bcache: add stop_when_cache_set_failed option to backing device

When there are too many I/O errors on cache device, current bcache code
will retire the whole cache set, and detach all bcache devices. But the
detached bcache devices are not stopped, which is problematic when bcache
is in writeback mode.

If the retired cache set has dirty data of backing devices, continue
writing to bcache device will write to backing device directly. If the
LBA of write request has a dirty version cached on cache device, next time
when the cache device is re-registered and backing device re-attached to
it again, the stale dirty data on cache device will be written to backing
device, and overwrite latest directly written data. This situation causes
a quite data corruption.

But we cannot simply stop all attached bcache devices when the cache set is
broken or disconnected. For example, use bcache to accelerate performance
of an email service. In such workload, if cache device is broken but no
dirty data lost, keep the bcache device alive and permit email service
continue to access user data might be a better solution for the cache
device failure.

Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk> points out the issue and provides the above example
to explain why it might be necessary to not stop bcache device for broken
cache device. Pavel Goran <via-bcache@pvgoran.name> provides a brilliant
suggestion to provide "always" and "auto" options to per-cached device
sysfs file stop_when_cache_set_failed. If cache set is retiring and the
backing device has no dirty data on cache, it should be safe to keep the
bcache device alive. In this case, if stop_when_cache_set_failed is set to
"auto", the device failure handling code will not stop this bcache device
and permit application to access the backing device with a unattached
bcache device.

Changelog:
[mlyle: edited to not break string constants across lines]
v3: fix typos pointed out by Nix.
v2: change option values of stop_when_cache_set_failed from 1/0 to
    "auto"/"always".
v1: initial version, stop_when_cache_set_failed can be 0 (not stop) or 1
    (always stop).

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Goran <via-bcache@pvgoran.name>
Cc: Junhui Tang <tang.junhui@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
index 8a0327581d62..5e9f3610c6fd 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/bcache.h
@@ -288,6 +288,12 @@ struct io {
 	sector_t		last;
 };
 
+enum stop_on_failure {
+	BCH_CACHED_DEV_STOP_AUTO = 0,
+	BCH_CACHED_DEV_STOP_ALWAYS,
+	BCH_CACHED_DEV_STOP_MODE_MAX,
+};
+
 struct cached_dev {
 	struct list_head	list;
 	struct bcache_device	disk;
@@ -380,6 +386,8 @@ struct cached_dev {
 	unsigned		writeback_rate_i_term_inverse;
 	unsigned		writeback_rate_p_term_inverse;
 	unsigned		writeback_rate_minimum;
+
+	enum stop_on_failure	stop_when_cache_set_failed;
 };
 
 enum alloc_reserve {
@@ -939,6 +947,7 @@ void bch_write_bdev_super(struct cached_dev *, struct closure *);
 
 extern struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
 extern const char * const bch_cache_modes[];
+extern const char * const bch_stop_on_failure_modes[];
 extern struct mutex bch_register_lock;
 extern struct list_head bch_cache_sets;