Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
"Mostly little bugfixes.
Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
loss."
* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: expedite metadata update when switching read-auto -> active
md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
A simple cache policy that writes back all data to the origin.
This is used to decommission a dm cache by emptying it.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
A cache policy that uses a multiqueue ordered by recent hit
count to select which blocks should be promoted and demoted.
This is meant to be a general purpose policy. It prioritises
reads over writes.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.
A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules. The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch. Other modules are
under development.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch takes advantage of the new bio-prison interface where the
memory is now passed in rather than using a mempool in bio-prison.
This allows the map function to avoid performing potentially-blocking
allocations that could lead to deadlocks: We want to avoid the cell
allocation that is done in bio_detain.
(The potential for mempool deadlocks still remains in other functions
that use bio_detain.)
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Change the dm_bio_prison interface so that instead of allocating memory
internally, dm_bio_detain is supplied with a pre-allocated cell each
time it is called.
This enables a subsequent patch to move the allocation of the struct
dm_bio_prison_cell outside the thin target's mapping function so it can
no longer block there.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add dm_btree_walk to iterate through the contents of a btree.
This will be used by the dm cache target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add a num_write_bios function to struct target.
If an instance of a target sets this, it will be queried before the
target's mapping function is called on a write bio, and the response
controls the number of copies of the write bio that the target will
receive.
This provides a convenient way for a target to send the same data to
more than one device. The new cache target uses this in writethrough
mode, to send the data both to the cache and the backing device.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch allows the administrator to reduce the rate at which kcopyd
issues I/O.
Each module that uses kcopyd acquires a throttle parameter that can be
set in /sys/module/*/parameters.
We maintain a history of kcopyd usage by each module in the variables
io_period and total_period in struct dm_kcopyd_throttle. The actual
kcopyd activity is calculated as a percentage of time equal to
"(100 * io_period / total_period)". This is compared with the user-defined
throttle percentage threshold and if it is exceeded, we sleep.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch introduces enhanced message support that allows the
device-mapper core to recognise messages that are common to all devices,
and for messages to return data to userspace.
Core messages are processed by the function "message_for_md". If the
device mapper doesn't support the message, it is passed to the target
driver.
If the message returns data, the kernel sets the flag
DM_MESSAGE_OUT_FLAG.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Device-mapper ioctls receive and send data in a buffer supplied
by userspace. The buffer has two parts. The first part contains
a 'struct dm_ioctl' and has a fixed size. The second part depends
on the ioctl and has a variable size.
This patch recognises the specific ioctls that do not use the variable
part of the buffer and skips allocating memory for it.
In particular, when a device is suspended and a resume ioctl is sent,
this now avoid memory allocation completely.
The variable "struct dm_ioctl tmp" is moved from the function
copy_params to its caller ctl_ioctl and renamed to param_kernel.
It is used directly when the ioctl function doesn't need any arguments.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch introduces flags for each ioctl function.
So far, one flag is defined, IOCTL_FLAGS_NO_PARAMS. It is set if the
function processing the ioctl doesn't take or produce any parameters in
the section of the data buffer that has a variable size.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch merges io_pool and tio_pool into io_pool and cleans up
related functions.
Though device-mapper used to have 2 pools of objects for each dm device,
the use of bioset frontbad for per-bio data has shrunk the number of
pools to 1 for both bio-based and request-based device types.
(See c0820cf5 "dm: introduce per_bio_data" and
94818742 "dm: Use bioset's front_pad for dm_rq_clone_bio_info")
So dm no longer has to maintain 2 different pointers.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove _rq_bio_info_cache, which is no longer used.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
dm_calculate_queue_limits will first reset the provided limits to
defaults using blk_set_stacking_limits; whereby defeating the purpose of
retaining the original live table's limits -- as was intended via commit
3ae7065616 ("dm: retain table limits when
swapping to new table with no devices").
Fix this improper limits initialization (in the no data devices case) by
avoiding the call to dm_calculate_queue_limits.
[patch header revised by Mike Snitzer]
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.6+
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Mark some constant parameters constant in some dm-btree functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Rename functions involved in splitting and cloning bios.
The sequence of functions is now:
(1) __split_and_process* - entry point that selects the processing strategy
(2) __send* - prepare the details for each bio needed and loop through them
(3) __clone_and_map* - creates a clone and maps it
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove the no-longer-used struct bio_set argument from clone_bio and split_bvec.
Use tio->ti in __map_bio() instead of passing in ti.
Factor out some code for setting up cloned bios.
Take target_request_nr as a parameter to alloc_tio().
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
