[PATCH 3.12 088/118] dm thin: switch to read only mode if a mapping insert fails

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-12-18T21:15:54Z

From: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

commit fafc7a815e40255d24e80a1cb7365892362fa398 upstream.

Switch the thin pool to read-only mode when dm_thin_insert_block() fails
since there is little reason to expect the cause of the failure to be
resolved without further action by user space.

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: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: dm_thin_insert_block() failed
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
<snip ... these repeat for a long while ... >
device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: space map common: dm_tm_shadow_block() failed
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: no free metadata space available.
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: switching pool to read-only mode

after patch:

device-mapper: space map metadata: unable to allocate new metadata block
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: dm_thin_insert_block() failed: error = -28
device-mapper: thin: 253:4: switching pool to read-only mode

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -640,7 +640,9 @@ static void process_prepared_mapping(str
*/
r = dm_thin_insert_block(tc->td, m->virt_block, m->data_block);
if (r) {
- DMERR_LIMIT("dm_thin_insert_block() failed");
+ DMERR_LIMIT("%s: dm_thin_insert_block() failed: error = %d",
+ dm_device_name(pool->pool_md), r);
+ set_pool_mode(pool, PM_READ_ONLY);
cell_error(pool, m->cell);
goto out;
}