Add functions that decide how many consecutive chunks of snapshot to
merge back into the origin next and to update the metadata afterwards.
prepare_merge provides a pointer to the most recent still-to-be-merged
chunk and returns how many previous ones are consecutive and can be
processed together.
commit_merge removes the nr_merged most-recent chunks permanently from
the exception store. The number must not exceed that returned by
prepare_merge.
Introduce NUM_SNAPSHOT_HDR_CHUNKS to show where the snapshot header
chunk is accounted for.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Store the reference to the snapshot cow device in the core snapshot
code instead of each exception store. It can be accessed through the
new function dm_snap_cow(). Exception stores should each now maintain a
reference to their parent snapshot struct.
This is cleaner and makes part of the forthcoming snapshot merge code simpler.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Add number of sectors used by metadata to the end of the snapshot's status
line.
Renamed dm_exception_store_type's 'fraction_full' to 'usage'. Renamed
arguments to be clearer about what is being returned. Also added
'metadata_sectors'.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The exception structure is not necessarily just a snapshot
element (especially after we pull it out of dm-snap.c).
Renaming appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Minor code touch-up. We don't need the 'else'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use unsigned integer chunk size.
Maximum chunk size is 512kB, there won't ever be need to use 4GB chunk size,
so the number can be 32-bit. This fixes compiler failure on 32-bit systems
with large block devices.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix some problems seen in the chunk size processing when activating a
pre-existing snapshot.
For a new snapshot, the chunk size can either be supplied by the creator
or a default value can be used. For an existing snapshot, the
chunk size in the snapshot header on disk should always be used.
If someone attempts to load an existing snapshot and has the 'default
chunk size' option set, the kernel uses its default value even when it
is incorrect for the snapshot being loaded. This patch ensures the
correct on-disk value is always used.
Secondly, when the code does use the chunk size stored on the disk it is
prudent to revalidate it, so the code can exit cleanly if it got
corrupted as happened in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461506 .
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If a persistent snapshot fills up, a race can corrupt the on-disk header
which causes a crash on any future attempt to activate the snapshot
(typically while booting). This patch fixes the race.
When the snapshot overflows, __invalidate_snapshot is called, which calls
snapshot store method drop_snapshot. It goes to persistent_drop_snapshot that
calls write_header. write_header constructs the new header in the "area"
location.
Concurrently, an existing kcopyd job may finish, call copy_callback
and commit_exception method, that goes to persistent_commit_exception.
persistent_commit_exception doesn't do locking, relying on the fact that
callbacks are single-threaded, but it can race with snapshot invalidation and
overwrite the header that is just being written while the snapshot is being
invalidated.
The result of this race is a corrupted header being written that can
lead to a crash on further reactivation (if chunk_size is zero in the
corrupted header).
The fix is to use separate memory areas for each.
See the bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461506
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Refactor chunk_io to prepare for the fix in the following patch.
Pass an area pointer to chunk_io and simplify zero_disk_area to use
chunk_io. No functional change.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Send barrier requests when updating the exception area.
Exception area updates need to be ordered w.r.t. data writes, so that
the writes are not reordered in hardware disk cache.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.
This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The persistent exception store destructor does not properly
account for all conditions in which it can be called. If it
is called after 'ctr' but before 'read_metadata' (e.g. if
something else in 'snapshot_ctr' fails) then it will attempt
to free areas of memory that haven't been allocated yet.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Let the exception store types print out their status through
the new API, rather than having the snapshot code do it.
Adjust the buffer position to allow for the preceding DMEMIT in the
arguments to type->status().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move useful functions out of dm-snap.h and stop using dm-snap.h.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move COW device from snapshot to exception store.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move chunk fields from snapshot to exception store.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Supply dm_add_exception as a callback to the read_metadata function.
Add a status function ready for a later patch and name the functions
consistently.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move the existing snapshot exception store implementations out into
separate files. Later patches will place these behind a new
interface in preparation for alternative implementations.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
