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authorBenjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>2014-08-13 13:53:43 -0500
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2014-10-05 20:03:35 -0400
commit86f1152b117a404229fd6f08ec3faca779f37b92 (patch)
treedceee3703ab97065c3e425b55d42cb4edb9a079b /drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
parent1f271972478d84dd9e4d6dd82f414d70ed9e78ce (diff)
dm: allow active and inactive tables to share dm_devs
Until this change, when loading a new DM table, DM core would re-open all of the devices in the DM table. Now, DM core will avoid redundant device opens (and closes when destroying the old table) if the old table already has a device open using the same mode. This is achieved by managing reference counts on the table_devices that DM core now stores in the mapped_device structure (rather than in the dm_table structure). So a mapped_device's active and inactive dm_tables' dm_dev lists now just point to the dm_devs stored in the mapped_device's table_devices list. This improvement in DM core's device reference counting has the side-effect of fixing a long-standing limitation of the multipath target: a DM multipath table couldn't include any paths that were unusable (failed). For example: if all paths have failed and you add a new, working, path to the table; you can't use it since the table load would fail due to it still containing failed paths. Now a re-load of a multipath table can include failed devices and when those devices become active again they can be used instantly. The device list code in dm.c isn't a straight copy/paste from the code in dm-table.c, but it's very close (aside from some variable renames). One subtle difference is that find_table_device for the tables_devices list will only match devices with the same name and mode. This is because we don't want to upgrade a device's mode in the active table when an inactive table is loaded. Access to the mapped_device structure's tables_devices list requires a mutex (tables_devices_lock), so that tables cannot be created and destroyed concurrently. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index 51521429fb59..0be9381365d7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ static void retrieve_deps(struct dm_table *table,
deps->count = count;
count = 0;
list_for_each_entry (dd, dm_table_get_devices(table), list)
- deps->dev[count++] = huge_encode_dev(dd->dm_dev.bdev->bd_dev);
+ deps->dev[count++] = huge_encode_dev(dd->dm_dev->bdev->bd_dev);
param->data_size = param->data_start + needed;
}