Multipath is best at handling transport errors. If it gets a device
error then there is not much the multipath layer can do. It will just
access the same device but from a different path.
This patch breaks up failfast into device, transport and driver errors.
The multipath layers (md and dm mutlipath) only ask the lower levels to
fast fail transport errors. The user of failfast, read ahead, will ask
to fast fail on all errors.
Note that blk_noretry_request will return true if any failfast bit
is set. This allows drivers that do not support the multipath failfast
bits to continue to fail on any failfast error like before. Drivers
like scsi that are able to fail fast specific errors can check
for the specific fail fast type. In the next patch I will convert
scsi.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch moves 'is_active' from struct dm_path to struct pgpath
as it does not need exporting.
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>
This patch allows path errors from the multipath ctr function to
propagate up to userspace as errno values from the ioctl() call.
This is in response to
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2008-May/msg00000.html
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444421
The patch only lets through the errors that it needs to in order to
get the path errors from parse_path().
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Moving the path activation to workqueue along with scsi_dh patches introduced
a race. It is due to the fact that the current_pgpath (in the multipath data
structure) can be modified if changes happen in any of the paths leading to
the lun. If the changes lead to current_pgpath being set to NULL, then it
leads to the invalid access which results in the panic below.
This patch fixes that by storing the pgpath to activate in the multipath data
structure and properly protecting it.
Note that if activate_path is called twice in succession with different pgpath,
with the second one being called before the first one is done, then activate
path will be called twice for the second pgpath, which is fine.
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000020
Faulting instruction address: 0xd000000000aa1844
cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000006b987a80]
pc: d000000000aa1844: .activate_path+0x30/0x218 [dm_multipath]
lr: c000000000087a2c: .run_workqueue+0x114/0x204
sp: c00000006b987d00
msr: 8000000000009032
dar: 20
dsisr: 40000000
current = 0xc0000000676bb3f0
paca = 0xc0000000006f3680
pid = 2528, comm = kmpath_handlerd
enter ? for help
[c00000006b987da0] c000000000087a2c .run_workqueue+0x114/0x204
[c00000006b987e40] c000000000088b58 .worker_thread+0x120/0x144
[c00000006b987f00] c00000000008ca70 .kthread+0x78/0xc4
[c00000006b987f90] c000000000027cc8 .kernel_thread+0x4c/0x68
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
multipath keeps a separate device table which may be
more current than the built-in one.
So we should make sure to always call ->attach whenever
a multipath map with hardware handler is instantiated.
And we should call ->detach on removal, too.
[sekharan: update as per comments from agk]
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Return a specific error message if there are an invalid number of multipath
arguments.
This invalid command returns an "Unknown error" because the ti->error field is
not set
dmsetup create --table '0 2 multipath 0 0 1 1 round-robin 0 1 1 /dev/sdh' mpath0
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Free path selector if the arguments are invalid.
This command (note that it is invalid) causes reference leak on module
"dm_round_robin" and prevents the module from being removed.
dmsetup create --table '0 2 multipath 0 0 1 1 round-robin /dev/sdh' mpath0
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Do not automatically "select" SCSI_DH for dm-multipath. If SCSI_DH
doesn't exist,just do not allow hardware handlers to be used.
Handle SCSI_DH being a module also. Make sure it doesn't allow DM_MULTIPATH
to be compiled in when SCSI_DH is a module.
[jejb: added comment for Kconfig syntax]
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch just removes the dm layer's path initialization completion
routine. This is separated from the other patch(scsi_dh: Use SCSI
device handler in dm-multipath) Just to make that patch more readable.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Before this patch set (SCSI hardware handlers), initialization of a
path was done asynchronously. Doing that requires a workqueue in each
device/hardware handler module and leads to unneccessary complication
in the device handler code, making it difficult to read the code and
follow the state diagram.
Moving that workqueue to this level makes the device handler code simpler.
Hence, the workqueue is moved to dm level.
A new workqueue is added instead of adding it to the existing workqueue
(kmpathd) for the following reasons:
1. Device activation has to happen faster, stacking them along
with the other workqueue might lead to unnecessary delay
in the activation of the path.
2. The effect could be felt the other way too. i.e the current
events that are handled by the existing workqueue might get
a delayed response.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch converts dm-mpath to use scsi device handlers instead of
dm's hardware handlers.
This patch does not add any new functionality. Old behaviors remain and
userspace tools work as is except that arguments supplied with hardware
handler are ignored.
One behavioral exception is: Activation of a path is synchronous in this
patch, opposed to the older behavior of being asynchronous (changed in
patch 07: scsi_dh: Add a single threaded workqueue for initializing a path)
Note: There is no need to get a reference for the device handler module
(as it was done in the dm hardware handler case) here as the reference
is held when the device was first found. Instead we check and make sure
that support for the specified device is present at table load time.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This patch adds calls to dm_path_event for a failed path and a reinstated
path.
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch allows a failed path group initialisation command to be retried.
It adds a generic MP_RETRY flag and a "pg_init_retries" feature to
device-mapper multipath which limits the number of retries.
1. A hw handler sends a path initialization command to the storage and
the command completes with an error code indicating the command
should be retried.
2. The hardware handler calls dm_pg_init_complete() with MP_RETRY
set in err_flags to ask the dm multipath core to retry.
3. If the retry limit has not been exceeded, pg_init() is retried.
Otherwise fail_path() is called.
If you are using the userspace multipath-tools or device-mapper-multipath
package, you can set pg_init_retries in the 'device' section of your
/etc/multipath.conf file. For example:
features "2 pg_init_retries 7"
The number of PG retries attempted is reported in the 'dmsetup status' output.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.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>
Remove explicit module name from messages as the macro now includes it
automatically.
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>
Make the mapped device structure accessible to hardware handlers so error
messages can include the device name.
Signed-off-by: Edward Goggin <egoggin@emc.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>
Implement the pushback feature for the multipath target.
The pushback request is used when:
1) there are no valid paths;
2) queue_if_no_path was set;
3) a suspend is being issued with the DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING flag.
Otherwise bios are returned to applications with -EIO.
To check whether queue_if_no_path is specified or not, you need to check
both queue_if_no_path and saved_queue_if_no_path, because presuspend saves
the original queue_if_no_path value to saved_queue_if_no_path.
The check for 1 already exists in both map_io() and do_end_io().
So this patch adds __must_push_back() to check 2 and 3.
Test results:
See the test results in the preceding patch.
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>
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>
Rename DM's struct path to struct dm_path to prevent name collision between it
and struct path from fs/namei.c.
Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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>
After initialising m->ti, there's no need to pass it in subsequent calls to
static functions used for parsing parameters.
Signed-off-by: Micha³ Miros³aw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
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 new ioctl code passes the wrong file pointer to the underlying device.
No file pointer is available so make a temporary fake one.
ioctl_by_bdev() does set_fs(KERNEL_DS) so it's for ioctls originating
within the kernel and unsuitable here. We are processing ioctls that
originated in userspace and mapping them to different devices. Fixing the
existing callers that pass a NULL file struct and consolidating the
fake_file users are separate matters to solve in later patches.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@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>
Export blkdev_driver_ioctl for device-mapper.
If we get as far as the device-mapper ioctl handler, we know the ioctl is not
a standard block layer BLK* one, so we don't need to check for them a second
time and can call blkdev_driver_ioctl() directly.
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>
When an ioctl is performed on a multipath device simply pass it on to the
underlying block device through current_path. If current path is not yet
selected, select it.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@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>
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>
do_end_io() can be called without interrupts blocked.
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>
When creating a multipath device, if the queue_if_no_path parameter is
specified it gets ignored.
While the queue_if_no_path variable is correctly set to 1, the
saved_queue_if_no_path gets set to 0. When the device is subsequently made
live (resumed), the saved value (0) always overwrites the live value (1) so
the option *always* gets turned off.
The fix adds a parameter to the queue_if_no_path() function to indicate
whether the previous value should be preserved or not - if not, as when the
device is being set up, the saved value is set to the new value (1).
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>
Prevent more than one priority group initialisation function from being
outstanding at once. Otherwise the completion functions interfere with each
other. Also, reloading the table could reference a freed pointer.
Only reset queue_io in pg_init_complete if another pg_init isn't required.
Skip process_queued_ios if the queue is empty so that we only trigger a
pg_init if there's I/O.
Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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>
To avoid deadlock when suspending a multipath device after all its paths have
failed, stop queueing any I/O that is about to fail *before* calling
freeze_bdev instead of after.
Instead of setting a multipath 'suspended' flag which would have to be reset
if an error occurs during the process, save the previous queueing state and
leave userspace to restore if it wishes.
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 multipath destructor must flush its workqueue. Otherwise items that
reference the destroyed object could remain.
From: "goggin, edward" <egoggin@emc.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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>
dm multipath will report barriers as not supported with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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>
READA errors failing with EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN do not constitute a valid
reason for failing the path; this lead to erratic errors on DM multipath
devices. This error can be safely propagated upwards without failing the
path.
Acked-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
dm-mpath.c needs to use a private workqueue (like other dm targets already do)
to avoid interfering with users of the default workqueue.
Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: <mikenc@us.ibm.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!
Al Viro