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Nikos Tsironis 8fdbfe8d16 dm clone metadata: Use a two phase commit
Split the metadata commit in two parts:

1. dm_clone_metadata_pre_commit(): Prepare the current transaction for
   committing. After this is called, all subsequent metadata updates,
   done through either dm_clone_set_region_hydrated() or
   dm_clone_cond_set_range(), will be part of the next transaction.

2. dm_clone_metadata_commit(): Actually commit the current transaction
   to disk and start a new transaction.

This is required by the following commit. It allows dm-clone to flush
the destination device after step (1) to ensure that all freshly
hydrated regions, for which we are updating the metadata, are properly
written to non-volatile storage and won't be lost in case of a crash.

Fixes: 7431b7835f ("dm: add clone target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-12-05 15:27:54 -05:00
Nikos Tsironis e6a505f3f9 dm clone metadata: Track exact changes per transaction
Extend struct dirty_map with a second bitmap which tracks the exact
regions that were hydrated during the current metadata transaction.

Moreover, fix __flush_dmap() to only commit the metadata of the regions
that were hydrated during the current transaction.

This is required by the following commits to fix a data corruption bug.

Fixes: 7431b7835f ("dm: add clone target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.4+
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-12-05 15:27:53 -05:00
Mikulas Patocka 6ca43ed837 dm clone: replace spin_lock_irqsave with spin_lock_irq
If we are in a place where it is known that interrupts are enabled,
functions spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq should be used instead of
spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore.

spin_lock_irq and spin_unlock_irq are faster because they don't need to
push and pop the flags register.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-11-05 14:35:42 -05:00
Nikos Tsironis 7431b7835f dm: add clone target
Add the dm-clone target, which allows cloning of arbitrary block
devices.

dm-clone produces a one-to-one copy of an existing, read-only source
device into a writable destination device: It presents a virtual block
device which makes all data appear immediately, and redirects reads and
writes accordingly.

The main use case of dm-clone is to clone a potentially remote,
high-latency, read-only, archival-type block device into a writable,
fast, primary-type device for fast, low-latency I/O. The cloned device
is visible/mountable immediately and the copy of the source device to
the destination device happens in the background, in parallel with user
I/O.

When the cloning completes, the dm-clone table can be removed altogether
and be replaced, e.g., by a linear table, mapping directly to the
destination device.

For further information and examples of how to use dm-clone, please read
Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-clone.rst

Suggested-by: Vangelis Koukis <vkoukis@arrikto.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilias Tsitsimpis <iliastsi@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikos Tsironis <ntsironis@arrikto.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-09-12 09:32:31 -04:00