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2012-07-27dm persistent data: stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in tmJoe Thornber3-27/+14
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>
2012-07-27dm persistent data: tidy transaction manager creation fnsJoe Thornber3-40/+19
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>
2012-07-27dm persistent data: create new dm_block_manager structJoe Thornber1-20/+38
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 We want to add some functionality to the block manager that will require extra fields, so this one to one mapping is no longer valid.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>
2012-07-27dm persistent data: only commit space map if index changedJoe Thornber2-1/+12
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>
2012-07-27dm persistent data: always unlock superblock in dm_bm_flush_and_unlockJoe Thornber1-12/+4
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>
2012-07-27dm persistent data: remove debug space map checkerJoe Thornber5-525/+11
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>
2012-07-03dm persistent data: fix allocation failure in space map checker initMike Snitzer1-11/+19
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>
2012-07-03dm persistent data: handle space map checker creation failureMike Snitzer3-15/+28
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>
2012-07-03dm persistent data: fix shadow_info_leak on dm_tm_destroyMike Snitzer1-0/+3
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>
2012-06-03dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadataJoe Thornber1-0/+2
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>
2012-03-28dm persistent data: remove space map ref_count entries if redundantJoe Thornber1-3/+0
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>
2012-03-28dm persistent data: remove redundant value_size arg from value_ptrJoe Thornber3-33/+29
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>
2012-03-28dm persistent data: fix btree rebalancing after removeJoe Thornber1-75/+99
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>
2011-11-07device-mapper: using EXPORT_SYBOL in dm-space-map-checker.c needs export.hStephen Rothwell1-0/+1
Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-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>
2011-11-07drivers/md: change module.h -> export.h in persistent-data/dm-*Paul Gortmaker4-4/+4
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>
2011-10-31dm: add persistent data libraryJoe Thornber21-0/+5625
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>