[PATCH 3.11 088/233] dm thin: fix discard support to a previously shared block

From: Luis Henriques
Date: Fri Feb 07 2014 - 07:58:19 EST


3.11.10.4 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 19fa1a6756ed9e92daa9537c03b47d6b55cc2316 upstream.

If a snapshot is created and later deleted the origin dm_thin_device's
snapshotted_time will have been updated to reflect the snapshot's
creation time. The 'shared' flag in the dm_thin_lookup_result struct
returned from dm_thin_find_block() is an approximation based on
snapshotted_time -- this is done to avoid 0(n), or worse, time
complexity. In this case, the shared flag would be true.

But because the 'shared' flag reflects an approximation a block can be
incorrectly assumed to be shared (e.g. false positive for 'shared'
because the snapshot no longer exists). This could result in discards
issued to a thin device not being passed down to the pool's underlying
data device.

To fix this we double check that a thin block is really still in-use
after a mapping is removed using dm_pool_block_is_used(). If the
reference count for a block is now zero the discard is allowed to be
passed down.

Also add a 'definitely_not_shared' member to the dm_thin_new_mapping
structure -- reflects that the 'shared' flag in the response from
dm_thin_find_block() can only be held as definitive if false is
returned.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043527

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h | 2 ++
drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index 8a30ad5..7da3476 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1349,6 +1349,12 @@ dm_thin_id dm_thin_dev_id(struct dm_thin_device *td)
return td->id;
}

+/*
+ * Check whether @time (of block creation) is older than @td's last snapshot.
+ * If so then the associated block is shared with the last snapshot device.
+ * Any block on a device created *after* the device last got snapshotted is
+ * necessarily not shared.
+ */
static bool __snapshotted_since(struct dm_thin_device *td, uint32_t time)
{
return td->snapshotted_time > time;
@@ -1458,6 +1464,20 @@ int dm_thin_remove_block(struct dm_thin_device *td, dm_block_t block)
return r;
}

+int dm_pool_block_is_used(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t b, bool *result)
+{
+ int r;
+ uint32_t ref_count;
+
+ down_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+ r = dm_sm_get_count(pmd->data_sm, b, &ref_count);
+ if (!r)
+ *result = (ref_count != 0);
+ up_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+
+ return r;
+}
+
bool dm_thin_changed_this_transaction(struct dm_thin_device *td)
{
int r;
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
index 7bcc0e1..2edf5db 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ int dm_pool_get_data_block_size(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, sector_t *result);

int dm_pool_get_data_dev_size(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t *result);

+int dm_pool_block_is_used(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t b, bool *result);
+
/*
* Returns -ENOSPC if the new size is too small and already allocated
* blocks would be lost.
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 754026b..18a9b12 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ struct dm_thin_new_mapping {
unsigned quiesced:1;
unsigned prepared:1;
unsigned pass_discard:1;
+ unsigned definitely_not_shared:1;

struct thin_c *tc;
dm_block_t virt_block;
@@ -683,7 +684,15 @@ static void process_prepared_discard_passdown(struct dm_thin_new_mapping *m)
cell_defer_no_holder(tc, m->cell2);

if (m->pass_discard)
- remap_and_issue(tc, m->bio, m->data_block);
+ if (m->definitely_not_shared)
+ remap_and_issue(tc, m->bio, m->data_block);
+ else {
+ bool used = false;
+ if (dm_pool_block_is_used(tc->pool->pmd, m->data_block, &used) || used)
+ bio_endio(m->bio, 0);
+ else
+ remap_and_issue(tc, m->bio, m->data_block);
+ }
else
bio_endio(m->bio, 0);

@@ -1030,7 +1039,8 @@ static void process_discard(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
*/
m = get_next_mapping(pool);
m->tc = tc;
- m->pass_discard = (!lookup_result.shared) && pool->pf.discard_passdown;
+ m->pass_discard = pool->pf.discard_passdown;
+ m->definitely_not_shared = !lookup_result.shared;
m->virt_block = block;
m->data_block = lookup_result.block;
m->cell = cell;
--
1.8.3.2

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