This device-mapper target creates a read-only device that transparently
validates the data on one underlying device against a pre-generated tree
of cryptographic checksums stored on a second device.
Two checksum device formats are supported: version 0 which is already
shipping in Chromium OS and version 1 which incorporates some
improvements.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Elly Jones <ellyjones@chromium.org>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a new function dm_bufio_prefetch. It prefetches
the specified range of blocks into dm-bufio cache without waiting
for i/o completion.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add dm thin target arguments to control discard support.
ignore_discard: Disables discard support
no_discard_passdown: Don't pass discards down to the underlying data
device, but just remove the mapping within the thin provisioning target.
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>
Support discards in the thin target.
On discard the corresponding mapping(s) are removed from the thin
device. If the associated block(s) are no longer shared the discard
is passed to the underlying device.
All bios other than discards now have an associated deferred_entry
that is saved to the 'all_io_entry' in endio_hook. When non-discard
IO completes and associated mappings are quiesced any discards that
were deferred, via ds_add_work() in process_discard(), will be queued
for processing by the worker thread.
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>
drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 158 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
This patch contains the ground work needed for dm-thin to support discard.
- Adds endio function that replaces shared_read_endio.
- Introduce an explicit 'quiesced' flag into the new_mapping structure.
Before, this was implicitly indicated by m->list being empty.
- The map_info->ptr remains constant for the duration of a bio's trip
through the thin target. Make it easier to reason about it.
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>
Support the use of an external _read only_ device as an origin for a thin
device.
Any read to an unprovisioned area of the thin device will be passed
through to the origin. Writes trigger allocation of new blocks as
usual.
One possible use case for this would be VM hosts that want to run
guests on thinly-provisioned volumes but have the base image on another
device (possibly shared between many VMs).
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>
The thin metadata format can only make use of a device that is <=
THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS (currently 15.9375 GB). Therefore, there is no
practical benefit to using a larger device.
However, it may be that other factors impose a certain granularity for
the space that is allocated to a device (E.g. lvm2 can impose a coarse
granularity through the use of large, >= 1 GB, physical extents).
Rather than reject a larger metadata device, during thin-pool device
construction, switch to allowing it but issue a warning if a device
larger than THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS_WARNING (16 GB) is
provided. Any space over 15.9375 GB will not be used.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@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>
Commit unwritten data every second to prevent too much building up.
Released blocks don't become available until after the next commit
(for crash resilience). Prior to this patch commits were only
triggered by a message to the target or a REQ_{FLUSH,FUA} bio. This
allowed far too big a position to build up.
The interval is hard-coded to 1 second. This is a sensible setting.
I'm not making this user configurable, since there isn't much to be
gained by tweaking this - and a lot lost by setting it far too high.
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>
Device mapper uses sscanf to convert arguments to numbers. The problem is that
the way we use it ignores additional unmatched characters in the scanned string.
For example, this `if (sscanf(string, "%d", &number) == 1)' will match a number,
but also it will match number with some garbage appended, like "123abc".
As a result, device mapper accepts garbage after some numbers. For example
the command `dmsetup create vg1-new --table "0 16384 linear 254:1bla 34816bla"'
will pass without an error.
This patch fixes all sscanf uses in device mapper. It appends "%c" with
a pointer to a dummy character variable to every sscanf statement.
The construct `if (sscanf(string, "%d%c", &number, &dummy) == 1)' succeeds
only if string is a null-terminated number (optionally preceded by some
whitespace characters). If there is some character appended after the number,
sscanf matches "%c", writes the character to the dummy variable and returns 2.
We check the return value for 1 and consequently reject numbers with some
garbage appended.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The dm-raid code currently fails to create a RAID array if any of the
superblocks cannot be read. This was an oversight as there is already
code to handle this case if the values ('- -') were provided for the
failed array position.
With this patch, if a superblock cannot be read, the array position's
fields are initialized as though '- -' was set in the table. That is,
the device is failed and the position should not be used, but if there
is sufficient redundancy, the array should still be activated.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix a harmless typo.
The root is a chunk of data that gets written to the superblock. This
data is used to recreate the space map when opening a metadata area.
We have two space maps; one tracking space on the metadata device and
one of the data device. Both of these use the same format for their
root, so this typo was harmless.
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>
The map_context pointer should always be set. However, we have reports
that upon requeuing it is not set correctly. So add set and clear
functions with a BUG_ON() to track the issue properly.
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
As a precaution, set bi_end_io to NULL when failing to remap.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
free_devices in dm_table.c already uses list_for_each(), so we don't
need to check if the list is empty.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove documentation for unimplemented 'trim' message.
I'd planned a 'trim' target message for shrinking thin devices, but
this is better handled via the discard ioctl.
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>
The dm raid module (using md) is becoming the preferred way of creating long-lived
mirrors through userspace LVM so remove the EXPERIMENTAL tag.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Drop EXPERIMENTAL tag from dm-uevent.
It's not changed for a while and some userspace tools are relying upon it.
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>
Avoid using the bi_next field for the holder of a cell when deferring
bios because a stacked device below might change it. Store the
holder in a new field in struct cell instead.
When a cell is created, the bio that triggered creation (the holder) was
added to the same bio list as subsequent bios. In some cases we pass
this holder bio directly to devices underneath. If those devices use
the bi_next field there will be trouble...
This also simplifies some code that had to work out which bio was the
holder.
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>
Always set io->error to -EIO when an error is detected in dm-crypt.
There were cases where an error code would be set only if we finish
processing the last sector. If there were other encryption operations in
flight, the error would be ignored and bio would be returned with
success as if no error happened.
This bug is present in kcryptd_crypt_write_convert, kcryptd_crypt_read_convert
and kcryptd_async_done.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch fixes a possible deadlock in dm-crypt's mempool use.
Currently, dm-crypt reserves a mempool of MIN_BIO_PAGES reserved pages.
It allocates first MIN_BIO_PAGES with non-failing allocation (the allocation
cannot fail and waits until the mempool is refilled). Further pages are
allocated with different gfp flags that allow failing.
Because allocations may be done in parallel, this code can deadlock. Example:
There are two processes, each tries to allocate MIN_BIO_PAGES and the processes
run simultaneously.
It may end up in a situation where each process allocates (MIN_BIO_PAGES / 2)
pages. The mempool is exhausted. Each process waits for more pages to be freed
to the mempool, which never happens.
To avoid this deadlock scenario, this patch changes the code so that only
the first page is allocated with non-failing gfp mask. Allocation of further
pages may fail.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Call the correct exit function on failure in dm_exception_store_init.
Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andrey.warkentin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Mostly tidying up code in preparation for some bigger changes
next time.
A few bug fixes tagged for -stable.
Main functionality change is that some RAID10 arrays can now
grow to use extra space that may have been made available on the
individual devices.
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Merge tag 'md-3.4' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md updates for 3.4 from Neil Brown:
"Mostly tidying up code in preparation for some bigger changes next
time.
A few bug fixes tagged for -stable.
Main functionality change is that some RAID10 arrays can now grow to
use extra space that may have been made available on the individual
devices."
Fixed up trivial conflicts with the k[un]map_atomic() cleanups in
drivers/md/bitmap.c.
* tag 'md-3.4' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (22 commits)
md: Add judgement bb->unacked_exist in function md_ack_all_badblocks().
md: fix clearing of the 'changed' flags for the bad blocks list.
md/bitmap: discard CHUNK_BLOCK_SHIFT macro
md/bitmap: remove unnecessary indirection when allocating.
md/bitmap: remove some pointless locking.
md/bitmap: change a 'goto' to a normal 'if' construct.
md/bitmap: move printing of bitmap status to bitmap.c
md/bitmap: remove some unused noise from bitmap.h
md/raid10 - support resizing some RAID10 arrays.
md/raid1: handle merge_bvec_fn in member devices.
md/raid10: handle merge_bvec_fn in member devices.
md: add proper merge_bvec handling to RAID0 and Linear.
md: tidy up rdev_for_each usage.
md/raid1,raid10: avoid deadlock during resync/recovery.
md/bitmap: ensure to load bitmap when creating via sysfs.
md: don't set md arrays to readonly on shutdown.
md: allow re-add to failed arrays.
md/raid5: use atomic_dec_return() instead of atomic_dec() and atomic_read().
md: Use existed macros instead of numbers
md/raid5: removed unused 'added_devices' variable.
...
Pull kmap_atomic cleanup from Cong Wang.
It's been in -next for a long time, and it gets rid of the (no longer
used) second argument to k[un]map_atomic().
Fix up a few trivial conflicts in various drivers, and do an "evil
merge" to catch some new uses that have come in since Cong's tree.
* 'kmap_atomic' of git://github.com/congwang/linux: (59 commits)
feature-removal-schedule.txt: schedule the deprecated form of kmap_atomic() for removal
highmem: kill all __kmap_atomic() [swarren@nvidia.com: highmem: Fix ARM build break due to __kmap_atomic rename]
drbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
zcache: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
gma500: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
dm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
tomoyo: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
sunrpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
rds: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
net: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
mm: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
lib: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
power: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
kdb: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
udf: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ubifs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()
...
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"It's indeed trivial -- mostly documentation updates and a bunch of
typo fixes from Masanari.
There are also several linux/version.h include removals from Jesper."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (101 commits)
kcore: fix spelling in read_kcore() comment
constify struct pci_dev * in obvious cases
Revert "char: Fix typo in viotape.c"
init: fix wording error in mm_init comment
usb: gadget: Kconfig: fix typo for 'different'
Revert "power, max8998: Include linux/module.h just once in drivers/power/max8998_charger.c"
writeback: fix fn name in writeback_inodes_sb_nr_if_idle() comment header
writeback: fix typo in the writeback_control comment
Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
tpm_tis: fix tis_lock with respect to RCU
Revert "media: Fix typo in mixer_drv.c and hdmi_drv.c"
Doc: Update numastat.txt
qla4xxx: Add missing spaces to error messages
compiler.h: Fix typo
security: struct security_operations kerneldoc fix
Documentation: broken URL in libata.tmpl
Documentation: broken URL in filesystems.tmpl
mtd: simplify return logic in do_map_probe()
mm: fix comment typo of truncate_inode_pages_range
power: bq27x00: Fix typos in comment
...
If there are no unacked bad blocks, then there is no point searching
for them to acknowledge them.
Signed-off-by: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
In super_1_sync (the first hunk) we need to clear 'changed' before
checking read_seqretry(), otherwise we might race with other code
adding a bad block and so won't retry later.
In md_update_sb (the second hunk), in the case where there is no
metadata (neither persistent nor external), we treat any bad blocks as
an error. However we need to clear the 'changed' flag before calling
md_ack_all_badblocks, else it won't do anything.
This patch is suitable for -stable release 3.0 and later.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Be redefining ->chunkshift as the shift from sectors to chunks rather
than bytes to chunks, we can just use "bitmap->chunkshift" which is
shorter than the macro call, and less indirect.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
These funcitons don't add anything useful except possibly the trace
points, and I don't think they are worth the extra indirection.
So remove them.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There is nothing gained by holding a lock while we check if a pointer
is NULL or not. If there could be a race, then it could become NULL
immediately after the unlock - but there is no race here.
So just remove the locking.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The use of a goto makes the control flow more obscure here.
So make it a normal:
if (x) {
Y;
}
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The part of /proc/mdstat which describes the bitmap should really
be generated by code in bitmap.c. So move it there.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
'resizing' an array in this context means making use of extra
space that has become available in component devices, not adding new
devices.
It also includes shrinking the array to take up less space of
component devices.
This is not supported for array with a 'far' layout. However
for 'near' and 'offset' layout arrays, adding and removing space at
the end of the devices is easy to support, and this patch provides
that support.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently we don't honour merge_bvec_fn in member devices so if there
is one, we force all requests to be single-page at most.
This is not ideal.
So create a raid1 merge_bvec_fn to check that function in children
as well.
This introduces a small problem. There is no locking around calls
the ->merge_bvec_fn and subsequent calls to ->make_request. So a
device added between these could end up getting a request which
violates its merge_bvec_fn.
Currently the best we can do is synchronize_sched(). This will work
providing no preemption happens. If there is is preemption, we just
have to hope that new devices are largely consistent with old devices.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently we don't honour merge_bvec_fn in member devices so if there
is one, we force all requests to be single-page at most.
This is not ideal.
So enhance the raid10 merge_bvec_fn to check that function in children
as well.
This introduces a small problem. There is no locking around calls
the ->merge_bvec_fn and subsequent calls to ->make_request. So a
device added between these could end up getting a request which
violates its merge_bvec_fn.
Currently the best we can do is synchronize_sched(). This will work
providing no preemption happens. If there is preemption, we just
have to hope that new devices are largely consistent with old devices.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
These personalities currently set a max request size of one page
when any member device has a merge_bvec_fn because they don't
bother to call that function.
This causes extra works in splitting and combining requests.
So make the extra effort to call the merge_bvec_fn when it exists
so that we end up with larger requests out the bottom.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md.h has an 'rdev_for_each()' macro for iterating the rdevs in an
mddev. However it uses the 'safe' version of list_for_each_entry,
and so requires the extra variable, but doesn't include 'safe' in the
name, which is useful documentation.
Consequently some places use this safe version without needing it, and
many use an explicity list_for_each entry.
So:
- rename rdev_for_each to rdev_for_each_safe
- create a new rdev_for_each which uses the plain
list_for_each_entry,
- use the 'safe' version only where needed, and convert all other
list_for_each_entry calls to use rdev_for_each.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If RAID1 or RAID10 is used under LVM or some other stacking
block device, it is possible to enter a deadlock during
resync or recovery.
This can happen if the upper level block device creates
two requests to the RAID1 or RAID10. The first request gets
processed, blocks recovery and queue requests for underlying
requests in current->bio_list. A resync request then starts
which will wait for those requests and block new IO.
But then the second request to the RAID1/10 will be attempted
and it cannot progress until the resync request completes,
which cannot progress until the underlying device requests complete,
which are on a queue behind that second request.
So allow that second request to proceed even though there is
a resync request about to start.
This is suitable for any -stable kernel.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ray Morris <support@bettercgi.com>
Tested-by: Ray Morris <support@bettercgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When commit 69e51b449d (md/bitmap: separate out loading a bitmap...)
created bitmap_load, it missed calling it after bitmap_create when a
bitmap is created through the sysfs interface.
So if a bitmap is added this way, we don't allocate memory properly
and can crash.
This is suitable for any -stable release since 2.6.35.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
It seems that with recent kernel, writeback can still be happening
while shutdown is happening, and consequently data can be written
after the md reboot notifier switches all arrays to read-only.
This causes a BUG.
So don't switch them to read-only - just mark them clean and
set 'safemode' to '2' which mean that immediately after any
write the array will be switch back to 'clean'.
This could result in the shutdown happening when array is marked
dirty, thus forcing a resync on reboot. However if you reboot
without performing a "sync" first, you get to keep both halves.
This is suitable for any stable kernel (though there might be some
conflicts with obvious fixes in earlier kernels).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When an array is failed (some data inaccessible) then there is no
point attempting to add a spare as it could not possibly be recovered.
However that may be value in re-adding a recently removed device.
e.g. if there is a write-intent-bitmap and it is clear, then access
to the data could be restored by this action.
So don't reject a re-add to a failed array for RAID10 and RAID5 (the
only arrays types that check for a failed array).
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Recent commit 4ca40c2ce0 (md/raid10: Allow replacement device ...)
added an smp_mb in end_sync_write.
This was to close a possible race with raid10_remove_disk.
However there is no such race as it is never attempted to remove a
disk while resync (or recovery) is happening.
so the smp_mb is just noise.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
