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Author SHA1 Message Date
Joe Thornber 3caf6d73d4 dm persistent data: remove debug space map checker
Remove debug space map checker from dm persistent data.

The space map checker is a wrapper for other space maps that double
checks the reference counts are correct.  It holds all these reference
counts in memory rather than on disk, so uses a lot of memory and is
thus restricted to small pools.

As yet, this checker hasn't found any issues, but has caused a few of
its own due to people turning it on by default with larger pools.

Removing.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-27 15:07:58 +01:00
Mike Snitzer 62662303e7 dm persistent data: handle space map checker creation failure
If CONFIG_DM_DEBUG_SPACE_MAPS is enabled and dm_sm_checker_create()
fails, dm_tm_create_internal() would still return success even though it
cleaned up all resources it was supposed to have created.  This will
lead to a kernel crash:

general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
...
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81593659>]  [<ffffffff81593659>] dm_bufio_get_block_size+0x9/0x20
Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81599bae>] dm_bm_block_size+0xe/0x10
  [<ffffffff8159b8b8>] sm_ll_init+0x78/0xd0
  [<ffffffff8159c1a6>] sm_ll_new_disk+0x16/0xa0
  [<ffffffff8159c98e>] dm_sm_disk_create+0xfe/0x160
  [<ffffffff815abf6e>] dm_pool_metadata_open+0x16e/0x6a0
  [<ffffffff815aa010>] pool_ctr+0x3f0/0x900
  [<ffffffff8158d565>] dm_table_add_target+0x195/0x450
  [<ffffffff815904c4>] table_load+0xe4/0x330
  [<ffffffff815917ea>] ctl_ioctl+0x15a/0x2c0
  [<ffffffff81591963>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20
  [<ffffffff8116a4f8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x560
  [<ffffffff8116aa51>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0
  [<ffffffff81869f52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Fix the space map checker code to return an appropriate ERR_PTR and have
dm_sm_disk_create() and dm_tm_create_internal() check for it with
IS_ERR.

Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2012-07-03 12:55:35 +01:00
Paul Gortmaker 1944ce60fe drivers/md: change module.h -> export.h in persistent-data/dm-*
For the files which are not themselves modular, we can change
them to include only the smaller export.h since all they are
doing is looking for EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-07 10:29:09 -08:00
Joe Thornber 3241b1d3e0 dm: add persistent data library
The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage
and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets.

It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an
upcoming hierarchical storage target.

For further information, please read
Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-10-31 20:19:11 +00:00