kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/md/dm.c, branch linux-3.6.y

dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion

2012-12-03T19:38:00+00:00

commit a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 upstream. Request based dm attempts to re-run the request queue off the request completion path. If used with a driver that potentially does end_io from its request_fn, we could deadlock trying to recurse back into request dispatch. Fix this by punting the request queue run to kblockd. Tested to fix a quickly reproducible deadlock in such a scenario. Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: retain table limits when swapping to new table with no devices

2012-09-26T22:45:45+00:00

Add a safety net that will re-use the DM device's existing limits in the event that DM device has a temporary table that doesn't have any component devices. This is to reduce the chance that requests not respecting the hardware limits will reach the device. DM recalculates queue limits based only on devices which currently exist in the table. This creates a problem in the event all devices are temporarily removed such as all paths being lost in multipath. DM will reset the limits to the maximum permissible, which can then assemble requests which exceed the limits of the paths when the paths are restored. The request will fail the blk_rq_check_limits() test when sent to a path with lower limits, and will be retried without end by multipath. This became a much bigger issue after v3.6 commit fe86cdcef ("block: do not artificially constrain max_sectors for stacking drivers"). Reported-by: David Jeffery Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: handle requests beyond end of device instead of using BUG_ON

2012-09-26T22:45:42+00:00

The access beyond the end of device BUG_ON that was introduced to dm_request_fn via commit 29e4013de7ad950280e4b2208 ("dm: implement REQ_FLUSH/FUA support for request-based dm") was an overly drastic (but simple) response to this situation. I have received a report that this BUG_ON was hit and now think it would be better to use dm_kill_unmapped_request() to fail the clone and original request with -EIO. map_request() will assign the valid target returned by dm_table_find_target to tio->ti. But when the target isn't valid tio->ti is never assigned (because map_request isn't called); so add a check for tio->ti != NULL to dm_done(). Reported-by: Mike Christie Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.37+ Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: introduce split_discard_requests

2012-07-27T14:08:03+00:00

This patch introduces a new variable split_discard_requests. It can be set by targets so that discard requests are split on max_io_len boundaries. When split_discard_requests is not set, discard requests are only split on boundaries between targets, as was the case before this patch. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: support non power of two target max_io_len

2012-07-27T14:08:00+00:00

Remove the restriction that limits a target's specified maximum incoming I/O size to be a power of 2. Rename this setting from 'split_io' to the less-ambiguous 'max_io_len'. Change it from sector_t to uint32_t, which is plenty big enough, and introduce a wrapper function dm_set_target_max_io_len() to set it. Use sector_div() to process it now that it is not necessarily a power of 2. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: clear bi_end_io on remapping failure

2012-03-28T17:41:25+00:00

As a precaution, set bi_end_io to NULL when failing to remap. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

fs: move code out of buffer.c

2012-01-04T03:54:07+00:00

Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce buffer_head.h requirement accordingly. Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2011-11-05T00:06:58+00:00

* 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (29 commits) block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up blk-throttle: use queue_is_locked() instead of lockdep_is_held() blk-throttle: Take blkcg->lock while traversing blkcg->policy_list blk-throttle: Free up policy node associated with deleted rule block: warn if tag is greater than real_max_depth. block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue blk-flush: move the queue kick into blk-flush: fix invalid BUG_ON in blk_insert_flush block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio. block: fix a typo in the blk-cgroup.h file block: initialize the bounce pool if high memory may be added later block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio() block: reorganize queue draining block: drop unnecessary blk_get/put_queue() in scsi_cmd_ioctl() and blk_get_tg() block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h block: fix genhd refcounting in blkio_policy_parse_and_set() ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to "mddev_t" -> "struct mddev" conversion and making the request functions be of type "void" instead of "int" in - drivers/md/{faulty.c,linear.c,md.c,md.h,multipath.c,raid0.c,raid1.c,raid10.c,raid5.c} - drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c

dm: export dm get md

2011-10-31T20:19:06+00:00

Export dm_get_md() for the new thin provisioning target to use. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm table: add immutable feature

2011-10-31T20:19:04+00:00

Introduce DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE to indicate that the target type cannot be mixed with any other target type, and once loaded into a device, it cannot be replaced with a table containing a different type. The thin provisioning pool device will use this. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon