linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm-table.c, branch v4.1.10

dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices

2015-05-29T17:41:16+00:00

dm-multipath accepts 0 path mapping.

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup create newdev

Such a mapping can be used to release underlying devices while still
holding requests in its queue until working paths come back.

However, once the multipath device is created over blk-mq devices,
it rejects reloading of 0 path mapping:

  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 1 1 queue-length 0 1 1 /dev/sda 1' \
      | dmsetup create mpath1
  # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup load mpath1
  device-mapper: reload ioctl on mpath1 failed: Invalid argument
  Command failed

With following kernel message:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

DM tries to inherit the current table type using dm_table_set_type()
but it doesn't work as expected because of unnecessary check about
whether the target type is hybrid or not.

Hybrid type is for targets that work as either request-based or bio-based
and not required for blk-mq or non blk-mq checking.

Fixes: 65803c205983 ("dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate")
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm table: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0

2015-04-15T16:10:23+00:00

Use the normal return values for bool functions.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()

2015-04-15T16:10:19+00:00

If a device is used as the root filesystem, it can't be built
off of devices which are within the root filesystem (just like
command line arguments to root=).  For this reason, Linux has a
pseudo-filesystem for root= and MD initialization (based on the
function name_to_dev_t) which handles different ways of specifying
devices including PARTUUID and major:minor.

Switch to using name_to_dev_t() in dm_get_device().  Rather than
having DM assume that all things which are not major:minor are paths in
an already-mounted filesystem, change dm_get_device() to first attempt
to look up the device in the filesystem, and if not found it will fall
back to using name_to_dev_t().

In terms of backwards compatibility, there are some cases where
behavior will be different:
- If you have a file in the current working directory named 1:2 and
  you initialze DM there, then it will try to use that file rather
  than the disk with that major:minor pair as a backing device.
- Similarly for other bdev types which name_to_dev_t() knows how to
  interpret, the previous behavior was to repeatedly check for the
  existence of the file (e.g., while waiting for rootfs to come up)
  but the new behavior is to use the name_to_dev_t() interpretation.
  For example, if you have a file named /dev/ubiblock0_0 which is
  a symlink to /dev/sda3, but it is not yet present when DM starts
  to initialize, then the name_to_dev_t() interpretation will take
  precedence.

These incompatibilities would only show up in really strange setups
with bad practices so we shouldn't have to worry about them.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr

2015-04-15T16:10:17+00:00

Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.

Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq

This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md->io_pool and md->rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM

2015-04-15T16:10:16+00:00

Commit e5863d9ad ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on
blk-mq devices") served as the first step toward fully utilizing blk-mq
in request-based DM -- it enabled stacking an old-style (request_fn)
request_queue ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  That first step
didn't improve performance of DM multipath ontop of fast blk-mq devices
(e.g. NVMe) because the top-level old-style request_queue was severely
limited by the queue_lock.

The second step offered here enables stacking a blk-mq request_queue
ontop of the underlying blk-mq device(s).  This unlocks significant
performance gains on fast blk-mq devices, Keith Busch tested on his NVMe
testbed and offered this really positive news:

 "Just providing a performance update. All my fio tests are getting
  roughly equal performance whether accessed through the raw block
  device or the multipath device mapper (~470k IOPS). I could only push
  ~20% of the raw iops through dm before this conversion, so this latest
  tree is looking really solid from a performance standpoint."

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Tested-by: Keith Busch

dm: remove request-based DM queue's lld_busy_fn hook

2015-03-31T16:03:49+00:00

DM multipath is the only caller of blk_lld_busy() -- which calls a
queue's lld_busy_fn hook.  Request-based DM doesn't support stacking
multipath devices so there is no reason to register the lld_busy_fn hook
on a multipath device's queue using blk_queue_lld_busy().

As such, remove functions dm_lld_busy and dm_table_any_busy_target.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: inherit QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from underlying queues

2015-02-11T15:25:46+00:00

A DM device must inherit the QUEUE_FLAG_SG_GAPS flags from its
underlying block devices' request queues.

This fixes problems when submitting cloned requests to multipathed
devices requiring virtually contiguous buffers.

Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate

2015-02-09T18:06:47+00:00

Otherwise replacing the multipath target with the error target fails:
  device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load.

The error target was mistakenly considered to be target type
DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED rather than DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED even if the
target it was to replace was of type DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices

2015-02-09T18:06:47+00:00

For blk-mq request-based DM the responsibility of allocating a cloned
request is transfered from DM core to the target type.  Doing so
enables the cloned request to be allocated from the appropriate
blk-mq request_queue's pool (only the DM target, e.g. multipath, can
know which block device to send a given cloned request to).

Care was taken to preserve compatibility with old-style block request
completion that requires request-based DM _not_ acquire the clone
request's queue lock in the completion path.  As such, there are now 2
different request-based DM target_type interfaces:
1) the original .map_rq() interface will continue to be used for
   non-blk-mq devices -- the preallocated clone request is passed in
   from DM core.
2) a new .clone_and_map_rq() and .release_clone_rq() will be used for
   blk-mq devices -- blk_get_request() and blk_put_request() are used
   respectively from these hooks.

dm_table_set_type() was updated to detect if the request-based target is
being stacked on blk-mq devices, if so DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED is set.
DM core disallows switching the DM table's type after it is set.  This
means that there is no mixing of non-blk-mq and blk-mq devices within
the same request-based DM table.

[This patch was started by Keith and later heavily modified by Mike]

Tested-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add presuspend_undo hook to target_type

2014-11-19T16:24:59+00:00

The DM thin-pool target now must undo the changes performed during
pool_presuspend() so introduce presuspend_undo hook in target_type.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Acked-by: Joe Thornber