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Alasdair G Kergon 138728dc96 [PATCH] dm snapshot: fix kcopyd destructor
Before removing a snapshot, wait for the completion of any kcopyd jobs using
it.

Do this by maintaining a count (nr_jobs) of how many outstanding jobs each
kcopyd_client has.

The snapshot destructor first unregisters the snapshot so that no new kcopyd
jobs (created by writes to the origin) will reference that particular
snapshot.  kcopyd_client_destroy() is now run next to wait for the completion
of any outstanding jobs before the snapshot exception structures (that those
jobs reference) are freed.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:59 -08:00
Andrew Morton 4ee218cd67 [PATCH] dm: remove SECTOR_FORMAT
We don't know what type sector_t has.  Sometimes it's unsigned long, sometimes
it's unsigned long long.  For example on ppc64 it's unsigned long with
CONFIG_LBD=n and on x86_64 it's unsigned long long with CONFIG_LBD=n.

The way to handle all of this is to always use unsigned long long and to
always typecast the sector_t when printing it.

Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:58 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon 76df1c651b [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: fix invalidation
When a snapshot becomes invalid, s->valid is set to 0.  In this state, a
snapshot can no longer be accessed.

When s->lock is acquired, before doing anything else, s->valid must be checked
to ensure the snapshot remains valid.

This patch eliminates some races (that may cause panics) by adding some
missing checks.  At the same time, some unnecessary levels of indentation are
removed and snapshot invalidation is moved into a single function that always
generates a device-mapper event.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:58 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon b4b610f684 [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: replace sibling list
The siblings "list" is used unsafely at the moment.

Firstly, only the element on the list being changed gets locked (via the
snapshot lock), not the next and previous elements which have pointers that
are also being changed.

Secondly, if you have two or more snapshots and write to the same chunk a
second time before every snapshot has finished making its private copy of the
data, if you're unlucky, _origin_write() could attempt its list_merge() and
dereference a 'last' pointer to a pending_exception structure that has just
been freed.

Analysis reveals that the list is actually only there for reference counting.
If 5 pending_exceptions are needed in origin_write, then the 5 are joined
together into a 5-element list - without a separate list head because there's
nowhere suitable to store it.  As the pending_exceptions complete, they are
removed from the list one-by-one and any contents of origin_bios get moved
across to one of the remaining pending_exceptions on the list.  Whichever one
is last is detected because list_empty() is then true and the origin_bios get
submitted.

The fix proposed here uses an alternative reference counting mechanism by
choosing one of the pending_exceptions as primary and maintaining an atomic
counter there.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:58 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon eccf081799 [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: fix origin_write pending_exception submission
Say you have several snapshots of the same origin and then you issue a write
to some place in the origin for the first time.

Before the device-mapper snapshot target lets the write go through to the
underlying device, it needs to make a copy of the data that is about to be
overwritten.  Each snapshot is independent, so it makes one copy for each
snapshot.

__origin_write() loops through each snapshot and checks to see whether a copy
is needed for that snapshot.  (A copy is only needed the first time that data
changes.)

If a copy is needed, the code allocates a 'pending_exception' structure
holding the details.  It links these together for all the snapshots, then
works its way through this list and submits the copying requests to the kcopyd
thread by calling start_copy().  When each request is completed, the original
pending_exception structure gets freed in pending_complete().

If you're very unlucky, this structure can get freed *before* the submission
process has finished walking the list.

This patch:

  1) Creates a new temporary list pe_queue to hold the pending exception
     structures;

  2) Does all the bookkeeping up-front, then walks through the new list
     safely and calls start_copy() for each pending_exception that needed it;

  3) Avoids attempting to add pe->siblings to the list if it's already
     connected.

[NB This does not fix all the races in this code.  More patches will follow.]

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:58 -08:00
Matthew Dobson 93d2341c75 [PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:00 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon 4aac0a63fe [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: barriers not supported
The snapshot and origin targets are incapable of handling barriers and need to
indicate this.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:11 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon aa14edeb99 [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: load metadata on creation
Move snapshot metadata loading to happen when the table is created instead of
when the device is resumed.  Writes to the origin device don't trigger
exceptions until each snapshot table becomes active when resume() is called on
each snapshot.

If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work properly you should update to
lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or later.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:10 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon 2d38fe2044 [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: metadata reading separation
More snapshot metadata reading into separate function, to prepare for changing
the place it gets called from.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:00 -08:00
Alasdair G Kergon d5e404c10a [PATCH] device-mapper snapshots: Handle origin extension
Handle writes to a snapshot-origin device that has been extended since the
snapshot was taken.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:19:11 -07:00
Alasdair G Kergon f6a80ea8ed [PATCH] device-mapper multipath: Barriers not supported
dm multipath will report barriers as not supported with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:19:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00