dm: add helper macro for simple DM target module init and exit

Eliminate duplicate boilerplate code for simple modules that contain
a single DM target driver without any additional setup code.

Add a new module_dm() macro, which replaces the module_init() and
module_exit() with template functions that call dm_register_target()
and dm_unregister_target() respectively.

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>

dm: push error reporting down to dm_register_target()

Simplifies each DM target's init method by making dm_register_target()
responsible for its error reporting (on behalf of targets).

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>

dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"

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

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>

dm: use bdev_nr_sectors and bdev_nr_bytes instead of open coding them

Use the proper helpers to read the block device size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018101130.1838532-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

dm: update target status functions to support IMA measurement

For device mapper targets to take advantage of IMA's measurement
capabilities, the status functions for the individual targets need to be
updated to handle the status_type_t case for value STATUSTYPE_IMA.

Update status functions for the following target types, to log their
respective attributes to be measured using IMA.
01. cache
02. crypt
03. integrity
04. linear
05. mirror
06. multipath
07. raid
08. snapshot
09. striped
10. verity

For rest of the targets, handle the STATUSTYPE_IMA case by setting the
measurement buffer to NULL.

For IMA to measure the data on a given system, the IMA policy on the
system needs to be updated to have the following line, and the system
needs to be restarted for the measurements to take effect.

/etc/ima/ima-policy
measure func=CRITICAL_DATA label=device-mapper template=ima-buf

The measurements will be reflected in the IMA logs, which are located at:

/sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements
/sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/binary_runtime_measurements

These IMA logs can later be consumed by various attestation clients
running on the system, and send them to external services for attesting
the system.

The DM target data measured by IMA subsystem can alternatively
be queried from userspace by setting DM_IMA_MEASUREMENT_FLAG with
DM_TABLE_STATUS_CMD.

Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi <tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm: add support for REQ_NOWAIT to various targets

commit 021a24460dc2 ("block: add QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT") added a new queue
flag QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT to advertise if the bdev supports handling of
REQ_NOWAIT or not. DM core supports stacking QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT since
commit 6abc49468eea ("dm: add support for REQ_NOWAIT and enable it for
linear target"), in which only dm-linear enabled it.

Update others DM targets, which just do simple remapping, to enable
support for REQ_NOWAIT.

Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm: replace zero-length array with flexible-array

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm switch: use struct_size() in kzalloc()

One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:

struct foo {
int stuff;
void *entry[];
};

instance = kzalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kzalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc()

The vmalloc() function has no 2-factor argument form, so multiplication
factors need to be wrapped in array_size(). This patch replaces cases of:

vmalloc(a * b)

with:
vmalloc(array_size(a, b))

as well as handling cases of:

vmalloc(a * b * c)

with:

vmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c))

This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like:

vmalloc(4 * 1024)

though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion.

Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were
dropped, since they're redundant.

The Coccinelle script used for this was:

// Fix redundant parens around sizeof().
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING, E;
@@

(
vmalloc(
- (sizeof(TYPE)) * E
+ sizeof(TYPE) * E
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- (sizeof(THING)) * E
+ sizeof(THING) * E
, ...)
)

// Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens.
@@
expression COUNT;
typedef u8;
typedef __u8;
@@

(
vmalloc(
- sizeof(u8) * (COUNT)
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT)
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(char) * (COUNT)
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT)
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(u8) * COUNT
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(__u8) * COUNT
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(char) * COUNT
+ COUNT
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT
+ COUNT
, ...)
)

// 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant.
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING;
identifier COUNT_ID;
constant COUNT_CONST;
@@

(
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID)
+ array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID
+ array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST)
+ array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST
+ array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID)
+ array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID
+ array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST)
+ array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST
+ array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
)

// 2-factor product, only identifiers.
@@
identifier SIZE, COUNT;
@@

vmalloc(
- SIZE * COUNT
+ array_size(COUNT, SIZE)
, ...)

// 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with
// redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING;
identifier STRIDE, COUNT;
type TYPE;
@@

(
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
, ...)
)

// 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING1, THING2;
identifier COUNT;
type TYPE1, TYPE2;
@@

(
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT
+ array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+ array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+ array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+ array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+ array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+ array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
, ...)
)

// 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed.
@@
identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT;
@@

(
vmalloc(
- (COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- (COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE
+ array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
, ...)
)

// Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products
// when they're not all constants...
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
vmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- E1 * E2 * E3
+ array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
, ...)
)

// And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants.
@@
expression E1, E2;
constant C1, C2;
@@

(
vmalloc(C1 * C2, ...)
|
vmalloc(
- E1 * E2
+ array_size(E1, E2)
, ...)
)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

dm: remove fmode_t argument from .prepare_ioctl hook

Use the fmode_t that is passed to dm_blk_ioctl() rather than
inconsistently (varies across targets) drop it on the floor by
overriding it with the fmode_t stored in 'struct dm_dev'.

All the persistent reservation functions weren't using the fmode_t they
got back from .prepare_ioctl so remove them.

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

dm: allow targets to return output from messages they are sent

Could be useful for a target to return stats or other information.
If a target does DMEMIT() anything to @result from its .message method
then it must return 1 to the caller.

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

locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.

For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.

However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:

----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()

// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch

virtual patch

@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)

@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@

- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

dm: constify argument arrays

The arrays of 'struct dm_arg' are never modified by the device-mapper
core, so constify them so that they are placed in .rodata.

(Exception: the args array in dm-raid cannot be constified because it is
allocated on the stack and modified.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

block: replace bi_bdev with a gendisk pointer and partitions index

This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).

For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.

Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

dm switch: simplify conditional in alloc_region_table()

The variable sctx->nr_regions has type unsigned long and the variable
nr_regions has type sector_t.

Thus the variables may be different when overflow happens.
Changed the conditional to "if (nr_regions >= ULONG_MAX)".
Also move the assignment of nr_regions after sector_div()
and the sanity check which looks more sane.

Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm: refactor ioctl handling

This moves the call to blkdev_ioctl and the argument checking to DM core
code, and only leaves a callout to find the block device to operate on
in the targets. This simplifies the code and allows us to pass through
ioctl-like command using other methods in the next patch.

Also split out a helper around calling the prepare_ioctl method that
will be reused for persistent reservation handling.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm switch: efficiently support repetitive patterns

Add support for quickly loading a repetitive pattern into the
dm-switch target.

In the "set_regions_mappings" message, the user may now use "Rn,m" as
one of the arguments. "n" and "m" are hexadecimal numbers. The "Rn,m"
argument repeats the last "n" arguments in the following "m" slots.

For example:
dmsetup message switch 0 set_region_mappings 1000:1 :2 R2,10
is equivalent to
dmsetup message switch 0 set_region_mappings 1000:1 :2 :1 :2 :1 :2 :1 :2 \
:1 :2 :1 :2 :1 :2 :1 :2 :1 :2

Requested-by: Jay Wang <jwang@nimblestorage.com>
Tested-by: Jay Wang <jwang@nimblestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

dm switch: factor out switch_region_table_read

Move code that reads the table to a switch_region_table_read.
It will be needed for the next commit. No functional change.

Tested-by: Jay Wang <jwang@nimblestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

block: Abstract out bvec iterator

Immutable biovecs are going to require an explicit iterator. To
implement immutable bvecs, a later patch is going to add a bi_bvec_done
member to this struct; for now, this patch effectively just renames
things.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Lars Ellenberg <drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@inktank.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@inktank.com>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Joshua Morris <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Philip Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kernel.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Prasad Joshi <prasadjoshi.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Cc: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchand@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peng Tao <tao.peng@emc.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: fanchaoting <fanchaoting@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: Pankaj Kumar <pankaj.km@samsung.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>6

dm: add switch target

dm-switch is a new target that maps IO to underlying block devices
efficiently when there is a large number of fixed-sized address regions
but there is no simple pattern to allow for a compact mapping
representation such as dm-stripe.

Though we have developed this target for a specific storage device, Dell
EqualLogic, we have made an effort to keep it as general purpose as
possible in the hope that others may benefit.

Originally developed by Jim Ramsay. Simplified by Mikulas Patocka.

Signed-off-by: Jim Ramsay <jim_ramsay@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>