linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch v3.14.16

dm: allocate a special workqueue for deferred device removal

2014-07-17T23:21:05+00:00

commit acfe0ad74d2e1bfc81d1d7bf5e15b043985d3650 upstream.

The commit 2c140a246dc ("dm: allow remove to be deferred") introduced a
deferred removal feature for the device mapper.  When this feature is
used (by passing a flag DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE to DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD ioctl)
and the user tries to remove a device that is currently in use, the
device will be removed automatically in the future when the last user
closes it.

Device mapper used the system workqueue to perform deferred removals.
However, some targets (dm-raid1, dm-mpath, dm-stripe) flush work items
scheduled for the system workqueue from their destructor.  If the
destructor itself is called from the system workqueue during deferred
removal, it introduces a possible deadlock - the workqueue tries to flush
itself.

Fix this possible deadlock by introducing a new workqueue for deferred
removals.  We allocate just one workqueue for all dm targets.  The
ability of dm targets to process IOs isn't dependent on deferred removal
of unused targets, so a deadlock due to shared workqueue isn't possible.

Also, cleanup local_init() to eliminate potential for returning success
on failure.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00

Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...

dm sysfs: fix a module unload race

2014-01-15T04:23:04+00:00

This reverts commit be35f48610 ("dm: wait until embedded kobject is
released before destroying a device") and provides an improved fix.

The kobject release code that calls the completion must be placed in a
non-module file, otherwise there is a module unload race (if the process
calling dm_kobject_release is preempted and the DM module unloaded after
the completion is triggered, but before dm_kobject_release returns).

To fix this race, this patch moves the completion code to dm-builtin.c
which is always compiled directly into the kernel if BLK_DEV_DM is
selected.

The patch introduces a new dm_kobject_holder structure, its purpose is
to keep the completion and kobject in one place, so that it can be
accessed from non-module code without the need to export the layout of
struct mapped_device to that code.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

dm: wait until embedded kobject is released before destroying a device

2014-01-08T02:01:43+00:00

There may be other parts of the kernel holding a reference on the dm
kobject.  We must wait until all references are dropped before
deallocating the mapped_device structure.

The dm_kobject_release method signals that all references are dropped
via completion.  But dm_kobject_release doesn't free the kobject (which
is embedded in the mapped_device structure).

This is the sequence of operations:
* when destroying a DM device, call kobject_put from dm_sysfs_exit
* wait until all users stop using the kobject, when it happens the
  release method is called
* the release method signals the completion and should return without
  delay
* the dm device removal code that waits on the completion continues
* the dm device removal code drops the dm_mod reference the device had
* the dm device removal code frees the mapped_device structure that
  contains the kobject

Using kobject this way should avoid the module unload race that was
mentioned at the beginning of this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/4/83

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

dm: remove pointless kobject comparison in dm_get_from_kobject

2014-01-07T18:22:32+00:00

The comparison is always true and the compiler optimizes it out anyway.

Milan offered additional context relative to the original commit
784aae735d ("dm: add name and uuid to sysfs") which introduced the code:
"I think it is just relict of some experiments before I committed this
simple embedded sysfs kobj handling".

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Acked-by: Milan Broz 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: Refactor for new bio cloning/splitting

2013-11-24T06:33:55+00:00

We need to convert the dm code to the new bvec_iter primitives which
respect bi_bvec_done; they also allow us to drastically simplify dm's
bio splitting code.

Also, it's no longer necessary to save/restore the bvec array anymore -
driver conversions for immutable bvecs are done, so drivers should never
be modifying it.

Also kill bio_sector_offset(), dm was the only user and it doesn't make
much sense anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

2013-11-24T06:33:47+00:00

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Geoff Levand 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris 
Cc: Philip Kelleher 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Benny Halevy 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Joern Engel 
Cc: Prasad Joshi 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Ben Myers 
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Guo Chao 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Asai Thambi S P 
Cc: Selvan Mani 
Cc: Sam Bradshaw 
Cc: Wei Yongjun 
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" 
Cc: Jan Beulich 
Cc: Stefano Stabellini 
Cc: Ian Campbell 
Cc: Sebastian Ott 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Jiang Liu 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Jerome Marchand 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Cc: Peng Tao 
Cc: Andy Adamson 
Cc: fanchaoting 
Cc: Jie Liu 
Cc: Sunil Mushran 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Cc: Namjae Jeon 
Cc: Pankaj Kumar 
Cc: Dan Magenheimer 
Cc: Mel Gorman 6

dm: allow remove to be deferred

2013-11-09T23:20:22+00:00

This patch allows the removal of an open device to be deferred until
it is closed.  (Previously such a removal attempt would fail.)

The deferred remove functionality is enabled by setting the flag
DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE in the ioctl structure on DM_DEV_REMOVE or
DM_REMOVE_ALL ioctl.

On return from DM_DEV_REMOVE, the flag DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE indicates if
the device was removed immediately or flagged to be removed on close -
if the flag is clear, the device was removed.

On return from DM_DEV_STATUS and other ioctls, the flag
DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE is set if the device is scheduled to be removed on
closure.

A device that is scheduled to be deleted can be revived using the
message "@cancel_deferred_remove". This message clears the
DMF_DEFERRED_REMOVE flag so that the device won't be deleted on close.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add reserved_bio_based_ios module parameter

2013-09-23T14:42:24+00:00

Allow user to change the number of IOs that are reserved by
bio-based DM's mempools by writing to this file:
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/reserved_bio_based_ios

The default value is RESERVED_BIO_BASED_IOS (16).  The maximum allowed
value is RESERVED_MAX_IOS (1024).

Export dm_get_reserved_bio_based_ios() for use by DM targets and core
code.  Switch to sizing dm-io's mempool and bioset using DM core's
configurable 'reserved_bio_based_ios'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar

dm: add reserved_rq_based_ios module parameter

2013-09-23T14:42:24+00:00

Allow user to change the number of IOs that are reserved by
request-based DM's mempools by writing to this file:
/sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/reserved_rq_based_ios

The default value is RESERVED_REQUEST_BASED_IOS (256).  The maximum
allowed value is RESERVED_MAX_IOS (1024).

Export dm_get_reserved_rq_based_ios() for use by DM targets and core
code.  Switch to sizing dm-mpath's mempool using DM core's configurable
'reserved_rq_based_ios'.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar 
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka