[dm-devel] [PATCH v3] md: dm-init: Wait devices if it's not find on first adpet

Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi michael at amarulasolutions.com
Thu Sep 15 21:20:47 UTC 2022


Hi Sean

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 10:12 PM Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at seco.com>
wrote:

> I ran into this issue today. This patch fixes things, so
>
> Tested-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson at seco.com>
>
> However, I think the implementation leaves a bit to be desired...
>
> On 4/6/22 11:46 AM, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > From: Michael Trimarchi <michael at amarulasolutions.com>
> >
> > The device driver can be deferrable and can be a race during
> > the dm-init early. We need to wait all the probe are really finished
> > in a loop as is done in do_mounts. This is was tested on kernel 5.4
> > but code seems was not changed since that time
> >
>

Ok, I know, I was waiting for some feedback. I will try to rework

Michael


> > 003: imx8mq-usb-phy 381f0040.usb-phy: 381f0040.usb-phy supply vbus not
> found, using dummy regulator
> > 003: imx8mq-usb-phy 382f0040.usb-phy: 382f0040.usb-phy supply vbus not
> found, using dummy regulator
> > 003: imx-cpufreq-dt imx-cpufreq-dt: cpu speed grade 5 mkt segment 0
> supported-hw 0x20 0x1
> > 003: caam-dma caam-dma: caam dma support with 2 job rings
> > 000: hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
> > 000: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> > 002: device-mapper: table: 254:0: verity: Data device lookup failed
> > 002: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> > 002: crng init done
> > 003: of_cfs_init
> > 003: of_cfs_init: OK
> > 003: Waiting for root device /dev/dm-0...
> > 001: mmc2: new HS400 Enhanced strobe MMC card at address 0001
> > 001: mmcblk2: mmc2:0001 IB2916 14.6 GiB
> > 001: mmcblk2boot0: mmc2:0001 IB2916 partition 1 4.00 MiB
> > 001: mmcblk2boot1: mmc2:0001 IB2916 partition 2 4.00 MiB
> > 001: mmcblk2rpmb: mmc2:0001 IB2916 partition 3 4.00 MiB, chardev (249:0)
> > 001:  mmcblk2: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11
> > 001: VSD_3V3: disabling
> >
> > with the patch
> >
> > 003: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> >
> > 000: device-mapper: table: 254:0: verity: Data device lookup failed
> > 000: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> > 002: crng init done
> > 003: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> > 003: device-mapper: table: 254:0: verity: Data device lookup failed
> > 003: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> > 003: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> > 000: device-mapper: table: 254:0: verity: Data device lookup failed
> > 000: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> > 002: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> > 002: device-mapper: table: 254:0: verity: Data device lookup failed
> > 002: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
> > 000: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> > 000: device-mapper: table: 254:0: verity: Data device lookup failed
> > 000: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
>
> For example, we repeatedly print these errors, even though there is not
> really an error condition. Additionally, we still loop even if (e.g.)
> there is a syntax error in the dm-mod.create parameter. It also
> introduces similar problems to rootdelay, where you have to choose a
> suitable maximum value.
>
> I would much rather see something closer to rootwait (as implemented in
> prepare_namespace). To do that, I think it is better to modify
> dm_get_device or dm_get_dev_t, which are closer to the source of the
> error. One issue is that these functions are not just called from
> dm_early_create, but also at runtime. So we can't just blindly start
> waiting for devices to show up if they don't exist and dm-mod.wait (or
> whatever) is missing. We could solve this by introducing a variable
> which is cleared at the end of dm_early_create. I think that solution is
> OK. We could also modify dm_early_create to pass a parameter to
> dm_table_add_target which indicates that the target is being created
> "early." However, I think this would be fairly disruptive to existing
> code.
>
> --Sean
>
> > 003: mmc2: new HS400 Enhanced strobe MMC card at address 0001
> > 003: mmcblk2: mmc2:0001 DG4016 14.7 GiB
> > 003: mmcblk2boot0: mmc2:0001 DG4016 partition 1 4.00 MiB
> > 003: mmcblk2boot1: mmc2:0001 DG4016 partition 2 4.00 MiB
> > 003: mmcblk2rpmb: mmc2:0001 DG4016 partition 3 4.00 MiB, chardev (249:0)
> > 003:  mmcblk2: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11
> > 002: device-mapper: init: waiting for all devices to be available before
> creating mapped devices
> > 003: device-mapper: verity: sha256 using implementation "sha256-caam"
> > 000: device-mapper: ioctl: dm-0 (rootfs) is ready
> >
> > Wait loop is limited to 10 at the moment for our use case showed no
> > more than 4 loops before successfully find data device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael at amarulasolutions.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Fabio Aiuto <fabio.aiuto at amarulasolutions.com>
> > ---
> > Changes from v1:
> >         - limit the loop to 10 iterations
> >         - change variable names
> >         - check only for -ENODEV failures
> >
> > Changes from v2:
> >       - use a limit in seconds (not in retry
> >         number)
> >       - add a parameter
> >       - update docs
> >
> >  .../admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst     | 13 +++++++++++
> >  drivers/md/dm-init.c                          | 23 +++++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
> b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
> > index e5242ff17e9b..5c2f2bf1db03 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-init.rst
> > @@ -123,3 +123,16 @@ Other examples (per target):
> >      0 1638400 verity 1 8:1 8:2 4096 4096 204800 1 sha256
> >      fb1a5a0f00deb908d8b53cb270858975e76cf64105d412ce764225d53b8f3cfd
> >      51934789604d1b92399c52e7cb149d1b3a1b74bbbcb103b2a0aaacbed5c08584
> > +
> > +Delay for waiting deferred probes of block devices
> > +==================================================
> > +
> > +Sometimes the late initcall starting the early creation of mapped
> > +devices, starts too early. A loop waiting for probing of block
> > +devices has been added; the default maximum delay is 1 second but
> > +it can be set through the following kernel command::
> > +
> > +  dm-mod.delay=<seconds>
> > +
> > +This allows the procedure to retry the creation of a mapped device
> > +after a short wait (5 msecs).
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-init.c b/drivers/md/dm-init.c
> > index b0c45c6ebe0b..f4c5b4a46001 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-init.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-init.c
> > @@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
> >   * This file is released under the GPLv2.
> >   */
> >
> > +#include <linux/async.h>
> >  #include <linux/ctype.h>
> > +#include <linux/delay.h>
> >  #include <linux/device.h>
> >  #include <linux/device-mapper.h>
> >  #include <linux/init.h>
> > @@ -18,8 +20,10 @@
> >  #define DM_MAX_DEVICES 256
> >  #define DM_MAX_TARGETS 256
> >  #define DM_MAX_STR_SIZE 4096
> > +#define DM_DEFAULT_MAX_PROBE_DELAY 1
> >
> >  static char *create;
> > +static int delay = DM_DEFAULT_MAX_PROBE_DELAY;
> >
> >  /*
> >   * Format:
> dm-mod.create=<name>,<uuid>,<minor>,<flags>,<table>[,<table>+][;<name>,<uuid>,<minor>,<flags>,<table>[,<table>+]+]
> > @@ -267,6 +271,8 @@ static int __init dm_init_init(void)
> >       LIST_HEAD(devices);
> >       char *str;
> >       int r;
> > +     int loopcnt = delay * 1000 / 5;
> > +     bool devnotfound = false;
> >
> >       if (!create)
> >               return 0;
> > @@ -275,6 +281,7 @@ static int __init dm_init_init(void)
> >               DMERR("Argument is too big. Limit is %d", DM_MAX_STR_SIZE);
> >               return -EINVAL;
> >       }
> > +retry:
> >       str = kstrndup(create, DM_MAX_STR_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> >       if (!str)
> >               return -ENOMEM;
> > @@ -287,13 +294,23 @@ static int __init dm_init_init(void)
> >       wait_for_device_probe();
> >
> >       list_for_each_entry(dev, &devices, list) {
> > -             if (dm_early_create(&dev->dmi, dev->table,
> > -                                 dev->target_args_array))
> > +             r = dm_early_create(&dev->dmi, dev->table,
> dev->target_args_array);
> > +             if (r == -ENODEV) {
> > +                     devnotfound = true;
> >                       break;
> > +             }
> >       }
> > +
> >  out:
> >       kfree(str);
> >       dm_setup_cleanup(&devices);
> > +     if (devnotfound && loopcnt) {
> > +             msleep(5);
> > +             devnotfound = false;
> > +             loopcnt--;
> > +             goto retry;
> > +     }
> > +
> >       return r;
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -301,3 +318,5 @@ late_initcall(dm_init_init);
> >
> >  module_param(create, charp, 0);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(create, "Create a mapped device in early boot");
> > +module_param(delay, int, 0);
> > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(delay, "Max delay to wait for data/hash device probe
> in seconds");
> >
>


-- 
Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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michael at amarulasolutions.com
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