Revision 3e1a0699095803e53072699a4a1485af7744601d authored by Joe Thornber on 03 March 2014, 16:03:26 UTC, committed by Mike Snitzer on 05 March 2014, 20:26:58 UTC
Ideally a thin pool would never run out of data space; the low water
mark would trigger userland to extend the pool before we completely run
out of space.  However, many small random IOs to unprovisioned space can
consume data space at an alarming rate.  Adjust your low water mark if
you're frequently seeing "out-of-data-space" mode.

Before this fix, if data space ran out the pool would be put in
PM_READ_ONLY mode which also aborted the pool's current metadata
transaction (data loss for any changes in the transaction).  This had a
side-effect of needlessly compromising data consistency.  And retry of
queued unserviceable bios, once the data pool was resized, could
initiate changes to potentially inconsistent pool metadata.

Now when the pool's data space is exhausted transition to a new pool
mode (PM_OUT_OF_DATA_SPACE) that allows metadata to be changed but data
may not be allocated.  This allows users to remove thin volumes or
discard data to recover data space.

The pool is no longer put in PM_READ_ONLY mode in response to the pool
running out of data space.  And PM_READ_ONLY mode no longer aborts the
pool's current metadata transaction.  Also, set_pool_mode() will now
notify userspace when the pool mode is changed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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dummy.h
/*
 * dummy.h
 *
 * Copyright 2010 Wolfson Microelectronics PLC.
 *
 * Author: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
 * License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This is useful for systems with mixed controllable and
 * non-controllable regulators, as well as for allowing testing on
 * systems with no controllable regulators.
 */

#ifndef _DUMMY_H
#define _DUMMY_H

struct regulator_dev;

extern struct regulator_dev *dummy_regulator_rdev;

void __init regulator_dummy_init(void);

#endif
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