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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-16 15:55:48 -0700
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Merge tag 'for-5.2/dm-changes-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer: - Improve DM snapshot target's scalability by using finer grained locking. Requires some list_bl interface improvements. - Add ability for DM integrity to use a bitmap mode, that tracks regions where data and metadata are out of sync, instead of using a journal. - Improve DM thin provisioning target to not write metadata changes to disk if the thin-pool and associated thin devices are merely activated but not used. This avoids metadata corruption due to concurrent activation of thin devices across different OS instances (e.g. split brain scenarios, which ultimately would be avoided if proper device filters were used -- but not having proper filtering has proven a very common configuration mistake) - Fix missing call to path selector type->end_io in DM multipath. This fixes reported performance problems due to inaccurate path selector IO accounting causing an imbalance of IO (e.g. avoiding issuing IO to particular path due to it seemingly being heavily used). - Fix bug in DM cache metadata's loading of its discard bitset that could lead to all cache blocks being discarded if the very first cache block was discarded (thankfully in practice the first cache block is generally in use; be it FS superblock, partition table, disk label, etc). - Add testing-only DM dust target which simulates a device that has failing sectors and/or read failures. - Fix a DM init error path reference count hang that caused boot hangs if user supplied malformed input on kernel commandline. - Fix a couple issues with DM crypt target's logging being overly verbose or lacking context. - Various other small fixes to DM init, DM multipath, DM zoned, and DM crypt. * tag 'for-5.2/dm-changes-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (42 commits) dm: fix a couple brace coding style issues dm crypt: print device name in integrity error message dm crypt: move detailed message into debug level dm ioctl: fix hang in early create error condition dm integrity: whitespace, coding style and dead code cleanup dm integrity: implement synchronous mode for reboot handling dm integrity: handle machine reboot in bitmap mode dm integrity: add a bitmap mode dm integrity: introduce a function add_new_range_and_wait() dm integrity: allow large ranges to be described dm ingerity: pass size to dm_integrity_alloc_page_list() dm integrity: introduce rw_journal_sectors() dm integrity: update documentation dm integrity: don't report unused options dm integrity: don't check null pointer before kvfree and vfree dm integrity: correctly calculate the size of metadata area dm dust: Make dm_dust_init and dm_dust_exit static dm dust: remove redundant unsigned comparison to less than zero dm mpath: always free attached_handler_name in parse_path() dm init: fix max devices/targets checks ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-dust.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-dust.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,272 @@
+dm-dust
+=======
+
+This target emulates the behavior of bad sectors at arbitrary
+locations, and the ability to enable the emulation of the failures
+at an arbitrary time.
+
+This target behaves similarly to a linear target. At a given time,
+the user can send a message to the target to start failing read
+requests on specific blocks (to emulate the behavior of a hard disk
+drive with bad sectors).
+
+When the failure behavior is enabled (i.e.: when the output of
+"dmsetup status" displays "fail_read_on_bad_block"), reads of blocks
+in the "bad block list" will fail with EIO ("Input/output error").
+
+Writes of blocks in the "bad block list will result in the following:
+
+1. Remove the block from the "bad block list".
+2. Successfully complete the write.
+
+This emulates the "remapped sector" behavior of a drive with bad
+sectors.
+
+Normally, a drive that is encountering bad sectors will most likely
+encounter more bad sectors, at an unknown time or location.
+With dm-dust, the user can use the "addbadblock" and "removebadblock"
+messages to add arbitrary bad blocks at new locations, and the
+"enable" and "disable" messages to modulate the state of whether the
+configured "bad blocks" will be treated as bad, or bypassed.
+This allows the pre-writing of test data and metadata prior to
+simulating a "failure" event where bad sectors start to appear.
+
+Table parameters:
+-----------------
+<device_path> <offset> <blksz>
+
+Mandatory parameters:
+ <device_path>: path to the block device.
+ <offset>: offset to data area from start of device_path
+ <blksz>: block size in bytes
+ (minimum 512, maximum 1073741824, must be a power of 2)
+
+Usage instructions:
+-------------------
+
+First, find the size (in 512-byte sectors) of the device to be used:
+
+$ sudo blockdev --getsz /dev/vdb1
+33552384
+
+Create the dm-dust device:
+(For a device with a block size of 512 bytes)
+$ sudo dmsetup create dust1 --table '0 33552384 dust /dev/vdb1 0 512'
+
+(For a device with a block size of 4096 bytes)
+$ sudo dmsetup create dust1 --table '0 33552384 dust /dev/vdb1 0 4096'
+
+Check the status of the read behavior ("bypass" indicates that all I/O
+will be passed through to the underlying device):
+$ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+0 33552384 dust 252:17 bypass
+
+$ sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/dust1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=128 iflag=direct
+128+0 records in
+128+0 records out
+
+$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dust1 bs=512 count=128 oflag=direct
+128+0 records in
+128+0 records out
+
+Adding and removing bad blocks:
+-------------------------------
+
+At any time (i.e.: whether the device has the "bad block" emulation
+enabled or disabled), bad blocks may be added or removed from the
+device via the "addbadblock" and "removebadblock" messages:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 60
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: badblock added at block 60
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 67
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: badblock added at block 67
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 72
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: badblock added at block 72
+
+These bad blocks will be stored in the "bad block list".
+While the device is in "bypass" mode, reads and writes will succeed:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+0 33552384 dust 252:17 bypass
+
+Enabling block read failures:
+-----------------------------
+
+To enable the "fail read on bad block" behavior, send the "enable" message:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 enable
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: enabling read failures on bad sectors
+
+$ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+0 33552384 dust 252:17 fail_read_on_bad_block
+
+With the device in "fail read on bad block" mode, attempting to read a
+block will encounter an "Input/output error":
+
+$ sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/dust1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 skip=67 iflag=direct
+dd: error reading '/dev/mapper/dust1': Input/output error
+0+0 records in
+0+0 records out
+0 bytes copied, 0.00040651 s, 0.0 kB/s
+
+...and writing to the bad blocks will remove the blocks from the list,
+therefore emulating the "remap" behavior of hard disk drives:
+
+$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dust1 bs=512 count=128 oflag=direct
+128+0 records in
+128+0 records out
+
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 60 removed from badblocklist by write
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 67 removed from badblocklist by write
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 72 removed from badblocklist by write
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 87 removed from badblocklist by write
+
+Bad block add/remove error handling:
+------------------------------------
+
+Attempting to add a bad block that already exists in the list will
+result in an "Invalid argument" error, as well as a helpful message:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 88
+device-mapper: message ioctl on dust1 failed: Invalid argument
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 88 already in badblocklist
+
+Attempting to remove a bad block that doesn't exist in the list will
+result in an "Invalid argument" error, as well as a helpful message:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 removebadblock 87
+device-mapper: message ioctl on dust1 failed: Invalid argument
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 87 not found in badblocklist
+
+Counting the number of bad blocks in the bad block list:
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+To count the number of bad blocks configured in the device, run the
+following message command:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 countbadblocks
+
+A message will print with the number of bad blocks currently
+configured on the device:
+
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: countbadblocks: 895 badblock(s) found
+
+Querying for specific bad blocks:
+---------------------------------
+
+To find out if a specific block is in the bad block list, run the
+following message command:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 queryblock 72
+
+The following message will print if the block is in the list:
+device-mapper: dust: queryblock: block 72 found in badblocklist
+
+The following message will print if the block is in the list:
+device-mapper: dust: queryblock: block 72 not found in badblocklist
+
+The "queryblock" message command will work in both the "enabled"
+and "disabled" modes, allowing the verification of whether a block
+will be treated as "bad" without having to issue I/O to the device,
+or having to "enable" the bad block emulation.
+
+Clearing the bad block list:
+----------------------------
+
+To clear the bad block list (without needing to individually run
+a "removebadblock" message command for every block), run the
+following message command:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 clearbadblocks
+
+After clearing the bad block list, the following message will appear:
+
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: clearbadblocks: badblocks cleared
+
+If there were no bad blocks to clear, the following message will
+appear:
+
+kernel: device-mapper: dust: clearbadblocks: no badblocks found
+
+Message commands list:
+----------------------
+
+Below is a list of the messages that can be sent to a dust device:
+
+Operations on blocks (requires a <blknum> argument):
+
+addbadblock <blknum>
+queryblock <blknum>
+removebadblock <blknum>
+
+...where <blknum> is a block number within range of the device
+ (corresponding to the block size of the device.)
+
+Single argument message commands:
+
+countbadblocks
+clearbadblocks
+disable
+enable
+quiet
+
+Device removal:
+---------------
+
+When finished, remove the device via the "dmsetup remove" command:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup remove dust1
+
+Quiet mode:
+-----------
+
+On test runs with many bad blocks, it may be desirable to avoid
+excessive logging (from bad blocks added, removed, or "remapped").
+This can be done by enabling "quiet mode" via the following message:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 quiet
+
+This will suppress log messages from add / remove / removed by write
+operations. Log messages from "countbadblocks" or "queryblock"
+message commands will still print in quiet mode.
+
+The status of quiet mode can be seen by running "dmsetup status":
+
+$ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+0 33552384 dust 252:17 fail_read_on_bad_block quiet
+
+To disable quiet mode, send the "quiet" message again:
+
+$ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 quiet
+
+$ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+0 33552384 dust 252:17 fail_read_on_bad_block verbose
+
+(The presence of "verbose" indicates normal logging.)
+
+"Why not...?"
+-------------
+
+scsi_debug has a "medium error" mode that can fail reads on one
+specified sector (sector 0x1234, hardcoded in the source code), but
+it uses RAM for the persistent storage, which drastically decreases
+the potential device size.
+
+dm-flakey fails all I/O from all block locations at a specified time
+frequency, and not a given point in time.
+
+When a bad sector occurs on a hard disk drive, reads to that sector
+are failed by the device, usually resulting in an error code of EIO
+("I/O error") or ENODATA ("No data available"). However, a write to
+the sector may succeed, and result in the sector becoming readable
+after the device controller no longer experiences errors reading the
+sector (or after a reallocation of the sector). However, there may
+be bad sectors that occur on the device in the future, in a different,
+unpredictable location.
+
+This target seeks to provide a device that can exhibit the behavior
+of a bad sector at a known sector location, at a known time, based
+on a large storage device (at least tens of gigabytes, not occupying
+system memory).
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-integrity.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-integrity.txt
index 297251b0d2d5..d63d78ffeb73 100644
--- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-integrity.txt
+++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-integrity.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ mode it calculates and verifies the integrity tag internally. In this
mode, the dm-integrity target can be used to detect silent data
corruption on the disk or in the I/O path.
+There's an alternate mode of operation where dm-integrity uses bitmap
+instead of a journal. If a bit in the bitmap is 1, the corresponding
+region's data and integrity tags are not synchronized - if the machine
+crashes, the unsynchronized regions will be recalculated. The bitmap mode
+is faster than the journal mode, because we don't have to write the data
+twice, but it is also less reliable, because if data corruption happens
+when the machine crashes, it may not be detected.
When loading the target for the first time, the kernel driver will format
the device. But it will only format the device if the superblock contains
@@ -59,6 +66,10 @@ Target arguments:
either both data and tag or none of them are written. The
journaled mode degrades write throughput twice because the
data have to be written twice.
+ B - bitmap mode - data and metadata are written without any
+ synchronization, the driver maintains a bitmap of dirty
+ regions where data and metadata don't match. This mode can
+ only be used with internal hash.
R - recovery mode - in this mode, journal is not replayed,
checksums are not checked and writes to the device are not
allowed. This mode is useful for data recovery if the
@@ -79,6 +90,10 @@ interleave_sectors:number
a power of two. If the device is already formatted, the value from
the superblock is used.
+meta_device:device
+ Don't interleave the data and metadata on on device. Use a
+ separate device for metadata.
+
buffer_sectors:number
The number of sectors in one buffer. The value is rounded down to
a power of two.
@@ -146,6 +161,15 @@ block_size:number
Supported values are 512, 1024, 2048 and 4096 bytes. If not
specified the default block size is 512 bytes.
+sectors_per_bit:number
+ In the bitmap mode, this parameter specifies the number of
+ 512-byte sectors that corresponds to one bitmap bit.
+
+bitmap_flush_interval:number
+ The bitmap flush interval in milliseconds. The metadata buffers
+ are synchronized when this interval expires.
+
+
The journal mode (D/J), buffer_sectors, journal_watermark, commit_time can
be changed when reloading the target (load an inactive table and swap the
tables with suspend and resume). The other arguments should not be changed
@@ -167,7 +191,13 @@ The layout of the formatted block device:
provides (i.e. the size of the device minus the size of all
metadata and padding). The user of this target should not send
bios that access data beyond the "provided data sectors" limit.
- * flags - a flag is set if journal_mac is used
+ * flags
+ SB_FLAG_HAVE_JOURNAL_MAC - a flag is set if journal_mac is used
+ SB_FLAG_RECALCULATING - recalculating is in progress
+ SB_FLAG_DIRTY_BITMAP - journal area contains the bitmap of dirty
+ blocks
+ * log2(sectors per block)
+ * a position where recalculating finished
* journal
The journal is divided into sections, each section contains:
* metadata area (4kiB), it contains journal entries