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The persistent-data library used by dm-thin, dm-cache, etc is
transactional. If anything goes wrong, such as an io error when writing
new metadata or a power failure, then we roll back to the last
transaction.
Atomicity when committing a transaction is achieved by:
a) Never overwriting data from the previous transaction.
b) Writing the superblock last, after all other metadata has hit the
disk.
This commit and the following commit ("dm: take care to copy the space
map roots before locking the superblock") fix a bug associated with (b).
When committing it was possible for the superblock to still be written
in spite of an io error occurring during the preceeding metadata flush.
With these commits we're careful not to take the write lock out on the
superblock until after the metadata flush has completed.
Change the transaction manager's semantics for dm_tm_commit() to assume
all data has been flushed _before_ the single superblock that is passed
in.
As a prerequisite, split the block manager's block unlocking and
flushing by simplifying dm_bm_flush_and_unlock() to dm_bm_flush(). Now
the unlocking must be done separately.
This issue was discovered by forcing io errors at the crucial time
using dm-flakey.
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
130 lines
4.8 KiB
C
130 lines
4.8 KiB
C
/*
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* Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
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*
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* This file is released under the GPL.
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*/
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#ifndef _LINUX_DM_TRANSACTION_MANAGER_H
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#define _LINUX_DM_TRANSACTION_MANAGER_H
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#include "dm-block-manager.h"
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struct dm_transaction_manager;
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struct dm_space_map;
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/*----------------------------------------------------------------*/
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/*
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* This manages the scope of a transaction. It also enforces immutability
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* of the on-disk data structures by limiting access to writeable blocks.
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*
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* Clients should not fiddle with the block manager directly.
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*/
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void dm_tm_destroy(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm);
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/*
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* The non-blocking version of a transaction manager is intended for use in
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* fast path code that needs to do lookups e.g. a dm mapping function.
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* You create the non-blocking variant from a normal tm. The interface is
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* the same, except that most functions will just return -EWOULDBLOCK.
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* Methods that return void yet may block should not be called on a clone
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* viz. dm_tm_inc, dm_tm_dec. Call dm_tm_destroy() as you would with a normal
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* tm when you've finished with it. You may not destroy the original prior
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* to clones.
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*/
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struct dm_transaction_manager *dm_tm_create_non_blocking_clone(struct dm_transaction_manager *real);
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/*
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* We use a 2-phase commit here.
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*
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* i) Make all changes for the transaction *except* for the superblock.
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* Then call dm_tm_pre_commit() to flush them to disk.
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*
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* ii) Lock your superblock. Update. Then call dm_tm_commit() which will
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* unlock the superblock and flush it. No other blocks should be updated
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* during this period. Care should be taken to never unlock a partially
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* updated superblock; perform any operations that could fail *before* you
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* take the superblock lock.
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*/
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int dm_tm_pre_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm);
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int dm_tm_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, struct dm_block *superblock);
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/*
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* These methods are the only way to get hold of a writeable block.
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*/
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/*
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* dm_tm_new_block() is pretty self-explanatory. Make sure you do actually
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* write to the whole of @data before you unlock, otherwise you could get
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* a data leak. (The other option is for tm_new_block() to zero new blocks
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* before handing them out, which will be redundant in most, if not all,
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* cases).
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* Zeroes the new block and returns with write lock held.
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*/
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int dm_tm_new_block(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm,
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struct dm_block_validator *v,
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struct dm_block **result);
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/*
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* dm_tm_shadow_block() allocates a new block and copies the data from @orig
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* to it. It then decrements the reference count on original block. Use
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* this to update the contents of a block in a data structure, don't
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* confuse this with a clone - you shouldn't access the orig block after
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* this operation. Because the tm knows the scope of the transaction it
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* can optimise requests for a shadow of a shadow to a no-op. Don't forget
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* to unlock when you've finished with the shadow.
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*
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* The @inc_children flag is used to tell the caller whether it needs to
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* adjust reference counts for children. (Data in the block may refer to
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* other blocks.)
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*
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* Shadowing implicitly drops a reference on @orig so you must not have
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* it locked when you call this.
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*/
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int dm_tm_shadow_block(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, dm_block_t orig,
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struct dm_block_validator *v,
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struct dm_block **result, int *inc_children);
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/*
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* Read access. You can lock any block you want. If there's a write lock
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* on it outstanding then it'll block.
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*/
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int dm_tm_read_lock(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, dm_block_t b,
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struct dm_block_validator *v,
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struct dm_block **result);
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int dm_tm_unlock(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, struct dm_block *b);
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/*
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* Functions for altering the reference count of a block directly.
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*/
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void dm_tm_inc(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, dm_block_t b);
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void dm_tm_dec(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, dm_block_t b);
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int dm_tm_ref(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, dm_block_t b,
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uint32_t *result);
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struct dm_block_manager *dm_tm_get_bm(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm);
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/*
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* A little utility that ties the knot by producing a transaction manager
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* that has a space map managed by the transaction manager...
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*
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* Returns a tm that has an open transaction to write the new disk sm.
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* Caller should store the new sm root and commit.
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*
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* The superblock location is passed so the metadata space map knows it
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* shouldn't be used.
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*/
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int dm_tm_create_with_sm(struct dm_block_manager *bm, dm_block_t sb_location,
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struct dm_transaction_manager **tm,
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struct dm_space_map **sm);
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int dm_tm_open_with_sm(struct dm_block_manager *bm, dm_block_t sb_location,
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void *sm_root, size_t root_len,
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struct dm_transaction_manager **tm,
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struct dm_space_map **sm);
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#endif /* _LINUX_DM_TRANSACTION_MANAGER_H */
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