[dm-devel] dm-raid: add RAID discard support

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:32:37 -0400 Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30 2014 at 10:56pm -0400,
> NeilBrown <neilb at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:02:28 +0200 Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Martin,
> > > 
> > > thanks for the good explanation of the state of the discard union.
> > > Do you have an ETA for the 'zeroout, deallocate' ... support you mentioned?
> > > 
> > > I was planning to have a followup patch for dm-raid supporting a dm-raid 
> > > table
> > > line argument to prohibit discard passdown.
> > > 
> > > In lieu of the fuzzy field situation wrt SSD fw and discard_zeroes_data 
> > > support
> > > related to RAID4/5/6, we need that in upstream together with the initial 
> > > patch.
> > > 
> > > That 'no_discard_passdown' table line can be added to dm-raid RAID4/5/6 
> > > table
> > > lines to avoid possible data corruption but can be avoided on RAID1/10 
> > > table lines,
> > > because the latter are not suffering from any  discard_zeroes_data flaw.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Neil,
> > > 
> > > are you going to disable discards in RAID4/5/6 shortly
> > > or rather go with your bitmap solution?
> > 
> > Can I just close my eyes and hope it goes away?
> > 
> > The idea of a bitmap of uninitialised areas is not a short-term solution.
> > But I'm not really keen on simply disabling discard for RAID4/5/6 either. It
> > would  mean that people with good sensible hardware wouldn't be able to use
> > it properly.
> > 
> > I would really rather that discard_zeroes_data were only set on devices where
> > it was actually true.  Then it wouldn't be my problem any more.
> > 
> > Maybe I could do a loud warning
> >   "Not enabling DISCARD on RAID5 because we cannot trust committees.
> >    Set "md_mod.willing_to_risk_discard=Y" if your devices reads discarded
> >    sectors as zeros"
> > 
> > and add an appropriate module parameter......
> 
> I had the same thought and would be happy with this too.  I was going to
> update Heinz's patch to have the same default off but allow user to
> enable:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=8e0cff64f35971135a6de7907bbc8c3a010aff8f
> 
> But I'd love to just follow what you arrive at with MD (using the same
> name for the module param in dm-raid).
> 
> I'm open to getting this done now and included in 3.18 if you are.
> 
> Mike

How about something like this?
I want to keep it well away from regular API stuff as I hope it is just a
temporary hack until a more general solution can be found and implemented.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 183588b11fc1..3ed668c5378c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
 #define cpu_to_group(cpu) cpu_to_node(cpu)
 #define ANY_GROUP NUMA_NO_NODE
 
+static bool devices_handle_discard_safely = false;
+module_param(devices_handle_discard_safely, bool, false);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(devices_handle_discard_safely,
+		 "Set to Y if all devices in array reliably return zeroes on reads from discarded regions");
 static struct workqueue_struct *raid5_wq;
 /*
  * Stripe cache
@@ -6208,7 +6212,7 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev)
 		mddev->queue->limits.discard_granularity = stripe;
 		/*
 		 * unaligned part of discard request will be ignored, so can't
-		 * guarantee discard_zerors_data
+		 * guarantee discard_zeroes_data
 		 */
 		mddev->queue->limits.discard_zeroes_data = 0;
 
@@ -6233,6 +6237,18 @@ static int run(struct mddev *mddev)
 			    !bdev_get_queue(rdev->bdev)->
 						limits.discard_zeroes_data)
 				discard_supported = false;
+			/* Unfortunately, discard_zeroes_data is not currently
+			 * a guarantee - just a hint.  So we only allow DISCARD
+			 * if the sysadmin has confirmed that only safe devices
+			 * are in use but setting a module parameter.
+			 */
+			if (!devices_handle_discard_safely) {
+				if (discard_supported) {
+					pr_info("md/raid456: discard support disabled due to uncertainty.\n");
+					pr_info("Set raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y to override.\n");
+				}
+				discard_supported = false;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (discard_supported &&
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