dm: introduce zone append emulation

For zoned targets that cannot support zone append operations, implement
an emulation using regular write operations. If the original BIO
submitted by the user is a zone append operation, change its clone into
a regular write operation directed at the target zone write pointer
position.

To do so, an array of write pointer offsets (write pointer position
relative to the start of a zone) is added to struct mapped_device. All
operations that modify a sequential zone write pointer (writes, zone
reset, zone finish and zone append) are intersepted in __map_bio() and
processed using the new functions dm_zone_map_bio().

Detection of the target ability to natively support zone append
operations is done from dm_table_set_restrictions() by calling the
function dm_set_zones_restrictions(). A target that does not support
zone append operation, either by explicitly declaring it using the new
struct dm_target field zone_append_not_supported, or because the device
table contains a non-zoned device, has its mapped device marked with the
new flag DMF_ZONE_APPEND_EMULATED. The helper function
dm_emulate_zone_append() is introduced to test a mapped device for this
new flag.

Atomicity of the zones write pointer tracking and updates is done using
a zone write locking mechanism based on a bitmap. This is similar to
the block layer method but based on BIOs rather than struct request.
A zone write lock is taken in dm_zone_map_bio() for any clone BIO with
an operation type that changes the BIO target zone write pointer
position. The zone write lock is released if the clone BIO is failed
before submission or when dm_zone_endio() is called when the clone BIO
completes.

The zone write lock bitmap of the mapped device, together with a bitmap
indicating zone types (conv_zones_bitmap) and the write pointer offset
array (zwp_offset) are allocated and initialized with a full device zone
report in dm_set_zones_restrictions() using the function
dm_revalidate_zones().

For failed operations that may have modified a zone write pointer, the
zone write pointer offset is marked as invalid in dm_zone_endio().
Zones with an invalid write pointer offset are checked and the write
pointer updated using an internal report zone operation when the
faulty zone is accessed again by the user.

All functions added for this emulation have a minimal overhead for
zoned targets natively supporting zone append operations. Regular
device targets are also not affected. The added code also does not
impact builds with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED disabled by stubbing out all
dm zone related functions.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index caea0a079d2d..7457d49acf9a 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -361,6 +361,12 @@ struct dm_target {
 	 * Set if we need to limit the number of in-flight bios when swapping.
 	 */
 	bool limit_swap_bios:1;
+
+	/*
+	 * Set if this target implements a a zoned device and needs emulation of
+	 * zone append operations using regular writes.
+	 */
+	bool emulate_zone_append:1;
 };
 
 void *dm_per_bio_data(struct bio *bio, size_t data_size);