The IO accounting of the drbd "queue depth" was misleading.
We only started IO accounting once we already wrote the activity log.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Depending on current IO depth, try to consolidate as many updates
as possible into one activity log transaction.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To make the code easier to follow,
use an explicit find_active_resync_extent(),
and add a "nonblock" parameter to _al_get().
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This is in preparation to be able to defer requests that need to wait
for an activity log transaction to a submitter workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
A request hitting an already "hot" extent should proceed right away,
even if some other requests need to wait for pending transactions.
Without that short-circuit, several simultaneous make_request contexts
race for committing the transaction, possibly penalizing the innocent.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
We used to calculate all on-disk meta data offsets, and then compare
the stored offsets, basically treating them as magic numbers.
Now with the activity log striping, the activity log size is no longer
fixed. We need to first read the super block, then base the activity
log and bitmap offsets on the stored offsets/al stripe settings.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Now we have the cached meta_dev_idx member,
we can get rid of a few rcu_read_lock() sections and rcu_dereference().
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Introduce two new on-disk meta data fields: al_stripes and al_stripe_size_4k
The intended use case is activity log on RAID 0 or similar.
Logically consecutive transactions will advance their on-disk position
by al_stripe_size_4k 4kB (transaction sized) blocks.
Right now, these are still asserted to be the backward compatible
values al_stripes = 1, al_stripe_size_4k = 8 (which amounts to 32kB).
Also introduce a caching member for meta_dev_idx in the in-core
structure: even though it is initially passed in in the rcu-protected
disk_conf structure, it cannot change without a detach/attach cycle.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Add a comment about our meta data layout variants,
and rename a few defines (e.g. MD_RESERVED_SECT -> MD_128MB_SECT)
to make it clear that they are short hand for fixed constants,
and not arbitrarily to be redefined as one may see fit.
Properly pad struct meta_data_on_disk to 4kB,
and initialize to zero not only the first 512 Byte,
but all of it in drbd_md_sync().
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This fixes ASSERT( mdev->state.disk == D_FAILED ) in drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
When we detach from local disk, we let the local refcount hit zero twice.
First, we transition to D_FAILED, so we won't give out new references
to incoming requests; we still may give out *internal* references, though.
Once the refcount hits zero [1] while in D_FAILED, we queue a transition
to D_DISKLESS to our worker. We need to queue it, because we may be in
atomic context when putting the reference.
Once the transition to D_DISKLESS actually happened [2] from worker context,
we don't give out new internal references either.
Between hitting zero the first time [1] and actually transition to
D_DISKLESS [2], there may be a few very short lived internal get/put,
so we may hit zero more than once while being in D_FAILED, or even see a
race where a an internal get_ldev() happened while D_FAILED, but the
corresponding put_ldev() happens just after the transition to D_DISKLESS.
That's why we have the additional test_and_set_bit(GO_DISKLESS,);
and that's why the assert was placed wrong.
Since there was exactly one code path left to drbd_go_diskless(),
and that checks already for D_FAILED, drop that assert,
and fold in the drbd_queue_work().
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull NVMe driver update from Matthew Wilcox:
"These patches have mostly been baking for a few months; sorry I didn't
get them in during the merge window. They're all bug fixes, except
for the addition of the SMART log and the addition to MAINTAINERS."
* git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-nvme:
NVMe: Add namespaces with no LBA range feature
MAINTAINERS: Add entry for the NVMe driver
NVMe: Initialize iod nents to 0
NVMe: Define SMART log
NVMe: Add result to nvme_get_features
NVMe: Set result from user admin command
NVMe: End queued bio requests when freeing queue
NVMe: Free cmdid on nvme_submit_bio error
The LBA Range Type feature is optional in the NVMe specification,
so we should continue with adding namespaces for controllers that do
not implement this feature.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Any partitions added by user space to the loop device were being
left in place after detaching the loop device. This was because
the detach path issued a BLKRRPART to clean up partitions if
LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN was set, meaning that the partitions were auto
scanned on attach. Replace this BLKRRPART with code that
unconditionally cleans up partitions on detach instead.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Modified by Jens to export delete_partition().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case, as returned elsewhere in this function.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case instead of 0, as returned elsewhere in this function.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Konrad writes:
[the branch] has a bunch of fixes. They vary from being able to deal
with unknown requests, overflow in statistics, compile warnings, bug in
the error path, removal of unnecessary logic. There is also one
performance fix - which is to allocate pages for requests when the
driver loads - instead of doing it per request
It's simply a flag as to whether we have data now, so make it an
explicit function parameter rather than a member of struct
virtblk_req.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
(This is a respin of Paolo Bonzini's patch, but it calls
virtqueue_add_sgs() instead of his multi-part API).
This is similar to the previous patch, but a bit more radical
because the bio and req paths now share the buffer construction
code. Because the req path doesn't use vbr->sg, however, we
need to add a couple of arguments to __virtblk_add_req.
We also need to teach __virtblk_add_req how to build SCSI command
requests.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
(This is a respin of Paolo Bonzini's patch, but it calls
virtqueue_add_sgs() instead of his multi-part API).
Move the creation of the request header and response footer to
__virtblk_add_req. vbr->sg only contains the data scatterlist,
the header/footer are added separately using virtqueue_add_sgs().
With this change, virtio-blk (with use_bio) is not relying anymore on
the virtio functions ignoring the end markers in a scatterlist.
The next patch will do the same for the other path.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Right now, both virtblk_add_req and virtblk_add_req_wait call
virtqueue_add_buf. To prepare for the next patches, abstract the call
to virtqueue_add_buf into a new function __virtblk_add_req, and include
the waiting logic directly in virtblk_add_req.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We already have the frame (pfn of the grant page) stored inside struct
grant, so there's no need to keep an aditional list of mapped frames
for a specific request. This reduces memory usage in blkfront.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
This prevents us from having to call alloc_page while we are preparing
the request. Since blkfront was calling alloc_page with a spinlock
held we used GFP_ATOMIC, which can fail if we are requesting a lot of
pages since it is using the emergency memory pools.
Allocating all the pages at init prevents us from having to call
alloc_page, thus preventing possible failures.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
dev_bus_addr returned in the grant ref map operation is the mfn of the
passed page, there's no need to store it in the persistent grant
entry, since we can always get it provided that we have the page.
This reduces the memory overhead of persistent grants in blkback.
While at it, rename the 'seg[i].buf' to be 'seg[i].offset' as
it makes much more sense - as we use that value in bio_add_page
which as the fourth argument expects the offset.
We hadn't used the physical address as part of this at all.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
[v1: s/buf/offset/]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The git commit f84adf4921
(xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe)
was a stop-gate to fix a GCC4.1 bug. The appropiate way
is to actually use an list instead of using an llist.
As such this patch replaces the usage of llist with an
list.
Since we always manipulate the list while holding the io_lock, there's
no need for additional locking (llist used previously is safe to use
concurrently without additional locking).
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
[v1: Redid the git commit description]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The benefits are:
* code is cleaner
* kmemdup adds additional debugging info useful for tracking the real
place where memory was allocated (CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB).
Signed-off-by: Mihnea Dobrescu-Balaur <mihneadb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Commit 7708992 ("xen/blkback: Seperate the bio allocation and the bio
submission") consolidated the pendcnt updates to just a single write,
neglecting the fact that the error path relied on it getting set to 1
up front (such that the decrement in __end_block_io_op() would actually
drop the count to zero, triggering the necessary cleanup actions).
Also remove a misleading and a stale (after said commit) comment.
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Changes in v2 include:
o Fixed spelling of guarantee.
o Fixed potential memory leak if slot reset fails out.
o Changed list_for_each_entry_safe with list_for_each_entry.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When virtio-blk device is resized from host (using block_resize from QEMU) emit
KOBJ_CHANGE uevent to notify guest about such change. This allows user to have
custom udev rules which would take whatever action if such event occurs. As a
proof of concept I've created simple udev rule that automatically resize
filesystem on virtio-blk device.
ACTION=="change", KERNEL=="vd*", \
ENV{RESIZE}=="1", \
ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="ext[3-4]", \
RUN+="/sbin/resize2fs /dev/%k"
ACTION=="change", KERNEL=="vd*", \
ENV{RESIZE}=="1", \
ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}=="LVM2_member", \
RUN+="/sbin/pvresize /dev/%k"
Signed-off-by: Milos Vyletel <milos.vyletel@sde.cz>
Tested-by: Asias He <asias@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (minor simplification)
This patch includes a simple change to the rsxx_pci_remove
function that caused error messages because traffic was halted
too early.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch includes changing the hardware branding name from
IBM RamSan to IBM FlashSystem.
v2 Changes include:
o Removing the unnecessary IBM Vendor ID #define
v1 Changes include:
o Changed all references of RamSan to FlashSystem.
o Changed the vendor/device IDs for the product.
o Changed driver version number.
o Updated the MAINTAINERS file.
o Various other little things.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch includes changes to the cregs locking scheme. Before,
inconsistant locking would occur because of misuse of spin_lock,
spin_lock_bh, and counter parts.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This patch includes trivial changes that were recommended by
different members of the Linux Community.
Changes include:
o Removing the redundant wmb().
o Formatting
o Various other little things.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
These values shouldn't be negative, but after an overflow their value
can turn into negative, if they are signed. xentop can show bogus
values in this case.
Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss <zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Ichiro Ogino <ichiro.ogino@citrix.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If the frontend is using a non-native protocol (e.g., a 64-bit
frontend with a 32-bit backend) and it sent an unrecognized request,
the request was not translated and the response would have the
incorrect ID. This may cause the frontend driver to behave
incorrectly or crash.
Since the ID field in the request is always in the same place,
regardless of the request type we can get the correct ID and make a
valid response (which will report BLKIF_RSP_EOPNOTSUPP).
This bug affected 64-bit SLES 11 guests when using a 32-bit backend.
This guest does a BLKIF_OP_RESERVED_1 (BLKIF_OP_PACKET in the SLES
source) and would crash in blkif_int() as the ID in the response would
be invalid.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If call xen_vbd_translate failed, the preq.dev will be not initialized.
Use blkif->vbd.pdevice instead (still better to print relative info).
Note that before commit 01c681d4c7
(xen/blkback: Don't trust the handle from the frontend.)
the value bogus, as it was the guest provided value from req->u.rw.handle
rather than the actual device.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Pull Ceph updates from Sage Weil:
"A few groups of patches here. Alex has been hard at work improving
the RBD code, layout groundwork for understanding the new formats and
doing layering. Most of the infrastructure is now in place for the
final bits that will come with the next window.
There are a few changes to the data layout. Jim Schutt's patch fixes
some non-ideal CRUSH behavior, and a set of patches from me updates
the client to speak a newer version of the protocol and implement an
improved hashing strategy across storage nodes (when the server side
supports it too).
A pair of patches from Sam Lang fix the atomicity of open+create
operations. Several patches from Yan, Zheng fix various mds/client
issues that turned up during multi-mds torture tests.
A final set of patches expose file layouts via virtual xattrs, and
allow the policies to be set on directories via xattrs as well
(avoiding the awkward ioctl interface and providing a consistent
interface for both kernel mount and ceph-fuse users)."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client: (143 commits)
libceph: add support for HASHPSPOOL pool flag
libceph: update osd request/reply encoding
libceph: calculate placement based on the internal data types
ceph: update support for PGID64, PGPOOL3, OSDENC protocol features
ceph: update "ceph_features.h"
libceph: decode into cpu-native ceph_pg type
libceph: rename ceph_pg -> ceph_pg_v1
rbd: pass length, not op for osd completions
rbd: move rbd_osd_trivial_callback()
libceph: use a do..while loop in con_work()
libceph: use a flag to indicate a fault has occurred
libceph: separate non-locked fault handling
libceph: encapsulate connection backoff
libceph: eliminate sparse warnings
ceph: eliminate sparse warnings in fs code
rbd: eliminate sparse warnings
libceph: define connection flag helpers
rbd: normalize dout() calls
rbd: barriers are hard
rbd: ignore zero-length requests
...
Pull block driver bits from Jens Axboe:
"After the block IO core bits are in, please grab the driver updates
from below as well. It contains:
- Fix ancient regression in dac960. Nobody must be using that
anymore...
- Some good fixes from Guo Ghao for loop, fixing both potential
oopses and deadlocks.
- Improve mtip32xx for NUMA systems, by being a bit more clever in
distributing work.
- Add IBM RamSan 70/80 driver. A second round of fixes for that is
pending, that will come in through for-linus during the 3.9 cycle
as per usual.
- A few xen-blk{back,front} fixes from Konrad and Roger.
- Other minor fixes and improvements."
* 'for-3.9/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
loopdev: ignore negative offset when calculate loop device size
loopdev: remove an user triggerable oops
loopdev: move common code into loop_figure_size()
loopdev: update block device size in loop_set_status()
loopdev: fix a deadlock
xen-blkback: use balloon pages for persistent grants
xen-blkfront: drop the use of llist_for_each_entry_safe
xen/blkback: Don't trust the handle from the frontend.
xen-blkback: do not leak mode property
block: IBM RamSan 70/80 driver fixes
rsxx: add slab.h include to dma.c
drivers/block/mtip32xx: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
block: remove new __devinit/exit annotations on ramsam driver
block: IBM RamSan 70/80 device driver
drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:1726:5: sparse: symbol 'mtip_send_trim' was not declared. Should it be static?
drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c:4029:1: sparse: symbol 'mtip_workq_sdbf0' was not declared. Should it be static?
dac960: return success instead of -ENOTTY
mtip32xx: add trim support
mtip32xx: Add workqueue and NUMA support
block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
"Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9. It was delayed a few days
since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
by zero, will report separately). In any case, it contains:
- The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.
- Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.
- Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
flushing.
- _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
properly.
- Various little fixes.
You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
fix up"
Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").
* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
writeback: add more tracepoints
block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
block: RCU free request_queue
blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
...
I just fixed this in "drivers/block/rbd.c" and I noticed that
"drivers/block/nbd.c" has the same problem. Fix a warning issued by
sparse by adding some lockdep annotations to indicate the queue lock gets
dropped (because it's held when do_nbd_request() is called) and
re-acquired within the function.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@us.sios.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are two problems with shutdown in the NBD driver.
1: Receiving the NBD_DISCONNECT ioctl does not sync the filesystem.
This patch adds the sync operation into __nbd_ioctl()'s
NBD_DISCONNECT handler. This is useful because BLKFLSBUF is restricted
to processes that have CAP_SYS_ADMIN, and the NBD client may not
possess it (fsync of the block device does not sync the filesystem,
either).
2: Once we clear the socket we have no guarantee that later reads will
come from the same backing storage.
The patch adds calls to kill_bdev() in __nbd_ioctl()'s socket
clearing code so the page cache is cleaned, lest reads that hit on the
page cache will return stale data from the previously-accessible disk.
Example:
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sr0
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
# qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
# qemu-nbd -r -c/dev/nbd0 /dev/sda
# file -s /dev/nbd0
/dev/stdin: # UDF filesystem data (version 1.5) etc.
While /dev/sda has:
# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; etc.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the NBD device does not accept flush requests from the Linux
block layer. If the NBD server opened the target with neither O_SYNC nor
O_DSYNC, however, the device will be effectively backed by a writeback
cache. Without issuing flushes properly, operation of the NBD device will
not be safe against power losses.
The NBD protocol has support for both a cache flush command and a FUA
command flag; the server will also pass a flag to note its support for
these features. This patch adds support for the cache flush command and
flag. In the kernel, we receive the flags via the NBD_SET_FLAGS ioctl,
and map NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH to the argument of blk_queue_flush. When the
flag is active the block layer will send REQ_FLUSH requests, which we
translate to NBD_CMD_FLUSH commands.
FUA support is not included in this patch because all free software
servers implement it with a full fdatasync; thus it has no advantage over
supporting flush only. Because I [Paolo] cannot really benchmark it in a
realistic scenario, I cannot tell if it is a good idea or not. It is also
not clear if it is valid for an NBD server to support FUA but not flush.
The Linux block layer gives a warning for this combination, the NBD
protocol documentation says nothing about it.
The patch also fixes a small problem in the handling of flags: nbd->flags
must be cleared at the end of NBD_DO_IT, but the driver was not doing
that. The bug manifests itself as follows. Suppose you two different
client/server pairs to start the NBD device. Suppose also that the first
client supports NBD_SET_FLAGS, and the first server sends
NBD_FLAG_SEND_FLUSH; the second pair instead does neither of these two
things. Before this patch, the second invocation of NBD_DO_IT will use a
stale value of nbd->flags, and the second server will issue an error every
time it receives an NBD_CMD_FLUSH command.
This bug is pre-existing, but it becomes much more important after this
patch; flush failures make the device pretty much unusable, unlike
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Acked-by: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
