[PATCH] dm: use private biosets

I found a problem within device-mapper that occurs in low-mem situations.  It
was found using a mirror target but I think in theory it would hit any setup
that stacks device-mapper devices (like LVM on top of multipath).

Since device-mapper core uses the common fs_bioset in clone_bio(), and a
private, but still global, bio_set in split_bvec() it is possible that the
filesystem and the first level target successfully get bios but the lower
level target doesn't because there is no more memory and the pool was drained
by upper layers.  So the remapping will be stuck forever.  To solve this
device-mapper core needs to use a private bio_set for each device.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
index aeb63a3..b5764a8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ struct mapped_device {
 	mempool_t *io_pool;
 	mempool_t *tio_pool;
 
+	struct bio_set *bs;
+
 	/*
 	 * Event handling.
 	 */
@@ -122,16 +124,10 @@ struct mapped_device {
 static kmem_cache_t *_io_cache;
 static kmem_cache_t *_tio_cache;
 
-static struct bio_set *dm_set;
-
 static int __init local_init(void)
 {
 	int r;
 
-	dm_set = bioset_create(16, 16, 4);
-	if (!dm_set)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	/* allocate a slab for the dm_ios */
 	_io_cache = kmem_cache_create("dm_io",
 				      sizeof(struct dm_io), 0, 0, NULL, NULL);
@@ -165,8 +161,6 @@ static void local_exit(void)
 	kmem_cache_destroy(_tio_cache);
 	kmem_cache_destroy(_io_cache);
 
-	bioset_free(dm_set);
-
 	if (unregister_blkdev(_major, _name) < 0)
 		DMERR("unregister_blkdev failed");
 
@@ -475,7 +469,7 @@ static int clone_endio(struct bio *bio, unsigned int done, int error)
 {
 	int r = 0;
 	struct target_io *tio = bio->bi_private;
-	struct dm_io *io = tio->io;
+	struct mapped_device *md = tio->io->md;
 	dm_endio_fn endio = tio->ti->type->end_io;
 
 	if (bio->bi_size)
@@ -494,9 +488,15 @@ static int clone_endio(struct bio *bio, unsigned int done, int error)
 			return 1;
 	}
 
-	free_tio(io->md, tio);
-	dec_pending(io, error);
+	dec_pending(tio->io, error);
+
+	/*
+	 * Store md for cleanup instead of tio which is about to get freed.
+	 */
+	bio->bi_private = md->bs;
+
 	bio_put(bio);
+	free_tio(md, tio);
 	return r;
 }
 
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ static void __map_bio(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *clone,
 {
 	int r;
 	sector_t sector;
+	struct mapped_device *md;
 
 	/*
 	 * Sanity checks.
@@ -554,10 +555,14 @@ static void __map_bio(struct dm_target *ti, struct bio *clone,
 
 	else if (r < 0) {
 		/* error the io and bail out */
-		struct dm_io *io = tio->io;
-		free_tio(tio->io->md, tio);
-		dec_pending(io, r);
+		md = tio->io->md;
+		dec_pending(tio->io, r);
+		/*
+		 * Store bio_set for cleanup.
+		 */
+		clone->bi_private = md->bs;
 		bio_put(clone);
+		free_tio(md, tio);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -573,7 +578,9 @@ struct clone_info {
 
 static void dm_bio_destructor(struct bio *bio)
 {
-	bio_free(bio, dm_set);
+	struct bio_set *bs = bio->bi_private;
+
+	bio_free(bio, bs);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -581,12 +588,12 @@ static void dm_bio_destructor(struct bio *bio)
  */
 static struct bio *split_bvec(struct bio *bio, sector_t sector,
 			      unsigned short idx, unsigned int offset,
-			      unsigned int len)
+			      unsigned int len, struct bio_set *bs)
 {
 	struct bio *clone;
 	struct bio_vec *bv = bio->bi_io_vec + idx;
 
-	clone = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, 1, dm_set);
+	clone = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, 1, bs);
 	clone->bi_destructor = dm_bio_destructor;
 	*clone->bi_io_vec = *bv;
 
@@ -606,11 +613,13 @@ static struct bio *split_bvec(struct bio *bio, sector_t sector,
  */
 static struct bio *clone_bio(struct bio *bio, sector_t sector,
 			     unsigned short idx, unsigned short bv_count,
-			     unsigned int len)
+			     unsigned int len, struct bio_set *bs)
 {
 	struct bio *clone;
 
-	clone = bio_clone(bio, GFP_NOIO);
+	clone = bio_alloc_bioset(GFP_NOIO, bio->bi_max_vecs, bs);
+	__bio_clone(clone, bio);
+	clone->bi_destructor = dm_bio_destructor;
 	clone->bi_sector = sector;
 	clone->bi_idx = idx;
 	clone->bi_vcnt = idx + bv_count;
@@ -641,7 +650,8 @@ static void __clone_and_map(struct clone_info *ci)
 		 * the remaining io with a single clone.
 		 */
 		clone = clone_bio(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx,
-				  bio->bi_vcnt - ci->idx, ci->sector_count);
+				  bio->bi_vcnt - ci->idx, ci->sector_count,
+				  ci->md->bs);
 		__map_bio(ti, clone, tio);
 		ci->sector_count = 0;
 
@@ -664,7 +674,8 @@ static void __clone_and_map(struct clone_info *ci)
 			len += bv_len;
 		}
 
-		clone = clone_bio(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx, i - ci->idx, len);
+		clone = clone_bio(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx, i - ci->idx, len,
+				  ci->md->bs);
 		__map_bio(ti, clone, tio);
 
 		ci->sector += len;
@@ -693,7 +704,8 @@ static void __clone_and_map(struct clone_info *ci)
 			len = min(remaining, max);
 
 			clone = split_bvec(bio, ci->sector, ci->idx,
-					   bv->bv_offset + offset, len);
+					   bv->bv_offset + offset, len,
+					   ci->md->bs);
 
 			__map_bio(ti, clone, tio);
 
@@ -961,6 +973,10 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
 	if (!md->tio_pool)
 		goto bad3;
 
+	md->bs = bioset_create(16, 16, 4);
+	if (!md->bs)
+		goto bad_no_bioset;
+
 	md->disk = alloc_disk(1);
 	if (!md->disk)
 		goto bad4;
@@ -988,6 +1004,8 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(int minor)
 	return md;
 
  bad4:
+	bioset_free(md->bs);
+ bad_no_bioset:
 	mempool_destroy(md->tio_pool);
  bad3:
 	mempool_destroy(md->io_pool);
@@ -1012,6 +1030,7 @@ static void free_dev(struct mapped_device *md)
 	}
 	mempool_destroy(md->tio_pool);
 	mempool_destroy(md->io_pool);
+	bioset_free(md->bs);
 	del_gendisk(md->disk);
 	free_minor(minor);