[dm-devel] [PATCH v4 07/13] dm snapshot: do not allow more than one merging snapshot.

Mike Snitzer snitzer at redhat.com
Fri Nov 20 21:04:48 UTC 2009


From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>

Merging more than one snapshot is not supported.
__find_merging_snapshot() will find the merging snapshot for a given
origin device.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-snap.c |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/dm-snap.c
@@ -332,9 +332,29 @@ out:
 	return count;
 }
 
+static struct dm_snapshot *__find_merging_snapshot(struct block_device *origin)
+{
+	struct dm_snapshot *s, *merging_snap;
+	struct origin *o;
+
+	o = __lookup_origin(origin);
+	if (!o)
+		return NULL;
+
+	list_for_each_entry(s, &o->snapshots, list) {
+		if (is_merge(s->ti)) {
+			merging_snap = s;
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return merging_snap;
+}
+
 static int __validate_exception_handover(struct dm_snapshot *snap)
 {
 	struct dm_snapshot *snap_src = NULL, *snap_dest = NULL;
+	struct block_device *bdev = snap->origin->bdev;
 	int r = 0;
 
 	/* Does snapshot need exceptions handed over to it? */
@@ -346,8 +366,19 @@ static int __validate_exception_handover
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (snap_src)
+	if (snap_src) {
+		if (is_merge(snap->ti)) {
+			/* Do not allow more than one merging snapshot */
+			if (__find_merging_snapshot(bdev)) {
+				snap->ti->error = "A snapshot is already "
+						  "merging.";
+				r = -EINVAL;
+				goto out;
+			}
+		}
+
 		r = 1;
+	}
 
 out:
 	return r;




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