From: Joe Thornber Subject: [PATCH 2/4] [persistent-data] change the semantics of dm_tm_commit(). Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:13:21 +0000 Message-ID: <1395929603-14604-3-git-send-email-ejt@redhat.com> References: <1395929603-14604-1-git-send-email-ejt@redhat.com> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1395929603-14604-1-git-send-email-ejt@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: dm-devel@redhat.com Cc: Joe Thornber List-Id: dm-devel.ids Now it assumes all data has been flushed apart from the single superblock passed in. --- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c | 5 +++-- drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h | 17 ++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c index 81da1a2..3bc30a0 100644 --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.c @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ int dm_tm_pre_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm) if (r < 0) return r; - return 0; + return dm_bm_flush(tm->bm); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_tm_pre_commit); @@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ int dm_tm_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, struct dm_block *root) return -EWOULDBLOCK; wipe_shadow_table(tm); + dm_bm_unlock(root); - return dm_bm_flush_and_unlock(tm->bm, root); + return dm_bm_flush(tm->bm); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_tm_commit); diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h index b5b1390..2772ed2 100644 --- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h +++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-transaction-manager.h @@ -38,18 +38,17 @@ struct dm_transaction_manager *dm_tm_create_non_blocking_clone(struct dm_transac /* * We use a 2-phase commit here. * - * i) In the first phase the block manager is told to start flushing, and - * the changes to the space map are written to disk. You should interrogate - * your particular space map to get detail of its root node etc. to be - * included in your superblock. + * i) Make all changes for the transaction *except* for the superblock. + * Then call dm_tm_pre_commit() to flush them to disk. * - * ii) @root will be committed last. You shouldn't use more than the - * first 512 bytes of @root if you wish the transaction to survive a power - * failure. You *must* have a write lock held on @root for both stage (i) - * and (ii). The commit will drop the write lock. + * ii) Lock your superblock. Update. Then call dm_tm_commit() which will + * unlock the superblock and flush it. No other blocks should be updated + * during this period. Care should be taken to never unlock a partially + * updated superblock; perform any operations that could fail *before* you + * take the superblock lock. */ int dm_tm_pre_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm); -int dm_tm_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, struct dm_block *root); +int dm_tm_commit(struct dm_transaction_manager *tm, struct dm_block *superblock); /* * These methods are the only way to get hold of a writeable block. -- 1.7.10.4