linux/drivers/md, branch v3.9

Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"

2013-04-18T16:00:26Z

This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f. Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic. Jens says: "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close). The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of queueing up a revert and pull request." Reported-by: Wanlong Gao Requested-by: Jens Axboe Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dm cache: reduce bio front_pad size in writeback mode

2013-04-05T14:36:34Z

A recent patch to fix the dm cache target's writethrough mode extended the bio's front_pad to include a 1056-byte struct dm_bio_details. Writeback mode doesn't need this, so this patch reduces the per_bio_data_size to 16 bytes in this case instead of 1096. The dm_bio_details structure was added in "dm cache: fix writes to cache device in writethrough mode" which fixed commit e2e74d617e ("dm cache: fix race in writethrough implementation"). In writeback mode we avoid allocating the writethrough-specific members of the per_bio_data structure (the dm_bio_details structure included). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm cache: fix writes to cache device in writethrough mode

2013-04-05T14:36:32Z

The dm-cache writethrough strategy introduced by commit e2e74d617eadc15 ("dm cache: fix race in writethrough implementation") issues a bio to the origin device, remaps and then issues the bio to the cache device. This more conservative in-series approach was selected to favor correctness over performance (of the previous parallel writethrough). However, this in-series implementation that reuses the same bio to write both the origin and cache device didn't take into account that the block layer's req_bio_endio() modifies a completing bio's bi_sector and bi_size. So the new writethrough strategy needs to preserve these bio fields, and restore them before submission to the cache device, otherwise nothing gets written to the cache (because bi_size is 0). This patch adds a struct dm_bio_details field to struct per_bio_data, and uses dm_bio_record() and dm_bio_restore() to ensure the bio is restored before reissuing to the cache device. Adding such a large structure to the per_bio_data is not ideal but we can improve this later, for now correctness is the important thing. This problem initially went unnoticed because the dm-cache test-suite uses a linear DM device for the dm-cache device's origin device. Writethrough worked as expected because DM submits a *clone* of the original bio, so the original bio which was reused for the cache was never touched. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

Merge tag 'md-3.9-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2013-03-23T22:49:49Z

Pull md fixes from NeilBrown: "A few bugfixes for md - recent regressions in raid5 - recent regressions in dmraid - a few instances of CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 linger Several tagged for -stable" * tag 'md-3.9-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirely md/raid5: ensure sync and DISCARD don't happen at the same time. MD: Prevent sysfs operations on uninitialized kobjects MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available md/raid5: schedule_construction should abort if nothing to do.

dm cache: policy ignore hints if generated by different version

2013-03-20T17:21:28Z

When reading the dm cache metadata from disk, ignore the policy hints unless they were generated by the same major version number of the same policy module. The hints are considered to be private data belonging to the specific module that generated them and there is no requirement for them to make sense to different versions of the policy that generated them. Policy modules are all required to work fine if no previous hints are supplied (or if existing hints are lost). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm cache: policy change version from string to integer set

2013-03-20T17:21:27Z

Separate dm cache policy version string into 3 unsigned numbers corresponding to major, minor and patchlevel and store them at the end of the on-disk metadata so we know which version of the policy generated the hints in case a future version wants to use them differently. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm cache: fix race in writethrough implementation

2013-03-20T17:21:27Z

We have found a race in the optimisation used in the dm cache writethrough implementation. Currently, dm core sends the cache target two bios, one for the origin device and one for the cache device and these are processed in parallel. This patch avoids the race by changing the code back to a simpler (slower) implementation which processes the two writes in series, one after the other, until we can develop a complete fix for the problem. When the cache is in writethrough mode it needs to send WRITE bios to both the origin and cache devices. Previously we've been implementing this by having dm core query the cache target on every write to find out how many copies of the bio it wants. The cache will ask for two bios if the block is in the cache, and one otherwise. Then main problem with this is it's racey. At the time this check is made the bio hasn't yet been submitted and so isn't being taken into account when quiescing a block for migration (promotion or demotion). This means a single bio may be submitted when two were needed because the block has since been promoted to the cache (catastrophic), or two bios where only one is needed (harmless). I really don't want to start entering bios into the quiescing system (deferred_set) in the get_num_write_bios callback. Instead this patch simplifies things; only one bio is submitted by the core, this is first written to the origin and then the cache device in series. Obviously this will have a latency impact. deferred_writethrough_bios is introduced to record bios that must be later issued to the cache device from the worker thread. This deferred submission, after the origin bio completes, is required given that we're in interrupt context (writethrough_endio). Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm cache: metadata clear dirty bits on clean shutdown

2013-03-20T17:21:27Z

When writing the dirty bitset to the metadata device on a clean shutdown, clear the dirty bits. Previously they were left indicating the cache was dirty. This led to confusion about whether there really was dirty data in the cache or not. (This was a harmless bug.) Reported-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm cache: avoid calling policy destructor twice on error

2013-03-20T17:21:26Z

If the cache policy's config values are not able to be set we must set the policy to NULL after destroying it in create_cache_policy() so we don't attempt to destroy it a second time later. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm cache: detect cache_create failure

2013-03-20T17:21:26Z

Return error if cache_create() fails. A missing return check made cache_ctr continue even after an error in cache_create() resulting in the cache object being destroyed. So a simple failure like an odd number of cache policy config value arguments would result in an oops. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon