drbd: introduce unfence-peer handler

When resync is finished, we already call the "after-resync-target"
handler (on the former sync target, obviously), once per volume.

Paired with the before-resync-target handler, you can create snapshots,
before the resync causes the volumes to become inconsistent,
and discard those snapshots again, once they are no longer needed.

It was also overloaded to be paired with the "fence-peer" handler,
to "unfence" once the volumes are up-to-date and known good.

This has some disadvantages, though: we call "fence-peer" for the whole
connection (once for the group of volumes), but would call unfence as
side-effect of after-resync-target once for each volume.

Also, we fence on a (current, or about to become) Primary,
which will later become the sync-source.

Calling unfence only as a side effect of the after-resync-target
handler opens a race window, between a new fence on the Primary
(SyncTarget) and the unfence on the SyncTarget, which is difficult to
close without some kind of "cluster wide lock" in those handlers.

We would not need those handlers if we could still communicate.
Which makes trying to aquire a cluster wide lock from those handlers
seem like a very bad idea.

This introduces the "unfence-peer" handler, which will be called
per connection (once for the group of volumes), just like the fence
handler, only once all volumes are back in sync, and on the SyncSource.

Which is expected to be the node that previously called "fence", the
node that is currently allowed to be Primary, and thus the only node
that could trigger a new "fence" that could race with this unfence.

Which makes us not need any cluster wide synchronization here,
serializing two scripts running on the same node is trivial.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index c5dbc85c9b4f..5ee8da325825 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -1494,6 +1494,7 @@ extern enum drbd_state_rv drbd_set_role(struct drbd_device *device,
 					int force);
 extern bool conn_try_outdate_peer(struct drbd_connection *connection);
 extern void conn_try_outdate_peer_async(struct drbd_connection *connection);
+extern int conn_khelper(struct drbd_connection *connection, char *cmd);
 extern int drbd_khelper(struct drbd_device *device, char *cmd);
 
 /* drbd_worker.c */