[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "dm thin: switch to read-only mode if metadata space is exhausted" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    dm thin: switch to read-only mode if metadata space is exhausted

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 99beead79192bbcb76559879097e0227715cb4d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 12:20:57 -0500
Subject: dm thin: switch to read-only mode if metadata space is exhausted

commit 4a02b34e0cf1d0d0dd3737702841da4bf615a50a upstream.

Switch the thin pool to read-only mode in alloc_data_block() if
dm_pool_alloc_data_block() fails because the pool's metadata space is
exhausted.

Differentiate between data and metadata space in messages about no
free space available.

This issue was noticed with the device-mapper-test-suite using:
dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /exhausting_metadata_space_causes_fail_mode/

The quantity of errors logged in this case must be reduced.

before patch:

device-mapper: thin: 253:4: reached low water mark for metadata device: sending event.
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed
<snip ... these repeat for a _very_ long while ... >
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: commit failed: error = -28
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: switching pool to read-only mode

after patch:

device-mapper: thin: 253:4: reached low water mark for metadata device: sending event.
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: no free metadata space available.
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: switching pool to read-only mode

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt at redhat.com>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index 203c104..49ec256 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -951,7 +951,7 @@ static int alloc_data_block(struct thin_c *tc, dm_block_t *result)
 			 * doing all this checking and return -ENOSPC.
 			 */
 			if (!free_blocks) {
-				DMWARN("%s: no free space available.",
+				DMWARN("%s: no free data space available.",
 				       dm_device_name(pool->pool_md));
 				spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->lock, flags);
 				pool->no_free_space = 1;
@@ -962,8 +962,16 @@ static int alloc_data_block(struct thin_c *tc, dm_block_t *result)
 	}

 	r = dm_pool_alloc_data_block(pool->pmd, result);
-	if (r)
+	if (r) {
+		if (r == -ENOSPC &&
+		    !dm_pool_get_free_metadata_block_count(pool->pmd, &free_blocks) &&
+		    !free_blocks) {
+			DMWARN("%s: no free metadata space available.",
+			       dm_device_name(pool->pool_md));
+			set_pool_mode(pool, PM_READ_ONLY);
+		}
 		return r;
+	}

 	return 0;
 }
--
1.8.3.2