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Dmitry Fomichev e7fad909b6 dm zoned: reduce overhead of backing device checks
Commit 75d66ffb48 added backing device health checks and as a part
of these checks, check_events() block ops template call is invoked in
dm-zoned mapping path as well as in reclaim and flush path. Calling
check_events() with ATA or SCSI backing devices introduces a blocking
scsi_test_unit_ready() call being made in sd_check_events(). Even though
the overhead of calling scsi_test_unit_ready() is small for ATA zoned
devices, it is much larger for SCSI and it affects performance in a very
negative way.

Fix this performance regression by executing check_events() only in case
of any I/O errors. The function dmz_bdev_is_dying() is modified to call
only blk_queue_dying(), while calls to check_events() are made in a new
helper function, dmz_check_bdev().

Reported-by: zhangxiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>
Fixes: 75d66ffb48 ("dm zoned: properly handle backing device failure")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fomichev <dmitry.fomichev@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-11-07 10:08:36 -05:00
Mikulas Patocka 0c8e9c2d66 dm zoned: fix invalid memory access
Commit 75d66ffb48 ("dm zoned: properly
handle backing device failure") triggers a coverity warning:

*** CID 1452808:  Memory - illegal accesses  (USE_AFTER_FREE)
/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c: 137 in dmz_submit_bio()
131             clone->bi_private = bioctx;
132
133             bio_advance(bio, clone->bi_iter.bi_size);
134
135             refcount_inc(&bioctx->ref);
136             generic_make_request(clone);
>>>     CID 1452808:  Memory - illegal accesses  (USE_AFTER_FREE)
>>>     Dereferencing freed pointer "clone".
137             if (clone->bi_status == BLK_STS_IOERR)
138                     return -EIO;
139
140             if (bio_op(bio) == REQ_OP_WRITE && dmz_is_seq(zone))
141                     zone->wp_block += nr_blocks;
142

The "clone" bio may be processed and freed before the check
"clone->bi_status == BLK_STS_IOERR" - so this check can access invalid
memory.

Fixes: 75d66ffb48 ("dm zoned: properly handle backing device failure")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-08-26 10:33:58 -04:00
Dmitry Fomichev bae9a0aa33 dm zoned: add SPDX license identifiers
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fomichev <dmitry.fomichev@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-08-15 15:57:42 -04:00
Dmitry Fomichev 75d66ffb48 dm zoned: properly handle backing device failure
dm-zoned is observed to lock up or livelock in case of hardware
failure or some misconfiguration of the backing zoned device.

This patch adds a new dm-zoned target function that checks the status of
the backing device. If the request queue of the backing device is found
to be in dying state or the SCSI backing device enters offline state,
the health check code sets a dm-zoned target flag prompting all further
incoming I/O to be rejected. In order to detect backing device failures
timely, this new function is called in the request mapping path, at the
beginning of every reclaim run and before performing any metadata I/O.

The proper way out of this situation is to do

dmsetup remove <dm-zoned target>

and recreate the target when the problem with the backing device
is resolved.

Fixes: 3b1a94c88b ("dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fomichev <dmitry.fomichev@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-08-15 15:57:42 -04:00
Dmitry Fomichev d7428c5011 dm zoned: improve error handling in i/o map code
Some errors are ignored in the I/O path during queueing chunks
for processing by chunk works. Since at least these errors are
transient in nature, it should be possible to retry the failed
incoming commands.

The fix -

Errors that can happen while queueing chunks are carried upwards
to the main mapping function and it now returns DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE
for any incoming requests that can not be properly queued.

Error logging/debug messages are added where needed.

Fixes: 3b1a94c88b ("dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Fomichev <dmitry.fomichev@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-08-15 15:57:41 -04:00
Dan Carpenter a3839bc635 dm zoned: Silence a static checker warning
My static checker complains about this line from dmz_get_zoned_device()

	aligned_capacity = dev->capacity & ~(blk_queue_zone_sectors(q) - 1);

The problem is that "aligned_capacity" and "dev->capacity" are sector_t
type (which is a u64 under most configs) but blk_queue_zone_sectors(q)
returns a u32 so the higher 32 bits in aligned_capacity are cleared to
zero.  This patch adds a cast to address the issue.

Fixes: 114e025968 ("dm zoned: ignore last smaller runt zone")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-04-18 16:16:01 -04:00
Mike Snitzer 61697a6abd dm: eliminate 'split_discard_bios' flag from DM target interface
There is no need to have DM core split discards on behalf of a DM target
now that blk_queue_split() handles splitting discards based on the
queue_limits.  A DM target just needs to set max_discard_sectors,
discard_granularity, etc, in queue_limits.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2019-02-20 23:24:55 -05:00
Damien Le Moal d57f9da890 dm zoned: Fix target BIO completion handling
struct bioctx includes the ref refcount_t to track the number of I/O
fragments used to process a target BIO as well as ensure that the zone
of the BIO is kept in the active state throughout the lifetime of the
BIO. However, since decrementing of this reference count is done in the
target .end_io method, the function bio_endio() must be called multiple
times for read and write target BIOs, which causes problems with the
value of the __bi_remaining struct bio field for chained BIOs (e.g. the
clone BIO passed by dm core is large and splits into fragments by the
block layer), resulting in incorrect values and inconsistencies with the
BIO_CHAIN flag setting. This is turn triggers the BUG_ON() call:

BUG_ON(atomic_read(&bio->__bi_remaining) <= 0);

in bio_remaining_done() called from bio_endio().

Fix this ensuring that bio_endio() is called only once for any target
BIO by always using internal clone BIOs for processing any read or
write target BIO. This allows reference counting using the target BIO
context counter to trigger the target BIO completion bio_endio() call
once all data, metadata and other zone work triggered by the BIO
complete.

Overall, this simplifies the code too as the target .end_io becomes
unnecessary and differences between read and write BIO issuing and
completion processing disappear.

Fixes: 3b1a94c88b ("dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-12-07 16:04:31 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 71f4d95b23 - Biggest change this cycle is to remove support for the legacy IO path
(.request_fn) from request-based DM.  Jens has already started
   preparing for complete removal of the legacy IO path in 4.21 but this
   earlier removal of support from DM has been coordinated with Jens (as
   evidenced by the commit being attributed to him).  Making
   request-based DM exclussively blk-mq only cleans up that portion of DM
   core quite nicely.
 
 - Convert the thinp and zoned targets over to using refcount_t where
   applicable.
 
 - A couple fixes to the DM zoned target for refcounting and other races
   buried in the implementation of metadata block creation and use.
 
 - Small cleanups to remove redundant unlikely() around a couple
   WARN_ON_ONCE().
 
 - Simplify how dm-ioctl copies from userspace, eliminating some
   potential for a malicious user trying to change the executed ioctl
   after its processing has begun.
 
 - Tweaked DM crypt target to use the DM device name when naming the
   various workqueues created for a particular DM crypt device (makes the
   N workqueues for a DM crypt device more easily understood and enhances
   user's accounting capabilities at a glance via "ps")
 
 - Small fixup to remove dead branch in DM writecache's memory_entry().
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Merge tag 'for-4.20/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - The biggest change this cycle is to remove support for the legacy IO
   path (.request_fn) from request-based DM.

   Jens has already started preparing for complete removal of the legacy
   IO path in 4.21 but this earlier removal of support from DM has been
   coordinated with Jens (as evidenced by the commit being attributed to
   him).

   Making request-based DM exclussively blk-mq only cleans up that
   portion of DM core quite nicely.

 - Convert the thinp and zoned targets over to using refcount_t where
   applicable.

 - A couple fixes to the DM zoned target for refcounting and other races
   buried in the implementation of metadata block creation and use.

 - Small cleanups to remove redundant unlikely() around a couple
   WARN_ON_ONCE().

 - Simplify how dm-ioctl copies from userspace, eliminating some
   potential for a malicious user trying to change the executed ioctl
   after its processing has begun.

 - Tweaked DM crypt target to use the DM device name when naming the
   various workqueues created for a particular DM crypt device (makes
   the N workqueues for a DM crypt device more easily understood and
   enhances user's accounting capabilities at a glance via "ps")

 - Small fixup to remove dead branch in DM writecache's memory_entry().

* tag 'for-4.20/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm writecache: remove disabled code in memory_entry()
  dm zoned: fix various dmz_get_mblock() issues
  dm zoned: fix metadata block ref counting
  dm raid: avoid bitmap with raid4/5/6 journal device
  dm crypt: make workqueue names device-specific
  dm: add dm_table_device_name()
  dm ioctl: harden copy_params()'s copy_from_user() from malicious users
  dm: remove unnecessary unlikely() around WARN_ON_ONCE()
  dm zoned: target: use refcount_t for dm zoned reference counters
  dm thin: use refcount_t for thin_c reference counting
  dm table: require that request-based DM be layered on blk-mq devices
  dm: rename DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED to DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED
  dm: remove legacy request-based IO path
2018-10-26 12:57:38 -07:00
Damien Le Moal a91e138022 block: Introduce blkdev_nr_zones() helper
Introduce the blkdev_nr_zones() helper function to get the total
number of zones of a zoned block device. This number is always 0 for a
regular block device (q->limits.zoned == BLK_ZONED_NONE case).

Replace hard-coded number of zones calculation in dmz_get_zoned_device()
with a call to this helper.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-10-25 11:17:40 -06:00
John Pittman 092b564876 dm zoned: target: use refcount_t for dm zoned reference counters
The API surrounding refcount_t should be used in place of atomic_t
when variables are being used as reference counters.  This API can
prevent issues such as counter overflows and use-after-free
conditions.  Within the dm zoned target stack, the atomic_t API is
used for bioctx->ref and cw->refcount.  Change these to use
refcount_t, avoiding the issues mentioned.

Signed-off-by: John Pittman <jpittman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-10-16 14:27:38 -04:00
Bart Van Assche 2d0b2d64d3 dm zoned: avoid triggering reclaim from inside dmz_map()
This patch avoids that lockdep reports the following:

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
4.18.0-rc1 #62 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/84 is trying to acquire lock:
00000000c313516d (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++}, at: xfs_free_eofblocks+0xa2/0x1e0

but task is already holding lock:
00000000591c83ae (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #2 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}:
  kmem_cache_alloc+0x2c/0x2b0
  radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.19+0x3d/0xc0
  __radix_tree_create+0x161/0x1c0
  __radix_tree_insert+0x45/0x210
  dmz_map+0x245/0x2d0 [dm_zoned]
  __map_bio+0x40/0x260
  __split_and_process_non_flush+0x116/0x220
  __split_and_process_bio+0x81/0x180
  __dm_make_request.isra.32+0x5a/0x100
  generic_make_request+0x36e/0x690
  submit_bio+0x6c/0x140
  mpage_readpages+0x19e/0x1f0
  read_pages+0x6d/0x1b0
  __do_page_cache_readahead+0x21b/0x2d0
  force_page_cache_readahead+0xc4/0x100
  generic_file_read_iter+0x7c6/0xd20
  __vfs_read+0x102/0x180
  vfs_read+0x9b/0x140
  ksys_read+0x55/0xc0
  do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x1f0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

-> #1 (&dmz->chunk_lock){+.+.}:
  dmz_map+0x133/0x2d0 [dm_zoned]
  __map_bio+0x40/0x260
  __split_and_process_non_flush+0x116/0x220
  __split_and_process_bio+0x81/0x180
  __dm_make_request.isra.32+0x5a/0x100
  generic_make_request+0x36e/0x690
  submit_bio+0x6c/0x140
  _xfs_buf_ioapply+0x31c/0x590
  xfs_buf_submit_wait+0x73/0x520
  xfs_buf_read_map+0x134/0x2f0
  xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0xc3/0x580
  xfs_read_agf+0xa5/0x1e0
  xfs_alloc_read_agf+0x59/0x2b0
  xfs_alloc_pagf_init+0x27/0x60
  xfs_bmap_longest_free_extent+0x43/0xb0
  xfs_bmap_btalloc_nullfb+0x7f/0xf0
  xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x428/0x7c0
  xfs_bmapi_write+0x598/0xcc0
  xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x15a/0x330
  xfs_map_blocks+0x1cf/0x3f0
  xfs_do_writepage+0x15f/0x7b0
  write_cache_pages+0x1ca/0x540
  xfs_vm_writepages+0x65/0xa0
  do_writepages+0x48/0xf0
  __writeback_single_inode+0x58/0x730
  writeback_sb_inodes+0x249/0x5c0
  wb_writeback+0x11e/0x550
  wb_workfn+0xa3/0x670
  process_one_work+0x228/0x670
  worker_thread+0x3c/0x390
  kthread+0x11c/0x140
  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

-> #0 (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++}:
  down_read_nested+0x43/0x70
  xfs_free_eofblocks+0xa2/0x1e0
  xfs_fs_destroy_inode+0xac/0x270
  dispose_list+0x51/0x80
  prune_icache_sb+0x52/0x70
  super_cache_scan+0x127/0x1a0
  shrink_slab.part.47+0x1bd/0x590
  shrink_node+0x3b5/0x470
  balance_pgdat+0x158/0x3b0
  kswapd+0x1ba/0x600
  kthread+0x11c/0x140
  ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

other info that might help us debug this:

Chain exists of:
  &xfs_nondir_ilock_class --> &dmz->chunk_lock --> fs_reclaim

Possible unsafe locking scenario:

     CPU0                    CPU1
     ----                    ----
lock(fs_reclaim);
                             lock(&dmz->chunk_lock);
                             lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(&xfs_nondir_ilock_class);

*** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by kswapd0/84:
 #0: 00000000591c83ae (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30
 #1: 000000000f8208f5 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}, at: shrink_slab.part.47+0x3f/0x590
 #2: 00000000cacefa54 (&type->s_umount_key#43){.+.+}, at: trylock_super+0x16/0x50

stack backtrace:
CPU: 7 PID: 84 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc1 #62
Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X10SRL-F, BIOS 2.0 12/17/2015
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x85/0xcb
 print_circular_bug.isra.36+0x1ce/0x1db
 __lock_acquire+0x124e/0x1310
 lock_acquire+0x9f/0x1f0
 down_read_nested+0x43/0x70
 xfs_free_eofblocks+0xa2/0x1e0
 xfs_fs_destroy_inode+0xac/0x270
 dispose_list+0x51/0x80
 prune_icache_sb+0x52/0x70
 super_cache_scan+0x127/0x1a0
 shrink_slab.part.47+0x1bd/0x590
 shrink_node+0x3b5/0x470
 balance_pgdat+0x158/0x3b0
 kswapd+0x1ba/0x600
 kthread+0x11c/0x140
 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50

Reported-by: Masato Suzuki <masato.suzuki@wdc.com>
Fixes: 4218a95546 ("dm zoned: use GFP_NOIO in I/O path")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-06-22 14:51:12 -04:00
Mike Snitzer 72d711c876 dm: adjust structure members to improve alignment
Eliminate most holes in DM data structures that were modified by
commit 6f1c819c21 ("dm: convert to bioset_init()/mempool_init()").
Also prevent structure members from unnecessarily spanning cache
lines.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-06-08 11:53:14 -04:00
Kent Overstreet 6f1c819c21 dm: convert to bioset_init()/mempool_init()
Convert dm to embedded bio sets.

Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2018-05-30 15:33:32 -06:00
Mike Snitzer 5bd5e8d891 dm: remove fmode_t argument from .prepare_ioctl hook
Use the fmode_t that is passed to dm_blk_ioctl() rather than
inconsistently (varies across targets) drop it on the floor by
overriding it with the fmode_t stored in 'struct dm_dev'.

All the persistent reservation functions weren't using the fmode_t they
got back from .prepare_ioctl so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-04-04 12:12:39 -04:00
Mike Snitzer d5ffebdd79 dm: backfill missing calls to mutex_destroy()
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2018-01-17 09:16:15 -05:00
Damien Le Moal 114e025968 dm zoned: ignore last smaller runt zone
The SCSI layer allows ZBC drives to have a smaller last runt zone. For
such a device, specifying the entire capacity for a dm-zoned target
table entry fails because the specified capacity is not aligned on a
device zone size indicated in the request queue structure of the
device.

Fix this problem by ignoring the last runt zone in the entry length
when seting up the dm-zoned target (ctr method) and when iterating table
entries of the target (iterate_devices method). This allows dm-zoned
users to still easily setup a target using the entire device capacity
(as mandated by dm-zoned) or the aligned capacity excluding the last
runt zone.

While at it, replace direct references to the device queue chunk_sectors
limit with calls to the accessor blk_queue_zone_sectors().

Reported-by: Peter Desnoyers <pjd@ccs.neu.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-11-10 15:44:53 -05:00
Christoph Hellwig 74d46992e0 block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O.  The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open.  Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device.  But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-08-23 12:49:55 -06:00
Damien Le Moal 4218a95546 dm zoned: use GFP_NOIO in I/O path
Use GFP_NOIO for memory allocations in the I/O path.  Other memory
allocations in the initialization path can use GFP_KERNEL.

Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-07-26 15:55:43 -04:00
Mikulas Patocka edbe9597ac dm zoned: remove test for impossible REQ_OP_FLUSH conditions
The value REQ_OP_FLUSH is only used by the block code for
request-based devices.

Remove the tests for REQ_OP_FLUSH from the bio-based dm-zoned-target.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-07-25 15:12:17 -04:00
Damien Le Moal 3b1a94c88b dm zoned: drive-managed zoned block device target
The dm-zoned device mapper target provides transparent write access
to zoned block devices (ZBC and ZAC compliant block devices).
dm-zoned hides to the device user (a file system or an application
doing raw block device accesses) any constraint imposed on write
requests by the device, equivalent to a drive-managed zoned block
device model.

Write requests are processed using a combination of on-disk buffering
using the device conventional zones and direct in-place processing for
requests aligned to a zone sequential write pointer position.
A background reclaim process implemented using dm_kcopyd_copy ensures
that conventional zones are always available for executing unaligned
write requests. The reclaim process overhead is minimized by managing
buffer zones in a least-recently-written order and first targeting the
oldest buffer zones. Doing so, blocks under regular write access (such
as metadata blocks of a file system) remain stored in conventional
zones, resulting in no apparent overhead.

dm-zoned implementation focus on simplicity and on minimizing overhead
(CPU, memory and storage overhead). For a 14TB host-managed disk with
256 MB zones, dm-zoned memory usage per disk instance is at most about
3 MB and as little as 5 zones will be used internally for storing metadata
and performing buffer zone reclaim operations. This is achieved using
zone level indirection rather than a full block indirection system for
managing block movement between zones.

dm-zoned primary target is host-managed zoned block devices but it can
also be used with host-aware device models to mitigate potential
device-side performance degradation due to excessive random writing.

Zoned block devices can be formatted and checked for use with the dm-zoned
target using the dmzadm utility available at:

https://github.com/hgst/dm-zoned-tools

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
[Mike Snitzer partly refactored Damien's original work to cleanup the code]
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-06-19 11:05:20 -04:00