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Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Turn the error paramter into a pointer so that target drivers can change
the value, and make sure only DM_ENDIO_* values are returned from the
methods.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Drop the MODERATE state since it wasn't buying us much.
Also, in check_migrations(), prepare for the next commit ("dm cache
policy smq: don't do any writebacks unless IDLE") by deferring to the
policy to make the final decision on whether writebacks can be
serviced.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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IO tracking used to throttle writebacks when the origin device is busy.
Even if all the IO is going to the fast device, writebacks can
significantly degrade performance. So track all IO to gauge whether the
cache is busy or not.
Otherwise, synthetic IO tests (e.g. fio) that might send all IO to the
fast device wouldn't cause writebacks to get throttled.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Some bios have no payload (eg, a FLUSH), don't reset the idle_time when
these come in.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- A major update for DM cache that reduces the latency for deciding
whether blocks should migrate to/from the cache. The bio-prison-v2
interface supports this improvement by enabling direct dispatch of
work to workqueues rather than having to delay the actual work
dispatch to the DM cache core. So the dm-cache policies are much more
nimble by being able to drive IO as they see fit. One immediate
benefit from the improved latency is a cache that should be much more
adaptive to changing workloads.
- Add a new DM integrity target that emulates a block device that has
additional per-sector tags that can be used for storing integrity
information.
- Add a new authenticated encryption feature to the DM crypt target
that builds on the capabilities provided by the DM integrity target.
- Add MD interface for switching the raid4/5/6 journal mode and update
the DM raid target to use it to enable aid4/5/6 journal write-back
support.
- Switch the DM verity target over to using the asynchronous hash
crypto API (this helps work better with architectures that have
access to off-CPU algorithm providers, which should reduce CPU
utilization).
- Various request-based DM and DM multipath fixes and improvements from
Bart and Christoph.
- A DM thinp target fix for a bio structure leak that occurs for each
discard IFF discard passdown is enabled.
- A fix for a possible deadlock in DM bufio and a fix to re-check the
new buffer allocation watermark in the face of competing admin
changes to the 'max_cache_size_bytes' tunable.
- A couple DM core cleanups.
* tag 'for-4.12/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (50 commits)
dm bufio: check new buffer allocation watermark every 30 seconds
dm bufio: avoid a possible ABBA deadlock
dm mpath: make it easier to detect unintended I/O request flushes
dm mpath: cleanup QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH bit manipulation by introducing assign_bit()
dm mpath: micro-optimize the hot path relative to MPATHF_QUEUE_IF_NO_PATH
dm: introduce enum dm_queue_mode to cleanup related code
dm mpath: verify __pg_init_all_paths locking assumptions at runtime
dm: verify suspend_locking assumptions at runtime
dm block manager: remove an unused argument from dm_block_manager_create()
dm rq: check blk_mq_register_dev() return value in dm_mq_init_request_queue()
dm mpath: delay requeuing while path initialization is in progress
dm mpath: avoid that path removal can trigger an infinite loop
dm mpath: split and rename activate_path() to prepare for its expanded use
dm ioctl: prevent stack leak in dm ioctl call
dm integrity: use previously calculated log2 of sectors_per_block
dm integrity: use hex2bin instead of open-coded variant
dm crypt: replace custom implementation of hex2bin()
dm crypt: remove obsolete references to per-CPU state
dm verity: switch to using asynchronous hash crypto API
dm crypt: use WQ_HIGHPRI for the IO and crypt workqueues
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Now that we use the proper REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES operation everywhere we can
kill this hack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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When loading metadata make sure to set/clear the dirty bits in the cache
core's dirty_bitset as well as the policy.
Otherwise the cache core is unaware that any blocks were dirty when the
cache was last shutdown. A very serious side-effect being that the
cleaner policy would therefore never be tasked with writing back dirty
data from a cache that was in writeback mode (e.g. when switching from
smq policy to cleaner policy when decommissioning a writeback cache).
This fixes a serious data corruption bug associated with writeback mode.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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The cache policy interfaces have been updated to work well with the new
bio-prison v2 interface's ability to queue work immediately (promotion,
demotion, etc) -- overriding benefit being reduced latency on processing
IO through the cache. Previously such work would be left for the DM
cache core to queue on various lists and then process in batches later
-- this caused a serious delay in latency for IO driven by the cache.
The background tracker code was factored out so that all cache policies
can make use of it.
Also, the "cleaner" policy has been removed and is now a variant of the
smq policy that simply disallows migrations.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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The deferred set is gone and all methods have _v2 appended to the end of
their names to allow for continued use of the original bio prison in DM
thin-provisioning.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- Fix dm-raid transient device failure processing and other smaller
tweaks.
- Add journal support to the DM raid target to close the 'write hole'
on raid 4/5/6.
- Fix dm-cache corruption, due to rounding bug, when cache exceeds 2TB.
- Add 'metadata2' feature to dm-cache to separate the dirty bitset out
from other cache metadata. This improves speed of shutting down a
large cache device (which implies writing out dirty bits).
- Fix a memory leak during dm-stats data structure destruction.
- Fix a DM multipath round-robin path selector performance regression
that was caused by less precise balancing across all paths.
- Lastly, introduce a DM core fix for a long-standing DM snapshot
deadlock that is rooted in the complexity of the device stack used in
conjunction with block core maintaining bios on current->bio_list to
manage recursion in generic_make_request(). A more comprehensive fix
to block core (and its hook in the cpu scheduler) would be wonderful
but this DM-specific fix is pragmatic considering how difficult it
has been to make progress on a generic fix.
* tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (22 commits)
dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock
dm round robin: revert "use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'"
dm stats: fix a leaked s->histogram_boundaries array
dm space map metadata: constify dm_space_map structures
dm cache metadata: use cursor api in blocks_are_clean_separate_dirty()
dm persistent data: add cursor skip functions to the cursor APIs
dm cache metadata: use dm_bitset_new() to create the dirty bitset in format 2
dm bitset: add dm_bitset_new()
dm cache metadata: name the cache block that couldn't be loaded
dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature
dm cache metadata: use bitset cursor api to load discard bitset
dm bitset: introduce cursor api
dm btree: use GFP_NOFS in dm_btree_del()
dm space map common: memcpy the disk root to ensure it's arch aligned
dm block manager: add unlikely() annotations on dm_bufio error paths
dm cache: fix corruption seen when using cache > 2TB
dm raid: cleanup awkward branching in raid_message() option processing
dm raid: use mddev rather than rdev->mddev
dm raid: use read_disk_sb() throughout
dm raid: add raid4/5/6 journaling support
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If "metadata2" is provided as a table argument when creating/loading a
cache target a more compact metadata format, with separate dirty bits,
is used. "metadata2" improves speed of shutting down a cache target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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A rounding bug due to compiler generated temporary being 32bit was found
in remap_to_cache(). A localized cast in remap_to_cache() fixes the
corruption but this preferred fix (changing from uint32_t to sector_t)
eliminates potential for future rounding errors elsewhere.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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This centralizes the checks for bios that needs to be go into the flush
state machine.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower
portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that
old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely
going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger,
rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break
at compile time instead of at runtime.
No intended functional changes in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Separate the op from the rq_flag_bits and have dm
set/get the bio using bio_set_op_attrs/bio_op.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Otherwise operations may be attempted that will only ever go on to crash
(since the metadata device is either missing or unreliable if 'fail_io'
is set).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Request-based DM will also make use of per_bio_data_size.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Device mapper used the field bi_private to point to dm_target_io. However,
since kernel 3.15, the bi_private field is unused, and so the targets do
not need to save and restore this field.
This patch removes code that saves and restores bi_private from dm-cache,
dm-snapshot and dm-verity.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Remove DM's unneeded NULL tests before calling these destroy functions,
now that they check for NULL, thanks to these v4.3 commits:
3942d2991 ("mm/slab_common: allow NULL cache pointer in kmem_cache_destroy()")
4e3ca3e03 ("mm/mempool: allow NULL `pool' pointer in mempool_destroy()")
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@ expression x; @@
-if (x != NULL)
\(kmem_cache_destroy\|mempool_destroy\|dma_pool_destroy\)(x);
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Pull device mapper update from Mike Snitzer:
- a couple small cleanups in dm-cache, dm-verity, persistent-data's
dm-btree, and DM core.
- a 4.1-stable fix for dm-cache that fixes the leaking of deferred bio
prison cells
- a 4.2-stable fix that adds feature reporting for the dm-stats
features added in 4.2
- improve DM-snapshot to not invalidate the on-disk snapshot if
snapshot device write overflow occurs; but a write overflow triggered
through the origin device will still invalidate the snapshot.
- optimize DM-thinp's async discard submission a bit now that late bio
splitting has been included in block core.
- switch DM-cache's SMQ policy lock from using a mutex to a spinlock;
improves performance on very low latency devices (eg. NVMe SSD).
- document DM RAID 4/5/6's discard support
[ I did not pull the slab changes, which weren't appropriate for this
tree, and weren't obviously the right thing to do anyway. At the very
least they need some discussion and explanation before getting merged.
Because not pulling the actual tagged commit but doing a partial pull
instead, this merge commit thus also obviously is missing the git
signature from the original tag ]
* tag 'dm-4.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm cache: fix use after freeing migrations
dm cache: small cleanups related to deferred prison cell cleanup
dm cache: fix leaking of deferred bio prison cells
dm raid: document RAID 4/5/6 discard support
dm stats: report precise_timestamps and histogram in @stats_list output
dm thin: optimize async discard submission
dm snapshot: don't invalidate on-disk image on snapshot write overflow
dm: remove unlikely() before IS_ERR()
dm: do not override error code returned from dm_get_device()
dm: test return value for DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED
dm verity: remove unused mempool
dm cache: move wake_waker() from free_migrations() to where it is needed
dm btree remove: remove unused function get_nr_entries()
dm btree: remove unused "dm_block_t root" parameter in btree_split_sibling()
dm cache policy smq: change the mutex to a spinlock
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Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:
"This first core part of the block IO changes contains:
- Cleanup of the bio IO error signaling from Christoph. We used to
rely on the uptodate bit and passing around of an error, now we
store the error in the bio itself.
- Improvement of the above from myself, by shrinking the bio size
down again to fit in two cachelines on x86-64.
- Revert of the max_hw_sectors cap removal from a revision again,
from Jeff Moyer. This caused performance regressions in various
tests. Reinstate the limit, bump it to a more reasonable size
instead.
- Make /sys/block/<dev>/queue/discard_max_bytes writeable, by me.
Most devices have huge trim limits, which can cause nasty latencies
when deleting files. Enable the admin to configure the size down.
We will look into having a more sane default instead of UINT_MAX
sectors.
- Improvement of the SGP gaps logic from Keith Busch.
- Enable the block core to handle arbitrarily sized bios, which
enables a nice simplification of bio_add_page() (which is an IO hot
path). From Kent.
- Improvements to the partition io stats accounting, making it
faster. From Ming Lei.
- Also from Ming Lei, a basic fixup for overflow of the sysfs pending
file in blk-mq, as well as a fix for a blk-mq timeout race
condition.
- Ming Lin has been carrying Kents above mentioned patches forward
for a while, and testing them. Ming also did a few fixes around
that.
- Sasha Levin found and fixed a use-after-free problem introduced by
the bio->bi_error changes from Christoph.
- Small blk cgroup cleanup from Viresh Kumar"
* 'for-4.3/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
blk: Fix bio_io_vec index when checking bvec gaps
block: Replace SG_GAPS with new queue limits mask
block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560
Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap"
blk-mq: fix race between timeout and freeing request
blk-mq: fix buffer overflow when reading sysfs file of 'pending'
Documentation: update notes in biovecs about arbitrarily sized bios
block: remove bio_get_nr_vecs()
fs: use helper bio_add_page() instead of open coding on bi_io_vec
block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely
md/raid5: get rid of bio_fits_rdev()
md/raid5: split bio for chunk_aligned_read
block: remove split code in blkdev_issue_{discard,write_same}
btrfs: remove bio splitting and merge_bvec_fn() calls
bcache: remove driver private bio splitting code
block: simplify bio_add_page()
block: make generic_make_request handle arbitrarily sized bios
blk-cgroup: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
block: don't access bio->bi_error after bio_put()
block: shrink struct bio down to 2 cache lines again
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Both free_io_migration() and issue_discard() dereference a migration
that was just freed. Fix those by saving off the migrations's cache
object before freeing the migration. Also cleanup needless mg->cache
dereferences now that the cache object is available directly.
Fixes: e44b6a5a3c ("dm cache: move wake_waker() from free_migrations() to where it is needed")
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Eliminate __cell_release() since it only had one caller that always
released the cell holder.
Switch cell_error_with_code() to using free_prison_cell() for the sake
of consistency.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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There were two cases where dm_cell_visit_release() was being called,
which removes the cell from the prison's rbtree, but the callers didn't
also return the cell to the mempool. Fix this by having them call
free_prison_cell().
This leak manifested as the 'kmalloc-96' slab growing until OOM.
Fixes: 651f5fa2a3 ("dm cache: defer whole cells")
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
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As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dpark@posteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin <ming.l@ssi.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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This stops spurious wake ups from calls to prealloc_free_structs().
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Commit 665022d72f9 ("dm cache: avoid calls to prealloc_free_structs() if
possible") introduced a regression that caused the removal of a DM cache
device to hang in cache_postsuspend()'s call to wait_for_migrations()
with the following stack trace:
[<ffffffff81651457>] schedule+0x37/0x80
[<ffffffffa041e21b>] cache_postsuspend+0xbb/0x470 [dm_cache]
[<ffffffff810ba970>] ? prepare_to_wait_event+0xf0/0xf0
[<ffffffffa0006f77>] dm_table_postsuspend_targets+0x47/0x60 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0001eb5>] __dm_destroy+0x215/0x250 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0004113>] dm_destroy+0x13/0x20 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa00098cd>] dev_remove+0x10d/0x170 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa00097c0>] ? dev_suspend+0x240/0x240 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffffa0009f85>] ctl_ioctl+0x255/0x4d0 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffff8127ac00>] ? SYSC_semtimedop+0x280/0xe10
[<ffffffffa000a213>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20 [dm_mod]
[<ffffffff811fd432>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2d2/0x4b0
[<ffffffff81117d5f>] ? __audit_syscall_entry+0xaf/0x100
[<ffffffff81022636>] ? do_audit_syscall_entry+0x66/0x70
[<ffffffff811fd689>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90
[<ffffffff81023e58>] ? syscall_trace_leave+0xb8/0x110
[<ffffffff81654f6e>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x71
Fix this by accounting for the call to prealloc_data_structs()
immediately _before_ the call as opposed to after. This is needed
because it is possible to break out of the control loop after the call
to prealloc_data_structs() but before prealloc_used was set to true.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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This reverts commit 386cb7cdeeef97e0bf082a8d6bbfc07a2ccce07b.
Taking the wake_worker() out of free_migration() will slow writeback
dramatically, and hence adaptability.
Say we have 10k blocks that need writing back, but are only able to
issue 5 concurrently due to the migration bandwidth: it's imperative
that we wake_worker() immediately after migration completion; waiting
for the next 1 second wake up (via do_waker) means it'll take a long
time to write that all back.
Reported-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:
(1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
(2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback
The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario. Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.
So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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If no work was performed then prealloc_data_structs() wasn't ever called
so there isn't any need to call prealloc_free_structs().
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Refactor writeback_some_dirty_blocks() to avoid prealloc_data_structs()
if the policy doesn't have any dirty blocks ready for writeback.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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All methods that queue work call wake_worker() as you'd expect.
E.g. cell_defer, defer_bio, quiesce_migration (which is called by
writeback, promote, demote_then_promote, invalidate, discard, etc).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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There is currently no way to see that the needs_check flag has been set
in the metadata. Display 'needs_check' in the cache status if it is set
in the cache metadata.
Also, update cache documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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The policy tick() method is normally called from interrupt context.
Both the mq and smq policies do some bottom half work for the tick
method in their map functions. However if no IO is going through the
cache, then that bottom half work doesn't occur. With these policies
this means recently hit entries do not age and do not get written
back as early as we'd like.
Fix this by introducing a new 'can_block' parameter to the tick()
method. When this is set the bottom half work occurs immediately.
'can_block' is set when the tick method is called every second by the
core target (not in interrupt context).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Having the DM device name associated with the ERR or INFO message is
very helpful.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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If a cache metadata operation fails (e.g. transaction commit) the
cache's metadata device will abort the current transaction, set a new
needs_check flag, and the cache will transition to "read-only" mode. If
aborting the transaction or setting the needs_check flag fails the cache
will transition to "fail-io" mode.
Once needs_check is set the cache device will not be allowed to
activate. Activation requires write access to metadata. Future work is
needed to add proper support for running the cache in read-only mode.
Once in fail-io mode the cache will report a status of "Fail".
Also, add commit() wrapper that will disallow commits if in read_only or
fail mode.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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When the cache is idle, writeback work was only being issued every
second. With this change outstanding writebacks are streamed
constantly. This offers a writeback performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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When considering whether to move a block to the cache we already give
preferential treatment to discarded blocks, since they are cheap to
promote (no read of the origin required since the data is junk).
The same is true of blocks that are about to be completely
overwritten, so we likewise boost their promotion chances.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Currently individual bios are deferred to the worker thread if they
cannot be processed immediately (eg, a block is in the process of
being moved to the fast device).
This patch passes whole cells across to the worker. This saves
reaquiring the cell, and also collects bios destined for the same block
together, which allows them to be mapped with a single look up to the
policy. This reduces the overhead of using dm-cache.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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We only allow non critical writeback if the origin is idle. It is up
to the policy to decide what writeback work is critical.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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A little class that keeps track of the volume of io that is in flight,
and the length of time that a device has been idle for.
FIXME: rather than jiffes, may be best to use ktime_t (to support faster
devices).
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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There is a race between a policy deciding to replace a cache entry,
the core target writing back any dirty data from this block, and other
IO threads doing IO to the same block.
This sort of problem is avoided most of the time by the core target
grabbing a bio prison cell before making the request to the policy.
But for a demotion the core target doesn't know which block will be
demoted, so can't do this in advance.
Fix this demotion race by introducing a callback to the policy interface
that allows the policy to grab the cell on behalf of the core target.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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Commit c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for
non-chains") regressed all existing callers that followed this pattern:
1) saving a bio's original bi_end_io
2) wiring up an intermediate bi_end_io
3) restoring the original bi_end_io from intermediate bi_end_io
4) calling bio_endio() to execute the restored original bi_end_io
The regression was due to BIO_CHAIN only ever getting set if
bio_inc_remaining() is called. For the above pattern it isn't set until
step 3 above (step 2 would've needed to establish BIO_CHAIN). As such
the first bio_endio(), in step 2 above, never decremented __bi_remaining
before calling the intermediate bi_end_io -- leaving __bi_remaining with
the value 1 instead of 0. When bio_inc_remaining() occurred during step
3 it brought it to a value of 2. When the second bio_endio() was
called, in step 4 above, it should've called the original bi_end_io but
it didn't because there was an extra reference that wasn't dropped (due
to atomic operations being optimized away since BIO_CHAIN wasn't set
upfront).
Fix this issue by removing the __bi_remaining management complexity for
all callers that use the above pattern -- bio_chain() is the only
interface that _needs_ to be concerned with __bi_remaining. For the
above pattern callers just expect the bi_end_io they set to get called!
Remove bio_endio_nodec() and also remove all bio_inc_remaining() calls
that aren't associated with the bio_chain() interface.
Also, the bio_inc_remaining() interface has been moved local to bio.c.
Fixes: c4cf5261 ("bio: skip atomic inc/dec of ->bi_remaining for non-chains")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Christoph Hellwig
Joe Thornber
Linus Torvalds
Jan Kara
Mike Snitzer
Jens Axboe
Mike Christie
Mikulas Patocka
Julia Lawall
Kent Overstreet