Hold all write bios when leg fails and errors are handled
When using a userspace daemon such as dmeventd to handle errors, we must
delay completing bios until it has done its job.
This patch prevents the following race:
- primary leg fails
- write "1" fail, the write is held, secondary leg is set default
- write "2" goes straight to the secondary leg
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Hold all write bios when errors are handled.
Previously the failures list was used only when handling errors with
a userspace daemon such as dmeventd. Now, it is always used for all bios.
The regions where some writes failed must be marked as nosync. This can only
be done in process context (i.e. in raid1 workqueue), not in the
write_callback function.
Previously the write would succeed if writing to at least one leg
succeeded. This is wrong because data from the failed leg may be
replicated to the correct leg. Now, if using a userspace daemon, the
write with some failures will be held until the daemon has done its job
and reconfigured the array. If not using a daemon, the write still
succeeds if at least one leg succeeds. This is bad, but it is consistent
with current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move bio completion out of dm_rh_mark_nosync in preparation for the
next patch.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move the logic to get a valid mirror leg into a function for re-use
in a later patch.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Use the hold framework in do_failures.
This patch doesn't change the bio processing logic, it just simplifies
failure handling and avoids periodically polling the failures list.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add framework to delay bios until a suspend and then resubmit them with
either DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE (if the suspend was noflush) or complete them
with -EIO. I/O barrier support will use this.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Report flush errors as 'F' instead of 'D' for log and mirror devices.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Implement flush callee. It uses dm_io to send zero-size barrier synchronously
and concurrently to all the mirror legs.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Introduce a callback pointer from the log to dm-raid1 layer.
Before some region is set as "in-sync", we need to flush hardware cache on
all the disks. But the log module doesn't have access to the mirror_set
structure. So it will use this callback.
So far the callback is unused, it will be used in further patches.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Flush support for dm-raid1.
When it receives an empty barrier, submit it to all the devices via dm-io.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch fixes a bug which was triggering a case where the primary leg
could not be changed on failure even when the mirror was in-sync.
The case involves the failure of the primary device along with
the transient failure of the log device. The problem is that
bios can be put on the 'failures' list (due to log failure)
before 'fail_mirror' is called due to the primary device failure.
Normally, this is fine, but if the log device failure is transient,
a subsequent iteration of the work thread, 'do_mirror', will
reset 'log_failure'. The 'do_failures' function then resets
the 'in_sync' variable when processing bios on the failures list.
The 'in_sync' variable is what is used to determine if the
primary device can be switched in the event of a failure. Since
this has been reset, the primary device is incorrectly assumed
to be not switchable.
The case has been seen in the cluster mirror context, where one
machine realizes the log device is dead before the other machines.
As the responsibilities of the server migrate from one node to
another (because the mirror is being reconfigured due to the failure),
the new server may think for a moment that the log device is fine -
thus resetting the 'log_failure' variable.
In any case, it is inappropiate for us to reset the 'log_failure'
variable. The above bug simply illustrates that it can actually
hurt us.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Incorrect device area lengths are being passed to device_area_is_valid().
The regression appeared in 2.6.31-rc1 through commit
754c5fc7eb.
With the dm-stripe target, the size of the target (ti->len) was used
instead of the stripe_width (ti->len/#stripes). An example of a
consequent incorrect error message is:
device-mapper: table: 254:0: sdb too small for target
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The recent commit 7513c2a761 (dm raid1:
add is_remote_recovering hook for clusters) changed do_writes() to
update the ms->writes list but forgot to wake up kmirrord to process it.
The rule is that when anything is being added on ms->reads, ms->writes
or ms->failures and the list was empty before we must call
wakeup_mirrord (for immediate processing) or delayed_wake (for delayed
processing). Otherwise the bios could sit on the list indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add .iterate_devices to 'struct target_type' to allow a function to be
called for all devices in a DM target. Implemented it for all targets
except those in dm-snap.c (origin and snapshot).
(The raid1 version number jumps to 1.12 because we originally reserved
1.1 to 1.11 for 'block_on_error' but ended up using 'handle_errors'
instead.)
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: martin.petersen@oracle.com
It's used by DM and MD and generally useful, so move the bio list
helpers into bio.h.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The logging API needs an extra function to make cluster mirroring
possible. This new function allows us to check whether a mirror
region is being recovered on another machine in the cluster. This
helps us prevent simultaneous recovery I/O and process I/O to the
same locations on disk.
Cluster-aware log modules will implement this function. Single
machine log modules will not. So, there is no performance
penalty for single machine mirrors.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
With my previous patch to save bi_io_vec, the size of dm_raid1_read_record
is significantly increased (the vector list takes 3072 bytes on 32-bit machines
and 4096 bytes on 64-bit machines).
The structure dm_raid1_read_record used to be allocated with kmalloc,
but kmalloc aligns the size on the next power-of-two so an object
slightly greater than 4096 will allocate 8192 bytes of memory and half of
that memory will be wasted.
This patch turns kmalloc into a slab cache which doesn't have this
padding so it will reduce the memory consumed.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move log size validation from mirror target to log constructor.
Removed PAGE_SIZE restriction we no longer think necessary.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Change dm_unregister_target to return void and use BUG() for error
reporting.
dm_unregister_target can only fail because of programming bug in the
target driver. It can't fail because of user's behavior or disk errors.
This patch changes unregister_target to return void and use BUG if
someone tries to unregister non-registered target or unregister target
that is in use.
This patch removes code duplication (testing of error codes in all dm
targets) and reports bugs in just one place, in dm_unregister_target. In
some target drivers, these return codes were ignored, which could lead
to a situation where bugs could be missed.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Always increase the error count when I/O on a leg of a mirror fails.
The error count is used to decide whether to select an alternative
mirror leg. If the target doesn't use the "handle_errors" feature, the
error count is not updated and the bio can get requeued forever by the
read callback.
Fix it by increasing error_count before the handle_errors feature
checking.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
We queue work on keventd queue --- so this queue must be flushed in the
destructor. Otherwise, keventd could access mirror_set after it was freed.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Separate the region hash code from raid1 so it can be shared by forthcoming
targets. Use BUG_ON() for failed async dm_io() calls.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Change #include "dm.h" to #include <linux/device-mapper.h> in all targets.
Targets should not need direct access to internal DM structures.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move array_too_big to include/linux/device-mapper.h because it is
used by targets.
Remove the test from dm-raid1 as the number of mirror legs is limited
such that it can never fail. (Even for stripes it seems rather
unlikely.)
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
dm-raid1 is setting the 'DM_KCOPYD_IGNORE_ERROR' flag unconditionally
when assigning kcopyd work. kcopyd is responsible for copying an
assigned section of disk to one or more other disks. The
'DM_KCOPYD_IGNORE_ERROR' flag affects kcopyd in the following way:
When not set:
kcopyd will immediately stop the copy operation when an error is
encountered.
When set:
kcopyd will try to proceed regardless of errors and try to continue
copying any remaining amount.
Since dm-raid1 tracks regions of the address space that are (or
are not) in sync and it now has the ability to handle these
errors, we can safely enable this optimization. This optimization
is conditional on whether mirror error handling has been enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Remove an avoidable 3ms delay on some dm-raid1 and kcopyd I/O.
It is specified that any submitted bio without BIO_RW_SYNC flag may plug the
queue (i.e. block the requests from being dispatched to the physical device).
The queue is unplugged when the caller calls blk_unplug() function. Usually, the
sequence is that someone calls submit_bh to submit IO on a buffer. The IO plugs
the queue and waits (to be possibly joined with other adjacent bios). Then, when
the caller calls wait_on_buffer(), it unplugs the queue and submits the IOs to
the disk.
This was happenning:
When doing O_SYNC writes, function fsync_buffers_list() submits a list of
bios to dm_raid1, the bios are added to dm_raid1 write queue and kmirrord is
woken up.
fsync_buffers_list() calls wait_on_buffer(). That unplugs the queue, but
there are no bios on the device queue as they are still in the dm_raid1 queue.
wait_on_buffer() starts waiting until the IO is finished.
kmirrord is scheduled, kmirrord takes bios and submits them to the devices.
The submitted bio plugs the harddisk queue but there is no one to unplug it.
(The process that called wait_on_buffer() is already sleeping.)
So there is a 3ms timeout, after which the queues on the harddisks are
unplugged and requests are processed.
This 3ms timeout meant that in certain workloads (e.g. O_SYNC, 8kb writes),
dm-raid1 is 10 times slower than md raid1.
Every time we submit something asynchronously via dm_io, we must unplug the
queue actually to send the request to the device.
This patch adds an unplug call to kmirrord - while processing requests, it keeps
the queue plugged (so that adjacent bios can be merged); when it finishes
processing all the bios, it unplugs the queue to submit the bios.
It also fixes kcopyd which has the same potential problem. All kcopyd requests
are submitted with BIO_RW_SYNC.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This patch replaces the schedule() in the main kmirrord thread with a timer.
The schedule() could introduce an unwanted delay when work is ready to be
processed.
The code instead calls wake() when there's work to be done immediately, and
delayed_wake() after a failure to give a short delay before retrying.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Clean up the dm-log interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Clean up the kcopyd interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Clean up the dm-io interface to prepare for publishing it in include/linux.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Move the dirty region log code into a separate module so
other targets can share the code.
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
write_err is an unsigned long used with set_bit() so should not be passed
around as unsigned int.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10271
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes two NULL dereferences introduced by commit
06386bbfd2 and spotted by the Coverity
checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
test_and_set_bit() on address of uint32_t is a Bad Idea(tm)...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds extra information to the mirror status output, so that
it can be determined which device(s) have failed. For each mirror device,
a character is printed indicating the most severe error encountered. The
characters are:
* A => Alive - No failures
* D => Dead - A write failure occurred leaving mirror out-of-sync
* S => Sync - A sychronization failure occurred, mirror out-of-sync
* R => Read - A read failure occurred, mirror data unaffected
This allows userspace to properly reconfigure the mirror set.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch gives the ability to respond-to/record device failures
that happen during read operations. It also adds the ability to
read from mirror devices that are not the primary if they are
in-sync.
There are essentially two read paths in mirroring; the direct path
and the queued path. When a read request is mapped, if the region
is 'in-sync' the direct path is taken; otherwise the queued path
is taken.
If the direct path is taken, we must record bio information so that
if the read fails we can retry it. We then discover the status of
a direct read through mirror_end_io. If the read has failed, we will
mark the device from which the read was attempted as failed (so we
don't try to read from it again), restore the bio and try again.
If the queued path is taken, we discover the results of the read
from 'read_callback'. If the device failed, we will mark the device
as failed and attempt the read again if there is another device
where this region is known to be 'in-sync'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adds the ability to requeue write I/O to
core device-mapper when there is a log device failure.
If a write to the log produces and error, the pending writes are
put on the "failures" list. Since the log is marked as failed,
they will stay on the failures list until a suspend happens.
Suspends come in two phases, presuspend and postsuspend. We must
make sure that all the writes on the failures list are requeued
in the presuspend phase (a requirement of dm core). This means
that recovery must be complete (because writes may be delayed
behind it) and the failures list must be requeued before we
return from presuspend.
The mechanisms to ensure recovery is complete (or stopped) was
already in place, but needed to be moved from postsuspend to
presuspend. We rely on 'flush_workqueue' to ensure that the
mirror thread is complete and therefore, has requeued all writes
in the failures list.
Because we are using flush_workqueue, we must ensure that no
additional 'queue_work' calls will produce additional I/O
that we need to requeue (because once we return from
presuspend, we are unable to do anything about it). 'queue_work'
is called in response to the following functions:
- complete_resync_work = NA, recovery is stopped
- rh_dec (mirror_end_io) = NA, only calls 'queue_work' if it
is ready to recover the region
(recovery is stopped) or it needs
to clear the region in the log*
**this doesn't get called while
suspending**
- rh_recovery_end = NA, recovery is stopped
- rh_recovery_start = NA, recovery is stopped
- write_callback = 1) Writes w/o failures simply call
bio_endio -> mirror_end_io -> rh_dec
(see rh_dec above)
2) Writes with failures are put on
the failures list and queue_work is
called**
** write_callbacks don't happen
during suspend **
- do_failures = NA, 'queue_work' not called if suspending
- add_mirror (initialization) = NA, only done on mirror creation
- queue_bio = NA, 1) delayed I/O scheduled before flush_workqueue
is called. 2) No more I/Os are being issued.
3) Re-attempted READs can still be handled.
(Write completions are handled through rh_dec/
write_callback - mention above - and do not
use queue_bio.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adds the calls to 'fail_mirror' if an error occurs during
mirror recovery (aka resynchronization). 'fail_mirror' is responsible
for recording the type of error by mirror device and ensuring an event
gets raised for the purpose of notifying userspace.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch gives mirror the ability to handle device failures
during normal write operations.
The 'write_callback' function is called when a write completes.
If all the writes failed or succeeded, we report failure or
success respectively. If some of the writes failed, we call
fail_mirror; which increments the error count for the device, notes
the type of error encountered (DM_RAID1_WRITE_ERROR), and
selects a new primary (if necessary). Note that the primary
device can never change while the mirror is not in-sync (IOW,
while recovery is happening.) This means that the scenario
where a failed write changes the primary and gives
recovery_complete a chance to misread the primary never happens.
The fact that the primary can change has necessitated the change
to the default_mirror field. We need to protect against reading
garbage while the primary changes. We then add the bio to a new
list in the mirror set, 'failures'. For every bio in the 'failures'
list, we call a new function, '__bio_mark_nosync', where we mark
the region 'not-in-sync' in the log and properly set the region
state as, RH_NOSYNC. Userspace must also be notified of the
failure. This is done by 'raising an event' (dm_table_event()).
If fail_mirror is called in process context the event can be raised
right away. If in interrupt context, the event is deferred to the
kmirrord thread - which raises the event if 'event_waiting' is set.
Backwards compatibility is maintained by ignoring errors if
the DM_FEATURES_HANDLE_ERRORS flag is not present.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Store a pointer to the owning mirror_set structure within each mirror
structure for a subsequent patch to use.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
There are now two phases to a suspend in device-mapper -
presuspend and postsuspend. This patch removes the
single 'suspend' in the logging API and replaces it with
'presuspend' and 'postsuspend' functions to align it
better with core device-mapper.
A subsequent patch will make use of 'presuspend'.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Replacing n & (n - 1) for power of 2 check by is_power_of_2(n)
Signed-off-by: vignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,
the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it.
Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed
from bi_size. So don't do that either.
While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).
Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:
@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@
x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
(E1,E2)
... when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);
@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@
- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When writing to a mirror, the log must be updated first. Failure
to update the log could result in the log not properly reflecting
the state of the mirror if the machine should crash.
We change the return type of the rh_flush function to give us
the ability to check if a log write was successful. If the
log write was unsuccessful, we fail the writes to avoid the
case where the log does not properly reflect the state of the
mirror.
A follow-up patch - which is dependent on the ability to
requeue I/O's to core device-mapper - will requeue the I/O's
for retry (allowing the mirror to be reconfigured.)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>