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2017-03-07dm cache: significant rework to leverage dm-bio-prison-v2Joe Thornber1-0/+2
The cache policy interfaces have been updated to work well with the new bio-prison v2 interface's ability to queue work immediately (promotion, demotion, etc) -- overriding benefit being reduced latency on processing IO through the cache. Previously such work would be left for the DM cache core to queue on various lists and then process in batches later -- this caused a serious delay in latency for IO driven by the cache. The background tracker code was factored out so that all cache policies can make use of it. Also, the "cleaner" policy has been removed and is now a variant of the smq policy that simply disallows migrations. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-02-16dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" featureJoe Thornber1-4/+7
If "metadata2" is provided as a table argument when creating/loading a cache target a more compact metadata format, with separate dirty bits, is used. "metadata2" improves speed of shutting down a cache target. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2016-03-10dm cache: make sure every metadata function checks fail_ioJoe Thornber1-2/+2
Otherwise operations may be attempted that will only ever go on to crash (since the metadata device is either missing or unreliable if 'fail_io' is set). Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2015-06-11dm cache: add fail io mode and needs_check flagJoe Thornber1-0/+10
If a cache metadata operation fails (e.g. transaction commit) the cache's metadata device will abort the current transaction, set a new needs_check flag, and the cache will transition to "read-only" mode. If aborting the transaction or setting the needs_check flag fails the cache will transition to "fail-io" mode. Once needs_check is set the cache device will not be allowed to activate. Activation requires write access to metadata. Future work is needed to add proper support for running the cache in read-only mode. Once in fail-io mode the cache will report a status of "Fail". Also, add commit() wrapper that will disallow commits if in read_only or fail mode. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-11-10dm cache: revert "remove remainder of distinct discard block size"Joe Thornber1-3/+3
This reverts commit 64ab346a360a4b15c28fb8531918d4a01f4eabd9 because we actually do want to allow the discard blocksize to be larger than the cache blocksize. Further dm-cache discard changes will make this possible. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-08-01dm cache metadata: use dm-space-map-metadata.h defined size limitsMike Snitzer1-5/+3
Commit 7d48935e cleaned up the persistent-data's space-map-metadata limits by elevating them to dm-space-map-metadata.h. Update dm-cache-metadata to use these same limits. The calculation for DM_CACHE_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS didn't account for the sizeof the disk_bitmap_header. So the supported maximum metadata size is a bit smaller (reduced from 33423360 to 33292800 sectors). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
2014-04-04dm cache: fix a lock-inversionJoe Thornber1-8/+1
When suspending a cache the policy is walked and the individual policy hints written to the metadata via sync_metadata(). This led to this lock order: policy->lock cache_metadata->root_lock When loading the cache target the policy is populated while the metadata lock is held: cache_metadata->root_lock policy->lock Fix this potential lock-inversion (ABBA) deadlock in sync_metadata() by ensuring the cache_metadata root_lock is held whilst all the hints are written, rather than being repeatedly locked while policy->lock is held (as was the case with each callout that policy_walk_mappings() made to the old save_hint() method). Found by turning on the CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING ("Lock debugging: prove locking correctness") build option. However, it is not clear how the LOCKDEP reported paths can lead to a deadlock since the two paths, suspending a target and loading a target, never occur at the same time. But that doesn't mean the same lock-inversion couldn't have occurred elsewhere. Reported-by: Marian Csontos <mcsontos@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2014-03-27dm cache: remove remainder of distinct discard block sizeHeinz Mauelshagen1-3/+3
Discard block size not being equal to cache block size causes data corruption by erroneously avoiding migrations in issue_copy() because the discard state is being cleared for a group of cache blocks when it should not. Completely remove all code that enabled a distinction between the cache block size and discard block size. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2013-11-11dm cache: add passthrough modeJoe Thornber1-0/+5
"Passthrough" is a dm-cache operating mode (like writethrough or writeback) which is intended to be used when the cache contents are not known to be coherent with the origin device. It behaves as follows: * All reads are served from the origin device (all reads miss the cache) * All writes are forwarded to the origin device; additionally, write hits cause cache block invalidates This mode decouples cache coherency checks from cache device creation, largely to avoid having to perform coherency checks while booting. Boot scripts can create cache devices in passthrough mode and put them into service (mount cached filesystems, for example) without having to worry about coherency. Coherency that exists is maintained, although the cache will gradually cool as writes take place. Later, applications can perform coherency checks, the nature of which will depend on the type of the underlying storage. If coherency can be verified, the cache device can be transitioned to writethrough or writeback mode while still warm; otherwise, the cache contents can be discarded prior to transitioning to the desired operating mode. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Morgan Mears <Morgan.Mears@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2013-03-20dm cache: policy ignore hints if generated by different versionMike Snitzer1-1/+1
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 <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2013-03-01dm: add cache targetJoe Thornber1-0/+142
Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a cache for a slower device such as a disk. A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy modules. The first general purpose module we have developed, called "mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch. Other modules are under development. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>