Don't waste time spotting blocks that have been allocated and then freed
in the same transaction.
The extra lookup is expensive, and I don't think it really gives us much.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Entries would be lost if the old tail block was partially filled.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9+
Prior to this patch these methods did a lookup followed by an insert.
Instead they now call a common mutate function that adjusts the value
according to a callback function. This avoids traversing the data
structures twice and hence improves performance.
Also factor out sm_ll_lookup_big_ref_count() for use by both
sm_ll_lookup() and sm_ll_mutate().
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
dm-btree now takes advantage of dm-bufio's ability to prefetch data via
dm_bm_prefetch(). Prior to this change many btree node visits were
causing a synchronous read.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove a visited leaf straight away from the stack, rather than
marking all it's children as visited and letting it get removed on the
next iteration. May also offer a micro optimisation in dm_btree_del.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add a threshold callback to dm persistent data space maps.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add a threshold callback function to the persistent data space map
interface for a subsequent patch to use.
dm-thin and dm-cache are interested in knowing when they're getting
low on metadata or data blocks. This patch introduces a new method
for registering a callback against a threshold.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Support extending a dm persistent data metadata space map.
The extend itself is implemented by switching back to the boostrap
allocator and pointing to the new space. The extra bitmap indexes are
then allocated from the new space, and finally we switch back to the
proper space map ops and tweak the reference counts.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix some typos in dm-space-map-metadata.c error messages.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix a bug in dm_btree_remove that could leave leaf values with incorrect
reference counts. The effect of this was that removal of a shared block
could result in the space maps thinking the block was no longer used.
More concretely, if you have a thin device and a snapshot of it, sending
a discard to a shared region of the thin could corrupt the snapshot.
Thinp uses a 2-level nested btree to store it's mappings. This first
level is indexed by thin device, and the second level by logical
block.
Often when we're removing an entry in this mapping tree we need to
rebalance nodes, which can involve shadowing them, possibly creating a
copy if the block is shared. If we do create a copy then children of
that node need to have their reference counts incremented. In this
way reference counts percolate down the tree as shared trees diverge.
The rebalance functions were incrementing the children at the
appropriate time, but they were always assuming the children were
internal nodes. This meant the leaf values (in our case packed
block/flags entries) were not being incremented.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.
A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules. The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch. Other modules are
under development.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add dm_btree_walk to iterate through the contents of a btree.
This will be used by the dm cache target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Mark some constant parameters constant in some dm-btree functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived
list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)
The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:
hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)
Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.
Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:
- Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
- Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
- A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
- Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.
The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:
@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;
type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@
-T b;
<+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
...+>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the warning:
drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c:28:1: warning: "HASH_SIZE" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elevator.h:5,
from include/linux/blkdev.h:216,
from drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-block-manager.h:11,
from drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h:10,
from drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c:6:
include/linux/hashtable.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Of particular note:
- Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and striped.
Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks.
- Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the bio's new
front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data').
- Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused.
- Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and
use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc.
- Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull dm update from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Miscellaneous device-mapper fixes, cleanups and performance
improvements.
Of particular note:
- Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and
striped. Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks.
- Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the
bio's new front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data').
- Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused.
- Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and
use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc.
- Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails."
* tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (36 commits)
dm stripe: add WRITE SAME support
dm: remove map_info
dm snapshot: do not use map_context
dm thin: dont use map_context
dm raid1: dont use map_context
dm flakey: dont use map_context
dm raid1: rename read_record to bio_record
dm: move target request nr to dm_target_io
dm snapshot: use per_bio_data
dm verity: use per_bio_data
dm raid1: use per_bio_data
dm: introduce per_bio_data
dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero
dm linear: add WRITE SAME support
dm: add WRITE SAME support
dm: prepare to support WRITE SAME
dm ioctl: use kmalloc if possible
dm ioctl: remove PF_MEMALLOC
dm persistent data: improve improve space map block alloc failure message
dm thin: use DMERR_LIMIT for errors
...
Improve space map error message when unable to allocate a new
metadata block.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Nearly all of persistent-data is in the IO path so throttle error
messages with DMERR_LIMIT to limit the amount logged when
something has gone wrong.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reinstate a useful error message when the block manager buffer validator fails.
This was mistakenly eliminated when the block manager was converted to use
dm-bufio.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
When deleting nested btrees, the code forgets to delete the innermost
btree. The thin-metadata code serendipitously compensates for this by
claiming there is one extra layer in the tree.
This patch corrects both problems.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a compilation failure on sparc32 by renaming struct node.
struct node is already defined in include/linux/node.h. On sparc32, it
happens to be included through other dependencies and persistent-data
doesn't compile because of conflicting declarations.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Convert cpu_to_le32(le32_to_cpu(E1) + E2) to use le32_add_cpu().
dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch.
(https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch)
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Introduce dm_bm_set_read_only to switch the block manager into a
read-only mode. To be used when dm-thin degrades due to io errors on
the metadata device.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in the transaction
manager as an optimisation and remove the function as it is then no
longer used.
Some code, such as the space maps, keeps using on-disk data structures
from the previous transaction. It can do this because blocks won't
be reallocated until the subsequent transaction. Using
dm_bm_unlock_move to copy blocks sounds like a win, but it forces a
synchronous read should the old block be accessed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Tidy the transaction manager creation functions.
They no longer lock the superblock. Superblock locking is pulled out to
the caller.
Also export dm_bm_write_lock_zero.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a separate struct for the block_manager.
It also uses IS_ERR to check the return value of dm_bufio_client_create
instead of testing incorrectly for NULL.
Prior to this patch a struct dm_block_manager was really an alias for
a struct dm_bufio_client. We want to add some functionality to the
block manager that will require extra fields, so this one to one
mapping is no longer valid.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Introduce bitmap_index_changed to track whether or not the index changed
then only commit a space map if it did.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Unlock the superblock even if initial dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers fails.
Also, remove redundant flush calls. dm_bm_flush_and_unlock's calls to
dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers already result in dm_bufio_issue_flush
being called.
This avoids warnings about unflushed dirty buffers from bufio.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove debug space map checker from dm persistent data.
The space map checker is a wrapper for other space maps that double
checks the reference counts are correct. It holds all these reference
counts in memory rather than on disk, so uses a lot of memory and is
thus restricted to small pools.
As yet, this checker hasn't found any issues, but has caused a few of
its own due to people turning it on by default with larger pools.
Removing.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If CONFIG_DM_DEBUG_SPACE_MAPS is enabled and memory is fragmented and a
sufficiently-large metadata device is used in a thin pool then the space
map checker will fail to allocate the memory it requires.
Switch from kmalloc to vmalloc to allow larger virtually contiguous
allocations for the space map checker's internal count arrays.
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If CONFIG_DM_DEBUG_SPACE_MAPS is enabled and dm_sm_checker_create()
fails, dm_tm_create_internal() would still return success even though it
cleaned up all resources it was supposed to have created. This will
lead to a kernel crash:
general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81593659>] [<ffffffff81593659>] dm_bufio_get_block_size+0x9/0x20
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81599bae>] dm_bm_block_size+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8159b8b8>] sm_ll_init+0x78/0xd0
[<ffffffff8159c1a6>] sm_ll_new_disk+0x16/0xa0
[<ffffffff8159c98e>] dm_sm_disk_create+0xfe/0x160
[<ffffffff815abf6e>] dm_pool_metadata_open+0x16e/0x6a0
[<ffffffff815aa010>] pool_ctr+0x3f0/0x900
[<ffffffff8158d565>] dm_table_add_target+0x195/0x450
[<ffffffff815904c4>] table_load+0xe4/0x330
[<ffffffff815917ea>] ctl_ioctl+0x15a/0x2c0
[<ffffffff81591963>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff8116a4f8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x560
[<ffffffff8116aa51>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0
[<ffffffff81869f52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Fix the space map checker code to return an appropriate ERR_PTR and have
dm_sm_disk_create() and dm_tm_create_internal() check for it with
IS_ERR.
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cleanup the shadow table before destroying the transaction manager.
Reference: leak was identified with kmemleak when running
test_discard_random_sectors in the thinp-test-suite.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin
pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This,
read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the
live target.
Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status
line will give the block location for the current msnap.
Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the
thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows:
thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev>
Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools
Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things
that have traditionally been kernel side tasks:
i) Incremental backups.
By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have
changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure
the data doesn't change while we back it up.
A short proof of concept script can be found here:
https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb
ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another.
iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin.
iv) Asyncronous replication.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Save space by removing entries from the space map ref_count tree if
they're no longer needed.
Ref counts are stored in two places: a bitmap if the ref_count is
below 3, or a btree of uint32_t if 3 or above.
When a ref_count that was above 3 drops below we can remove it from
the tree and save some metadata space. This removal was commented out
before because I was unsure why this was causing under-populated btree
nodes. Earlier patches have fixed this issue.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Now that the value_size is held within every node of the btrees we can
remove this argument from value_ptr().
For the last few months a BUG_ON has been checking this argument is
the same as that held in the node. No issues were reported. So this
is a safe change.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
When we remove an entry from a node we sometimes rebalance with it's
two neighbours. This wasn't being done correctly; in some cases
entries have to move all the way from the right neighbour to the left
neighbour, or vice versa. This patch pretty much re-writes the
balancing code to fix it.
This code is barely used currently; only when you delete a thin
device, and then only if you have hundreds of them in the same pool.
Once we have discard support, which removes mappings, this will be used
much more heavily.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
For the files which are not themselves modular, we can change
them to include only the smaller export.h since all they are
doing is looking for EXPORT_SYMBOL.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage
and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.
It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an
upcoming hierarchical storage target.
For further information, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
