[dm-devel] [PATCH 4/4] dm-zoned: allow for device size smaller than the capacity

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 3/31/20 2:49 AM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> On 2020/03/27 16:15, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> dm-zoned requires several zones for metadata and chunk bitmaps,
>> so it cannot expose the entire capacity as the device size.
>> Originally the code would check for the capacity being equal to
>> the device size, which is arguably wrong.
>> So relax this check and increase the interface version number
>> to signal to userspace that it can set a smaller device size.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
>> ---
>>   drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c
>> index 7ec9dde24516..89a825d1034e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c
>> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-target.c
>> @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int dmz_get_zoned_device(struct dm_target *ti, char *path)
>>   	aligned_capacity = dev->capacity &
>>   				~((sector_t)blk_queue_zone_sectors(q) - 1);
>>   	if (ti->begin ||
>> -	    ((ti->len != dev->capacity) && (ti->len != aligned_capacity))) {
>> +	    ((ti->len > dev->capacity) && (ti->len > aligned_capacity))) {
>>   		ti->error = "Partial mapping not supported";
> 
> The message is now wrong. Also, the condition can now be simplified to:
> 
> if ((ti->begin + ti->len) > aligned_capacity) {
> 
> Since aligned capacity is equal or smaller than dev capacity. And we have to
> account for the potential non-zero begin.
> 
_Actually_ I would forbid for 'ti->begin' to be anything other than 0.
For a zoned device there is no point in allowing for partial handling at 
all.
Problem is that 'dev->capacity' is the capacity of the zoned block 
device, whereas 'ti-len' is the exported capacity of the device-mapper 
device, which is smaller than the device capacity by the number of 
metadata blocks/zones.

>>   		ret = -EINVAL;
>>   		goto err;
>> @@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ static int dmz_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv,
>>   
>>   static struct target_type dmz_type = {
>>   	.name		 = "zoned",
>> -	.version	 = {1, 2, 0},
>> +	.version	 = {1, 3, 0},
>>   	.features	 = DM_TARGET_SINGLETON | DM_TARGET_ZONED_HM,
>>   	.module		 = THIS_MODULE,
>>   	.ctr		 = dmz_ctr,
>>
> 
> I do not think this is nearly enough: dmz_init_zones() is still considering the
> entire drive and does a zone report from 0 on the backend bdev. It should start
> at ti->begin and up to ti->begin+ti->len, no ?
> 
Yes, and no. I want to disallow 'ti->begin' to be anything else than 0 
as ti->begin and ti->len are relative to exported device-mapper device, 
and we always want to have block 0 mapped :-)

And as such dmz_init_zones() needs to cover all zones, as this is 
relative to the zoned block device.

> Furthermore, this introduce a change in the meaning of the zone ID. Since this
> is set to the index of the zone in the report (patch 1), if the mapping is
> partial and the zone report does not start at 0, then zone ID is not zone number
> on the device anymore. So dmz_start_block() needs to be offset by ti->begin
> otherwise IOs will go to the wrong zones.
> 
As I said: We will never do a partial mapping.
What this patch does it to bring the device-mapper mapping in-line with 
the exported device size.

Originally we would export a device-mapper mapping for blocks up to the 
zone-device capacity. As the resulting device-mapper block device has a 
smaller capacity than the mapping would allow for those 'spare' blocks 
would never been used, thus the invalid mapping was never triggered.

What this patch does is to bring the device-mapper mapping in-line with 
the exported block device capacity, so that we don't have an invalid 
mapping. Nothing else has (and should) be changed.

Especially not the partial zoned device handling :-)

Cheers,

Hannes
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