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authorJoe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>2013-12-17 12:09:40 -0500
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2014-01-07 10:11:43 -0500
commit19fa1a6756ed9e92daa9537c03b47d6b55cc2316 (patch)
tree5e4957a39759e385227995fff9a6e1aa3c99550a /drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
parent16961b042db8cc5cf75d782b4255193ad56e1d4f (diff)
downloadlinux-19fa1a6756ed9e92daa9537c03b47d6b55cc2316.tar.gz
dm thin: fix discard support to a previously shared block
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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h2
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diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
index 7bcc0e1d6238..2edf5dbac76a 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.