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

dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion

2012-12-03T20:59:14+00:00

commit a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 upstream. Request based dm attempts to re-run the request queue off the request completion path. If used with a driver that potentially does end_io from its request_fn, we could deadlock trying to recurse back into request dispatch. Fix this by punting the request queue run to kblockd. Tested to fix a quickly reproducible deadlock in such a scenario. Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: handle requests beyond end of device instead of using BUG_ON

2012-10-07T15:27:23+00:00

commit ba1cbad93dd47223b1f3b8edd50dd9ef2abcb2ed upstream. The access beyond the end of device BUG_ON that was introduced to dm_request_fn via commit 29e4013de7ad950280e4b2208 ("dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm") was an overly drastic (but simple) response to this situation. I have received a report that this BUG_ON was hit and now think it would be better to use dm_kill_unmapped_request() to fail the clone and original request with -EIO. map_request() will assign the valid target returned by dm_table_find_target to tio->ti. But when the target isn't valid tio->ti is never assigned (because map_request isn't called); so add a check for tio->ti != NULL to dm_done(). Reported-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: fix idr leak on module removal

2011-08-05T04:58:43+00:00

commit d15b774c2920d55e3d58275c97fbe3adc3afde38 upstream. Destroy _minor_idr when unloading the core dm module. (Found by kmemleak.) Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures

2011-03-22T07:35:35+00:00

After the stack plugging introduction, these are called lockless. Ensure that the counters are updated atomically. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool

2011-03-17T10:11:05+00:00

MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory. Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not. Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the fs_bio_set. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove per-queue plugging

2011-03-10T07:52:07+00:00

Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging, and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that. So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn

2011-01-13T20:00:00+00:00

This patch changes spin_lock_irq() to spin_lock() in dm_request_fn(). This patch is just a clean-up and no functional change. The spin_lock_irq() was leftover from the early request-based dm code, where map_request() used to enable interrupts. Since current map_request() never enables interrupts, we can change it to spin_lock() to match the prior spin_unlock(). Auditing through the dm and block-layer code called from map_request(), I confirmed all functions save/restore interrupt status, so no function returning with interrupts enabled. Also I haven't observed any problem on my test environment which uses scsi and lpfc driver after heavy I/O testing with occasional path down/up. Added BUG_ON() to detect breakage in future. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent

2011-01-13T19:59:58+00:00

kmirrord_wq, kcopyd_work and md->wq are created per dm instance and serve only a single work item from the dm instance, so non-reentrant workqueues would provide the same ordering guarantees as ordered ones while allowing CPU affinity and use of the workqueues for other purposes. Switch them to non-reentrant workqueues. 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

dm: remove dm_mutex after bkl conversion

2011-01-13T19:59:48+00:00

This patch replaces dm_mutex with _minor_lock in dm_blk_close() and then removes it. During the BKL conversion, commit 6e9624b8caec290d28b4c6d9ec75749df6372b87 (block: push down BKL into .open and .release) pushed lock_kernel() down into dm_blk_open/close calls. Commit 2a48fc0ab24241755dc93bfd4f01d68efab47f5a (block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex) converted it to a local mutex, but _minor_lock is sufficient. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon