Merge tag 'dm-4.2-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:

 - revert a request-based DM core change that caused IO latency to
   increase and adversely impact both throughput and system load

 - fix for a use after free bug in DM core's device cleanup

 - a couple DM btree removal fixes (used by dm-thinp)

 - a DM thinp fix for order-5 allocation failure

 - a DM thinp fix to not degrade to read-only metadata mode when in
   out-of-data-space mode for longer than the 'no_space_timeout'

 - fix a long-standing oversight in both dm-thinp and dm-cache by now
   exporting 'needs_check' in status if it was set in metadata

 - fix an embarrassing dm-cache busy-loop that caused worker threads to
   eat cpu even if no IO was actively being issued to the cache device

* tag 'dm-4.2-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm cache: avoid calls to prealloc_free_structs() if possible
  dm cache: avoid preallocation if no work in writeback_some_dirty_blocks()
  dm cache: do not wake_worker() in free_migration()
  dm cache: display 'needs_check' in status if it is set
  dm thin: display 'needs_check' in status if it is set
  dm thin: stay in out-of-data-space mode once no_space_timeout expires
  dm: fix use after free crash due to incorrect cleanup sequence
  Revert "dm: only run the queue on completion if congested or no requests pending"
  dm btree: silence lockdep lock inversion in dm_btree_del()
  dm thin: allocate the cell_sort_array dynamically
  dm btree remove: fix bug in redistribute3

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
index 82960cffbad3..785eab87aa71 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/cache.txt
@@ -258,6 +258,12 @@ cache metadata mode      : ro if read-only, rw if read-write
 	no further I/O will be permitted and the status will just
 	contain the string 'Fail'.  The userspace recovery tools
 	should then be used.
+needs_check		 : 'needs_check' if set, '-' if not set
+	A metadata operation has failed, resulting in the needs_check
+	flag being set in the metadata's superblock.  The metadata
+	device must be deactivated and checked/repaired before the
+	cache can be made fully operational again.  '-' indicates
+	needs_check is not set.
 
 Messages
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
index 4f67578b2954..1699a55b7b70 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/thin-provisioning.txt
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ ii) Status
 	underlying device.  When this is enabled when loading the table,
 	it can get disabled if the underlying device doesn't support it.
 
-    ro|rw
+    ro|rw|out_of_data_space
 	If the pool encounters certain types of device failures it will
 	drop into a read-only metadata mode in which no changes to
 	the pool metadata (like allocating new blocks) are permitted.
@@ -314,6 +314,13 @@ ii) Status
 	module parameter can be used to change this timeout -- it
 	defaults to 60 seconds but may be disabled using a value of 0.
 
+    needs_check
+	A metadata operation has failed, resulting in the needs_check
+	flag being set in the metadata's superblock.  The metadata
+	device must be deactivated and checked/repaired before the
+	thin-pool can be made fully operational again.  '-' indicates
+	needs_check is not set.
+
 iii) Messages
 
     create_thin <dev id>