History log of /linux-master/drivers/md/dm-cache-background-tracker.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 86a3238c 25-Jan-2023 Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>

dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>


# 3bd94003 25-Jan-2023 Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>

dm: add missing SPDX-License-Indentifiers

'GPL-2.0-only' is used instead of 'GPL-2.0' because SPDX has
deprecated its use.

Suggested-by: John Wiele <jwiele@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>


# 95ab80a8 26-Jan-2023 Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

dm cache: free background tracker's queued work in btracker_destroy

Otherwise the kernel can BUG with:

[ 2245.426978] =============================================================================
[ 2245.435155] BUG bt_work (Tainted: G B W ): Objects remaining in bt_work on __kmem_cache_shutdown()
[ 2245.445233] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ 2245.445233]
[ 2245.454879] Slab 0x00000000b0ce2b30 objects=64 used=2 fp=0x000000000a3c6a4e flags=0x17ffffc0000200(slab|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[ 2245.467300] CPU: 7 PID: 10805 Comm: lvm Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B W 6.0.0-rc2 #19
[ 2245.476078] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7525/0590KW, BIOS 2.5.6 10/06/2021
[ 2245.483646] Call Trace:
[ 2245.486100] <TASK>
[ 2245.488206] dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
[ 2245.491878] slab_err+0x95/0xcd
[ 2245.495028] __kmem_cache_shutdown.cold+0x31/0x136
[ 2245.499821] kmem_cache_destroy+0x49/0x130
[ 2245.503928] btracker_destroy+0x12/0x20 [dm_cache]
[ 2245.508728] smq_destroy+0x15/0x60 [dm_cache_smq]
[ 2245.513435] dm_cache_policy_destroy+0x12/0x20 [dm_cache]
[ 2245.518834] destroy+0xc0/0x110 [dm_cache]
[ 2245.522933] dm_table_destroy+0x5c/0x120 [dm_mod]
[ 2245.527649] __dm_destroy+0x10e/0x1c0 [dm_mod]
[ 2245.532102] dev_remove+0x117/0x190 [dm_mod]
[ 2245.536384] ctl_ioctl+0x1a2/0x290 [dm_mod]
[ 2245.540579] dm_ctl_ioctl+0xa/0x20 [dm_mod]
[ 2245.544773] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xc0
[ 2245.548524] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x90
[ 2245.552104] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x12/0x30
[ 2245.556897] ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90
[ 2245.560648] ? do_syscall_64+0x69/0x90
[ 2245.564394] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 2245.569447] RIP: 0033:0x7fe52583ec6b
...
[ 2245.646771] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2245.651395] kmem_cache_destroy bt_work: Slab cache still has objects when called from btracker_destroy+0x12/0x20 [dm_cache]
[ 2245.651408] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 10805 at mm/slab_common.c:478 kmem_cache_destroy+0x128/0x130

Found using: lvm2-testsuite --only "cache-single-split.sh"

Ben bisected and found that commit 0495e337b703 ("mm/slab_common:
Deleting kobject in kmem_cache_destroy() without holding
slab_mutex/cpu_hotplug_lock") first exposed dm-cache's incomplete
cleanup of its background tracker work objects.

Reported-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.0+
Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>


# 280884fa 30-Apr-2018 Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm cache background tracker: fix sparse warning

Fix drivers/md/dm-cache-background-tracker.c:169:16: warning: symbol
'alloc_work' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>


# 64748b16 08-Nov-2017 Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

dm cache background tracker: limit amount of background work that may be issued at once

On large systems the cache policy can be over enthusiastic and queue far
too much dirty data to be written back. This consumes memory.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>


# 7e1b9521 11-Mar-2017 Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

dm cache: handle kmalloc failure allocating background_tracker struct

Currently there is no kmalloc failure check on the allocation of
the background_tracker struct in btracker_create(), and so a NULL return
will lead to a NULL pointer dereference. Add a NULL check.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1416587 ("Dereference null return value")

Fixes: b29d4986d ("dm cache: significant rework to leverage dm-bio-prison-v2")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>


# b29d4986 15-Dec-2016 Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

dm cache: significant rework to leverage dm-bio-prison-v2

The cache policy interfaces have been updated to work well with the new
bio-prison v2 interface's ability to queue work immediately (promotion,
demotion, etc) -- overriding benefit being reduced latency on processing
IO through the cache. Previously such work would be left for the DM
cache core to queue on various lists and then process in batches later
-- this caused a serious delay in latency for IO driven by the cache.

The background tracker code was factored out so that all cache policies
can make use of it.

Also, the "cleaner" policy has been removed and is now a variant of the
smq policy that simply disallows migrations.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>