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Joe Thornber 989f26f5ad dm era: check for a non-NULL metadata object before closing it
era_ctr() may call era_destroy() before era->md is initialized so
era_destory() must only close the metadata object if it is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naota@elisp.net>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.15+
2014-06-03 13:44:08 -04:00
Joe Thornber 5a32083d03 dm: take care to copy the space map roots before locking the superblock
In theory copying the space map root can fail, but in practice it never
does because we're careful to check what size buffer is needed.

But make certain we're able to copy the space map roots before
locking the superblock.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # drop dm-era and dm-cache changes as needed
2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00
Joe Thornber eec40579d8 dm: add era target
dm-era is a target that behaves similar to the linear target.  In
addition it keeps track of which blocks were written within a user
defined period of time called an 'era'.  Each era target instance
maintains the current era as a monotonically increasing 32-bit
counter.

Use cases include tracking changed blocks for backup software, and
partially invalidating the contents of a cache to restore cache
coherency after rolling back a vendor snapshot.

dm-era is primarily expected to be paired with the dm-cache target.

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2014-03-27 16:56:23 -04:00