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* dm thin: fix discard corruptionJoe Thornber2013-03-201-22/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a bug in dm_btree_remove that could leave leaf values with incorrect reference counts. The effect of this was that removal of a shared block could result in the space maps thinking the block was no longer used. More concretely, if you have a thin device and a snapshot of it, sending a discard to a shared region of the thin could corrupt the snapshot. Thinp uses a 2-level nested btree to store it's mappings. This first level is indexed by thin device, and the second level by logical block. Often when we're removing an entry in this mapping tree we need to rebalance nodes, which can involve shadowing them, possibly creating a copy if the block is shared. If we do create a copy then children of that node need to have their reference counts incremented. In this way reference counts percolate down the tree as shared trees diverge. The rebalance functions were incrementing the children at the appropriate time, but they were always assuming the children were internal nodes. This meant the leaf values (in our case packed block/flags entries) were not being incremented. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm: add cache targetJoe Thornber2013-03-011-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a target that allows a fast device such as an SSD to be used as a cache for a slower device such as a disk. A plug-in architecture was chosen so that the decisions about which data to migrate and when are delegated to interchangeable tunable policy modules. The first general purpose module we have developed, called "mq" (multiqueue), follows in the next patch. Other modules are under development. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: add bitsetJoe Thornber2013-03-013-0/+329
| | | | | | | Add a persistent bitset as a wrapper around dm-array. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: add transactional arrayJoe Thornber2013-03-013-0/+975
| | | | | | | Add a transactional array. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: add btree_walkJoe Thornber2013-03-014-0/+69
| | | | | | | | Add dm_btree_walk to iterate through the contents of a btree. This will be used by the dm cache target. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: set some btree fn parms constMike Snitzer2013-03-011-3/+3
| | | | | | | Mark some constant parameters constant in some dm-btree functions. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTALKees Cook2013-03-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* hlist: drop the node parameter from iteratorsSasha Levin2013-02-271-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member) The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter: hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member) Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate. Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required: - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones. - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this was modified to use 'obj->member' instead. - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator properly, so those had to be fixed up manually. The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here: @@ iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host; type T; expression a,c,d,e; identifier b; statement S; @@ -T b; <+... when != b ( hlist_for_each_entry(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_from(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a, - b, c, d) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a, - b, c) S | for_each_busy_worker(a, c, - b, d) S | ax25_uid_for_each(a, - b, c) S | ax25_for_each(a, - b, c) S | inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sctp_for_each_hentry(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_rcu(a, - b, c) S | sk_for_each_from -(a, b) +(a) S + sk_for_each_from(a) S | sk_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | sk_for_each_bound(a, - b, c) S | hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a, - b, c, d, e) S | hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | nr_node_for_each(a, - b, c) S | nr_node_for_each_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S | - for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S + for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S | for_each_host(a, - b, c) S | for_each_host_safe(a, - b, c, d) S | for_each_mesh_entry(a, - b, c, d) S ) ...+> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes] Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c: rename HASH_SIZEAndrew Morton2013-02-231-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the warning: drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c:28:1: warning: "HASH_SIZE" redefined In file included from include/linux/elevator.h:5, from include/linux/blkdev.h:216, from drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-block-manager.h:11, from drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h:10, from drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c:6: include/linux/hashtable.h:22:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-12-217-70/+77
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm Pull dm update from Alasdair G Kergon: "Miscellaneous device-mapper fixes, cleanups and performance improvements. Of particular note: - Disable broken WRITE SAME support in all targets except linear and striped. Use it when kcopyd is zeroing blocks. - Remove several mempools from targets by moving the data into the bio's new front_pad area(which dm calls 'per_bio_data'). - Fix a race in thin provisioning if discards are misused. - Prevent userspace from interfering with the ioctl parameters and use kmalloc for the data buffer if it's small instead of vmalloc. - Throttle some annoying error messages when I/O fails." * tag 'dm-3.8-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-dm: (36 commits) dm stripe: add WRITE SAME support dm: remove map_info dm snapshot: do not use map_context dm thin: dont use map_context dm raid1: dont use map_context dm flakey: dont use map_context dm raid1: rename read_record to bio_record dm: move target request nr to dm_target_io dm snapshot: use per_bio_data dm verity: use per_bio_data dm raid1: use per_bio_data dm: introduce per_bio_data dm kcopyd: add WRITE SAME support to dm_kcopyd_zero dm linear: add WRITE SAME support dm: add WRITE SAME support dm: prepare to support WRITE SAME dm ioctl: use kmalloc if possible dm ioctl: remove PF_MEMALLOC dm persistent data: improve improve space map block alloc failure message dm thin: use DMERR_LIMIT for errors ...
| * dm persistent data: improve improve space map block alloc failure messageJoe Thornber2012-12-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve space map error message when unable to allocate a new metadata block. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
| * dm persistent data: use DMERR_LIMIT for errorsMike Snitzer2012-12-213-21/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nearly all of persistent-data is in the IO path so throttle error messages with DMERR_LIMIT to limit the amount logged when something has gone wrong. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
| * dm block manager: reinstate message when validator failsMike Snitzer2012-12-211-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reinstate a useful error message when the block manager buffer validator fails. This was mistakenly eliminated when the block manager was converted to use dm-bufio. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
| * dm persistent data: fix nested btree deletionJoe Thornber2012-12-211-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When deleting nested btrees, the code forgets to delete the innermost btree. The thin-metadata code serendipitously compensates for this by claiming there is one extra layer in the tree. This patch corrects both problems. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
| * dm persistent data: rename node to btree_nodeMikulas Patocka2012-12-214-47/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a compilation failure on sparc32 by renaming struct node. struct node is already defined in include/linux/node.h. On sparc32, it happens to be included through other dependencies and persistent-data doesn't compile because of conflicting declarations. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* | md: Fix typo in drivers/mdMasanari Iida2012-10-292-3/+3
|/ | | | | | | Correct spelling typo in drivers/md. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* dm persistent data: convert to use le32_add_cpuWei Yongjun2012-10-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Convert cpu_to_le32(le32_to_cpu(E1) + E2) to use le32_add_cpu(). dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch. (https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: introduce dm_bm_set_read_onlyJoe Thornber2012-07-272-0/+31
| | | | | | | | | | Introduce dm_bm_set_read_only to switch the block manager into a read-only mode. To be used when dm-thin degrades due to io errors on the metadata device. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in tmJoe Thornber2012-07-273-27/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stop using dm_bm_unlock_move when shadowing blocks in the transaction manager as an optimisation and remove the function as it is then no longer used. Some code, such as the space maps, keeps using on-disk data structures from the previous transaction. It can do this because blocks won't be reallocated until the subsequent transaction. Using dm_bm_unlock_move to copy blocks sounds like a win, but it forces a synchronous read should the old block be accessed. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: tidy transaction manager creation fnsJoe Thornber2012-07-273-40/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Tidy the transaction manager creation functions. They no longer lock the superblock. Superblock locking is pulled out to the caller. Also export dm_bm_write_lock_zero. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: create new dm_block_manager structJoe Thornber2012-07-271-20/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a separate struct for the block_manager. It also uses IS_ERR to check the return value of dm_bufio_client_create instead of testing incorrectly for NULL. Prior to this patch a struct dm_block_manager was really an alias for a struct dm_bufio_client. We want to add some functionality to the block manager that will require extra fields, so this one to one mapping is no longer valid. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: only commit space map if index changedJoe Thornber2012-07-272-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | Introduce bitmap_index_changed to track whether or not the index changed then only commit a space map if it did. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: always unlock superblock in dm_bm_flush_and_unlockJoe Thornber2012-07-271-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unlock the superblock even if initial dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers fails. Also, remove redundant flush calls. dm_bm_flush_and_unlock's calls to dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers already result in dm_bufio_issue_flush being called. This avoids warnings about unflushed dirty buffers from bufio. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: remove debug space map checkerJoe Thornber2012-07-275-525/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove debug space map checker from dm persistent data. The space map checker is a wrapper for other space maps that double checks the reference counts are correct. It holds all these reference counts in memory rather than on disk, so uses a lot of memory and is thus restricted to small pools. As yet, this checker hasn't found any issues, but has caused a few of its own due to people turning it on by default with larger pools. Removing. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: fix allocation failure in space map checker initMike Snitzer2012-07-031-11/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_DM_DEBUG_SPACE_MAPS is enabled and memory is fragmented and a sufficiently-large metadata device is used in a thin pool then the space map checker will fail to allocate the memory it requires. Switch from kmalloc to vmalloc to allow larger virtually contiguous allocations for the space map checker's internal count arrays. Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: handle space map checker creation failureMike Snitzer2012-07-033-15/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If CONFIG_DM_DEBUG_SPACE_MAPS is enabled and dm_sm_checker_create() fails, dm_tm_create_internal() would still return success even though it cleaned up all resources it was supposed to have created. This will lead to a kernel crash: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ... RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81593659>] [<ffffffff81593659>] dm_bufio_get_block_size+0x9/0x20 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81599bae>] dm_bm_block_size+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff8159b8b8>] sm_ll_init+0x78/0xd0 [<ffffffff8159c1a6>] sm_ll_new_disk+0x16/0xa0 [<ffffffff8159c98e>] dm_sm_disk_create+0xfe/0x160 [<ffffffff815abf6e>] dm_pool_metadata_open+0x16e/0x6a0 [<ffffffff815aa010>] pool_ctr+0x3f0/0x900 [<ffffffff8158d565>] dm_table_add_target+0x195/0x450 [<ffffffff815904c4>] table_load+0xe4/0x330 [<ffffffff815917ea>] ctl_ioctl+0x15a/0x2c0 [<ffffffff81591963>] dm_ctl_ioctl+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff8116a4f8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x560 [<ffffffff8116aa51>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0 [<ffffffff81869f52>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Fix the space map checker code to return an appropriate ERR_PTR and have dm_sm_disk_create() and dm_tm_create_internal() check for it with IS_ERR. Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: fix shadow_info_leak on dm_tm_destroyMike Snitzer2012-07-031-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Cleanup the shadow table before destroying the transaction manager. Reference: leak was identified with kmemleak when running test_discard_random_sectors in the thinp-test-suite. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadataJoe Thornber2012-06-031-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements two new messages that can be sent to the thin pool target allowing it to take a snapshot of the _metadata_. This, read-only snapshot can be accessed by userland, concurrently with the live target. Only one metadata snapshot can be held at a time. The pool's status line will give the block location for the current msnap. Since version 0.1.5 of the userland thin provisioning tools, the thin_dump program displays the msnap as follows: thin_dump -m <msnap root> <metadata dev> Available here: https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools Now that userland can access the metadata we can do various things that have traditionally been kernel side tasks: i) Incremental backups. By using metadata snapshots we can work out what blocks have changed over time. Combined with data snapshots we can ensure the data doesn't change while we back it up. A short proof of concept script can be found here: https://github.com/jthornber/thinp-test-suite/blob/master/incremental_backup_example.rb ii) Migration of thin devices from one pool to another. iii) Merging snapshots back into an external origin. iv) Asyncronous replication. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: remove space map ref_count entries if redundantJoe Thornber2012-03-281-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Save space by removing entries from the space map ref_count tree if they're no longer needed. Ref counts are stored in two places: a bitmap if the ref_count is below 3, or a btree of uint32_t if 3 or above. When a ref_count that was above 3 drops below we can remove it from the tree and save some metadata space. This removal was commented out before because I was unsure why this was causing under-populated btree nodes. Earlier patches have fixed this issue. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: remove redundant value_size arg from value_ptrJoe Thornber2012-03-283-33/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the value_size is held within every node of the btrees we can remove this argument from value_ptr(). For the last few months a BUG_ON has been checking this argument is the same as that held in the node. No issues were reported. So this is a safe change. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* dm persistent data: fix btree rebalancing after removeJoe Thornber2012-03-281-75/+99
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we remove an entry from a node we sometimes rebalance with it's two neighbours. This wasn't being done correctly; in some cases entries have to move all the way from the right neighbour to the left neighbour, or vice versa. This patch pretty much re-writes the balancing code to fix it. This code is barely used currently; only when you delete a thin device, and then only if you have hundreds of them in the same pool. Once we have discard support, which removes mappings, this will be used much more heavily. Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
* device-mapper: using EXPORT_SYBOL in dm-space-map-checker.c needs export.hStephen Rothwell2011-11-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* drivers/md: change module.h -> export.h in persistent-data/dm-*Paul Gortmaker2011-11-074-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | For the files which are not themselves modular, we can change them to include only the smaller export.h since all they are doing is looking for EXPORT_SYMBOL. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* dm: add persistent data libraryJoe Thornber2011-10-3121-0/+5625
The persistent-data library offers a re-usable framework for the storage and management of on-disk metadata in device-mapper targets. It's used by the thin-provisioning target in the next patch and in an upcoming hierarchical storage target. For further information, please read Documentation/device-mapper/persistent-data.txt Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>