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A previous check-in added logic to handle the case where both images
of a mirrored log failed. It solved the problem by simply removing
the log entirely - leaving the parent mirror with a 'core' log. This
worked for most cases. However, if there was a small delay between
the failures of the two mirrored log devices, the mirror would hang,
LVM would hang, and no additional LVM commands could be issued.
When the first leg of the log fails, it signals the need for repair.
Before 'lvconvert --repair' is run by dmeventd, the second leg fails.
'lvconvert' would see both devices as failed and try to remove the
log entirely. When it came time to suspend the parent mirror to
update the configuration, the suspend would hang because it couldn't
get any I/O through the mirrored log, which was plugged waiting for
corrective action. The solution is to replace the log with an error
target to clear any pending writes before removing it. This allows
the parent mirror to suspend and make the proper changes.
Pass metadataignore through PV creation / setup paths.
As a result of this cleanup, we can remove the unnecessary setting
of mda_ignore bits inside pvcreate_single(), after call to pv_create.
For now, just set metadataignore to '0' in some places. This is
equivalent to the prior functionality, although the 0 is given
by the caller not hardcoded in _mda_setup() call.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
- If a PV contained empty mdas, the auto-recovery code was not kicking in.
- The 'inconsistent' state was getting lost when metadata was cached so
recovery didn't kick in. But leave the behaviour alone when using
precommitted metadata because of a warning in a confusing FIXME.
In my testing, pvs and vgs didn't repair inconsistent metadata like they
used to do. (How many other tools fail similarly now?)
And there should be no need to cache inconsistent metadata because it is
supposed to get repaired under the protection of a write lock immediately it is
discovered.
This code is in need of a redesign based on first principles.
I still see bugs in this code and this commit is risky.
Allow metadataignore flag to be passed in to pvcreate.
Ideally, more refactoring of the mda allocation / initialization
is warranted, but for now, we just add another parameter to 'add_mda'
to take an existing mda ignored flag. We need to do this or pv_write
loses the state of the mda 'ignored' flag before copying and writing
to disk.
Print device name when setting or clearing metadata ignore bit.
Example:
label/label.c:160 /dev/loop2: lvm2 label detected
cache/lvmcache.c:1136 lvmcache: /dev/loop2: now in VG #orphans_lvm2 (#orphans_lvm2)
metadata/metadata.c:4142 Setting mda ignored flag for metadata_locn /dev/loop2.
format_text/text_label.c:318 Skipping mda with ignored flag on device /dev/loop2 at offset 4096
Logging isn't ideal, especially for mda_set_ignore. Ideally we'd
like to display the device name and offset in this case but this
requires a bit more work and a per-format 'mda_description' function
pointer definition (we don't have access to mda_context in
metadata.c).
In preparation to call this from both pvcreate as well as pvchange,
move the guts of metadataignore into a library function.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
There's an intermittent failure with vgcfgbackup that seems to have been
introduced with the metadataignore / vgmetadatacopies patchset.
Intermittent failures are often the result of uninitialized data,
so this patch calls zalloc in a few places it might matter.
Allowing an 'all' and 'unmanaged' value is more intuitive, and
provides a simple way for users to get back to original LVM behavior
of metadata written to all PVs in the volume group.
If the user requests "--vgmetadatacopies unmanaged", this instructs
LVM not to manage the ignore bits to achieve a specific number of
metadata copies in the volume group. The user is free to use
"pvchange --metadataignore" to control the mdas on a per-PV basis.
If the user requests "--vgmetadatacopies all", this instructs LVM
to do 2 things: 1) clear all ignore bits, and 2) set the "unmanaged"
policy going forward.
Internally, we use the special MAX_UINT32 value to indicate 'all'.
This 'just' works since it's the largest value possible for the
field and so all 'ignore' bits on all mdas in the VG will get
cleared inside _vg_metadata_balance(). However, after we've
called the _vg_metadata_balance function, we check for the special
'all' value, and if set, we write the "unmanaged" value into the
metadata. As such, the 'all' value is never written to disk.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
The check in vg_split_mdas will trigger an error if the 'from' vg
list is empty. However, this might be ok in some instances now
that we have ignored mdas. Relax this check so an error is triggered
only in the case where there's truly no more mdas in the 'from'
vg.
One example of where this makes a difference is with vgreduce.
If we try to vgreduce a PV with un-ignored mdas, this should trigger
the balancing function to un-ignore mdas on another PV in the VG.
However, we don't get to vg_write() before we fail because this
list size check fails, and we see an error message indicating:
"Cannot remove final metadata area ..."
Another example is with vgsplit into a new VG, where the PVs
being moved contain all ignored mdas. We must move the mdas on
fid->metadata_areas_ignored from 'vg_from' to 'vg_to'.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
The vgextend path calls add_pv_to_vg(). Inside add_pv_to_vg(),
we must ensure we pass the correct mdas list into pv_setup(), as
copies of mdas are placed on the vg->fid list. If we don't place
the mdas on the correct vg->fid list, the various counts may be
incorrect and the metadata balance algorithm will not work when
called from vg_write() path.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Compare the value of the newly added vg_mda_copies field
(--vgmetadatacopies parameter) with the current count of
in-use mdas and ignoring or unignoring mdas as necessary to
get to the target count. Also, as a safety check before
returning, ensure we have at least one mda enabled.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
This patch adds the ability to read/write the vg->mda_copies values
from/to the vg metadata.
If we read the VG metadata and this field does not exist, we set
mda_copies to the default value of 0. Later in the code, we use
this special '0' value to indicate a disable of metadata balancing.
This should preserve existing LVM behavior and ensure metadata balancing
can be turned off should the need arise.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
This patch adds the get and partially implemented set function.
The 'set' function should probably ignore or un-ignore metadata areas
based on new values.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Add a field to struct volume_group to later implement metadata
balancing:
- mda_copies: target # of non-ignored mdas in the VG; default 0 (do
not control pv 'ignore mdas' bit.
This patch just adds the parameter to the structures with the default
values but does not modify any commands. Should be no functional change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Arrange mdas so mdas that are to be ignored come first. This is an
optimization that ensures consistency on disk for the longest period of time.
This was noted by agk in review of the v4 patchset of pvchange-based mda
balance.
Note the following example for an explanation of the background:
Assume the initial state on disk is as follows:
PV0 (v1, non-ignored)
PV1 (v1, non-ignored)
PV2 (v1, non-ignored)
PV3 (v1, non-ignored)
If we did not sort the list, we would have a commit sequence something like
this:
PV0 (v2, non-ignored)
PV1 (v2, ignored)
PV2 (v2, ignored)
PV3 (v2, non-ignored)
After the commit of PV0's mdas, we'd have an on-disk state like this:
PV0 (v2, non-ignored)
PV1 (v1, non-ignored)
PV2 (v1, non-ignored)
PV3 (v1, non-ignored)
This is an inconsistent state of the disk. If the machine fails, the next
time it was brought back up, the auto-correct mechanism in vg_read would
update the metadata on PV1-PV3. However, if possible we try to avoid
inconsistent on-disk states. Clearly, because we did not sort, we have
a greater chance of on-disk inconsistency - from the time the commit of
PV0 is complete until the time PV3 is complete.
We could improve the amount of time the on-disk state is consistent by simply
sorting the commit order as follows:
PV1 (v2, ignored)
PV2 (v2, ignored)
PV0 (v2, non-ignored)
PV3 (v2, non-ignored)
Thus, after the first PV is committed (in this case PV1), on-disk we would
have:
PV0 (v1, non-ignored)
PV1 (v2, ignored)
PV2 (v1, non-ignored)
PV3 (v1, non-ignored)
This is clearly a consistent state. PV1 will be read but the mda will be
ignored. All other PVs contain v1 metadata, and no auto-correct will be
required. In fact, if we commit all PVs with ignored mdas first, we'll
only have an inconsistent state when we start writing non-ignored PVs,
and thus the chances we'll get an inconsistent state on disk is much
less with the sorted method.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
When we are constructing the vg, we may need to adjust the list of
metadata_areas if there are ignored mdas. At label read time, we
do not read the metadata of ignored mdas, and as a result, they do
not get placed on vg->fid->metadata_areas inside _text_create_text_instance
since lvmcache does not have these areas attached to vginfo->infos.
However, when we're checking the pvids inside _vg_read, after having
read another metadata area from another PV, we do have the opportunity
to update the metadata_area and metadata_areas_ignored lists based
on the read metadata_area. We need accurate mda lists for the reporting
functions that count the ignored mdas, as well as general correctness
of mda balancing.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
With the addition of ignored mdas, we replace all checks for an empty
mda list with a new function to look for either an empty mda list or
ignored mdas.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
Add a helper function to consolidate checking for an empty mdas list
or ignored mdas. Ignored mdas should behave almost identically to
an empty mda list - the metadata areas should not be read or written
to. This function will make it easier to implement metadata balancing
and easier to track pvs with an empty mda list or ignored mdas.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
We implement ignore of an mda at label_read time by checking for
the ignore bit, and then skipping the reading of the vgname and
other information in the metadata. This will have an effect similar
to a PV found with no mdas. Thus, it will look like an orphan in the
cache until we scan the rest of the system and find a PV with
metadata, and the mda will not be on the vg->fid->metadata_areas
list so no read/writes will be done to the metadata area.
Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@redhat.com>
