Commit 20acf447 authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

dm cache metadata: save in-core policy_hint_size to on-disk superblock

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792419

commit fd2fa954 upstream.

policy_hint_size starts as 0 during __write_initial_superblock().  It
isn't until the policy is loaded that policy_hint_size is set in-core
(cmd->policy_hint_size).  But it never got recorded in the on-disk
superblock because __commit_transaction() didn't deal with transfering
the in-core cmd->policy_hint_size to the on-disk superblock.

The in-core cmd->policy_hint_size gets initialized by metadata_open()'s
__begin_transaction_flags() which re-reads all superblock fields.
Because the superblock's policy_hint_size was never properly stored, when
the cache was created, hints_array_available() would always return false
when re-activating a previously created cache.  This means
__load_mappings() always considered the hints invalid and never made use
of the hints (these hints served to optimize).

Another detremental side-effect of this oversight is the cache_check
utility would fail with: "invalid hint width: 0"

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 47cc69f3
......@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static int __write_initial_superblock(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd)
disk_super->version = cpu_to_le32(MAX_CACHE_VERSION);
memset(disk_super->policy_name, 0, sizeof(disk_super->policy_name));
memset(disk_super->policy_version, 0, sizeof(disk_super->policy_version));
disk_super->policy_hint_size = 0;
disk_super->policy_hint_size = cpu_to_le32(0);
__copy_sm_root(cmd, disk_super);
......@@ -652,6 +652,7 @@ static int __commit_transaction(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd,
disk_super->policy_version[0] = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_version[0]);
disk_super->policy_version[1] = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_version[1]);
disk_super->policy_version[2] = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_version[2]);
disk_super->policy_hint_size = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_hint_size);
disk_super->read_hits = cpu_to_le32(cmd->stats.read_hits);
disk_super->read_misses = cpu_to_le32(cmd->stats.read_misses);
......
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