dm: allow active and inactive tables to share dm_devs

Until this change, when loading a new DM table, DM core would re-open
all of the devices in the DM table.  Now, DM core will avoid redundant
device opens (and closes when destroying the old table) if the old
table already has a device open using the same mode.  This is achieved
by managing reference counts on the table_devices that DM core now
stores in the mapped_device structure (rather than in the dm_table
structure).  So a mapped_device's active and inactive dm_tables' dm_dev
lists now just point to the dm_devs stored in the mapped_device's
table_devices list.

This improvement in DM core's device reference counting has the
side-effect of fixing a long-standing limitation of the multipath
target: a DM multipath table couldn't include any paths that were unusable
(failed).  For example: if all paths have failed and you add a new,
working, path to the table; you can't use it since the table load would
fail due to it still containing failed paths.  Now a re-load of a
multipath table can include failed devices and when those devices become
active again they can be used instantly.

The device list code in dm.c isn't a straight copy/paste from the code in
dm-table.c, but it's very close (aside from some variable renames).  One
subtle difference is that find_table_device for the tables_devices list
will only match devices with the same name and mode.  This is because we
don't want to upgrade a device's mode in the active table when an
inactive table is loaded.

Access to the mapped_device structure's tables_devices list requires a
mutex (tables_devices_lock), so that tables cannot be created and
destroyed concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.h b/drivers/md/dm.h
index e81d2152fa68..988c7fb7b145 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm.h
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 struct dm_dev_internal {
 	struct list_head list;
 	atomic_t count;
-	struct dm_dev dm_dev;
+	struct dm_dev *dm_dev;
 };
 
 struct dm_table;
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ int dm_cancel_deferred_remove(struct mapped_device *md);
 int dm_request_based(struct mapped_device *md);
 sector_t dm_get_size(struct mapped_device *md);
 struct request_queue *dm_get_md_queue(struct mapped_device *md);
+int dm_get_table_device(struct mapped_device *md, dev_t dev, fmode_t mode,
+			struct dm_dev **result);
+void dm_put_table_device(struct mapped_device *md, struct dm_dev *d);
 struct dm_stats *dm_get_stats(struct mapped_device *md);
 
 int dm_kobject_uevent(struct mapped_device *md, enum kobject_action action,