linux/drivers/md/bcache, branch v3.12

bcache: Fixed incorrect order of arguments to bio_alloc_bioset()

2013-10-23T06:55:36Z

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix a null ptr deref regression

2013-10-11T01:17:39Z

Commit c0f04d88e46d ("bcache: Fix flushes in writeback mode") was fixing a reported data corruption bug, but it seems some last minute refactoring or rebasing introduced a null pointer deref. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Reported-by: Gabriel de Perthuis Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix flushes in writeback mode

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

In writeback mode, when we get a cache flush we need to make sure we issue a flush to the backing device. The code for sending down an extra flush was wrong - by cloning the bio we were probably getting flags that didn't make sense for a bare flush, and also the old code was firing for FUA bios, for which we don't need to send a flush to the backing device. This was causing data corruption somehow - the mechanism was never determined, but this patch fixes it for the users that were seeing it. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix for handling overlapping extents when reading in a btree node

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

btree_sort_fixup() was overly clever, because it was trying to avoid pulling a key off the btree iterator in more than one place. This led to a really obscure bug where we'd break early from the loop in btree_sort_fixup() if the current key overlapped with keys in more than one older set, and the next key it overlapped with was zero size. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix a shrinker deadlock

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

GFP_NOIO means we could be getting called recursively - mca_alloc() -> mca_data_alloc() - definitely can't use mutex_lock(bucket_lock) then. Whoops. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix a dumb CPU spinning bug in writeback

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

schedule_timeout() != schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix a flush/fua performance bug

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

bch_journal_meta() was missing the flush to make the journal write actually go down (instead of waiting up to journal_delay_ms)... Whoops Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix a writeback performance regression

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

Background writeback works by scanning the btree for dirty data and adding those keys into a fixed size buffer, then for each dirty key in the keybuf writing it to the backing device. When read_dirty() finishes and it's time to scan for more dirty data, we need to wait for the outstanding writeback IO to finish - they still take up slots in the keybuf (so that foreground writes can check for them to avoid races) - without that wait, we'll continually rescan when we'll be able to add at most a key or two to the keybuf, and that takes locks that starves foreground IO. Doh. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Correct printf()-style format length modifier

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

Fix drivers/md/bcache/btree.c: In function ‘bch_btree_node_read’: drivers/md/bcache/btree.c:259: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 3 has type ‘size_t’ Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bcache: Fix for when no journal entries are found

2013-09-24T21:41:43Z

The journal replay code didn't handle this case, causing it to go into an infinite loop... Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet Cc: linux-stable # >= v3.10 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds