Petr Rockai [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:31:49 +0000 (14:31 +0000)]
Remove a redundant (and in some cases, misleading) message about snapshot
extension, in the snapshot dmeventd plugin. The reporting is done as needed by
the LVM command nowadays.
Petr Rockai [Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:46:26 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
Keep the LVM-based dmeventd plugins from trying to manipulate the dmeventd
monitoring state of the logical volumes they are currently acting on.
Until now, every time a logical volume has been changed by a dmeventd plugin,
this plugin would have called back to dmeventd through the external FIFO
mechanism. I am fairly sure this was superfluous, inefficient and possibly even
dangerous.
The '--merge' option to lvconvert works on snapshots and RAID1. The man
pages correctly reflect this, but the CLI help output still used the term,
'SnapshotLogicalVolume'.
cmirrord now returns log name to kernel in CTR so it can be registered
Version 2 of the userspace log protocol accepts return information during the
DM_ULOG_CTR exchange. The return information contains the name of the log
device that is being used (if there is one). The kernel can then register the
device via 'dm_get_device'. Amoung other things, this allows for userspace to
assemble a correct dependency tree of devices - critical for LVM handling of
suspend/resume calls.
Also, update dm-log-userspace.h to match the kernel header associated with
this protocol change. (Includes a version inc.)
This patch adds a 'version' field to the 'dm_ulog_request'
structure.
The 'version' field is taken from a portion of the unused
'padding' field in the 'dm_ulog_request' structure. This
was done to avoid changing the size of the structure and
possibly disrupting backwards compatibility.
The version number will help notify user-space daemons
when a change has been made to the kernel/userspace
log API.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Zdenek Kabelac [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:23:47 +0000 (13:23 +0000)]
Fix lv_info open_count test
When verify_udev_operations was disable, code for stacking fs operation for
lvm links was completely disable - but this code was also used for collecting
information, that a new node is being created.
Add a new flag which is set when a creation of lv symlinks is requested which
should restore old behaviour of lv_info function, that has called fs_sync()
before quere for open count on device.
Zdenek Kabelac [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:56:44 +0000 (09:56 +0000)]
Add some fixme locking
Code here is using thread write protected variable without locking.
So add locking, for proper synchronization and a FIXME, since the
code needs closer look.
Zdenek Kabelac [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:26:04 +0000 (09:26 +0000)]
Use barrier instead of mutex
Barrier is supposed to be used in situation like this
and replace tricky mutex usage, where mutex has been unlocked
by a different thread than the locking thread.
Zdenek Kabelac [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:23:48 +0000 (09:23 +0000)]
Add FIXMEs for init_test
Usage of thread unprotected init_test is not correct and needs probably lvm lock
since it part of lvm library. Current implementation may probably fail with
test mode and actually create something unexpectedly (and vice versa).
Zdenek Kabelac [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:18:49 +0000 (09:18 +0000)]
Limit thread stack
Since default thread stack size is around 8MB and clvmd creates for now thread
for message, clvmd may easily reach multi GB size of in-memory locked pages
(runs with mlockall()).
This patch significantly reduces memory usage to just tens of MB,
and now different reasons are the cause of server overloading.
Now we are running out of free file descriptors mostly.
Zdenek Kabelac [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:57:13 +0000 (08:57 +0000)]
Change message severity
Using log_warn to report missing symlinks as warning, since the command
itself returns as successful, we should not produce log_error().
log_warn is better fit here.
Zdenek Kabelac [Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:54:01 +0000 (08:54 +0000)]
Skip r assignment
Cosmetic, since r is already 0 for the error path, no need to assign it there,
and r is assigned to 1 after switch command.
Also makes the code more readable.
Add the ability to convert LVs of "mirror" segtype to "raid1" segtype.
Example:
~> lvconvert --type raid1 vg/mirror_lv
Steps to convert "mirror" to "raid1"
1) Allocate a RAID metadata LV for each mirror image from the same PVs
on which they are located.
2) Clear the metadata LVs. This involves writing LVM metadata, so we don't
change any aspects of the mirror LV before this so that the user can easily
remove LVs from the failed convert attempt while retaining the original
mirror.
3) Remove the mirror log, if it exists.
4) Add metadata LVs to mirror LV
5) Rename mirror sub-lvs (s/mimage/rimage/)
6) Change flags and segtype from mirror to raid1
The following steps are performed to convert linear to RAID1:
1) Allocate a metadata device from the same PV as the linear device
to provide the metadata/data LV pair required for all RAID components.
2) Allocate the required number of metadata/data LV pairs for the
remaining additional images.
3) Clear the metadata LVs. This performs a LVM metadata update.
4) Create the top-level RAID LV and add the component devices.
We want to make any failure easy to unwind. This is why we don't create the
top-level LV and add the components until the last step. Should anything
happen before that, the user could simply remove the unnecessary images. Also,
we want to ensure that the metadata LVs are cleared before forming the array to
prevent stale information from polluting the new array.
A new macro 'seg_is_linear' was added to allow us to distinguish linear LVs
from striped LVs.
This patch allows a mirror to be extended without an initial resync of the
extended portion. It compliments the existing '--nosync' option to lvcreate.
This action can be done implicitly if the mirror was created with the '--nosync'
option, or explicitly if the '--nosync' option is used when extending the device.
Here are the operational criteria:
1) A mirror created with '--nosync' should extend with 'nosync' implicitly
[EXAMPLE]# lvs vg; lvextend -L +5G vg/lv ; lvs vg
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg Mwi-a-m- 5.00g lv_mlog 100.00
Extending 2 mirror images.
Extending logical volume lv to 10.00 GiB
Logical volume lv successfully resized
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg Mwi-a-m- 10.00g lv_mlog 100.00
2) The 'M' attribute ('M' signifies a mirror created with '--nosync', while 'm'
signifies a mirror created w/o '--nosync') must be preserved when extending a
mirror created with '--nosync'. See #1 for example of 'M' attribute.
3) A mirror created without '--nosync' should extend with 'nosync' only when
'--nosync' is explicitly used when extending.
[EXAMPLE]# lvs vg; lvextend -L +5G vg/lv; lvs vg
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg mwi-a-m- 20.00m lv_mlog 100.00
Extending 2 mirror images.
Extending logical volume lv to 5.02 GiB
Logical volume lv successfully resized
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg mwi-a-m- 5.02g lv_mlog 0.39
vs.
[EXAMPLE]# lvs vg; lvextend -L +5G vg/lv --nosync; lvs vg
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg mwi-a-m- 20.00m lv_mlog 100.00
Extending 2 mirror images.
Extending logical volume lv to 5.02 GiB
Logical volume lv successfully resized
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg Mwi-a-m- 5.02g lv_mlog 100.00
4) The 'm' attribute must change to 'M' when extending a mirror created without
'--nosync' is extended with the '--nosync' option. (See #3 examples above.)
5) An inactive mirror's sync percent cannot be determined definitively, so it
must not be allowed to skip resync. Instead, the extend should ask the user if
they want to extend while performing a resync.
[EXAMPLE]# lvchange -an vg/lv
[EXAMPLE]# lvextend -L +5G vg/lv
Extending 2 mirror images.
Extending logical volume lv to 10.00 GiB
vg/lv is not active. Unable to get sync percent.
Do full resync of extended portion of vg/lv? [y/n]: y
Logical volume lv successfully resized
6) A mirror that is performing recovery (as opposed to an initial sync) - like
after a failure - is not allowed to extend with either an implicit or
explicit nosync option. [You can simulate this with a 'corelog' mirror because
when it is reactivated, it must be recovered every time.]
[EXAMPLE]# lvcreate -m1 -L 5G -n lv vg --nosync --corelog
WARNING: New mirror won't be synchronised. Don't read what you didn't write!
Logical volume "lv" created
[EXAMPLE]# lvs vg
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg Mwi-a-m- 5.00g 100.00
[EXAMPLE]# lvchange -an vg/lv; lvchange -ay vg/lv; lvs vg
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert
lv vg Mwi-a-m- 5.00g 0.08
[EXAMPLE]# lvextend -L +5G vg/lv
Extending 2 mirror images.
Extending logical volume lv to 10.00 GiB
vg/lv cannot be extended while it is recovering.
7) If 'no' is selected in #5 or if the condition in #6 is hit, it should not
result in the mirror being resized or the 'm/M' attribute being changed.
NOTE: A mirror created with '--nosync' behaves differently than one created
without it when performing an extension. The former cannot be extended when
the mirror is recovering (unless in-active), while the latter can. This is
a reasonable thing to do since recovery of a mirror doesn't take long (at
least in the case of an on-disk log) and it would cause far more time in
degraded mode if the extension w/o '--nosync' was allowed. It might be
reasonable to add the ability to force the operation in the future. This
should /not/ force a nosync extension, but rather force a sync'ed extension.
IOW, the user would be saying, "Yes, yes... I know recovery won't take long
and that I'll be adding significantly to the time spent in degraded mode, but
I need the extra space right now!".
Fix splitmirror in cluster having different DM/LVM views of storage.
This patch also does some clean-up of the splitmirrors code.
I've attempted to clean-up the splitmirrors code to make it easier to
understand with fewer operations. I've tried to reduce the number of
metadata operations without compromising the intermediate stages which
are necessary for easy clean-up in the even of failure.
These changes now correctly handle cluster situations - including exclusive
cluster mirrors. Whereas before, a splitmirror operation would result in
remote nodes having LVM commands report the newly split LV with a proper
name while DM commands would report the old (pre-split) names of the device.
IOW, there was a kernel/userspace mismatch.
There were three possible solutions to the original problem proposed in the
initial check-in. The one chosen was as follows:
2) Do like _remove_mirror_images does and suspend the original, then suspend
the sub-lv (the error target), then resume the sub-lv, and finally resume the
original LV. This seems like extra pointless operations to me, but it doesn't
produce the error message (although, I'm not sure why) and it allows us to
leave the visible flag in place.
Turns out, the cluster also views the extra suspend/resume operations as
pointless too and ignores them. So, this solution doesn't work in a cluster.
Further, I've noticed that in addition to the remote cluster nodes still getting
I/O errors from scanning the error target, they also have a different LVM and
DM views of the same LV. IOW, while the LVM level (gotten from the LVM metadata)
sees the correct name for the newly split LV, device-mapper still maintains the
old names.
Because the original fix failed to completely fix the problem (or work-around it)
and because a better solution must be found to address the additional cluster
issue of device renaming, I am reverting the above mentioned commit.
This patch fixes issues with improper udev flags on sub-LVs.
The current code does not always assign proper udev flags to sub-LVs (e.g.
mirror images and log LVs). This shows up especially during a splitmirror
operation in which an image is split off from a mirror to form a new LV.
A mirror with a disk log is actually composed of 4 different LVs: the 2
mirror images, the log, and the top-level LV that "glues" them all together.
When a 2-way mirror is split into two linear LVs, two of those LVs must be
removed. The segments of the image which is not split off to form the new
LV are transferred to the top-level LV. This is done so that the original
LV can maintain its major/minor, UUID, and name. The sub-lv from which the
segments were transferred gets an error segment as a transitory process
before it is eventually removed. (Note that if the error target was not put
in place, a resume_lv would result in two LVs pointing to the same segment!
If the machine crashes before the eventual removal of the sub-LV, the result
would be a residual LV with the same mapping as the original (now linear) LV.)
So, the two LVs that need to be removed are now the log device and the sub-LV
with the error segment. If udev_flags are not properly set, a resume will
cause the error LV to come up and be scanned by udev. This causes I/O errors.
Additionally, when udev scans sub-LVs (or former sub-LVs), it can cause races
when we are trying to remove those LVs. This is especially bad during failure
conditions.
When the mirror is suspended, the top-level along with its sub-LVs are
suspended. The changes (now 2 linear devices and the yet-to-be-removed log
and error LV) are committed. When the resume takes place on the original
LV, there are no longer links to the other sub-lvs through the LVM metadata.
The links are implicitly handled by querying the kernel for a list of
dependencies. This is done in the '_add_dev' function (which is recursively
called for each dependency found) - called through the following chain:
_add_dev
dm_tree_add_dev_with_udev_flags
<*** DM / LVM divide ***>
_add_dev_to_dtree
_add_lv_to_dtree
_create_partial_dtree
_tree_action
dev_manager_activate
_lv_activate_lv
_lv_resume
lv_resume_if_active
When udev flags are calculated by '_get_udev_flags', it is done by referencing
the 'logical_volume' structure. Those flags are then passed down into
'dm_tree_add_dev_with_udev_flags', which in turn passes them to '_add_dev'.
Unfortunately, when '_add_dev' is finding the dependencies, it has no way to
calculate their proper udev_flags. This is because it is below the DM/LVM
divide - it doesn't have access to the logical_volume structure. In fact,
'_add_dev' simply reuses the udev_flags given for the initial device! This
virtually guarentees the udev_flags are wrong for all the dependencies unless
they are reset by some other mechanism. The current code provides no such
mechanism. Even if '_add_new_lv_to_dtree' were called on the sub-devices -
which it isn't - entries already in the tree are simply passed over, failing
to reset any udev_flags. The solution must retain its implicit nature of
discovering dependencies and be able to go back over the dependencies found
to properly set the udev_flags.
My solution simply calls a new function before leaving '_add_new_lv_to_dtree'
that iterates over the dtree nodes to properly reset the udev_flags of any
children. It is important that this function occur after the '_add_dev' has
done its job of querying the kernel for a list of dependencies. It is this
list of children that we use to look up their respective LVs and properly
calculate the udev_flags.
This solution has worked for single machine, cluster, and cluster w/ exclusive
activation.
#vgsplit -v "TestA" "TestB" "/dev/sdq" "/dev/sdo" "/dev/sdi" "/dev/sds"
"/dev/sde"
Checking for volume group "TestA"
Checking for new volume group "TestB"
Archiving volume group "TestA" metadata (seqno 213).
Can't split mirror MyMirror between two Volume Groups
AFTER FIX:
[root@bp-01 ~]# lvs -a -o name,vg_name,devices vg new
Volume group "new" not found
Skipping volume group new
LV VG Devices
lv vg lv_mimage_0(0),lv_mimage_1(0)
[lv_mimage_0] vg /dev/sdb1(0)
[lv_mimage_1] vg /dev/sdc1(0)
[lv_mlog] vg lv_mlog_mimage_0(0),lv_mlog_mimage_1(0)
[lv_mlog_mimage_0] vg /dev/sdh1(0)
[lv_mlog_mimage_1] vg /dev/sdi1(0)
[root@bp-01 ~]# vgsplit vg new /dev/sd[bchi]1
New volume group "new" successfully split from "vg"
[root@bp-01 ~]# lvs -a -o name,vg_name,devices vg new
LV VG Devices
lv new lv_mimage_0(0),lv_mimage_1(0)
[lv_mimage_0] new /dev/sdb1(0)
[lv_mimage_1] new /dev/sdc1(0)
[lv_mlog] new lv_mlog_mimage_0(0),lv_mlog_mimage_1(0)
[lv_mlog_mimage_0] new /dev/sdh1(0)
[lv_mlog_mimage_1] new /dev/sdi1(0)
Abort if _finish_pvmove suspend_lvs fails instead of cleaning up incompletely.
Change suspend_lvs to call vg_revert internally.
Change vg_revert to void and remove superfluous calls after failed vg_commit.
Replace test for NULL of root->child with test for NULL l
It's 100% equivalent test - since it always happen for the first iteration.
But the check for 'l' is understandable with analyzers - since analyzer
is not smart enough to deduce connection between root->child == NULL.