[04/15] bcache: rewrite multiple partitions support

Commit Message

Michael Lyle Oct. 13, 2017, 11:35 p.m. UTC

From: Coly Li <[e-mail]>

Current partition support of bcache is confusing and buggy. It tries to
trace non-continuous device minor numbers by an ida bit string, and
mistakenly mixed bcache device index with minor numbers. This design
generates several negative results,
- Index of bcache device name is not consecutive under /dev/. If there are
  3 bcache devices, they name will be,
  /dev/bcache0, /dev/bcache16, /dev/bcache32
  Only bcache code indexes bcache device name is such an interesting way.
- First minor number of each bcache device is traced by ida bit string.
  One bcache device will occupy 16 bits, this is not a good idea. Indeed
  only one bit is enough.
- Because minor number and bcache device index are mixed, a device index
  is allocated by ida_simple_get(), but an first minor number is sent into
  ida_simple_remove() to release the device. It confused original author
  too.

Root cause of the above errors is, bcache code should not handle device
minor numbers at all! A standard process to support multiple partitions in
Linux kernel is,
- Device driver provides major device number, and indexes multiple device
  instances.
- Device driver does not allocat nor trace device minor number, only
  provides a first minor number of a given device instance, and sets how
  many minor numbers (paritions) the device instance may have.
All rested stuffs are handled by block layer code, most of the details can
be found from block/{genhd, partition-generic}.c files.

This patch re-writes multiple partitions support for bcache. It makes
whole things to be more clear, and uses ida bit string in a more efficeint
way.
- Ida bit string only traces bcache device index, not minor number. For a
  bcache device with 128 partitions, only one bit in ida bit string is
  enough.
- Device minor number and device index are separated in concept. Device
  index is used for /dev node naming, and ida bit string trace. Minor
  number is calculated from device index and only used to initialize
  first_minor of a bcache device.
- It does not follow any standard for 16 partitions on a bcache device.
  This patch sets 128 partitions on single bcache device at max, this is
  the limitation from GPT (GUID Partition Table) and supported by fdisk.

Considering a typical device minor number is 20 bits width, each bcache
device may have 128 partitions (7 bits), there can be 8192 bcache devices
existing on system. For most common deployment for a single server in
now days, it should be enough.

[minor spelling fixes in commit message by Michael Lyle]

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <[e-mail]>
Cc: Eric Wheeler <[e-mail]>
Cc: Junhui Tang <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Michael Lyle <[e-mail]>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index fc0a31b13ac4..a478d1ac0480 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -53,12 +53,15 @@  LIST_HEAD(bch_cache_sets);
 static LIST_HEAD(uncached_devices);
 
 static int bcache_major;
-static DEFINE_IDA(bcache_minor);
+static DEFINE_IDA(bcache_device_idx);
 static wait_queue_head_t unregister_wait;
 struct workqueue_struct *bcache_wq;
 
 #define BTREE_MAX_PAGES		(256 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE)
-#define BCACHE_MINORS		16 /* partition support */
+/* limitation of partitions number on single bcache device */
+#define BCACHE_MINORS		128
+/* limitation of bcache devices number on single system */
+#define BCACHE_DEVICE_IDX_MAX	((1U << MINORBITS)/BCACHE_MINORS)
 
 /* Superblock */
 
@@ -721,6 +724,16 @@  static void bcache_device_attach(struct bcache_device *d, struct cache_set *c,
 	closure_get(&c->caching);
 }
 
+static inline int first_minor_to_idx(int first_minor)
+{
+	return (first_minor/BCACHE_MINORS);
+}
+
+static inline int idx_to_first_minor(int idx)
+{
+	return (idx * BCACHE_MINORS);
+}
+
 static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d)
 {
 	lockdep_assert_held(&bch_register_lock);
@@ -734,7 +747,8 @@  static void bcache_device_free(struct bcache_device *d)
 	if (d->disk && d->disk->queue)
 		blk_cleanup_queue(d->disk->queue);
 	if (d->disk) {
-		ida_simple_remove(&bcache_minor, d->disk->first_minor);
+		ida_simple_remove(&bcache_device_idx,
+				  first_minor_to_idx(d->disk->first_minor));
 		put_disk(d->disk);
 	}
 
@@ -751,7 +765,7 @@  static int bcache_device_init(struct bcache_device *d, unsigned block_size,
 {
 	struct request_queue *q;
 	size_t n;
-	int minor;
+	int idx;
 
 	if (!d->stripe_size)
 		d->stripe_size = 1 << 31;
@@ -776,25 +790,24 @@  static int bcache_device_init(struct bcache_device *d, unsigned block_size,
 	if (!d->full_dirty_stripes)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	minor = ida_simple_get(&bcache_minor, 0, MINORMASK + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (minor < 0)
-		return minor;
-
-	minor *= BCACHE_MINORS;
+	idx = ida_simple_get(&bcache_device_idx, 0,
+				BCACHE_DEVICE_IDX_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (idx < 0)
+		return idx;
 
 	if (!(d->bio_split = bioset_create(4, offsetof(struct bbio, bio),
 					   BIOSET_NEED_BVECS |
 					   BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER)) ||
 	    !(d->disk = alloc_disk(BCACHE_MINORS))) {
-		ida_simple_remove(&bcache_minor, minor);
+		ida_simple_remove(&bcache_device_idx, idx);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
 	set_capacity(d->disk, sectors);
-	snprintf(d->disk->disk_name, DISK_NAME_LEN, "bcache%i", minor);
+	snprintf(d->disk->disk_name, DISK_NAME_LEN, "bcache%i", idx);
 
 	d->disk->major		= bcache_major;
-	d->disk->first_minor	= minor;
+	d->disk->first_minor	= idx_to_first_minor(idx);
 	d->disk->fops		= &bcache_ops;
 	d->disk->private_data	= d;