This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dm-fix-reload-failure-of-0-path-multipath-mapping-on-blk-mq-devices.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 15b94a690470038aa08247eedbebbe7e2218d5ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 08:51:03 +0000 Subject: dm: fix reload failure of 0 path multipath mapping on blk-mq devices From: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 15b94a690470038aa08247eedbebbe7e2218d5ee upstream. dm-multipath accepts 0 path mapping. # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup create newdev Such a mapping can be used to release underlying devices while still holding requests in its queue until working paths come back. However, once the multipath device is created over blk-mq devices, it rejects reloading of 0 path mapping: # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 1 1 queue-length 0 1 1 /dev/sda 1' \ | dmsetup create mpath1 # echo '0 2097152 multipath 0 0 0 0' | dmsetup load mpath1 device-mapper: reload ioctl on mpath1 failed: Invalid argument Command failed With following kernel message: device-mapper: ioctl: can't change device type after initial table load. DM tries to inherit the current table type using dm_table_set_type() but it doesn't work as expected because of unnecessary check about whether the target type is hybrid or not. Hybrid type is for targets that work as either request-based or bio-based and not required for blk-mq or non blk-mq checking. Fixes: 65803c205983 ("dm table: train hybrid target type detection to select blk-mq if appropriate") Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-table.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -823,6 +823,12 @@ void dm_consume_args(struct dm_arg_set * } EXPORT_SYMBOL(dm_consume_args); +static bool __table_type_request_based(unsigned table_type) +{ + return (table_type == DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED || + table_type == DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED); +} + static int dm_table_set_type(struct dm_table *t) { unsigned i; @@ -855,8 +861,7 @@ static int dm_table_set_type(struct dm_t * Determine the type from the live device. * Default to bio-based if device is new. */ - if (live_md_type == DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED || - live_md_type == DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED) + if (__table_type_request_based(live_md_type)) request_based = 1; else bio_based = 1; @@ -906,7 +911,7 @@ static int dm_table_set_type(struct dm_t } t->type = DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED; - } else if (hybrid && list_empty(devices) && live_md_type != DM_TYPE_NONE) { + } else if (list_empty(devices) && __table_type_request_based(live_md_type)) { /* inherit live MD type */ t->type = live_md_type; @@ -928,10 +933,7 @@ struct target_type *dm_table_get_immutab bool dm_table_request_based(struct dm_table *t) { - unsigned table_type = dm_table_get_type(t); - - return (table_type == DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED || - table_type == DM_TYPE_MQ_REQUEST_BASED); + return __table_type_request_based(dm_table_get_type(t)); } bool dm_table_mq_request_based(struct dm_table *t) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from j-nomura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.0/dm-fix-reload-failure-of-0-path-multipath-mapping-on-blk-mq-devices.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html