restore the plugging functionality.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:42 +10:00
NeilBrown
af1db72d8b md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback.
Now that unplugging is done differently, the unplug_fn callback is
never called, so it can be completely discarded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:41 +10:00
NeilBrown
e1dfa0a297 md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
md/raid submits a lot of IO from the various raid threads.
So adding start/finish plug calls to those so that some
plugging happens.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:41 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
42933bac11 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
2011-04-07 11:14:49 -07:00
Mike Snitzer
a63a5cf84d dm: improve block integrity support
The current block integrity (DIF/DIX) support in DM is verifying that
all devices' integrity profiles match during DM device resume (which
is past the point of no return).  To some degree that is unavoidable
(stacked DM devices force this late checking).  But for most DM
devices (which aren't stacking on other DM devices) the ideal time to
verify all integrity profiles match is during table load.

Introduce the notion of an "initialized" integrity profile: a profile
that was blk_integrity_register()'d with a non-NULL 'blk_integrity'
template.  Add blk_integrity_is_initialized() to allow checking if a
profile was initialized.

Update DM integrity support to:
- check all devices with _initialized_ integrity profiles match
  during table load; uninitialized profiles (e.g. for underlying DM
  device(s) of a stacked DM device) are ignored.
- disallow a table load that would result in an integrity profile that
  conflicts with a DM device's existing (in-use) integrity profile
- avoid clearing an existing integrity profile
- validate all integrity profiles match during resume; but if they
  don't all we can do is report the mismatch (during resume we're past
  the point of no return)

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-05 23:52:43 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Martin K. Petersen
89078d572e md: Fix integrity registration error when no devices are capable
We incorrectly returned -EINVAL when none of the devices in the array
had an integrity profile.  This in turn prevented mdadm from starting
the metadevice.  Fix this so we only return errors on mismatched
profiles and memory allocation failures.

Reported-by: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-28 17:53:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
44bbd7ac26 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
  dm stripe: implement merge method
  dm mpath: allow table load with no priority groups
  dm mpath: fail message ioctl if specified path is not valid
  dm ioctl: add flag to wipe buffers for secure data
  dm ioctl: prepare for crypt key wiping
  dm crypt: wipe keys string immediately after key is set
  dm: add flakey target
  dm: fix opening log and cow devices for read only tables
2011-03-25 20:51:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Mustafa Mesanovic
2991520200 dm stripe: implement merge method
Implement a merge function in the striped target.

When the striped target's underlying devices provide a merge_bvec_fn
(like all DM devices do via dm_merge_bvec) it is important to call down
to them when building a biovec that doesn't span a stripe boundary.

Without the merge method, a striped DM device stacked on DM devices
causes bios with a single page to be submitted which results
in unnecessary overhead that hurts performance.

This change really helps filesystems (e.g. XFS and now ext4) which take
care to assemble larger bios.  By implementing stripe_merge(), DM and the
stripe target no longer undermine the filesystem's work by only allowing
a single page per bio.  Buffered IO sees the biggest improvement
(particularly uncached reads, buffered writes to a lesser degree).  This
is especially so for more capable "enterprise" storage LUNs.

The performance improvement has been measured to be ~12-35% -- when a
reasonable chunk_size is used (e.g. 64K) in conjunction with a stripe
count that is a power of 2.

In contrast, the performance penalty is ~5-7% for the pathological worst
case stripe configuration (small chunk_size with a stripe count that is
not a power of 2).  The reason for this is that stripe_map_sector() is
now called once for every call to dm_merge_bvec().  stripe_map_sector()
will use slower division if stripe count isn't a power of 2.

Signed-off-by: Mustafa Mesanovic <mume@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 13:54:35 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
a490a07a67 dm mpath: allow table load with no priority groups
This patch adjusts the multipath target to allow a table with both 0
priority groups and 0 for the initial priority group number.

If any mpath device is held open when all paths in the last priority
group have failed, userspace multipathd will attempt to reload the
associated DM table to reflect the fact that the device no longer has
any priority groups.  But the reload attempt always failed because the
multipath target did not allow 0 priority groups.

All multipath target messages related to priority group (enable_group,
disable_group, switch_group) will handle a priority group of 0 (will
cause error).

When reloading a multipath table with 0 priority groups, userspace
multipathd must be updated to specify an initial priority group number
of 0 (rather than 1).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@lsi.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 13:54:33 +00:00
Mike Snitzer
19040c0bc8 dm mpath: fail message ioctl if specified path is not valid
Fail the reinstate_path and fail_path message ioctl if the specified
path is not valid.

The message ioctl would succeed for the 'reinistate_path' and
'fail_path' messages even if action was not taken because the
specified device was not a valid path of the multipath device.

Before, when /dev/vdb is not a path of mpathb:
$ dmsetup message mpathb 0 reinstate_path /dev/vdb
$ echo $?
0

After:
$ dmsetup message mpathb 0 reinstate_path /dev/vdb
device-mapper: message ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Command failed
$ echo $?
1

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 13:54:31 +00:00
Milan Broz
f868120549 dm ioctl: add flag to wipe buffers for secure data
Add DM_SECURE_DATA_FLAG which userspace can use to ensure
that all buffers allocated for dm-ioctl are wiped
immediately after use.

The user buffer is wiped as well (we do not want to keep
and return sensitive data back to userspace if the flag is set).

Wiping is useful for cryptsetup to ensure that the key
is present in memory only in defined places and only
for the time needed.

(For crypt, key can be present in table during load or table
status, wait and message commands).

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 13:54:30 +00:00
Milan Broz
6bb43b5d1f dm ioctl: prepare for crypt key wiping
Prepare code for implementing buffer wipe flag.
No functional change in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-03-24 13:54:28 +00:00