Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a
cache for a slower device such as a disk.
A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data
to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy
modules. The first general purpose module we have developed, called
"mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch. Other modules are
under development.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Of particular note:
- Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and striped.
Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks.
- Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the bio's new
front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data').
- Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused.
- Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and
use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc.
- Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails.
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Merge tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm
Pull dm update from Alasdair G Kergon:
"Miscellaneous device-mapper fixes, cleanups and performance
improvements.
Of particular note:
- Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and
striped. Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks.
- Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the
bio's new front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data').
- Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused.
- Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and
use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc.
- Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails."
* tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (36 commits)
dm stripe: add WRITE SAME support
dm: remove map_info
dm snapshot: do not use map_context
dm thin: dont use map_context
dm raid1: dont use map_context
dm flakey: dont use map_context
dm raid1: rename read_record to bio_record
dm: move target request nr to dm_target_io
dm snapshot: use per_bio_data
dm verity: use per_bio_data
dm raid1: use per_bio_data
dm: introduce per_bio_data
dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero
dm linear: add WRITE SAME support
dm: add WRITE SAME support
dm: prepare to support WRITE SAME
dm ioctl: use kmalloc if possible
dm ioctl: remove PF_MEMALLOC
dm persistent data: improve improve space map block alloc failure message
dm thin: use DMERR_LIMIT for errors
...
Nearly all of persistent-data is in the IO path so throttle error
messages with DMERR_LIMIT to limit the amount logged when
something has gone wrong.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reinstate a useful error message when the block manager buffer validator fails.
This was mistakenly eliminated when the block manager was converted to use
dm-bufio.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Introduce dm_bm_set_read_only to switch the block manager into a
read-only mode. To be used when dm-thin degrades due to io errors on
the metadata device.
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>
Stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in the transaction
manager as an optimisation and remove the function as it is then no
longer used.
Some code, such as the space maps, keeps using on-disk data structures
from the previous transaction. It can do this because blocks won't
be reallocated until the subsequent transaction. Using
dm_bm_unlock_move to copy blocks sounds like a win, but it forces a
synchronous read should the old block be accessed.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Tidy the transaction manager creation functions.
They no longer lock the superblock. Superblock locking is pulled out to
the caller.
Also export dm_bm_write_lock_zero.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch introduces a separate struct for the block_manager.
It also uses IS_ERR to check the return value of dm_bufio_client_create
instead of testing incorrectly for NULL.
Prior to this patch a struct dm_block_manager was really an alias for
a struct dm_bufio_client. We want to add some functionality to the
block manager that will require extra fields, so this one to one
mapping is no longer valid.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Unlock the superblock even if initial dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers fails.
Also, remove redundant flush calls. dm_bm_flush_and_unlock's calls to
dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers already result in dm_bufio_issue_flush
being called.
This avoids warnings about unflushed dirty buffers from bufio.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage
and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.
It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an
upcoming hierarchical storage target.
For further information, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Joe Thornber