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| author | Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> | 2026-08-16 15:32:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> | 2026-08-23 21:27:17 +0200 |
| commit | 5febf432df1cfa5b25d99b54c32103fafbdd0eb9 (patch) | |
| tree | 93a1ed1d337bc53adf1e572c2586d347703b286e /Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/era.rst | |
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kbuild: rust: keep Rust objects out of Clang LTO with inline helpersgrafted
Under `CONFIG_LTO_CLANG` + `CONFIG_RUST_INLINE_HELPERS`, one may hit
`objtool` errors such as:
vmlinux.o: error: objtool: _R..._3Gsp4boot+0xd6a:
can't find jump dest instruction at .text._R..._3Gsp4boot+0x1dfd
The reason is that in such builds, the Clang invocation that compiles
the combined Rust plus helpers bitcode emits LLVM bitcode (again) --
the final code generation happens in the linker's LTO step, which the
`-mllvm` trap options passed to Clang do not reach.
This, in turn, means that unreachable traps are missing, and the
impossible paths do not merely fallthrough to the next symbol, but past
the end of their own section, since LTO builds place each function in
its own section.
Thus filter `CC_FLAGS_LTO` out of the Clang invocation, so that it always
emits machine code directly, with the traps in place.
Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3a2486cc1da5 ("kbuild: rust: provide an option to inline C helpers into Rust")
Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260816133233.197500-2-ojeda@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/era.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/era.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..90dd5c670 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/era.rst @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +====== +dm-era +====== + +Introduction +============ + +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. + +Constructor +=========== + +era <metadata dev> <origin dev> <block size> + + ================ ====================================================== + metadata dev fast device holding the persistent metadata + origin dev device holding data blocks that may change + block size block size of origin data device, granularity that is + tracked by the target + ================ ====================================================== + +Messages +======== + +None of the dm messages take any arguments. + +checkpoint +---------- + +Possibly move to a new era. You shouldn't assume the era has +incremented. After sending this message, you should check the +current era via the status line. + +take_metadata_snap +------------------ + +Create a clone of the metadata, to allow a userland process to read it. + +drop_metadata_snap +------------------ + +Drop the metadata snapshot. + +Status +====== + +<metadata block size> <#used metadata blocks>/<#total metadata blocks> +<current era> <held metadata root | '-'> + +========================= ============================================== +metadata block size Fixed block size for each metadata block in + sectors +#used metadata blocks Number of metadata blocks used +#total metadata blocks Total number of metadata blocks +current era The current era +held metadata root The location, in blocks, of the metadata root + that has been 'held' for userspace read + access. '-' indicates there is no held root +========================= ============================================== + +Detailed use case +================= + +The scenario of invalidating a cache when rolling back a vendor +snapshot was the primary use case when developing this target: + +Taking a vendor snapshot +------------------------ + +- Send a checkpoint message to the era target +- Make a note of the current era in its status line +- Take vendor snapshot (the era and snapshot should be forever + associated now). + +Rolling back to an vendor snapshot +---------------------------------- + +- Cache enters passthrough mode (see: dm-cache's docs in cache.txt) +- Rollback vendor storage +- Take metadata snapshot +- Ascertain which blocks have been written since the snapshot was taken + by checking each block's era +- Invalidate those blocks in the caching software +- Cache returns to writeback/writethrough mode + +Memory usage +============ + +The target uses a bitset to record writes in the current era. It also +has a spare bitset ready for switching over to a new era. Other than +that it uses a few 4k blocks for updating metadata:: + + (4 * nr_blocks) bytes + buffers + +Resilience +========== + +Metadata is updated on disk before a write to a previously unwritten +block is performed. As such dm-era should not be effected by a hard +crash such as power failure. + +Userland tools +============== + +Userland tools are found in the increasingly poorly named +thin-provisioning-tools project: + + https://github.com/jthornber/thin-provisioning-tools |
