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NeilBrown
7bfec5f35c md/raid5: If there is a spare and a want_replacement device, start replacement.
When attempting to add a spare to a RAID[456] array, also consider
adding it as a replacement for a want_replacement device.

This requires that common md code attempt hot_add even when the array
is not formally degraded.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:53 +11:00
NeilBrown
17045f52ac md/raid5: recognise replacements when assembling array.
If a Replacement is seen, file it as such.

If we see two replacements (or two normal devices) for the one slot,
abort.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:53 +11:00
NeilBrown
dd054fce88 md/raid5: handle activation of replacement device when recovery completes.
When recovery completes - as reported by a call to ->spare_active,
we clear In_sync on the original and set it on the replacement.

Then when the original gets removed we move the replacement from
'replacement' to 'rdev'.

This could race with other code that is looking at these pointers,
so we use memory barriers and careful ordering to ensure that
a reader might see one device twice, but never no devices.
Then the readers guard against using both devices, which could
only happen when writing.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:53 +11:00
NeilBrown
9a3e1101b8 md/raid5: detect and handle replacements during recovery.
During recovery we want to write to the replacement but not
the original.  So we have two new flags
 - R5_NeedReplace if this stripe has a replacement that needs to
   be written at some stage
 - R5_WantReplace if NeedReplace, and the data is available, and
   a 'sync' has been requested on this stripe.

We also distinguish between 'sync and replace' which need to read
all other devices, and 'replace' which only needs to read the
devices being replaced.

Note that during resync we always write to any replacement device.
It might not need to be written to, but as we don't read to compare,
we have to write to be sure.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:53 +11:00
NeilBrown
977df36255 md/raid5: writes should get directed to replacement as well as original.
When writing, we need to submit two writes, one to the original, and
one to the replacement - if there is a replacement.

If the write to the replacement results in a write error, we just fail
the device.  We only try to record write errors to the original.

When writing for recovery, we shouldn't write to the original.  This
will be addressed in a subsequent patch that generally addresses
recovery.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:53 +11:00
NeilBrown
657e3e4d88 md/raid5: allow removal for failed replacement devices.
Enhance raid5_remove_disk to be able to remove ->replacement
as well as ->rdev.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:52 +11:00
NeilBrown
14a75d3e07 md/raid5: preferentially read from replacement device if possible.
If a replacement device is present and has been recovered far enough,
then use it for reading into the stripe cache.

If we get an error we don't try to repair it, we just fail the device.
A replacement device that gives errors does not sound sensible.

This requires removing the setting of R5_ReadError when we get
a read error during a read that bypasses the cache.  It was probably
a bad idea anyway as we don't know that every block in the read
caused an error, and it could cause ReadError to be set for the
replacement device, which is bad.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:52 +11:00
NeilBrown
995c4275a7 md/raid5: remove redundant bio initialisations.
We current initialise some fields of a bio when preparing a
stripe_head, and again just before submitting the request.

Remove the duplication by only setting the fields that lower level
devices don't touch in raid5_build_block, and only set the changeable
fields in ops_run_io.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:52 +11:00
NeilBrown
ede7ee8b4d md/raid5: raid5.h cleanup
Remove some #defines that are no longer used, and replace some
others with an enum.
And remove an unused field.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:52 +11:00
NeilBrown
671488cc25 md/raid5: allow each slot to have an extra replacement device
Just enhance data structures to record a second device per slot to be
used as a 'replacement' device, replacing the original.
We also have a second bio in each slot in each stripe_head.  This will
only be used when writing to the array - we need to write to both the
original and the replacement at the same time, so will need two bios.

For now, only try using the replacement drive for aligned-reads.
In this case, we prefer the replacement if it has been recovered far
enough, otherwise use the original.

This includes a small enhancement.  Previously we would only do
aligned reads if the target device was fully recovered.  Now we also
do them if it has recovered far enough.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:52 +11:00
NeilBrown
2d78f8c451 md: create externally visible flags for supporting hot-replace.
hot-replace is a feature being added to md which will allow a
device to be replaced without removing it from the array first.

With hot-replace a spare can be activated and recovery can start while
the original device is still in place, thus allowing a transition from
an unreliable device to a reliable device without leaving the array
degraded during the transition.  It can also be use when the original
device is still reliable but it not wanted for some reason.

This will eventually be supported in RAID4/5/6 and RAID10.

This patch adds a super-block flag to distinguish the replacement
device.  If an old kernel sees this flag it will reject the device.

It also adds two per-device flags which are viewable and settable via
sysfs.
   "want_replacement" can be set to request that a device be replaced.
   "replacement" is set to show that this device is replacing another
   device.

The "rd%d" links in /sys/block/mdXx/md only apply to the original
device, not the replacement.  We currently don't make links for the
replacement - there doesn't seem to be a need.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:51 +11:00
NeilBrown
b8321b68d1 md: change hot_remove_disk to take an rdev rather than a number.
Soon an array will be able to have multiple devices with the
same raid_disk number (an original and a replacement).  So removing
a device based on the number won't work.  So pass the actual device
handle instead.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:51 +11:00
NeilBrown
476a7abb9b md: remove test for duplicate device when setting slot number.
When setting the slot number on a device in an active array we
currently check that the number is not already in use.
We then call into the personality's hot_add_disk function
which performs the same test and returns the same error.

Thus the common test is not needed.

As we will shortly be changing some personalities to allow duplicates
in some cases (to support hot-replace), the common test will become
inconvenient.

So remove the common test.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:51 +11:00
NeilBrown
915c420ddf md/bitmap: be more consistent when setting new bits in memory bitmap.
For each active region corresponding to a bit in the bitmap with have
a 14bit counter (and some flags).
This counts
   number of active writes + bit in the on-disk bitmap + delay-needed.

The "delay-needed" is because we always want a delay before clearing a
bit.  So the number here is normally number of active writes plus 2.
If there have been no writes for a while, we drop to 1.
If still no writes we clear the bit and drop to 0.

So for consistency, when setting bit from the on-disk bitmap or by
request from user-space it is best to set the counter to '2' to start
with.

In particular we might also set the NEEDED_MASK flag at this time, and
in all other cases NEEDED_MASK is only set when the counter is 2 or
more.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:51 +11:00
NeilBrown
908f4fbd26 md/raid5: be more thorough in calculating 'degraded' value.
When an array is being reshaped to change the number of devices,
the two halves can be differently degraded.  e.g. one could be
missing a device and the other not.

So we need to be more careful about calculating the 'degraded'
attribute.

Instead of just inc/dec at appropriate times, perform a full
re-calculation examining both possible cases.  This doesn't happen
often so it not a big cost, and we already have most of the code to
do it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:50 +11:00
NeilBrown
2e61ebbcc4 md/bitmap: daemon_work cleanup.
We have a variable 'mddev' in this function, but repeatedly get the
same value by dereferencing bitmap->mddev.
There is room for simplification here...

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:50 +11:00
NeilBrown
506c9e44a8 md: allow non-privileged uses to GET_*_INFO about raid arrays.
The info is already available in /proc/mdstat and /sys/block in
an accessible form so there is no point in putting a road-block in
the ioctl for information gathering.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 10:17:26 +11:00
NeilBrown
961902c0f8 md/bitmap: It is OK to clear bits during recovery.
commit d0a4bb4927 introduced a
regression which is annoying but fairly harmless.

When writing to an array that is undergoing recovery (a spare
in being integrated into the array), writing to the array will
set bits in the bitmap, but they will not be cleared when the
write completes.

For bits covering areas that have not been recovered yet this is not a
problem as the recovery will clear the bits.  However bits set in
already-recovered region will stay set and never be cleared.
This doesn't risk data integrity.  The only negatives are:
 - next time there is a crash, more resyncing than necessary will
   be done.
 - the bitmap doesn't look clean, which is confusing.

While an array is recovering we don't want to update the
'events_cleared' setting in the bitmap but we do still want to clear
bits that have very recently been set - providing they were written to
the recovering device.

So split those two needs - which previously both depended on 'success'
and always clear the bit of the write went to all devices.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 09:57:48 +11:00
NeilBrown
60fc13702a md: don't give up looking for spares on first failure-to-add
Before performing a recovery we try to remove any spares that
might not be working, then add any that might have become relevant.

Currently we abort on the first spare that cannot be added.
This is a false optimisation.
It is conceivable that - depending on rules in the personality - a
subsequent spare might be accepted.
Also the loop does other things like count the available spares and
reset the 'recovery_offset' value.

If we abort early these might not happen properly.

So remove the early abort.

In particular if you have an array what is undergoing recovery and
which has extra spares, then the recovery may not restart after as
reboot as the could of 'spares' might end up as zero.

Reported-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 09:57:19 +11:00
NeilBrown
30d7a48368 md/raid5: ensure correct assessment of drives during degraded reshape.
While reshaping a degraded array (as when reshaping a RAID0 by first
converting it to a degraded RAID4) we currently get confused about
which devices are in_sync.  In most cases we get it right, but in the
region that is being reshaped we need to treat non-failed devices as
in-sync when we have the data but haven't actually written it out yet.

Reported-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 09:57:00 +11:00
NeilBrown
09cd9270ea md/linear: fix hot-add of devices to linear arrays.
commit d70ed2e4fa
broke hot-add to a linear array.
After that commit, metadata if not written to devices until they
have been fully integrated into the array as determined by
saved_raid_disk.  That patch arranged to clear that field after
a recovery completed.

However for linear arrays, there is no recovery - the integration is
instantaneous.  So we need to explicitly clear the saved_raid_disk
field.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-23 09:56:55 +11:00
Adam Kwolek
5d8c71f9e5 md: raid5 crash during degradation
NULL pointer access causes crash in raid5 module.

Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-09 14:26:11 +11:00
NeilBrown
9283d8c5af md/raid5: never wait for bad-block acks on failed device.
Once a device is failed we really want to completely ignore it.
It should go away soon anyway.

In particular the presence of bad blocks on it should not cause us to
block as we won't be trying to write there anyway.

So as soon as we can check if a device is Faulty, do so and pretend
that it is already gone if it is Faulty.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-08 16:27:57 +11:00
NeilBrown
8bd2f0a05b md: ensure new badblocks are handled promptly.
When we mark blocks as bad we need them to be acknowledged by the
metadata handler promptly.

For an in-kernel metadata handler that was already being done.  But
for an external metadata handler we need to alert it of the change by
sending a notification through the sysfs file.  This adds that
notification.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-08 16:26:08 +11:00
NeilBrown
52c64152a9 md: bad blocks shouldn't cause a Blocked status on a Faulty device.
Once a device is marked Faulty the badblocks - whether acknowledged or
not - become irrelevant.  So they shouldn't cause the device to be
marked as Blocked.

Without this patch, a process might write "-blocked" to clear the
Blocked status, but while that will correctly fail the device, it
won't remove the apparent 'blocked' status.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-08 16:22:48 +11:00
NeilBrown
af8a24347f md: take a reference to mddev during sysfs access.
When we are accessing an mddev via sysfs we know that the
mddev cannot disappear because it has an embedded kobj which
is refcounted by sysfs.
And we also take the mddev_lock.
However this is not enough.

The final mddev_put could have been called and the
mddev_delayed_delete is waiting for sysfs to let go so it can destroy
the kobj and mddev.
In this state there are a lot of changes that should not be attempted.

To to guard against this we:
 - initialise mddev->all_mddevs in on last put so the state can be
   easily detected.
 - in md_attr_show and md_attr_store, check ->all_mddevs under
   all_mddevs_lock and mddev_get the mddev if it still appears to
   be active.

This means that if we get to sysfs as the mddev is being deleted we
will get -EBUSY.

rdev_attr_store and rdev_attr_show are similar but already have
sufficient protection.  They check that rdev->mddev still points to
mddev after taking mddev_lock.  As this is cleared  before delayed
removal which can only be requested under the mddev_lock, this
ensure the rdev and mddev are still alive.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-08 15:49:46 +11:00
NeilBrown
1d23f178d5 md: refine interpretation of "hold_active == UNTIL_IOCTL".
We like md devices to disappear when they really are not needed.
However it is not possible to tell from the current state whether it
is needed or not.  We can only tell from recent history of changes.

In particular immediately after we create an md device it looks very
similar to immediately after we have finished with it.

So we always preserve a newly created md device until something
significant happens.  This state is stored in 'hold_active'.

The normal case is to keep it until an ioctl happens, as that will
normally either activate it, or explicitly de-activate it.  If it
doesn't then it was probably created by mistake and it is now time to
get rid of it.

We can also modify an array via sysfs (instead of via ioctl) and we
currently treat any change via sysfs like an ioctl as a sign that if
it now isn't more active, it should be destroyed.
However this is not appropriate as changes made via sysfs are more
gradual so we should look for a more definitive change.

So this patch only clears 'hold_active' from UNTIL_IOCTL to clear when
the array_state is changed via sysfs.  Other changes via sysfs
are ignored.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-12-08 15:49:12 +11:00
NeilBrown
7c8f424798 md/lock: ensure updates to page_attrs are properly locked.
Page attributes are set using __set_bit rather than set_bit as
it normally called under a spinlock so the extra atomicity is not
needed.

However there are two places where we might set or clear page
attributes without holding the spinlock.
So add the spinlock in those cases.

This might be the cause of occasional reports that bits a aren't
getting clear properly - theory is that BITMAP_PAGE_PENDING gets lost
when BITMAP_PAGE_NEEDWRITE is set or cleared.  This is an
inconvenience, not a threat to data safety.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-11-23 10:18:52 +11:00
Dan Williams
257a4b42af md/raid5: STRIPE_ACTIVE has lock semantics, add barriers
All updates that occur under STRIPE_ACTIVE should be globally visible
when STRIPE_ACTIVE clears.  test_and_set_bit() implies a barrier, but
clear_bit() does not.

This is suitable for 3.1-stable.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-11-08 16:22:06 +11:00
NeilBrown
9a3f530f39 md/raid5: abort any pending parity operations when array fails.
When the number of failed devices exceeds the allowed number
we must abort any active parity operations (checks or updates) as they
are no longer meaningful, and can lead to a BUG_ON in
handle_parity_checks6.

This bug was introduce by commit 6c0069c0ae
in 2.6.29.

Reported-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-11-08 16:22:01 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
a84450604d device-mapper: using EXPORT_SYBOL in dm-space-map-checker.c needs export.h
Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-07 10:29:10 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
6f66263f8e device-mapper: dm-bufio.c needs to include module.h
since it uses the module facilities.

Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-07 10:29:10 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker
1944ce60fe drivers/md: change module.h -> export.h in persistent-data/dm-*
For the files which are not themselves modular, we can change
them to include only the smaller export.h since all they are
doing is looking for EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-07 10:29:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b4fdcb02f1 Merge branch 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
* 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (29 commits)
  block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
  blk-throttle: use queue_is_locked() instead of lockdep_is_held()
  blk-throttle: Take blkcg->lock while traversing blkcg->policy_list
  blk-throttle: Free up policy node associated with deleted rule
  block: warn if tag is greater than real_max_depth.
  block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue
  blk-flush: move the queue kick into
  blk-flush: fix invalid BUG_ON in blk_insert_flush
  block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio.
  block: fix a typo in the blk-cgroup.h file
  block: initialize the bounce pool if high memory may be added later
  block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown
  block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules
  block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead
  block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio()
  block: reorganize queue draining
  block: drop unnecessary blk_get/put_queue() in scsi_cmd_ioctl() and blk_get_tg()
  block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free
  block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h
  block: fix genhd refcounting in blkio_policy_parse_and_set()
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts due to "mddev_t" -> "struct mddev" conversion
and making the request functions be of type "void" instead of "int" in
 - drivers/md/{faulty.c,linear.c,md.c,md.h,multipath.c,raid0.c,raid1.c,raid10.c,raid5.c}
 - drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
2011-11-04 17:06:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
43672a0784 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/linux-dm
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/linux-dm:
  dm: raid fix device status indicator when array initializing
  dm log userspace: add log device dependency
  dm log userspace: fix comment hyphens
  dm: add thin provisioning target
  dm: add persistent data library
  dm: add bufio
  dm: export dm get md
  dm table: add immutable feature
  dm table: add always writeable feature
  dm table: add singleton feature
  dm kcopyd: add dm_kcopyd_zero to zero an area
  dm: remove superfluous smp_mb
  dm: use local printk ratelimit
  dm table: propagate non rotational flag
2011-11-02 17:02:37 -07:00
Paul Gortmaker
daaa5f7cbe md: Add in export.h for files using EXPORT_SYMBOL
These files were getting the defines for EXPORT_SYMBOL because
device.h was including module.h.  But we are going to put an
end to that.  So add the proper export.h include now.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:19 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
056075c764 md: Add module.h to all files using it implicitly
A pending cleanup will mean that module.h won't be implicitly
everywhere anymore.  Make sure the modular drivers in md dir
are actually calling out for <module.h> explicitly in advance.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:18 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
571109f536 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid10:  Fix bug when activating a hot-spare.
2011-10-31 15:21:29 -07:00
Jonathan E Brassow
2e727c3ca1 dm: raid fix device status indicator when array initializing
When devices in a RAID array are not in-sync, they are supposed to be
reported as such in the status output as an 'a' character, which means
"alive, but not in-sync".  But when the entire array is rebuilt 'A' is
being used, which is incorrect.  This patch corrects this to 'a'.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:21:26 +00:00
Jonathan E Brassow
5a25f0eb70 dm log userspace: add log device dependency
Allow userspace dm log implementations to register their log device so it
is no longer missing from the list of device dependencies.

When device mapper targets use a device they normally call dm_get_device
which includes it in the device list returned to userspace applications
such as LVM through the DM_TABLE_DEPS ioctl.  Userspace log devices
don't use dm_get_device as userspace opens them so they are missing from
the list of dependencies.

This patch extends the DM_ULOG_CTR operation to allow userspace to
respond with the name of the log device (if appropriate) to be
registered via 'dm_get_device'.  DM_ULOG_REQUEST_VERSION is incremented.

This is backwards compatible.  If the kernel and userspace log server
have both been updated, the new information will be passed down to the
kernel and the device will be registered.  If the kernel is new, but
the log server is old, the log server will not pass down any device
information and the kernel will simply bypass the device registration
as before.  If the kernel is old but the log server is new, the log
server will see the old version number and not pass the device info.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:21:24 +00:00
Jonathan Brassow
b89544575d dm log userspace: fix comment hyphens
Fix comments: clustered-disk needs a hyphen not an underscore.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:21:22 +00:00
Joe Thornber
991d9fa02d dm: add thin provisioning target
Initial EXPERIMENTAL implementation of device-mapper thin provisioning
with snapshot support.  The 'thin' target is used to create instances of
the virtual devices that are hosted in the 'thin-pool' target.  The
thin-pool target provides data sharing among devices.  This sharing is
made possible using the persistent-data library in the previous patch.

The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
implementation of snapshots, is that it allows many virtual devices to
be stored on the same data volume, simplifying administration and
allowing sharing of data between volumes (thus reducing disk usage).

Another big feature is support for arbitrary depth of recursive
snapshots (snapshots of snapshots of snapshots ...).  The previous
implementation of snapshots did this by chaining together lookup tables,
and so performance was O(depth).  This new implementation uses a single
data structure so we don't get this degradation with depth.

For further information and examples of how to use this, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:21:18 +00:00
Joe Thornber
3241b1d3e0 dm: add persistent data library
The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage
and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.

It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an
upcoming hierarchical storage target.

For further information, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:11 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
95d402f057 dm: add bufio
The dm-bufio interface allows you to do cached I/O on devices,
holding recently-read blocks in memory and performing delayed writes.

We don't use buffer cache or page cache already present in the kernel, because:
* we need to handle block sizes larger than a page
* we can't allocate memory to perform reads or we'd have deadlocks

Currently, when a cache is required, we limit its size to a fraction of
available memory.  Usage can be viewed and changed in
/sys/module/dm_bufio/parameters/ .

The first user is thin provisioning, but more dm users are planned.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:09 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
3cf2e4ba74 dm: export dm get md
Export dm_get_md() for the new thin provisioning target to use.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:06 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
36a0456fbf dm table: add immutable feature
Introduce DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE to indicate that the target type cannot be mixed
with any other target type, and once loaded into a device, it cannot be
replaced with a table containing a different type.

The thin provisioning pool device will use this.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:04 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
cc6cbe141a dm table: add always writeable feature
Add a target feature flag DM_TARGET_ALWAYS_WRITEABLE to indicate that a target
does not support read-only mode.

The initial implementation of the thin provisioning target uses this.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:02 +00:00
Alasdair G Kergon
3791e2fc0e dm table: add singleton feature
Introduce the concept of a singleton table which contains exactly one target.

If a target type sets the DM_TARGET_SINGLETON feature bit device-mapper
will ensure that any table that includes that target contains no others.

The thin provisioning pool target uses this.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:00 +00:00
Mikulas Patocka
7f06965390 dm kcopyd: add dm_kcopyd_zero to zero an area
This patch introduces dm_kcopyd_zero() to make it easy to use
kcopyd to write zeros into the requested areas instead
instead of copying.  It is implemented by passing a NULL
copying source to dm_kcopyd_copy().

The forthcoming thin provisioning target uses this.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:18:58 +00:00