tweaks.
- Add journal support to the DM raid target to close the 'write hole' on
raid 4/5/6.
- Fix dm-cache corruption, due to rounding bug, when cache exceeds 2TB.
- Add 'metadata2' feature to dm-cache to separate the dirty bitset out
from other cache metadata. This improves speed of shutting down
a large cache device (which implies writing out dirty bits).
- Fix a memory leak during dm-stats data structure destruction.
- Fix a DM multipath round-robin path selector performance regression
that was caused by less precise balancing across all paths.
- Lastly, introduce a DM core fix for a long-standing DM snapshot
deadlock that is rooted in the complexity of the device stack used in
conjunction with block core maintaining bios on current->bio_list to
manage recursion in generic_make_request(). A more comprehensive fix
to block core (and its hook in the cpu scheduler) would be wonderful
but this DM-specific fix is pragmatic considering how difficult it has
been to make progress on a generic fix.
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Merge tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- Fix dm-raid transient device failure processing and other smaller
tweaks.
- Add journal support to the DM raid target to close the 'write hole'
on raid 4/5/6.
- Fix dm-cache corruption, due to rounding bug, when cache exceeds 2TB.
- Add 'metadata2' feature to dm-cache to separate the dirty bitset out
from other cache metadata. This improves speed of shutting down a
large cache device (which implies writing out dirty bits).
- Fix a memory leak during dm-stats data structure destruction.
- Fix a DM multipath round-robin path selector performance regression
that was caused by less precise balancing across all paths.
- Lastly, introduce a DM core fix for a long-standing DM snapshot
deadlock that is rooted in the complexity of the device stack used in
conjunction with block core maintaining bios on current->bio_list to
manage recursion in generic_make_request(). A more comprehensive fix
to block core (and its hook in the cpu scheduler) would be wonderful
but this DM-specific fix is pragmatic considering how difficult it
has been to make progress on a generic fix.
* tag 'dm-4.11-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (22 commits)
dm: flush queued bios when process blocks to avoid deadlock
dm round robin: revert "use percpu 'repeat_count' and 'current_path'"
dm stats: fix a leaked s->histogram_boundaries array
dm space map metadata: constify dm_space_map structures
dm cache metadata: use cursor api in blocks_are_clean_separate_dirty()
dm persistent data: add cursor skip functions to the cursor APIs
dm cache metadata: use dm_bitset_new() to create the dirty bitset in format 2
dm bitset: add dm_bitset_new()
dm cache metadata: name the cache block that couldn't be loaded
dm cache metadata: add "metadata2" feature
dm cache metadata: use bitset cursor api to load discard bitset
dm bitset: introduce cursor api
dm btree: use GFP_NOFS in dm_btree_del()
dm space map common: memcpy the disk root to ensure it's arch aligned
dm block manager: add unlikely() annotations on dm_bufio error paths
dm cache: fix corruption seen when using cache > 2TB
dm raid: cleanup awkward branching in raid_message() option processing
dm raid: use mddev rather than rdev->mddev
dm raid: use read_disk_sb() throughout
dm raid: add raid4/5/6 journaling support
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