[linux-lvm] LVM 2.0/Device-Mapper 1.0 update

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 08:18:03PM +0100, Alasdair Kergon wrote:
> Well, many thanks for producing all the diagnostics: 
> I don't know what's wrong yet, but I have managed to
> reproduce your setup on a test machine here and 
> I reproduced the problem 5 minutes ago.
 
I attach a patch which should workaround the problem.

Memory that is still referenced gets freed if pvmove
tries to move more than 8 LV segments at once, so all
pvmove (dm_mirror target) users should apply this patch.

It's in CVS now, and I'll update the tarball on the ftp site
to 1.00.04.

Alasdair
-- 
agk at uk.sistina.com
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Supply #targets when creating a table to avoid needing to extend it later.
--- linux-2.4.21/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c	Mon Aug 18 21:24:26 2003
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c	Fri Aug 22 13:49:01 2003
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@
 	struct hash_cell *hc;
 	struct dm_table *t;
 
-	r = dm_table_create(&t, get_mode(param));
+	r = dm_table_create(&t, get_mode(param), param->target_count);
 	if (r)
 		return r;
 
--- linux-2.4.21/drivers/md/dm-table.c	Tue Aug 19 15:43:50 2003
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-table.c	Fri Aug 22 14:48:50 2003
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int dm_table_create(struct dm_table **result, int mode)
+int dm_table_create(struct dm_table **result, int mode, unsigned num_targets)
 {
 	struct dm_table *t = kmalloc(sizeof(*t), GFP_NOIO);
 
@@ -159,8 +159,10 @@
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&t->devices);
 	atomic_set(&t->holders, 1);
 
-	/* allocate a single nodes worth of targets to begin with */
-	if (alloc_targets(t, KEYS_PER_NODE)) {
+	if (!num_targets)
+		num_targets = KEYS_PER_NODE;
+
+	if (alloc_targets(t, num_targets)) {
 		kfree(t);
 		t = NULL;
 		return -ENOMEM;
--- linux-2.4.21/drivers/md/dm.h	Sat Jul 12 17:06:52 2003
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm.h	Fri Aug 22 13:50:19 2003
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@
  * Functions for manipulating a table.  Tables are also reference
  * counted.
  *---------------------------------------------------------------*/
-int dm_table_create(struct dm_table **result, int mode);
+int dm_table_create(struct dm_table **result, int mode, unsigned num_targets);
 
 void dm_table_get(struct dm_table *t);
 void dm_table_put(struct dm_table *t);