Implement merge method for the snapshot origin to improve read
performance.
Without merge method, dm asks the upper layers to submit smallest possible
bios --- one page. Submitting such small bios impacts performance negatively
when reading or writing the origin device.
Without this patch, CPU consumption when reading the origin on lvm on md-raid0
was 6 to 12%, with this patch, it drops to 1 to 4%.
Note: in my testing, it actually degraded performance in some settings, I
traced it to Maxtor disks having problems with > 512-sector requests.
Reducing the number of sectors to /sys/block/sd*/queue/max_sectors_kb to
256 fixed the read performance. I think we don't have to care about weird
disks that actually degrade performance because of large requests being
sent to them.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Validate chunk size against both origin and snapshot sector size
Don't allow chunk size smaller than either origin or snapshot logical
sector size. Reading or writing data not aligned to sector size is not
allowed and causes immediate errors.
This requires us to open the origin before initialising the
exception store and to export dm_snap_origin.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Iterate both origin and snapshot devices
iterate_devices method should call the callback for all the devices where
the bio may be remapped. Thus, snapshot_iterate_devices should call the callback
for both snapshot and origin underlying devices because it remaps some bios
to the snapshot and some to the origin.
snapshot_iterate_devices called the callback only for the origin device.
This led to badly calculated device limits if snapshot and origin were placed
on different types of disks.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Eliminate a 4-byte hole in 'struct dm_io_memory' by moving 'offset' above the
'ptr' to which it applies (size reduced from 24 to 16 bytes). And by
association, 1-4 byte hole is eliminated in 'struct dm_io_request' (size
reduced from 56 to 48 bytes).
Eliminate all 6 4-byte holes and 1 cache-line in 'struct dm_snapshot' (size
reduced from 392 to 368 bytes).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove unused parameters(start and len) of dm_get_device()
and fix the callers.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If the snapshot we are merging became invalid (e.g. it ran out of
space) redirect all I/O directly to the origin device.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Set 'merge_failed' flag if a snapshot fails to merge. Update
snapshot_status() to report "Merge failed" if 'merge_failed' is set.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
s->store->type->prepare_merge returns the number of chunks that can be
copied linearly working backwards from the returned chunk number.
For example, if it returns 3 chunks with old_chunk == 10 and new_chunk
== 20, then chunk 20 can be copied to 10, chunk 19 to 9 and 18 to 8.
Until now kcopyd only copied one chunk at a time. This patch now copies
the full set at once.
Consequently, snapshot_merge_process() needs to delay the merging of all
chunks if any have writes in progress, not just the first chunk in the
region that is to be merged.
snapshot-merge's performance is now comparable to the original
snapshot-origin target.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
When there is one merging snapshot and other non-merging snapshots,
snapshot_merge_process() must make exceptions in the non-merging
snapshots.
Use a sequence count to resolve the race between I/O to chunks that are
about to be merged. The count increases each time an exception
reallocation finishes. Use wait_event() to wait until the count
changes.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Track writes to chunks that are currently being merged and delay merging
a chunk until all writes to that chunk finish.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
While a set of chunks is being merged, any overlapping writes need to be
queued.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Merging is started when origin is resumed and it is stopped when
origin is suspended or when the merging snapshot is destroyed or
errors are detected.
Merging is not yet interlocked with writes: this will be handled in
subsequent patches.
The code relies on callbacks from a private kcopyd thread.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Merging more than one snapshot is not supported, so prevent
this happening.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Sets num_flush_requests=2 to support flushing both the origin and cow
devices used by the snapshot-merge target.
Also, snapshot_ctr() now gets the origin device using FMODE_WRITE if the
target is snapshot-merge (which writes to the origin device).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The snapshot-merge target should not allocate new exceptions because the
intent is to merge all of its exceptions as quickly and safely as
possible.
This patch introduces the snapshot-merge mapping function and updates
__origin_write() so that it doesn't allocate exceptions on any snapshots
that are being merged.
If a write request to a merging snapshot device is to be dispatched
directly to the origin (because the chunk is not remapped or was already
merged), snapshot_merge_map() must make exceptions in other snapshots so
calls do_origin().
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To track the completion of exceptions relating to the same location on
the device, the current code selects one exception as primary_pe, links
the other exceptions to it and uses reference counting to wait until all
the reallocations are complete.
It is considered too complicated to extend this code to handle the new
snapshot-merge target, where sets of non-overlapping chunks would also
need to become linked.
Instead, a simpler (but less efficient) approach is taken. Bios are
linked to one exception. When it completes, bios are simply retried,
and if other related exceptions are still outstanding, they'll get
queued again to wait for another one.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The snapshot-merge target allows a snapshot to be merged back into the
snapshot's origin device.
One anticipated use of snapshot merging is the rollback of filesystems
to back out problematic system upgrades.
This patch adds snapshot-merge target management to both
dm_snapshot_init() and dm_snapshot_exit(). As an initial place-holder,
snapshot-merge is identical to the snapshot target. Documentation is
provided.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move the __chunk_is_tracked() loop into a separate function as we will
also need to call it from the write path in the rare case of conflicting
writes to the same chunk.
Originally introduced in commit a8d41b59f3
("dm snapshot: fix race during exception creation").
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To support the merging of snapshots back into their origin we need
to trigger exceptions in other snapshots not being merged without
any incoming bio on the origin device. The bio parameter to
__origin_write() becomes optional and the sector needs supplying
separately.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Permit in-use snapshot exception data to be 'handed over' from one
snapshot instance to another. This is a pre-requisite for patches
that allow the changes made in a snapshot device to be merged back into
its origin device and also allows device resizing.
The basic call sequence is:
dmsetup load new_snapshot (referencing the existing in-use cow device)
- the ctr code detects that the cow is already in use and allows the
two snapshot target instances to be linked together
dmsetup suspend original_snapshot
dmsetup resume new_snapshot
- the new_snapshot becomes live, and if anything now tries to access
the original one it will receive -EIO
dmsetup remove original_snapshot
(There can only be two snapshot targets referencing the same cow device
simultaneously.)
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Keep track of whether or not the device is suspended within the snapshot
target module, the same as we do in dm-raid1.
We will use this later to enforce the correct sequence of ioctls to
transfer the in-core exceptions from a snapshot target instance in
one table to a replacement one capable of merging them back
into the origin.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Store the reference to the snapshot cow device in the core snapshot
code instead of each exception store. It can be accessed through the
new function dm_snap_cow(). Exception stores should each now maintain a
reference to their parent snapshot struct.
This is cleaner and makes part of the forthcoming snapshot merge code simpler.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Add number of sectors used by metadata to the end of the snapshot's status
line.
Renamed dm_exception_store_type's 'fraction_full' to 'usage'. Renamed
arguments to be clearer about what is being returned. Also added
'metadata_sectors'.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Rename exception functions. Preparing to pull them out of
dm-snap.c for broader use.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Rename exception_table for broader use outside dm-snap.c
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The exception structure is not necessarily just a snapshot
element (especially after we pull it out of dm-snap.c).
Renaming appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Consolidate the insert_*exception functions. 'insert_completed_exception'
already contains all the logic to handle 'insert_exception' (via
check for a hash_shift of 0), so remove redundant function.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The origin needs to find minimum chunksize of all snapshots. This logic is
moved to a separate function because it will be used at another place in
the snapshot merge patches.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Under some special conditions the snapshot hash_size is calculated as zero.
This patch instead sets a minimum value of 64, the same as for the
pending exception table.
rounddown_pow_of_two(0) is an undefined operation (it expands to shift
by -1). init_exception_table with an argument of 0 would fail with -ENOMEM.
The way to trigger the problem is to create a snapshot with a chunk size
that is larger than the origin device.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Take snapshot lock only for STATUSTYPE_INFO, not STATUSTYPE_TABLE.
Commit 4c6fff445d
(dm-snapshot-lock-snapshot-while-supplying-status.patch)
introduced this use of the lock, but userspace applications using
libdevmapper have been found to request STATUSTYPE_TABLE while the device
is suspended and the lock is already held, leading to deadlock. Since
the lock is not necessary in this case, don't try to take it.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use unsigned integer chunk size.
Maximum chunk size is 512kB, there won't ever be need to use 4GB chunk size,
so the number can be 32-bit. This fixes compiler failure on 32-bit systems
with large block devices.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch locks the snapshot when returning status. It fixes a race
when it could return an invalid number of free chunks if someone
was simultaneously modifying it.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If we are creating snapshot with memory-stored exception store, fail if
the user didn't specify chunk size. Zero chunk size would probably crash
a lot of places in the rest of snapshot code.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
While initializing the snapshot module, if we fail to register
the snapshot target then we must back-out the exception store
module initialization.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Avoid a race causing corruption when snapshots of the same origin have
different chunk sizes by sorting the internal list of snapshots by chunk
size, largest first.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=182659
For example, let's have two snapshots with different chunk sizes. The
first snapshot (1) has small chunk size and the second snapshot (2) has
large chunk size. Let's have chunks A, B, C in these snapshots:
snapshot1: ====A==== ====B====
snapshot2: ==========C==========
(Chunk size is a power of 2. Chunks are aligned.)
A write to the origin at a position within A and C comes along. It
triggers reallocation of A, then reallocation of C and links them
together using A as the 'primary' exception.
Then another write to the origin comes along at a position within B and
C. It creates pending exception for B. C already has a reallocation in
progress and it already has a primary exception (A), so nothing is done
to it: B and C are not linked.
If the reallocation of B finishes before the reallocation of C, because
there is no link with the pending exception for C it does not know to
wait for it and, the second write is dispatched to the origin and causes
data corruption in the chunk C in snapshot2.
To avoid this situation, we maintain snapshots sorted in descending
order of chunk size. This leads to a guaranteed ordering on the links
between the pending exceptions and avoids the problem explained above -
both A and B now get linked to C.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Implement the .iterate_devices for the origin and snapshot targets.
dm-snapshot's lack of .iterate_devices resulted in the inability to
properly establish queue_limits for both targets.
With 4K sector drives: an unfortunate side-effect of not establishing
proper limits in either targets' DM device was that IO to the devices
would fail even though both had been created without error.
Commit af4874e03e ("dm target:s introduce
iterate devices fn") in 2.6.31-rc1 should have implemented .iterate_devices
for dm-snap.c's origin and snapshot targets.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Flush support for dm-snapshot target.
This patch just forwards the flush request to either the origin or the snapshot
device. (It doesn't flush exception store metadata.)
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
It's used by DM and MD and generally useful, so move the bio list
helpers into bio.h.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Let the exception store types print out their status through
the new API, rather than having the snapshot code do it.
Adjust the buffer position to allow for the preceding DMEMIT in the
arguments to type->status().
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
First step of having the exception stores parse their own arguments -
generalizing the interface.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use DMEMIT in place of snprintf. This makes it easier later when
other modules are helping to populate our status output.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move some of the last bits from dm-snap.h into dm-snap.c where they
belong and remove dm-snap.h.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move useful functions out of dm-snap.h and stop using dm-snap.h.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move COW device from snapshot to exception store.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move chunk fields from snapshot to exception store.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move target pointer from snapshot to exception store.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
We need to check if the exception was completed after dropping the lock.
After regaining the lock, __find_pending_exception checks if the exception
was already placed into &s->pending hash.
But we don't check if the exception was already completed and placed into
&s->complete hash. If the process waiting in alloc_pending_exception was
delayed at this point because of a scheduling latency and the exception
was meanwhile completed, we'd miss that and allocate another pending
exception for already completed chunk.
It would lead to a situation where two records for the same chunk exist
and potential data corruption because multiple snapshot I/Os to the
affected chunk could be redirected to different locations in the
snapshot.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
It is uncommon and bug-prone to drop a lock in a function that is called with
the lock held, so this is moved to the caller.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move looking-up of a pending exception from __find_pending_exception to another
function.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Supply dm_add_exception as a callback to the read_metadata function.
Add a status function ready for a later patch and name the functions
consistently.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move the existing snapshot exception store implementations out into
separate files. Later patches will place these behind a new
interface in preparation for alternative implementations.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Pull structures that bridge the gap between snapshot and
exception store out of dm-snap.h and put them in a new
.h file - dm-exception-store.h. This file will define the
API for new exception stores.
Ultimately, dm-snap.h is unnecessary, since only dm-snap.c
should be using it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Change dm_unregister_target to return void and use BUG() for error
reporting.
dm_unregister_target can only fail because of programming bug in the
target driver. It can't fail because of user's behavior or disk errors.
This patch changes unregister_target to return void and use BUG if
someone tries to unregister non-registered target or unregister target
that is in use.
This patch removes code duplication (testing of error codes in all dm
targets) and reports bugs in just one place, in dm_unregister_target. In
some target drivers, these return codes were ignored, which could lead
to a situation where bugs could be missed.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Change yield() to msleep(1). If the thread had realtime priority,
yield() doesn't really yield, so the yielding process would loop
indefinitely and cause machine lockup.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If there are several snapshots sharing an origin and one is removed
while the origin is being written to, the snapshot's mempool may get
deleted while elements are still referenced.
Prior to dm-snapshot-use-per-device-mempools.patch the pending
exceptions may still have been referenced after the snapshot was
destroyed, but this was not a problem because the shared mempool
was still there.
This patch fixes the problem by tracking the number of mempool elements
in use.
The scenario:
- You have an origin and two snapshots 1 and 2.
- Someone writes to the origin.
- It creates two exceptions in the snapshots, snapshot 1 will be primary
exception, snapshot 2's pending_exception->primary_pe will point to the
exception in snapshot 1.
- The exceptions are being relocated, relocation of exception 1 finishes
(but it's pending_exception is still allocated, because it is referenced
by an exception from snapshot 2)
- The user lvremoves snapshot 1 --- it calls just suspend (does nothing)
and destructor. md->pending is zero (there is no I/O submitted to the
snapshot by md layer), so it won't help us.
- The destructor waits for kcopyd jobs to finish on snapshot 1 --- but
there are none.
- The destructor on snapshot 1 cleans up everything.
- The relocation of exception on snapshot 2 finishes, it drops reference
on primary_pe. This frees its primary_pe pointer. Primary_pe points to
pending exception created for snapshot 1. So it frees memory into
non-existing mempool.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
register_snapshot() performs a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding
_origins_lock for write, but that could write out dirty pages onto a
device that attempts to acquire _origins_lock for read, resulting in
deadlock.
So move the allocation up before taking the lock.
This path is not performance-critical, so it doesn't matter that we
allocate memory and free it if we find that we won't need it.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The last_percent field is unused - remove it.
(It dates from when events were triggered as each X% filled up.)
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix a race condition with primary_pe ref_count handling.
put_pending_exception runs under dm_snapshot->lock, it does atomic_dec_and_test
on primary_pe->ref_count, and later does atomic_read primary_pe->ref_count.
__origin_write does atomic_dec_and_test on primary_pe->ref_count without holding
dm_snapshot->lock.
This opens the following race condition:
Assume two CPUs, CPU1 is executing put_pending_exception (and holding
dm_snapshot->lock). CPU2 is executing __origin_write in parallel.
primary_pe->ref_count == 2.
CPU1:
if (primary_pe && atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count))
origin_bios = bio_list_get(&primary_pe->origin_bios);
... decrements primary_pe->ref_count to 1. Doesn't load origin_bios
CPU2:
if (first && atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count)) {
flush_bios(bio_list_get(&primary_pe->origin_bios));
free_pending_exception(primary_pe);
/* If we got here, pe_queue is necessarily empty. */
return r;
}
... decrements primary_pe->ref_count to 0, submits pending bios, frees
primary_pe.
CPU1:
if (!primary_pe || primary_pe != pe)
free_pending_exception(pe);
... this has no effect.
if (primary_pe && !atomic_read(&primary_pe->ref_count))
free_pending_exception(primary_pe);
... sees ref_count == 0 (written by CPU 2), does double free !!
This bug can happen only if someone is simultaneously writing to both the
origin and the snapshot.
If someone is writing only to the origin, __origin_write will submit kcopyd
request after it decrements primary_pe->ref_count (so it can't happen that the
finished copy races with primary_pe->ref_count decrementation).
If someone is writing only to the snapshot, __origin_write isn't invoked at all
and the race can't happen.
The race happens when someone writes to the snapshot --- this creates
pending_exception with primary_pe == NULL and starts copying. Then, someone
writes to the same chunk in the snapshot, and __origin_write races with
termination of already submitted request in pending_complete (that calls
put_pending_exception).
This race may be reason for bugs:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11636https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465825
The patch fixes the code to make sure that:
1. If atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count) returns false, the process
must no longer dereference primary_pe (because someone else may free it under
us).
2. If atomic_dec_and_test(&primary_pe->ref_count) returns true, the process
is responsible for freeing primary_pe.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Change snapshot per-module mempool to per-device mempool.
Per-module mempools could cause a deadlock if multiple
snapshot devices are stacked above each other.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fix a race condition that returns incorrect data when a write causes an
exception to be allocated whilst a read is still in flight.
The race condition happens as follows:
* A read to non-reallocated sector in the snapshot is submitted so that the
read is routed to the original device.
* A write to the original device is submitted. The write causes an exception
that reallocates the block. The write proceeds.
* The original read is dequeued and reads the wrong data.
This race can be triggered with CFQ scheduler and one thread writing and
multiple threads reading simultaneously.
(This patch relies upon the earlier dm-kcopyd-per-device.patch to avoid a
deadlock.)
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Whenever a snapshot read gets mapped through to the origin, track it in
a per-snapshot hash table indexed by chunk number, using memory allocated
from a new per-snapshot mempool.
We need to track these reads to avoid race conditions which will be fixed
by patches that follow.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Clean up the kcopyd interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Clean up the dm-io interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Save pointer to dm_target in dm_snapshot structure.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Limit the amount of memory allocated per snapshot on systems
with a large page size. (The larger default chunk size on
these systems compensates for the smaller number of pages reserved.)
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
write_err is an unsigned long used with set_bit() so should not be passed
around as unsigned int.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10271
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Provided sector_t is 64 bits, reduce the in-memory footprint of the
snapshot exception table by the simple method of using unused bits of
the chunk number to combine consecutive entries.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Since the source file already includes the log2.h header file, it
seems pointless to re-invent the necessary routine.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Replacing n & (n - 1) for power of 2 check by is_power_of_2(n)
Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,
the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it.
Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
from bi_size. So don't do that either.
While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch causes device-mapper to reject any barrier requests. This is done
since most of the targets won't handle this correctly anyway. So until the
situation improves it is better to reject these requests at the first place.
Since barrier requests won't get to the targets, the checks there can be
removed.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
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>
Move the code that releases memory used by a snapshot into a separate function.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update existing targets to use the new symbols for return values from target
map and end_io functions.
There is no effect on behaviour.
Test results:
Done build test without errors.
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If a snapshot became invalid while there are outstanding pending_exceptions,
when pending_complete() processes each one it forgets to remove the
corresponding exception from its exception table before freeing it.
Fix this by moving the 'out:' label up one statement so that
remove_exception() is always called. Then __invalidate_exception() no longer
needs to call it and its 'pe' argument become superfluous.
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>
Rename sibling_count to ref_count and introduce get and put functions.
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>
Add a workqueue so that I/O can be queued up to be flushed from a separate
thread (e.g. if local interrupts are disabled).
A new per-snapshot spinlock pe_lock is introduced to protect queued_bios.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch rearranges the pending_complete() code so that the functional
changes in subsequent patches are clearer.
By consolidating the error and the non-error paths, we can move
error_snapshot_bios() and __flush_bios() in line.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch rearranges the snapshot_map code so that the functional changes in
subsequent patches are clearer.
The only functional change is to replace the existing read lock with a write
lock which the next patch needs.
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>
Fix the error handling when store.read_metadata is called: the error should be
returned immediately.
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>
Before removing a snapshot, wait for the completion of any kcopyd jobs using
it.
Do this by maintaining a count (nr_jobs) of how many outstanding jobs each
kcopyd_client has.
The snapshot destructor first unregisters the snapshot so that no new kcopyd
jobs (created by writes to the origin) will reference that particular
snapshot. kcopyd_client_destroy() is now run next to wait for the completion
of any outstanding jobs before the snapshot exception structures (that those
jobs reference) are freed.
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>
We don't know what type sector_t has. Sometimes it's unsigned long, sometimes
it's unsigned long long. For example on ppc64 it's unsigned long with
CONFIG_LBD=n and on x86_64 it's unsigned long long with CONFIG_LBD=n.
The way to handle all of this is to always use unsigned long long and to
always typecast the sector_t when printing it.
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When a snapshot becomes invalid, s->valid is set to 0. In this state, a
snapshot can no longer be accessed.
When s->lock is acquired, before doing anything else, s->valid must be checked
to ensure the snapshot remains valid.
This patch eliminates some races (that may cause panics) by adding some
missing checks. At the same time, some unnecessary levels of indentation are
removed and snapshot invalidation is moved into a single function that always
generates a device-mapper event.
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 siblings "list" is used unsafely at the moment.
Firstly, only the element on the list being changed gets locked (via the
snapshot lock), not the next and previous elements which have pointers that
are also being changed.
Secondly, if you have two or more snapshots and write to the same chunk a
second time before every snapshot has finished making its private copy of the
data, if you're unlucky, _origin_write() could attempt its list_merge() and
dereference a 'last' pointer to a pending_exception structure that has just
been freed.
Analysis reveals that the list is actually only there for reference counting.
If 5 pending_exceptions are needed in origin_write, then the 5 are joined
together into a 5-element list - without a separate list head because there's
nowhere suitable to store it. As the pending_exceptions complete, they are
removed from the list one-by-one and any contents of origin_bios get moved
across to one of the remaining pending_exceptions on the list. Whichever one
is last is detected because list_empty() is then true and the origin_bios get
submitted.
The fix proposed here uses an alternative reference counting mechanism by
choosing one of the pending_exceptions as primary and maintaining an atomic
counter there.
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>
Say you have several snapshots of the same origin and then you issue a write
to some place in the origin for the first time.
Before the device-mapper snapshot target lets the write go through to the
underlying device, it needs to make a copy of the data that is about to be
overwritten. Each snapshot is independent, so it makes one copy for each
snapshot.
__origin_write() loops through each snapshot and checks to see whether a copy
is needed for that snapshot. (A copy is only needed the first time that data
changes.)
If a copy is needed, the code allocates a 'pending_exception' structure
holding the details. It links these together for all the snapshots, then
works its way through this list and submits the copying requests to the kcopyd
thread by calling start_copy(). When each request is completed, the original
pending_exception structure gets freed in pending_complete().
If you're very unlucky, this structure can get freed *before* the submission
process has finished walking the list.
This patch:
1) Creates a new temporary list pe_queue to hold the pending exception
structures;
2) Does all the bookkeeping up-front, then walks through the new list
safely and calls start_copy() for each pending_exception that needed it;
3) Avoids attempting to add pe->siblings to the list if it's already
connected.
[NB This does not fix all the races in this code. More patches will follow.]
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>
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The snapshot and origin targets are incapable of handling barriers and need to
indicate this.
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>
Move snapshot metadata loading to happen when the table is created instead of
when the device is resumed. Writes to the origin device don't trigger
exceptions until each snapshot table becomes active when resume() is called on
each snapshot.
If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work properly you should update to
lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or later.
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>
