Allow invalid snapshots to be activated instead of failing.
This allows userspace to reinstate any given snapshot state - for
example after an unscheduled reboot - and clean up the invalid snapshot
at its leisure.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Process persistent exception store metadata IOs in a separate thread.
A snapshot may become invalid while inside generic_make_request().
A synchronous write is then needed to update the metadata while still
inside that function. Since the introduction of
md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch this has to
be performed by a separate thread to avoid deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use new KMEM_CACHE() macro and make the newly-exposed structure names more
meaningful. Also remove some superfluous casts and inlines (let a modern
compiler be the judge).
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch ports dm-exception-store.c to the new, scalable dm_io() interface.
It replaces dm_io_get()/dm_io_put() by
dm_io_client_create()/dm_io_client_destroy() calls and
dm_io_sync_vm() by dm_io() to achive this.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Cc: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When suspending a device-mapper device, dm_suspend() sleeps until all
necessary I/O is completed. This state is triggered by a callback from
persistent_commit(). But some I/O can still be issued *after* the callback
(to prepare the next metadata area for use if the current one is full). This
patch delays the callback until after that I/O is complete.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
read_exception() and write_exception() only return an error if supplied with
an out-of-range index. If this ever happens it's the result of a bug in the
calling code so we handle this with an assertion and remove the error handling
in the callers.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The chunk size of snapshots cannot be changed so it is redundant to require it
as a parameter when activating an existing snapshot. Allow a value of zero in
this case and ignore it. For a new snapshot, use a default value if zero is
specified.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tidy device-mapper error messages to include context information
automatically.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Persistent snapshots currently store a private copy of the chunk size.
Userspace also supplies the chunk size when loading a snapshot. Ensure
consistency by only storing the chunk_size in one place instead of two.
Currently the two sizes will differ if the chunk size supplied by userspace
does not match the chunk size an existing snapshot actually uses. Amongst
other problems, this causes an incorrect 'percentage full' to be reported.
The patch ensures consistency by only storing the chunk_size in one place,
removing it from struct pstore. Some initialisation is delayed until the
correct chunk_size is known. If read_header() discovers that the wrong chunk
size was supplied, the 'area' buffer (which the header already got read into)
is reinitialised to the correct size.
[akpm: too late for 2.6.17 - suitable for 2.6.17.x after it has settled]
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch does a full cleanup of 'NULL checks before vfree', and a partial
cleanup of calls to kfree for all of drivers/ - the kfree bit is partial in
that I only did the files that also had vfree calls in them. The patch
also gets rid of some redundant (void *) casts of pointers being passed to
[vk]free, and a some tiny whitespace corrections also crept in.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
