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George Wilson
03c6040bee Illumos #3236
3236 zio nop-write
Reviewed by: Matt Ahrens <matthew.ahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@80901aea8e
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3236

Porting Notes

1. This patch is being merged dispite an increased instance of
   https://www.illumos.org/issues/3113 being triggered by ztest.

Ported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1489
2013-11-05 12:14:21 -08:00
Matthew Ahrens
2e528b49f8 Illumos #3598
3598 want to dtrace when errors are generated in zfs
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3598
  illumos/illumos-gate@be6fd75a69

Ported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #1775

Porting notes:

1. include/sys/zfs_context.h has been modified to render some new
   macros inert until dtrace is available on Linux.

2. Linux-specific changes have been adapted to use SET_ERROR().

3. I'm NOT happy about this change.  It does nothing but ugly
   up the code under Linux.  Unfortunately we need to take it to
   avoid more merge conflicts in the future.  -Brian
2013-10-31 14:58:04 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
13fe019870 Illumos #3464
3464 zfs synctask code needs restructuring
Reviewed by: Dan Kimmel <dan.kimmel@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <christopher.siden@delphix.com>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>

References:
  https://www.illumos.org/issues/3464
  illumos/illumos-gate@3b2aab1880

Ported-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1495
2013-09-04 16:01:24 -07:00
Chris Dunlop
a1d9543a39 3.10 API change: block_device_operations->release() returns void
Linux kernel commit torvalds/linux@db2a144 changed the return type
of block_device_operations->release() to void.  Detect the expected
prototype and defined our callout accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1494
2013-07-08 15:41:57 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
91604b298c Open pools asynchronously after module load
One of the side effects of calling zvol_create_minors() in
zvol_init() is that all pools listed in the cache file will
be opened.  Depending on the state and contents of your pool
this operation can take a considerable length of time.

Doing this at load time is undesirable because the kernel
is holding a global module lock.  This prevents other modules
from loading and can serialize an otherwise parallel boot
process.  Doing this after module inititialization also
reduces the chances of accidentally introducing a race
during module init.

To ensure that /dev/zvol/<pool>/<dataset> devices are
still automatically created after the module load completes
a udev rules has been added.  When udev notices that the
/dev/zfs device has been create the 'zpool list' command
will be run.  This then will cause all the pools listed
in the zpool.cache file to be opened.

Because this process in now driven asynchronously by udev
there is the risk of problems in downstream distributions.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #756
Issue #1020
Issue #1234
2013-07-03 09:24:38 -07:00
Richard Yao
2a3871d4bc Cleanup zvol initialization code
The following error will occur on some (possibly all) kernels
because blk_init_queue() will try to take the spinlock before
we initialize it.

  BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, zpool/4054
   lock: 0xffff88021a73de60, .magic: 00000000,
   .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
  Pid: 4054, comm: zpool Not tainted 3.9.3 #11
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff81478ef8>] spin_dump+0x8c/0x91
   [<ffffffff81478f1e>] spin_bug+0x21/0x26
   [<ffffffff812da097>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x127/0x130
   [<ffffffff8147d851>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x21/0x30
   [<ffffffff812c2c1e>] cfq_init_queue+0x1fe/0x350
   [<ffffffff812aacb8>] elevator_init+0x78/0x140
   [<ffffffff812b2677>] blk_init_allocated_queue+0x87/0xb0
   [<ffffffff812b26d5>] blk_init_queue_node+0x35/0x70
   [<ffffffff812b271e>] blk_init_queue+0xe/0x10
   [<ffffffff8125211b>] __zvol_create_minor+0x24b/0x620
   [<ffffffff81253264>] zvol_create_minors_cb+0x24/0x30
   [<ffffffff811bd9ca>] dmu_objset_find_spa+0xea/0x510
   [<ffffffff811bda71>] dmu_objset_find_spa+0x191/0x510
   [<ffffffff81253ea2>] zvol_create_minors+0x92/0x180
   [<ffffffff811f8d80>] spa_open_common+0x250/0x380
   [<ffffffff811f8ece>] spa_open+0xe/0x10
   [<ffffffff8122817e>] pool_status_check.part.22+0x1e/0x80
   [<ffffffff81228a55>] zfsdev_ioctl+0x155/0x190
   [<ffffffff8116a695>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x325/0x5a0
   [<ffffffff8116a950>] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x80
   [<ffffffff814812c9>] ? do_page_fault+0x9/0x10
   [<ffffffff81483929>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
   zd0: unknown partition table

We fix this by calling spin_lock_init before blk_init_queue.

The manner in which zvol_init() initializes structures is
suspectible to a race between initialization and a probe on
a zvol. We reorganize zvol_init() to prevent that.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2013-07-03 09:23:35 -07:00
shenyan1
0a6bef26ec kmem_zalloc(..., KM_SLEEP) will never fail
By definitition these allocations will never fail.  For
consistency with the rest of the code remove this dead error
handling code.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1558
2013-07-01 14:51:48 -07:00
Eric Dillmann
0b4d1b5853 Add snapdev=[hidden|visible] dataset property
The new snapdev dataset property may be set to control the
visibility of zvol snapshot devices.  By default this value
is set to 'hidden' which will prevent zvol snapshots from
appearing under /dev/zvol/ and /dev/<dataset>/.  When set to
'visible' all zvol snapshots for the dataset will be visible.

This functionality was largely added because when automatic
snapshoting is enabled large numbers of read-only zvol snapshots
will be created.  When creating these devices the kernel will
attempt to read their partition tables, and blkid will attempt
to identify any filesystems on those partitions.  This leads
to a variety of issues:

1) The zvol partition tables will be read in the context of
   the `modprobe zfs` for automatically imported pools.  This
   is undesirable and should be done asynchronously, but for
   now reducing the number of visible devices helps.

2) Udev expects to be able to complete its work for a new
   block devices fairly quickly.  When many zvol devices are
   added at the same time this is no longer be true.  It can
   lead to udev timeouts and missing /dev/zvol links.

3) Simply having lots of devices in /dev/ can be aukward from
   a management standpoint.  Hidding the devices your unlikely
   to ever use helps with this.  Any snapshot device which is
   needed can be made visible by changing the snapdev property.

NOTE: This patch changes the default behavior for zvols which
      was effectively 'snapdev=visible'.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1235
Closes #945
Issue #956
Issue #756
2013-03-05 12:37:54 -08:00
George Wilson
a4430fce69 Merge zvol.c changes from PSARC 2010/306 Read-only ZFS pools
The changes to zvol.c were never merged from the last onnv_147
bulk update.  This was because zvol.c was largely rewritten
for Linux making it fairly easy to miss these sorts of changes.

This causes a regression when importing a zpool with zvols
read-only.  This does not impact pool which only contain
filesystem datasets.

References:
  illumos/illumos-gate@f9af39b

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1332
Closes #1333
2013-03-04 09:56:13 -08:00
Richard Yao
b01615d5ac Constify structures containing function pointers
The PaX team modified the kernel's modpost to report writeable function
pointers as section mismatches because they are potential exploit
targets. We could ignore the warnings, but their presence can obscure
actual issues. Proper const correctness can also catch programming
mistakes.

Building the kernel modules against a PaX/GrSecurity patched Linux 3.4.2
kernel reports 133 section mismatches prior to this patch. This patch
eliminates 130 of them. The quantity of writeable function pointers
eliminated by constifying each structure is as follows:

vdev_opts_t             52
zil_replay_func_t       24
zio_compress_info_t     24
zio_checksum_info_t     9
space_map_ops_t         7
arc_byteswap_func_t     5

The remaining 3 writeable function pointers cannot be addressed by this
patch. 2 of them are in zpl_fs_type. The kernel's sget function requires
that this be non-const. The final writeable function pointer is created
by SPL_SHRINKER_DECLARE. The kernel's set_shrinker() and
remove_shrinker() functions also require that this be non-const.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1300
2013-03-04 08:49:32 -08:00
Massimo Maggi
babf3f9b6d Fix zpool on zvol deadlock
Commit 65d56083b4 fixes the lock
inversion between spa_namespace_lock and bdev->bd_mutex but only
for the first user of spa_namespace_lock: dmu_objset_own().
Later spa_namespace_lock gets acquired by dsl_prop_get_integer()
though dsl_prop_get()->dsl_dataset_hold()->dsl_dir_open_spa()->
spa_open()->spa_open_common() without this "protection".  By
moving the mutex release after this second use, even this
acquisition of the lock is "protected" by the ERESTARTSYS trick.

Signed-off-by: Massimo Maggi <me@massimo-maggi.eu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1220
2013-01-18 09:44:55 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
65d56083b4 Fix zpool on zvol lock inversion deadlock
In all but one case the spa_namespace_lock is taken before the
bdev->bd_mutex lock.  But Linux __blkdev_get() function calls
fops->open() with the bdev->bd_mutex lock held and we must
somehow still safely acquire the spa_namespace_lock.

To avoid a potential lock inversion deadlock we preemptively
try to take the spa_namespace_lock().  Normally it will not
be contended and this is safe because spa_open_common() handles
the case where the caller already holds the spa_namespace_lock.

When it is contended we risk a lock inversion if we were to
block waiting for the lock.  Luckily, the __blkdev_get()
function allows us to return -ERESTARTSYS which will result in
bdev->bd_mutex being dropped, reacquired, and fops->open() being
called again.  This process can be repeated safely until both
locks are acquired.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Closes #612
2012-12-20 09:57:39 -08:00
Jorgen Lundman
6c2856726f Fix using zvol as slog device
During the original ZoL port the vdev_uses_zvols() function was
disabled until it could be properly implemented.  This prevented
a zpool from use a zvol for its slog device.

This patch implements that missing functionality by adding a
zvol_is_zvol() function to zvol.c.  Given the full path to a
device it will lookup the device and verify its major number
against the registered zvol major number for the system.  If
they match we know the device is a zvol.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1131
2012-12-18 11:02:28 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
f74a147c02 Fix NULL deref when zvol_alloc() fails
If zvol_alloc() fails zv will be set to NULL and dereferenced
in out_dmu_objset_disown.  To avoid this entirely the zv->objset
line is moved up in to the success block.

Original-patch-by: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1109
2012-11-27 14:10:31 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
7bd04f2d7d Set default zvol elevator to noop
It doesn't make sense for a zvol to use the default system I/O
scheduler because it is a virtual device.  Therefore, we change
the default scheduler to 'noop' for zvols provided that the
elevator_change() function is available.  This interface has
been available since Linux 2.6.36 and appears in the RHEL 6.x
kernels.

We deliberately do not implement the method for older kernels
because it was racy and could result in system crashes.  It's
better to simply manually tune the scheduler for these kernels.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1017
2012-10-05 12:39:59 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
089fa91bc5 Align DISCARD requests on zvols.
Currently, when processing DISCARD requests, zvol_discard() calls
dmu_free_long_range() with the precise offset and size of the request.

Unfortunately, this is not optimal for requests that are not aligned to
the zvol block boundaries. Indeed, in the case of an unaligned range,
dnode_free_range() will zero out the unaligned parts. Not only is this
useless since we are not freeing any space by doing so, it is also slow
because it translates to a read-modify-write operation.

This patch fixes the issue by rounding up the discard start offset to
the next volume block boundary, and rounding down the discard end
offset to the previous volume block boundary.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #1010
2012-10-04 16:01:44 -07:00
Matthew Ahrens
04434775b7 Illumos #3100: zvol rename fails with EBUSY when dirty.
illumos/illumos-gate@2e2c135528
Illumos changeset: 13780:6da32a929222

3100 zvol rename fails with EBUSY when dirty

Reviewed by: Christopher Siden <chris.siden@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Adam H. Leventhal <ahl@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: George Wilson <george.wilson@delphix.com>
Reviewed by: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Approved by: Eric Schrock <eric.schrock@delphix.com>

Ported-by: Etienne Dechamps <etienne.dechamps@ovh.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #995
2012-10-03 13:59:02 -07:00
Chris Wedgwood
23a61ccc1b zvol_probe should return NULL when the device isn't found.
Previously we returned ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) which the rest of the kernel
doesn't expect and as such we can oops.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #949
Closes #931
Closes #789
Closes #743
Closes #730
2012-10-03 10:39:12 -07:00
Richard Yao
b8d06fca08 Switch KM_SLEEP to KM_PUSHPAGE
Differences between how paging is done on Solaris and Linux can cause
deadlocks if KM_SLEEP is used in any the following contexts.

  * The txg_sync thread
  * The zvol write/discard threads
  * The zpl_putpage() VFS callback

This is because KM_SLEEP will allow for direct reclaim which may result
in the VM calling back in to the filesystem or block layer to write out
pages.  If a lock is held over this operation the potential exists to
deadlock the system.  To ensure forward progress all memory allocations
in these contexts must us KM_PUSHPAGE which disables performing any I/O
to accomplish the memory allocation.

Previously, this behavior was acheived by setting PF_MEMALLOC on the
thread.  However, that resulted in unexpected side effects such as the
exhaustion of pages in ZONE_DMA.  This approach touchs more of the zfs
code, but it is more consistent with the right way to handle these cases
under Linux.

This is patch lays the ground work for being able to safely revert the
following commits which used PF_MEMALLOC:

  21ade34 Disable direct reclaim for z_wr_* threads
  cfc9a5c Fix zpl_writepage() deadlock
  eec8164 Fix ASSERTION(!dsl_pool_sync_context(tx->tx_pool))

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #726
2012-08-27 12:01:37 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
8630650a8d Annotate KM_PUSHPAGE call paths with PF_NOFS
The txg_sync(), zfs_putpage(), zvol_write(), and zvol_discard()
call paths must only use KM_PUSHPAGE to avoid potential deadlocks
during direct reclaim.

This patch annotates these call paths so any accidental use of
KM_SLEEP will be quickly detected.   In the interest of stability
if debugging is disabled the offending allocation will have its
GFP flags automatically corrected.  When debugging is enabled
any misuse will be treated as a fatal error.

This patch is entirely for debugging.  We should be careful to
NOT become dependant on it fixing up the incorrect allocations.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-08-27 12:01:37 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
ee5fd0bb80 Set zvol discard_granularity to the volblocksize.
Currently, zvols have a discard granularity set to 0, which suggests to
the upper layer that discard requests of arbirarily small size and
alignment can be made efficiently.

In practice however, ZFS does not handle unaligned discard requests
efficiently: indeed, it is unable to free a part of a block. It will
write zeros to the specified range instead, which is both useless and
inefficient (see dnode_free_range).

With this patch, zvol block devices expose volblocksize as their discard
granularity, so the upper layer is aware that it's not supposed to send
discard requests smaller than volblocksize.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #862
2012-08-07 14:55:31 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
7c0e570888 Limit the number of blocks to discard at once.
The number of blocks that can be discarded in one BLKDISCARD ioctl on a
zvol is currently unlimited. Some applications, such as mkfs, discard
the whole volume at once and they use the maximum possible discard size
to do that. As a result, several gigabytes discard requests are not
uncommon.

Unfortunately, if a large amount of data is allocated in the zvol, ZFS
can be quite slow to process discard requests. This is especially true
if the volblocksize is low (e.g. the 8K default). As a result, very
large discard requests can take a very long time (seconds to minutes
under heavy load) to complete. This can cause a number of problems, most
notably if the zvol is accessed remotely (e.g. via iSCSI), in which case
the client has a high probability of timing out on the request.

This patch solves the issue by adding a new tunable module parameter:
zvol_max_discard_blocks. This indicates the maximum possible range, in
zvol blocks, of one discard operation. It is set by default to 16384
blocks, which appears to be a good tradeoff. Using the default
volblocksize of 8K this is equivalent to 128 MB. When using the maximum
volblocksize of 128K this is equivalent to 2 GB.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #858
2012-07-31 09:46:09 -07:00
Darik Horn
74497b7ab6 Add zvol_inhibit_dev module option.
ZoL can create more zvols at runtime than can be configured during
system start, which hangs the init stack at reboot.

When a slow system has more than a few hundred zvols, udev will
fork bomb during system start and spend too much time in device
detection routines, so upstart kills it.

The zfs_inhibit_dev option allows an affected system to be rescued
by skipping /dev/zd* creation and thereby avoiding the udev
overload. All zvols are made inaccessible if this option is set, but
the `zfs destroy` and `zfs send` commands still work, and ZFS
filesystems can be mounted.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-06-13 17:05:16 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
ab85f8455b Honor logbias when writing to ZVOLs.
The logbias option is not taken into account when writing to ZVOLs. We fix
that by using the same logic as in the zfs filesystem write code
(see zfs_log.c).

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #774
2012-06-11 09:43:48 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
710114089f Revert "Disable direct reclaim on zvols"
This reverts commit ce90208cf9.  This
change was observed to cause problems when using a zvol to back a VM
under 2.6.32.59 kernels.  This issue was filed as #710.

Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #342
Issue #710
2012-04-30 14:26:49 -07:00
Richard Yao
ce90208cf9 Disable direct reclaim on zvols
Previously, it was possible for the direct reclaim path to be invoked
when a write to a zvol was made. When a zvol is used as a swap device,
this often causes swap requests to depend on additional swap requests,
which deadlocks. We address this by disabling the direct reclaim path
on zvols.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #342
2012-04-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Etienne Dechamps
30930fba21 Add support for DISCARD to ZVOLs.
DISCARD (REQ_DISCARD, BLKDISCARD) is useful for thin provisioning.
It allows ZVOL clients to discard (unmap, trim) block ranges from
a ZVOL, thus optimizing disk space usage by allowing a ZVOL to
shrink instead of just grow.

We can't use zfs_space() or zfs_freesp() here, since these functions
only work on regular files, not volumes. Fortunately we can use the
low-level function dmu_free_long_range() which does exactly what we
want.

Currently the discard operation is not added to the log. That's not
a big deal since losing discard requests cannot result in data
corruption. It would however result in disk space usage higher than
it should be. Thus adding log support to zvol_discard() is probably
a good idea for a future improvement.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-09 16:19:38 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
dde9380a1b Use 32 as the default number of zvol threads.
Currently, the `zvol_threads` variable, which controls the number of worker
threads which process items from the ZVOL queues, is set to the number of
available CPUs.

This choice seems to be based on the assumption that ZVOL threads are
CPU-bound. This is not necessarily true, especially for synchronous writes.
Consider the situation described in the comments for `zil_commit()`, which is
called inside `zvol_write()` for synchronous writes:

> itxs are committed in batches. In a heavily stressed zil there will be a
> commit writer thread who is writing out a bunch of itxs to the log for a
> set of committing threads (cthreads) in the same batch as the writer.
> Those cthreads are all waiting on the same cv for that batch.
>
> There will also be a different and growing batch of threads that are
> waiting to commit (qthreads). When the committing batch completes a
> transition occurs such that the cthreads exit and the qthreads become
> cthreads. One of the new cthreads becomes he writer thread for the batch.
> Any new threads arriving become new qthreads.

We can easily deduce that, in the case of ZVOLs, there can be a maximum of
`zvol_threads` cthreads and qthreads. The default value for `zvol_threads` is
typically between 1 and 8, which is way too low in this case. This means
there will be a lot of small commits to the ZIL, which is very inefficient
compared to a few big commits, especially since we have to wait for the data
to be on stable storage. Increasing the number of threads will increase the
amount of data waiting to be commited and thus the size of the individual
commits.

On my system, in the context of VM disk image storage (lots of small
synchronous writes), increasing `zvol_threads` from 8 to 32 results in a 50%
increase in sequential synchronous write performance.

We should choose a more sensible default for `zvol_threads`. Unfortunately
the optimal value is difficult to determine automatically, since it depends
on the synchronous write latency of the underlying storage devices. In any
case, a hardcoded value of 32 would probably be better than the current
situation. Having a lot of ZVOL threads doesn't seem to have any real
downside anyway.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fixes #392
2012-02-08 13:58:10 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
34037afe24 Improve ZVOL queue behavior.
The Linux block device queue subsystem exposes a number of configurable
settings described in Linux block/blk-settings.c. The defaults for these
settings are tuned for hard drives, and are not optimized for ZVOLs. Proper
configuration of these options would allow upper layers (I/O scheduler) to
take better decisions about write merging and ordering.

Detailed rationale:

 - max_hw_sectors is set to unlimited (UINT_MAX). zvol_write() is able to
   handle writes of any size, so there's no reason to impose a limit. Let the
   upper layer decide.

 - max_segments and max_segment_size are set to unlimited. zvol_write() will
   copy the requests' contents into a dbuf anyway, so the number and size of
   the segments are irrelevant. Let the upper layer decide.

 - physical_block_size and io_opt are set to the ZVOL's block size. This
   has the potential to somewhat alleviate issue #361 for ZVOLs, by warning
   the upper layers that writes smaller than the volume's block size will be
   slow.

 - The NONROT flag is set to indicate this isn't a rotational device.
   Although the backing zpool might be composed of rotational devices, the
   resulting ZVOL often doesn't exhibit the same behavior due to the COW
   mechanisms used by ZFS. Setting this flag will prevent upper layers from
   making useless decisions (such as reordering writes) based on incorrect
   assumptions about the behavior of the ZVOL.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
b18019d2d8 Fix synchronicity for ZVOLs.
zvol_write() assumes that the write request must be written to stable storage
if rq_is_sync() is true. Unfortunately, this assumption is incorrect. Indeed,
"sync" does *not* mean what we think it means in the context of the Linux
block layer. This is well explained in linux/fs.h:

    WRITE:       A normal async write. Device will be plugged.
    WRITE_SYNC:  Synchronous write. Identical to WRITE, but passes down
                 the hint that someone will be waiting on this IO
                 shortly.
    WRITE_FLUSH: Like WRITE_SYNC but with preceding cache flush.
    WRITE_FUA:   Like WRITE_SYNC but data is guaranteed to be on
                 non-volatile media on completion.

In other words, SYNC does not *mean* that the write must be on stable storage
on completion. It just means that someone is waiting on us to complete the
write request. Thus triggering a ZIL commit for each SYNC write request on a
ZVOL is unnecessary and harmful for performance. To make matters worse, ZVOL
users have no way to express that they actually want data to be written to
stable storage, which means the ZIL is broken for ZVOLs.

The request for stable storage is expressed by the FUA flag, so we must
commit the ZIL after the write if the FUA flag is set. In addition, we must
commit the ZIL before the write if the FLUSH flag is set.

Also, we must inform the block layer that we actually support FLUSH and FUA.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Etienne Dechamps
56c34bac44 Support "sync=always" for ZVOLs.
Currently the "sync=always" property works for regular ZFS datasets, but not
for ZVOLs. This patch remedies that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Fixes #374.
2012-02-07 16:23:06 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
30a9524e45 Set zvol_major/zvol_threads permissions
The zvol_major and zvol_threads module options were being created
with 0 permission bits.  This prevented them from being listed in
the /sys/module/zfs/parameters/ directory, although they were
visible in `modinfo zfs`.  This patch fixes the issue by updating
the permission bits to 0444.  For the moment these options must
be read-only because they are used during module initialization.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Issue #392
2011-12-07 09:27:50 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
df554c148e Fix 'zfs set volsize=N pool/dataset'
This change fixes a kernel panic which would occur when resizing
a dataset which was not open.  The objset_t stored in the
zvol_state_t will be set to NULL when the block device is closed.
To avoid this issue we pass the correct objset_t as the third arg.

The code has also been updated to correctly notify the kernel
when the block device capacity changes.  For 2.6.28 and newer
kernels the capacity change will be immediately detected.  For
earlier kernels the capacity change will be detected when the
device is next opened.  This is a known limitation of older
kernels.

Online ext3 resize test case passes on 2.6.28+ kernels:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zvol bs=1M count=1 seek=1023
$ zpool create tank /tmp/zvol
$ zfs create -V 500M tank/zd0
$ mkfs.ext3 /dev/zd0
$ mkdir /mnt/zd0
$ mount /dev/zd0 /mnt/zd0
$ df -h /mnt/zd0
$ zfs set volsize=800M tank/zd0
$ resize2fs /dev/zd0
$ df -h /mnt/zd0

Original-patch-by: Fajar A. Nugraha <github@fajar.net>
Closes #68
Closes #84
2011-05-02 08:54:40 -07:00
Fajar A. Nugraha
4c0d8e50b9 Use udev to create /dev/zvol/[dataset_name] links
This commit allows zvols with names longer than 32 characters, which
fixes issue on https://github.com/behlendorf/zfs/issues/#issue/102.

Changes include:
- use /dev/zd* device names for zvol, where * is the device minor
  (include/sys/fs/zfs.h, module/zfs/zvol.c).
- add BLKZNAME ioctl to get dataset name from userland
  (include/sys/fs/zfs.h, module/zfs/zvol.c, cmd/zvol_id).
- add udev rule to create /dev/zvol/[dataset_name] and the legacy
  /dev/[dataset_name] symlink. For partitions on zvol, it will create
  /dev/zvol/[dataset_name]-part* (etc/udev/rules.d/60-zvol.rules,
  cmd/zvol_id).

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2011-02-25 09:43:19 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
61e909608d Linux 2.6.x compat, blkdev_compat.h
For legacy reasons the zvol.c and vdev_disk.c Linux compatibility
code ended up in sys/blkdev.h and sys/vdev_disk.h headers.  While
there are worse places for this code to live it should be in a
linux/blkdev_compat.h header.  This change moves this block device
Linux compatibility code in to the linux/blkdev_compat.h header
and updates all the correct #include locations.  This is not a
functional change or bug fix, it is just code cleanup.
2011-02-23 12:29:38 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
d567444809 Create minors for all zvols
It was noticed that when you have zvols in multiple datasets
not all of the zvol devices are created at module load time.
Fajarnugraha did the leg work to identify that the root cause of
this bug is a non-zero return value from zvol_create_minors_cb().

Returning a non-zero value from the dmu_objset_find_spa() callback
function results in aborting processing the remaining children in
a dataset.  Since we want to ensure that the callback in run on
all children regardless of error simply unconditionally return
zero from the zvol_create_minors_cb().  This callback function
is solely used for this purpose so surpressing the error is safe.

Closes #96
2011-02-16 09:50:06 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
3c4988c83e Add zp->z_is_zvol flag
A new flag is required for the zfs_rlock code to determine if
it is operation of the zvol of zpl dataset.  This used to be
keyed off the zp->z_vnode, which was a hack to begin with, but
with the removal of vnodes we needed a dedicated flag.
2011-02-10 09:27:21 -08:00
Ned Bass
b1c5821375 Fix panic mounting unformatted zvol
On some older kernels, i.e. 2.6.18, zvol_ioctl_by_inode() may get passed a NULL
file pointer if the user tries to mount a zvol without a filesystem on it.
This change adds checks to prevent a null pointer dereference.

Closes #73.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-10-29 14:46:33 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
60101509ee Add linux kernel disk support
Native Linux vdev disk interfaces

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
2010-08-31 13:41:57 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
0aa61e8427 Remove zvol.c when updating in update-zfs.sh Linux version available. 2009-11-15 16:20:01 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
9babb37438 Rebase master to b117 2009-07-02 15:44:48 -07:00
Brian Behlendorf
d164b20935 Rebase master to b108 2009-02-18 12:51:31 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
fb5f0bc833 Rebase master to b105 2009-01-15 13:59:39 -08:00
Brian Behlendorf
172bb4bd5e Move the world out of /zfs/ and seperate out module build tree 2008-12-11 11:08:09 -08:00