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

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

dm: linear support discard

2010-08-12T03:14:08+00:00

Allow discards to be passed through to linear mappings if at least one underlying device supports it. Discards will be forwarded only to devices that support them. A target that supports discards should set num_discard_requests to indicate how many times each discard request must be submitted to it. Verify table's underlying devices support discards prior to setting the associated DM device as capable of discards (via QUEUE_FLAG_DISCARD). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Reviewed-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: refactor dm_table_complete

2010-08-12T03:14:03+00:00

This change unifies the various checks and finalization that occurs on a table prior to use. By doing so, it allows table construction without traversing the dm-ioctl interface. Signed-off-by: Will Drewry Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: do not initialise full request queue when bio based

2010-08-12T03:14:02+00:00

Change bio-based mapped devices no longer to have a fully initialized request_queue (request_fn, elevator, etc). This means bio-based DM devices no longer register elevator sysfs attributes ('iosched/' tree or 'scheduler' other than "none"). In contrast, a request-based DM device will continue to have a full request_queue and will register elevator sysfs attributes. Therefore a user can determine a DM device's type by checking if elevator sysfs attributes exist. First allocate a minimalist request_queue structure for a DM device (needed for both bio and request-based DM). Initialization of a full request_queue is deferred until it is known that the DM device is request-based, at the end of the table load sequence. Factor DM device's request_queue initialization: - common to both request-based and bio-based into dm_init_md_queue(). - specific to request-based into dm_init_request_based_queue(). The md->type_lock mutex is used to protect md->queue, in addition to md->type, during table_load(). A DM device's first table_load will establish the immutable md->type. But md->queue initialization, based on md->type, may fail at that time (because blk_init_allocated_queue cannot allocate memory). Therefore any subsequent table_load must (re)try dm_setup_md_queue independently of establishing md->type. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Acked-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: make bio or request based device type immutable

2010-08-12T03:14:01+00:00

Determine whether a mapped device is bio-based or request-based when loading its first (inactive) table and don't allow that to be changed later. This patch performs different device initialisation in each of the two cases. (We don't think it's necessary to add code to support changing between the two types.) Allowed md->type transitions: DM_TYPE_NONE to DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED DM_TYPE_NONE to DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED We now prevent table_load from replacing the inactive table with a conflicting type of table even after an explicit table_clear. Introduce 'type_lock' into the struct mapped_device to protect md->type and to prepare for the next patch that will change the queue initialization and allocate memory while md->type_lock is held. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Acked-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ drivers/md/dm.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/md/dm.h | 5 +++++ include/linux/dm-ioctl.h | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

dm: separate device deletion from dm_put

2010-08-12T03:13:56+00:00

This patch separates the device deletion code from dm_put() to make sure the deletion happens in the process context. By this patch, device deletion always occurs in an ioctl (process) context and dm_put() can be called in interrupt context. As a result, the request-based dm's bad dm_put() usage pointed out by Mikulas below disappears. http://marc.info/?l=dm-devel&m=126699981019735&w=2 Without this patch, I confirmed there is a case to crash the system: dm_put() => dm_table_destroy() => vfree() => BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) Some more backgrounds and details: In request-based dm, a device opener can remove a mapped_device while the last request is still completing, because bios in the last request complete first and then the device opener can close and remove the mapped_device before the last request completes: CPU0 CPU1 ================================================================= <> blk_end_request_all(clone_rq) blk_update_request(clone_rq) bio_endio(clone_bio) == end_clone_bio blk_update_request(orig_rq) bio_endio(orig_bio) <> dm_blk_close() dev_remove() dm_put(md) <> blk_finish_request(clone_rq) .... dm_end_request(clone_rq) free_rq_clone(clone_rq) blk_end_request_all(orig_rq) rq_completed(md) So request-based dm used dm_get()/dm_put() to hold md for each I/O until its request completion handling is fully done. However, the final dm_put() can call the device deletion code which must not be run in interrupt context and may cause kernel panic. To solve the problem, this patch moves the device deletion code, dm_destroy(), to predetermined places that is actually deleting the mapped_device in ioctl (process) context, and changes dm_put() just to decrement the reference count of the mapped_device. By this change, dm_put() can be used in any context and the symmetric model below is introduced: dm_create(): create a mapped_device dm_destroy(): destroy a mapped_device dm_get(): increment the reference count of a mapped_device dm_put(): decrement the reference count of a mapped_device dm_destroy() waits for all references of the mapped_device to disappear, then deletes the mapped_device. dm_destroy() uses active waiting with msleep(1), since deleting the mapped_device isn't performance-critical task. And since at this point, nobody opens the mapped_device and no new reference will be taken, the pending counts are just for racing completing activity and will eventually decrease to zero. For the unlikely case of the forced module unload, dm_destroy_immediate(), which doesn't wait and forcibly deletes the mapped_device, is also introduced and used in dm_hash_remove_all(). Otherwise, "rmmod -f" may be stuck and never return. And now, because the mapped_device is deleted at this point, subsequent accesses to the mapped_device may cause NULL pointer references. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: introduce flag indicating uevent was generated

2010-03-06T02:32:31+00:00
Set a new DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG when returning from ioctls to indicate that a uevent was actually generated. This tells the userspace caller that it may need to wait for the event to be processed. Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: rename dm_suspended to dm_suspended_md

2009-12-10T23:52:26+00:00
This patch renames dm_suspended() to dm_suspended_md() and keeps it internal to dm. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Cc: Mike Anderson Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: add dm_deleting_md function

2009-12-10T23:52:20+00:00
Add dm_deleting_md to check whether or not a given mapped device is currently being deleted. Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm io: use slab for struct io

2009-12-10T23:51:57+00:00
Allocate "struct io" from a slab. This patch changes dm-io, so that "struct io" is allocated from a slab cache. It used to be allocated with kmalloc. Allocating from a slab will be needed for the next patch, because it requires a special alignment of "struct io" and kmalloc cannot meet this alignment. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon