15 Sep, 2007

1 commit

  • Commit 02a5e0acb3cb85d80d0fe834e366d38a92bbaa22 ("BLOCK: Hide the
    contents of linux/bio.h if CONFIG_BLOCK=n") broke the kernel build for
    the CONFIG_COMPAT && !CONFIG_BLOCK case:

    CC fs/compat_ioctl.o
    In file included from include/linux/raid/md_k.h:19,
    from include/linux/raid/md.h:54,
    from fs/compat_ioctl.c:25:
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h: In bio_list_:
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:40: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h: In bio_list_:
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:48: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:51: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h: In bio_list_:
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:64: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h: In bio_list_merge_:
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:78: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h: In bio_list_:
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:90: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    include/linux/raid/../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h:94: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
    make[1]: *** [fs/compat_ioctl.o] Error 1
    make: *** [fs] Error 2

    Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann
    Acked-By: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    aherrman@arcor.de
     

13 Jul, 2007

1 commit


10 May, 2007

1 commit

  • More bio_list helper functions for new targets (including dm-delay and
    dm-loop) to manipulate lists of bios.

    Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen
    Signed-off-by: Bryn Reeves
    Signed-off-by: Milan Broz
    Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Heinz Mauelshagen
     

09 Dec, 2006

1 commit

  • In device-mapper I/O is sometimes queued within targets for later processing.
    For example the multipath target can be configured to store I/O when no paths
    are available instead of returning it -EIO.

    This patch allows the device-mapper core to instruct a target to transfer the
    contents of any such in-target queue back into the core. This frees up the
    resources used by the target so the core can replace that target with an
    alternative one and then resend the I/O to it. Without this patch the only
    way to change the target in such circumstances involves returning the I/O with
    an error back to the filesystem/application. In the multipath case, this
    patch will let us add new paths for existing I/O to try after all the existing
    paths have failed.

    DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING
    ----------------------

    If the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG ioctl option is specified at suspend time, the
    DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING flag is set in md->flags during dm_suspend(). It
    is always cleared before dm_suspend() returns.

    The flag must be visible while the target is flushing pending I/Os so it
    is set before presuspend where the flush starts and unset after the wait
    for md->pending where the flush ends.

    Target drivers can check this flag by calling dm_noflush_suspending().

    DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE / DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE
    -----------------------------------

    A target's map() function can now return DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE to request the
    device mapper core queue the bio.

    Similarly, a target's end_io() function can return DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE to request
    the same. This has been labelled 'pushback'.

    The __map_bio() and clone_endio() functions in the core treat these return
    values as errors and call dec_pending() to end the I/O.

    dec_pending
    -----------

    dec_pending() saves the pushback request in struct dm_io->error. Once all
    the split clones have ended, dec_pending() will put the original bio on
    the md->pushback list. Note that this supercedes any I/O errors.

    It is possible for the suspend with DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG to be aborted while
    in progress (e.g. by user interrupt). dec_pending() checks for this and
    returns -EIO if it happened.

    pushdback list and pushback_lock
    --------------------------------

    The bio is queued on md->pushback temporarily in dec_pending(), and after
    all pending I/Os return, md->pushback is merged into md->deferred in
    dm_suspend() for re-issuing at resume time.

    md->pushback_lock protects md->pushback.
    The lock should be held with irq disabled because dec_pending() can be
    called from interrupt context.

    Queueing bios to md->pushback in dec_pending() must be done atomically
    with the check for DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING flag. So md->pushback_lock is
    held when checking the flag. Otherwise dec_pending() may queue a bio to
    md->pushback after the interrupted dm_suspend() flushes md->pushback.
    Then the bio would be left in md->pushback.

    Flag setting in dm_suspend() can be done without md->pushback_lock because
    the flag is checked only after presuspend and the set value is already
    made visible via the target's presuspend function.

    The flag can be checked without md->pushback_lock (e.g. the first part of
    the dec_pending() or target drivers), because the flag is checked again
    with md->pushback_lock held when the bio is really queued to md->pushback
    as described above. So even if the flag is cleared after the lockless
    checkings, the bio isn't left in md->pushback but returned to applications
    with -EIO.

    Other notes on the current patch
    --------------------------------

    - md->pushback is added to the struct mapped_device instead of using
    md->deferred directly because md->io_lock which protects md->deferred is
    rw_semaphore and can't be used in interrupt context like dec_pending(),
    and md->io_lock protects the DMF_BLOCK_IO flag of md->flags too.

    - Don't issue lock_fs() in dm_suspend() if the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG
    ioctl option is specified, because I/Os generated by lock_fs() would be
    pushed back and never return if there were no valid devices.

    - If an error occurs in dm_suspend() after the DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING
    flag is set, md->pushback must be flushed because I/Os may be queued to
    the list already. (flush_and_out label in dm_suspend())

    Test results
    ------------

    I have tested using multipath target with the next patch.

    The following tests are for regression/compatibility:
    - I/Os succeed when valid paths exist;
    - I/Os fail when there are no valid paths and queue_if_no_path is not
    set;
    - I/Os are queued in the multipath target when there are no valid paths and
    queue_if_no_path is set;
    - The queued I/Os above fail when suspend is issued without the
    DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG ioctl option. I/Os spanning 2 multipath targets also
    fail.

    The following tests are for the normal code path of new pushback feature:
    - Queued I/Os in the multipath target are flushed from the target
    but don't return when suspend is issued with the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG
    ioctl option;
    - The I/Os above are queued in the multipath target again when
    resume is issued without path recovery;
    - The I/Os above succeed when resume is issued after path recovery
    or table load;
    - Queued I/Os in the multipath target succeed when resume is issued
    with the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG ioctl option after table load. I/Os
    spanning 2 multipath targets also succeed.

    The following tests are for the error paths of the new pushback feature:
    - When the bdget_disk() fails in dm_suspend(), the
    DMF_NOFLUSH_SUSPENDING flag is cleared and I/Os already queued to the
    pushback list are flushed properly.
    - When suspend with the DM_NOFLUSH_FLAG ioctl option is interrupted,
    o I/Os which had already been queued to the pushback list
    at the time don't return, and are re-issued at resume time;
    o I/Os which hadn't been returned at the time return with EIO.

    Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda
    Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura
    Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon
    Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Kiyoshi Ueda
     

23 Nov, 2005

1 commit


17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 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!

    Linus Torvalds