user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/dm-ioctl.h, branch v3.2.31

dm table: add immutable feature

2011-10-31T20:19:04Z

Introduce DM_TARGET_IMMUTABLE to indicate that the target type cannot be mixed with any other target type, and once loaded into a device, it cannot be replaced with a table containing a different type. The thin provisioning pool device will use this. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: fill in device parameters in more ioctls

2011-08-02T11:32:06Z

Move parameter filling from find_device to __find_device_hash_cell. This patch causes ioctls using __find_device_hash_cell (DM_DEV_REMOVE_CMD, DM_DEV_SUSPEND_CMD - resume, DM_TABLE_CLEAR_CMD) to return device parameters, bringing them into line with the other ioctls. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: add flag to wipe buffers for secure data

2011-03-24T13:54:30Z

Add DM_SECURE_DATA_FLAG which userspace can use to ensure that all buffers allocated for dm-ioctl are wiped immediately after use. The user buffer is wiped as well (we do not want to keep and return sensitive data back to userspace if the flag is set). Wiping is useful for cryptsetup to ensure that the key is present in memory only in defined places and only for the time needed. (For crypt, key can be present in table during load or table status, wait and message commands). Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent

2011-01-13T19:59:58Z

kmirrord_wq, kcopyd_work and md->wq are created per dm instance and serve only a single work item from the dm instance, so non-reentrant workqueues would provide the same ordering guarantees as ordered ones while allowing CPU affinity and use of the workqueues for other purposes. Switch them to non-reentrant workqueues. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: allow rename to fill empty uuid

2011-01-13T19:59:47Z

Allow the uuid of a mapped device to be set after device creation. Previously the uuid (which is optional) could only be set by DM_DEV_CREATE. If no uuid was supplied it could not be set later. Sometimes it's necessary to create the device before the uuid is known, and in such cases the uuid must be filled in after the creation. This patch extends DM_DEV_RENAME to accept a uuid accompanied by a new flag DM_UUID_FLAG. This can only be done once and if no uuid was previously supplied. It cannot be used to change an existing uuid. DM_VERSION_MINOR is also bumped to 19 to indicate this interface extension is available. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm: allow autoloading of dm mod

2010-08-12T03:14:05Z

Add devname:mapper/control and MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR module alias to support dm-mod module autoloading. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: make bio or request based device type immutable

2010-08-12T03:14:01Z

Determine whether a mapped device is bio-based or request-based when loading its first (inactive) table and don't allow that to be changed later. This patch performs different device initialisation in each of the two cases. (We don't think it's necessary to add code to support changing between the two types.) Allowed md->type transitions: DM_TYPE_NONE to DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED DM_TYPE_NONE to DM_TYPE_REQUEST_BASED We now prevent table_load from replacing the inactive table with a conflicting type of table even after an explicit table_clear. Introduce 'type_lock' into the struct mapped_device to protect md->type and to prepare for the next patch that will change the queue initialization and allocate memory while md->type_lock is held. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Acked-by: Kiyoshi Ueda Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ drivers/md/dm.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/md/dm.h | 5 +++++ include/linux/dm-ioctl.h | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

dm ioctl: introduce flag indicating uevent was generated

2010-03-06T02:32:31Z

Set a new DM_UEVENT_GENERATED_FLAG when returning from ioctls to indicate that a uevent was actually generated. This tells the userspace caller that it may need to wait for the event to be processed. Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: retrieve status from inactive table

2009-12-10T23:52:22Z

Add the flag DM_QUERY_INACTIVE_TABLE_FLAG to the ioctls to return infomation about the loaded-but-not-yet-active table instead of the live table. Prior to this patch it was impossible to obtain this information until the device had been 'resumed'. Userspace dmsetup and libdevmapper support the flag as of version 1.02.40. e.g. dmsetup info --inactive vg1-lv1 Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon

dm ioctl: support cookies for udev

2009-06-22T09:12:30Z

Add support for passing a 32 bit "cookie" into the kernel with the DM_SUSPEND, DM_DEV_RENAME and DM_DEV_REMOVE ioctls. The (unsigned) value of this cookie is returned to userspace alongside the uevents issued by these ioctls in the variable DM_COOKIE. This means the userspace process issuing these ioctls can be notified by udev after udev has completed any actions triggered. To minimise the interface extension, we pass the cookie into the kernel in the event_nr field which is otherwise unused when calling these ioctls. Incrementing the version number allows userspace to determine in advance whether or not the kernel supports the cookie. If the kernel does support this but userspace does not, there should be no impact as the new variable will just get ignored. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon