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kernel docs: Refresh kernel target documentation

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Update the packaged copy of the in-kernel target documentation files.
Adds dm-verity, updates thin provisioning and makes minor corrections
elsewhere.
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Alasdair G Kergon 2012-06-21 23:48:40 +01:00
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doc/kernel/persistent-data.txt
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The more-sophisticated device-mapper targets require complex metadata
that is managed in kernel. In late 2010 we were seeing that various
different targets were rolling their own data strutures, for example:
different targets were rolling their own data structures, for example:
- Mikulas Patocka's multisnap implementation
- Heinz Mauelshagen's thin provisioning target

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doc/kernel/raid.txt
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raid6_nc RAID6 N continue
- rotating parity N (right-to-left) with data continuation
Refererence: Chapter 4 of
Reference: Chapter 4 of
http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA_DDF_Technical_Position_v2.0.pdf
<#raid_params>: The number of parameters that follow.

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Parameters: <num devs> <chunk size> [<dev path> <offset>]+
<num devs>: Number of underlying devices.
<chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be a power-of-2 and at
least as large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
<chunk size>: Size of each chunk of data. Must be at least as
large as the system's PAGE_SIZE.
<dev path>: Full pathname to the underlying block-device, or a
"major:minor" device-number.
<offset>: Starting sector within the device.
One or more underlying devices can be specified. The striped device size must
be a multiple of the chunk size and a multiple of the number of underlying
devices.
be a multiple of the chunk size multiplied by the number of underlying devices.
Example scripts

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Introduction
============
This document descibes a collection of device-mapper targets that
This document describes a collection of device-mapper targets that
between them implement thin-provisioning and snapshots.
The main highlight of this implementation, compared to the previous
@ -75,10 +75,12 @@ less sharing than average you'll need a larger-than-average metadata device.
As a guide, we suggest you calculate the number of bytes to use in the
metadata device as 48 * $data_dev_size / $data_block_size but round it up
to 2MB if the answer is smaller. The largest size supported is 16GB.
to 2MB if the answer is smaller. If you're creating large numbers of
snapshots which are recording large amounts of change, you may find you
need to increase this.
If you're creating large numbers of snapshots which are recording large
amounts of change, you may need find you need to increase this.
The largest size supported is 16GB: If the device is larger,
a warning will be issued and the excess space will not be used.
Reloading a pool table
----------------------
@ -167,6 +169,38 @@ ii) Using an internal snapshot.
dmsetup create snap --table "0 2097152 thin /dev/mapper/pool 1"
External snapshots
------------------
You can use an external _read only_ device as an origin for a
thinly-provisioned volume. Any read to an unprovisioned area of the
thin device will be passed through to the origin. Writes trigger
the allocation of new blocks as usual.
One use case for this is VM hosts that want to run guests on
thinly-provisioned volumes but have the base image on another device
(possibly shared between many VMs).
You must not write to the origin device if you use this technique!
Of course, you may write to the thin device and take internal snapshots
of the thin volume.
i) Creating a snapshot of an external device
This is the same as creating a thin device.
You don't mention the origin at this stage.
dmsetup message /dev/mapper/pool 0 "create_thin 0"
ii) Using a snapshot of an external device.
Append an extra parameter to the thin target specifying the origin:
dmsetup create snap --table "0 2097152 thin /dev/mapper/pool 0 /dev/image"
N.B. All descendants (internal snapshots) of this snapshot require the
same extra origin parameter.
Deactivation
------------
@ -189,7 +223,13 @@ i) Constructor
<low water mark (blocks)> [<number of feature args> [<arg>]*]
Optional feature arguments:
- 'skip_block_zeroing': skips the zeroing of newly-provisioned blocks.
skip_block_zeroing: Skip the zeroing of newly-provisioned blocks.
ignore_discard: Disable discard support.
no_discard_passdown: Don't pass discards down to the underlying
data device, but just remove the mapping.
Data block size must be between 64KB (128 sectors) and 1GB
(2097152 sectors) inclusive.
@ -237,16 +277,6 @@ iii) Messages
Deletes a thin device. Irreversible.
trim <dev id> <new size in sectors>
Delete mappings from the end of a thin device. Irreversible.
You might want to use this if you're reducing the size of
your thinly-provisioned device. In many cases, due to the
sharing of blocks between devices, it is not possible to
determine in advance how much space 'trim' will release. (In
future a userspace tool might be able to perform this
calculation.)
set_transaction_id <current id> <new id>
Userland volume managers, such as LVM, need a way to
@ -257,12 +287,23 @@ iii) Messages
the current transaction id is when you change it with this
compare-and-swap message.
reserve_metadata_snap
Reserve a copy of the data mapping btree for use by userland.
This allows userland to inspect the mappings as they were when
this message was executed. Use the pool's status command to
get the root block associated with the metadata snapshot.
release_metadata_snap
Release a previously reserved copy of the data mapping btree.
'thin' target
-------------
i) Constructor
thin <pool dev> <dev id>
thin <pool dev> <dev id> [<external origin dev>]
pool dev:
the thin-pool device, e.g. /dev/mapper/my_pool or 253:0
@ -271,6 +312,11 @@ i) Constructor
the internal device identifier of the device to be
activated.
external origin dev:
an optional block device outside the pool to be treated as a
read-only snapshot origin: reads to unprovisioned areas of the
thin target will be mapped to this device.
The pool doesn't store any size against the thin devices. If you
load a thin target that is smaller than you've been using previously,
then you'll have no access to blocks mapped beyond the end. If you

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dm-verity
==========
Device-Mapper's "verity" target provides transparent integrity checking of
block devices using a cryptographic digest provided by the kernel crypto API.
This target is read-only.
Construction Parameters
=======================
<version> <dev> <hash_dev>
<data_block_size> <hash_block_size>
<num_data_blocks> <hash_start_block>
<algorithm> <digest> <salt>
<version>
This is the type of the on-disk hash format.
0 is the original format used in the Chromium OS.
The salt is appended when hashing, digests are stored continuously and
the rest of the block is padded with zeros.
1 is the current format that should be used for new devices.
The salt is prepended when hashing and each digest is
padded with zeros to the power of two.
<dev>
This is the device containing data, the integrity of which needs to be
checked. It may be specified as a path, like /dev/sdaX, or a device number,
<major>:<minor>.
<hash_dev>
This is the device that supplies the hash tree data. It may be
specified similarly to the device path and may be the same device. If the
same device is used, the hash_start should be outside the configured
dm-verity device.
<data_block_size>
The block size on a data device in bytes.
Each block corresponds to one digest on the hash device.
<hash_block_size>
The size of a hash block in bytes.
<num_data_blocks>
The number of data blocks on the data device. Additional blocks are
inaccessible. You can place hashes to the same partition as data, in this
case hashes are placed after <num_data_blocks>.
<hash_start_block>
This is the offset, in <hash_block_size>-blocks, from the start of hash_dev
to the root block of the hash tree.
<algorithm>
The cryptographic hash algorithm used for this device. This should
be the name of the algorithm, like "sha1".
<digest>
The hexadecimal encoding of the cryptographic hash of the root hash block
and the salt. This hash should be trusted as there is no other authenticity
beyond this point.
<salt>
The hexadecimal encoding of the salt value.
Theory of operation
===================
dm-verity is meant to be set up as part of a verified boot path. This
may be anything ranging from a boot using tboot or trustedgrub to just
booting from a known-good device (like a USB drive or CD).
When a dm-verity device is configured, it is expected that the caller
has been authenticated in some way (cryptographic signatures, etc).
After instantiation, all hashes will be verified on-demand during
disk access. If they cannot be verified up to the root node of the
tree, the root hash, then the I/O will fail. This should detect
tampering with any data on the device and the hash data.
Cryptographic hashes are used to assert the integrity of the device on a
per-block basis. This allows for a lightweight hash computation on first read
into the page cache. Block hashes are stored linearly, aligned to the nearest
block size.
Hash Tree
---------
Each node in the tree is a cryptographic hash. If it is a leaf node, the hash
of some data block on disk is calculated. If it is an intermediary node,
the hash of a number of child nodes is calculated.
Each entry in the tree is a collection of neighboring nodes that fit in one
block. The number is determined based on block_size and the size of the
selected cryptographic digest algorithm. The hashes are linearly-ordered in
this entry and any unaligned trailing space is ignored but included when
calculating the parent node.
The tree looks something like:
alg = sha256, num_blocks = 32768, block_size = 4096
[ root ]
/ . . . \
[entry_0] [entry_1]
/ . . . \ . . . \
[entry_0_0] . . . [entry_0_127] . . . . [entry_1_127]
/ ... \ / . . . \ / \
blk_0 ... blk_127 blk_16256 blk_16383 blk_32640 . . . blk_32767
On-disk format
==============
The verity kernel code does not read the verity metadata on-disk header.
It only reads the hash blocks which directly follow the header.
It is expected that a user-space tool will verify the integrity of the
verity header.
Alternatively, the header can be omitted and the dmsetup parameters can
be passed via the kernel command-line in a rooted chain of trust where
the command-line is verified.
Directly following the header (and with sector number padded to the next hash
block boundary) are the hash blocks which are stored a depth at a time
(starting from the root), sorted in order of increasing index.
The full specification of kernel parameters and on-disk metadata format
is available at the cryptsetup project's wiki page
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/DMVerity
Status
======
V (for Valid) is returned if every check performed so far was valid.
If any check failed, C (for Corruption) is returned.
Example
=======
Set up a device:
# dmsetup create vroot --readonly --table \
"0 2097152 verity 1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 4096 4096 262144 1 sha256 "\
"4392712ba01368efdf14b05c76f9e4df0d53664630b5d48632ed17a137f39076 "\
"1234000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
A command line tool veritysetup is available to compute or verify
the hash tree or activate the kernel device. This is available from
the cryptsetup upstream repository http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
(as a libcryptsetup extension).
Create hash on the device:
# veritysetup format /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2
...
Root hash: 4392712ba01368efdf14b05c76f9e4df0d53664630b5d48632ed17a137f39076
Activate the device:
# veritysetup create vroot /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 \
4392712ba01368efdf14b05c76f9e4df0d53664630b5d48632ed17a137f39076