kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c, branch v3.0.91

dm snapshot: flush disk cache when merging

2011-08-05T04:58:42+00:00

commit 762a80d9fc9f690a3a35983f3b4619a220650808 upstream. This patch makes dm-snapshot flush disk cache when writing metadata for merging snapshot. Without cache flushing the disk may reorder metadata write and other data writes and there is a possibility of data corruption in case of power fault. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm io: use fixed initial mempool size

2011-05-29T12:03:09+00:00

Replace the arbitrary calculation of an initial io struct mempool size with a constant. The code calculated the number of reserved structures based on the request size and used a "magic" multiplication constant of 4. This patch changes it to reserve a fixed number - itself still chosen quite arbitrarily. Further testing might show if there is a better number to choose. Note that if there is no memory pressure, we can still allocate an arbitrary number of "struct io" structures. One structure is enough to process the whole request. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm snapshot: persistent make metadata_wq multithreaded

2011-01-13T19:59:59+00:00

metadata_wq serves on-stack work items from chunk_io(). Even if multiple chunk_io() are simultaneously in progress, each is independent and queued only once, so multithreaded workqueue can be safely used. Switch metadata_wq to multithread and flush the work item instead of the workqueue in chunk_io(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered

2011-01-13T19:59:57+00:00

Convert all create[_singlethread]_work() users to the new alloc[_ordered]_workqueue(). This conversion is mechanical and doesn't introduce any behavior change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

workqueues: s/ON_STACK/ONSTACK/

2010-10-26T23:52:14+00:00

Silly though it is, completions and wait_queue_heads use foo_ONSTACK (COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK, DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK, __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INIT_ONSTACK and DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_ONSTACK) so I guess workqueues should do the same thing. s/INIT_WORK_ON_STACK/INIT_WORK_ONSTACK/ s/INIT_DELAYED_WORK_ON_STACK/INIT_DELAYED_WORK_ONSTACK/ Cc: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for bio-based dm

2010-09-10T10:35:38+00:00

This patch converts bio-based dm to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER. * -EOPNOTSUPP handling logic dropped. * Preflush is handled as before but postflush is dropped and replaced with passing down REQ_FUA to member request_queues. This replaces one array wide cache flush w/ member specific FUA writes. * __split_and_process_bio() now calls __clone_and_map_flush() directly for flushes and guarantees all FLUSH bio's going to targets are zero ` length. * It's now guaranteed that all FLUSH bio's which are passed onto dm targets are zero length. bio_empty_barrier() tests are replaced with REQ_FLUSH tests. * Empty WRITE_BARRIERs are replaced with WRITE_FLUSHes. * Dropped unlikely() around REQ_FLUSH tests. Flushes are not unlikely enough to be marked with unlikely(). * Block layer now filters out REQ_FLUSH/FUA bio's if the request_queue doesn't support cache flushing. Advertise REQ_FLUSH | REQ_FUA capability. * Request based dm isn't converted yet. dm_init_request_based_queue() resets flush support to 0 for now. To avoid disturbing request based dm code, dm->flush_error is added for bio based dm while requested based dm continues to use dm->barrier_error. Lightly tested linear, stripe, raid1, snap and crypt targets. Please proceed with caution as I'm not familiar with the code base. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm snapshot: persistent use define for disk header chunk size

2010-08-12T03:13:59+00:00

This patch fixes hard-coded value for the size of a chunk that includes disk header for persistent snapshot. It should be changed to existing macro NUM_SNAPSHOT_HDR_CHUNKS instead of using hard-coded value 1. Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm snapshot: persistent annotate work_queue as on stack

2010-02-16T18:42:51+00:00

chunk_io() declares its 'struct mdata_req' on the stack and then initializes its 'struct work_struct' member. Annotate the initialization of this workqueue with INIT_WORK_ON_STACK to suppress a debugobjects warning seen when CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK is enabled. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm exception store: add merge specific methods

2009-12-10T23:52:29+00:00

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 Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm snapshot: move cow ref from exception store to snap core

2009-12-10T23:52:12+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow Cc: Mikulas Patocka