linux/Documentation/device-mapper, branch v4.9

dm raid: fix activation of existing raid4/10 devices

2016-10-17T20:41:31Z

dm-raid 1.9.0 fails to activate existing RAID4/10 devices that have the old superblock format (which does not have takeover/reshaping support that was added via commit 33e53f06850f). Fix validation path for old superblocks by reverting to the old raid4 layout and basing checks on mddev->new_{level,layout,...} members in super_init_validation(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.8 Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf

2016-08-07T20:41:02Z

Since commit 63a4cc24867d, bio->bi_rw contains flags in the lower portion and the op code in the higher portions. This means that old code that relies on manually setting bi_rw is most likely going to be broken. Instead of letting that brokeness linger, rename the member, to force old and out-of-tree code to break at compile time instead of at runtime. No intended functional changes in this commit. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm raid: update Documentation about reshaping/takeover/additonal RAID types

2016-06-14T22:52:12Z

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

block, drivers, fs: rename REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH

2016-06-07T19:41:38Z

To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

dm stats: fix spelling mistake in Documentation

2016-05-05T19:25:54Z

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm cache: update cache-policies.txt now that mq is an alias for smq

2016-05-05T19:25:53Z

Also fix some typos and make all "smq" and "mq" references consistently lowercase. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm cache: make the 'mq' policy an alias for 'smq'

2016-03-10T22:12:08Z

smq seems to be performing better than the old mq policy in all situations, as well as using a quarter of the memory. Make 'mq' an alias for 'smq' when choosing a cache policy. The tunables that were present for the old mq are faked, and have no effect. mq should be considered deprecated now. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm verity: add ignore_zero_blocks feature

2015-12-10T15:39:03Z

If ignore_zero_blocks is enabled dm-verity will return zeroes for blocks matching a zero hash without validating the content. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm verity: add support for forward error correction

2015-12-10T15:39:03Z

Add support for correcting corrupted blocks using Reed-Solomon. This code uses RS(255, N) interleaved across data and hash blocks. Each error-correcting block covers N bytes evenly distributed across the combined total data, so that each byte is a maximum distance away from the others. This makes it possible to recover from several consecutive corrupted blocks with relatively small space overhead. In addition, using verity hashes to locate erasures nearly doubles the effectiveness of error correction. Being able to detect corrupted blocks also improves performance, because only corrupted blocks need to corrected. For a 2 GiB partition, RS(255, 253) (two parity bytes for each 253-byte block) can correct up to 16 MiB of consecutive corrupted blocks if erasures can be located, and 8 MiB if they cannot, with 16 MiB space overhead. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge tag 'dm-4.4-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2015-11-05T05:19:53Z

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer: "Smaller set of DM changes for this merge. I've based these changes on Jens' for-4.4/reservations branch because the associated DM changes required it. - Revert a dm-multipath change that caused a regression for unprivledged users (e.g. kvm guests) that issued ioctls when a multipath device had no available paths. - Include Christoph's refactoring of DM's ioctl handling and add support for passing through persistent reservations with DM multipath. - All other changes are very simple cleanups" * tag 'dm-4.4-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm switch: simplify conditional in alloc_region_table() dm delay: document that offsets are specified in sectors dm delay: capitalize the start of an delay_ctr() error message dm delay: Use DM_MAPIO macros instead of open-coded equivalents dm linear: remove redundant target name from error messages dm persistent data: eliminate unnecessary return values dm: eliminate unused "bioset" process for each bio-based DM device dm: convert ffs to __ffs dm: drop NULL test before kmem_cache_destroy() and mempool_destroy() dm: add support for passing through persistent reservations dm: refactor ioctl handling Revert "dm mpath: fix stalls when handling invalid ioctls" dm: initialize non-blk-mq queue data before queue is used