On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 10:20:05AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > Historically we have waited for filesystem specific heuristics to > attempt to guess when a block device is gone. Sometimes this works, but > in other cases the system can hang waiting for the fs to trigger its > shutdown protocol. > > The initial motivation for this investigation was to prevent DAX > mappings (direct mmap access to persistent memory) from leaking past the > lifetime of the hosting block device. However, Dave points out that > these shutdown operations are needed in other scenarios. Quoting Dave: > > For example, if we detect a free space corruption during allocation, > it is not safe to trust *any active mapping* because we can't trust > that we having handed out the same block to multiple owners. Hence > on such a filesystem shutdown, we have to prevent any new DAX > mapping from occurring and invalidate all existing mappings as we > cannot allow userspace to modify any data or metadata until we've > resolved the corruption situation. > > The current block device shutdown sequence of del_gendisk + > blk_cleanup_queue is problematic. We want to tell the fs after > blk_cleanup_queue that there is no possibility of recovery, but by that > time we have deleted partitions and lost the ability to find all the > super-blocks on a block device. > > Introduce del_gendisk_queue to trigger ->quiesce() and ->bdi_gone() > notifications to all the filesystems hosted on the disk. Where > ->quiesce() are 'shutdown' operations while the bdev may still be alive, > and ->bdi_gone() is a set of actions to take after the backing device > is known to be permanently dead. Would you mind explaining what the hell is _the_ backing device of a filesystem? What does that translate into in case of e.g. btrfs spanning several disks? Or ext4 with journal on a different device, for that matter? If anything, I would argue that filesystem is out of place here - general situation is "IO on X may require IO on device Y and X needs to do something when Y goes away". Consider e.g. /dev/loop backed by a device that went away. Or by a file on fs that has run down the curtain and joined the bleedin choir invisible. With another fs partially hosted by that loopback device. Or by RAID0 containing said device. You are given Y and attempt to locate the affected X. _Then_ you assume that X is a filesystem and has "something to be done" independent from the role Y played for it, so you can pick that action from superblock method. IMO you are placing the burden in the wrong place. _Recepient_ knows what it depends upon and what should be done for each source of trouble. So make it recepient's responsibility to request notifications. At which point the superblock method goes away, along with the requirement to handle all sources of trouble the same way, etc. What's more, things like RAID5 (also interested in knowing when a component has been ripped out) might or might not decide to propagate the event further - after all, that's exactly the point of redundancy. I'd look into something along the lines of notifier chain per gendisk, with potential victims registering a callback when they decide that from now on such and such device might screw them over... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
