Create spl_inode_lock/spl_inode_unlock compability macros to simply
access to the inode mutex/sem. This avoids the need to have to ugly
up the code with the required #define's at every call site. At the
moment the SPL only uses this in one place but higher layers can
benefit from the macro.
During a rename we need to be careful to destroy and create a
new minor for the ZVOL _only_ if the rename succeeded. The previous
code would both destroy you minor device unconditionally, it would
also fail to create the new minor device on success.
These compiler warnings were introduced when code which was
previously #ifdef'ed out by HAVE_ZPL was re-added for use
by the posix layer. All of the following changes should be
obviously correct and will cause no semantic changes.
For while now mkdirp has been built as part of libspl however
the protoype was never added to libgen.h. This went unnoticed
until enabling the mount support which uses mkdirp().
The issue is that cv_timedwait() sleeps uninterruptibly to block signals
and avoid waking up early. Under Linux this counts against the load
average keeping it artificially high. This change allows the arc to
sleep interruptibly which mean it may be woken up early due to a signal.
Normally this means some extra care must be taken to handle a potential
signal. But for the arcs usage of cv_timedwait() there is no harm in
waking up before the timeout expires so no extra handling is required.
Specifically, this fixes the two following errors in zdb when a pool
is composed of block devices:
1) 'Value too large for defined data type' when running 'zdb <dataset>'.
2) 'character device required' when running 'zdb -l <block-device>'.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo M. Correia <ricardo.correia@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Refresh the autogen.sh products based on the versions which are
installed by default in the GA RHEL6.0 release.
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.63
automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
To validate the correct behavior of the TSD interfaces it's
important that we add a regression test. This test is designed
to minimally exercise the fundamental TSD behavior, it does not
attempt to validate all potential corner cases.
The test will first create 32 keys via tsd_create() and register
a common destructor. Next 16 wait threads will be created each
of which set/verify a random value for all 32 keys, then block
waiting to be released by the control thread. Meanwhile the
control thread verifies that none of the destructors have been
run prematurely.
The next phase of the test is to create 16 exit threads which
set/verify a random value for all 32 keys. They then immediately
exit. This is is designed to verify tsd_exit() which will be
called via thread_exit(). This must result in all registered
destructors being run and the memory for the tsd being free'd.
After this tsd_destroy() is verified by destroying all 32 keys.
Once again we must see the expected number of destructors run
and the tsd memory free'd. At this point the blocked threads
are released and they exit calling tsd_exit() which should do
very little since all the tsd has already been destroyed.
If this all goes off without a hitch the test passes. To ensure
no memory has been leaked, I have manually verified that after
spl module unload no memory is reported leaked.
Thread specific data has implemented using a hash table, this avoids
the need to add a member to the task structure and allows maximum
portability between kernels. This implementation has been optimized
to keep the tsd_set() and tsd_get() times as small as possible.
The majority of the entries in the hash table are for specific tsd
entries. These entries are hashed by the product of their key and
pid because by design the key and pid are guaranteed to be unique.
Their product also has the desirable properly that it will be uniformly
distributed over the hash bins providing neither the pid nor key is zero.
Under linux the zero pid is always the init process and thus won't be
used, and this implementation is careful to never to assign a zero key.
By default the hash table is sized to 512 bins which is expected to
be sufficient for light to moderate usage of thread specific data.
The hash table contains two additional type of entries. They first
type is entry is called a 'key' entry and it is added to the hash during
tsd_create(). It is used to store the address of the destructor function
and it is used as an anchor point. All tsd entries which use the same
key will be linked to this entry. This is used during tsd_destory() to
quickly call the destructor function for all tsd associated with the key.
The 'key' entry may be looked up with tsd_hash_search() by passing the
key you wish to lookup and DTOR_PID constant as the pid.
The second type of entry is called a 'pid' entry and it is added to the
hash the first time a process set a key. The 'pid' entry is also used
as an anchor and all tsd for the process will be linked to it. This
list is using during tsd_exit() to ensure all registered destructors
are run for the process. The 'pid' entry may be looked up with
tsd_hash_search() by passing the PID_KEY constant as the key, and
the process pid. Note that tsd_exit() is called by thread_exit()
so if your using the Solaris thread API you should not need to call
tsd_exit() directly.
Refresh the autogen.sh products based on the versions which are
installed by default in the GA RHEL6.0 release.
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ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
When HAVE_MUTEX_OWNER and CONFIG_SMP are defined, kmutex_t is just
a typedef for struct mutex.
This is generally OK but has the downside that it can make mistakes
such as mutex_lock(&kmutex_var) to pass by unnoticed until someone
compiles the code without HAVE_MUTEX_OWNER or CONFIG_SMP (in which
case kmutex_t is a real struct). Note that the correct API to call
should have been mutex_enter() rather than mutex_lock().
We prevent these kind of mistakes by making kmutex_t a real structure
with only one field. This makes kmutex_t typesafe and it shouldn't
have any impact on the generated assembly code.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo M. Correia <ricardo.correia@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
For debugging purposes the condition varaibles keep track of the
mutex used during a wait. The idea is to validate that all callers
always use the same mutex. Unfortunately, we have seen cases where
the caller reuses the condition variable with a different mutex but
in a way which is known to be safe. My reading of the man pages
suggests you should not do this and always cv_destroy()/cv_init()
a new mutex. However, there is overhead in doing this and it does
appear to be allowed under Solaris.
To accomidate this behavior cv_wait_common() and __cv_timedwait()
have been modified to clear the associated mutex when the last
waiter is dropped. This ensures that while the condition variable
is in use the incorrect mutex case is detected. It also allows the
condition variable to be safely recycled without requiring the
overhead of a cv_destroy()/cv_init() as long as it isn't currently
in use.
Finally, spin lock cv->cv_lock was removed because it is not required.
When the condition variable is used properly the caller will always
be holding the mutex so the spin lock is redundant. The lock was
originally added because I expected to need to protect more than
just the cv->cv_mutex. It turns out that was not the case.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
As of the 0.5.2 tag, names of whole-disk vdevs must be specified to
the command line tools without partition identifiers. This commit
fixes a 'zpool online' command in zfault.sh that incorrectly includes
he partition in the vdev name, causing test 9 to fail.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
If libblkid does not contain ZFS support, then 'zpool import' will scan
all block devices in /dev/ to determine which ones are components of a
ZFS filesystem. It does this by opening all the devices and stat'ing
them to determine which ones are block devices. If the device turns
out not to be a block device it is skipped.
Usually, this whole process is pretty harmless (although slow). But
there are certain devices in /dev/ which must be handled in a very
specific way or your system may crash. For example, if /dev/watchdog
is simply opened the watchdog timer will be started and your system
will panic when the timer expires.
It turns out the /dev/hpet causes similiar problems although only when
accessed under a virtual machine. For some reason accessing /dev/hpet
causes qemu to crash. To address this issue this commit adds /dev/hpet
to the device blacklist, it will be skipped solely based on its name.
When adding this functionality originally the options to only
run specific tests (-t), or conversely skip specific tests (-s)
were omitted from the usage page. This commit adds the missing
documentation.
The idea behind the '-c' flag is to cleanup everything from a
previous test run which might cause the test script to fail.
This should also include removing the previously loaded module.
This makes it a little easier to run 'zconfig.sh -c', however
remember this is a test script and it will take all of your
other zpools offline for the purposes of the test. This notion
has also been extended to the default 'make check' behavior.
Loading and unloading the zlib modules as part of the zfs.sh
script has proven a little problematic for a few reasons.
* First, your kernel may not need to load either zlib_inflate
or zlib_deflate. This functionality may be built directly in
to your kernel. It depends entirely on what your distribution
decided was the right thing to do.
* Second, even if you do manage to load the correct modules you
may not be able to unload them. There may other consumers
of the modules with a reference preventing the unload.
To avoid both of these issues the test scripts have been updated to
attempt to unconditionally load all modules listed in KERNEL_MODULES.
If the module is successfully loaded you must have needed it. If
the module can't be loaded that almost certainly means either it is
built in to your kernel or is already being used by another consumer.
In both cases this is not an issue and we can move on to the spl/zfs
modules.
Finally, by removing these kernel modules from the MODULES list
we ensure they are never unloaded during 'zfs.sh -u'. This avoids
the issue of the script failing because there is another consumer
using the module we were not aware of. In other words the script
restricts unloading modules to only the spl/zfs modules.
Closes#78
This commit fixes a sign extension bug affecting l2arc devices. Extremely
large offsets may be passed down to the low level block device driver on
reads, generating errors similar to
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdbi1: rw=14, want=36028797014862705, limit=125026959
The unwanted sign extension occurrs because the function arc_read_nolock()
stores the offset as a daddr_t, a 32-bit signed int type in the Linux kernel.
This offset is then passed to zio_read_phys() as a uint64_t argument, causing
sign extension for values of 0x80000000 or greater. To avoid this, we store
the offset in a uint64_t.
This change also changes a few daddr_t struct members to uint64_t in the libspl
headers to avoid similar bugs cropping up in the future. We also add an ASSERT
to __vdev_disk_physio() to check for invalid offsets.
Closes#66
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
As of linux-2.6.36 the last in-tree consumer of fops->ioctl() has
been removed and thus fops()->ioctl() has also been removed. The
replacement hook is fops->unlocked_ioctl() which has existed in
kernel since 2.6.12. Since the ZFS code only contains support
back to 2.6.18 vintage kernels, I'm not adding an autoconf check
for this and simply moving everything to use fops->unlocked_ioctl().
Most of the blk_* macros were removed in 2.6.36. Ostensibly this was
done to improve readability and allow easier grepping. However, from
a portability stand point the macros are helpful. Therefore the needed
macros are redefined here if they are missing from the kernel.
The name of the flag used to mark a bio as synchronous has changed
again in the 2.6.36 kernel due to the unification of the BIO_RW_*
and REQ_* flags. The new flag is called REQ_SYNC. To simplify
checking this flag I have introduced the vdev_disk_dio_is_sync()
helper function. Based on the results of several new autoconf
tests it uses the correct mask to check for a synchronous bio.
Preferred interface for flagging a synchronous bio:
2.6.12-2.6.29: BIO_RW_SYNC
2.6.30-2.6.35: BIO_RW_SYNCIO
2.6.36-2.6.xx: REQ_SYNC
As of linux-2.6.36 the BIO_RW_FAILFAST and REQ_FAILFAST flags
have been unified under the REQ_* names. These flags always had
to be kept in-sync so this is a nice step forward, unfortunately
it means we need to be careful to only use the new unified flags
when the BIO_RW_* flags are not defined. Additional autoconf
checks were added for this and if it is ever unclear which method
to use no flags are set. This is safe but may result in longer
delays before a disk is failed.
Perferred interface for setting FAILFAST on a bio:
2.6.12-2.6.27: BIO_RW_FAILFAST
2.6.28-2.6.35: BIO_RW_FAILFAST_{DEV|TRANSPORT|DRIVER}
2.6.36-2.6.xx: REQ_FAILFAST_{DEV|TRANSPORT|DRIVER}
Commit 3ee56c292b changed an ENOTSUP return value
in one location to ENOTSUPP to fix user programs seeing an invalid ioctl()
error code. However, use of ENOTSUP is widespread in the zfs module. Instead
of changing all of those uses, we fixed the ENOTSUP definition in the SPL to be
consistent with user space. The changed return value in the above commit is
therefore no longer needed, so this commit reverses it to maintain consistency.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
The ZFS module returns ENOTSUP for several error conditions where an operation
is not (yet) supported. The SPL defined ENOTSUP in terms of ENOTSUPP, but that
is an internal Linux kernel error code that should not be seen by user
programs. As a result the zfs utilities print a confusing error message if an
unsupported operation is attempted:
internal error: Unknown error 524
Aborted
This change defines ENOTSUP in terms of EOPNOTSUPP which is consistent with
user space.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
As of linux-2.6.36 the last in-tree consumer of fops->ioctl() has
been removed and thus fops()->ioctl() has also been removed. The
replacement hook is fops->unlocked_ioctl() which has existed in
kernel since 2.6.12. Since the SPL only contains support back
to 2.6.18 vintage kernels, I'm not adding an autoconf check for
this and simply moving everything to use fops->unlocked_ioctl().
In the linux-2.6.36 kernel the fs_struct lock was changed from a
rwlock_t to a spinlock_t. If the kernel would export the set_fs_pwd()
symbol by default this would not have caused us any issues, but they
don't. So we're forced to add a new autoconf check which sets the
HAVE_FS_STRUCT_SPINLOCK define when a spinlock_t is used. We can
then correctly use either spin_lock or write_lock in our custom
set_fs_pwd() implementation.
As of linux-2.6.36 RLIM64_INFINITY is defined in linux/resource.h.
This is handled by conditionally defining RLIM64_INFINITY in the
SPL only when the kernel does not provide it.
Flagged by the default compile options on archlinux 2010.05, we should
be using the krw_t type not the krw_type_t type in the private data.
module/splat/splat-rwlock.c: In function ‘splat_rwlock_test4_func’:
module/splat/splat-rwlock.c:432:6: warning: case value ‘1’ not in
enumerated type ‘krw_type_t’
The lustre zpios-test simulates a reasonable lustre workload. It will
create 128 threads, the same as a Lustre OSS, and then 4096 individual
objects. Each objects is 16MiB in size and will be written/read in 1MiB
from a random thread. This is fundamentally how we expect Lustre to behave
for large IO intensive workloads.
To streamline testing I have in the past added several custom configs
to the zpool-config directory. This change reverts those custom configs
and replaces them with three generic config which can do the same thing.
The generic config behavior can be set by setting various environment
variables when calling either the zpool-create.sh or zpios.sh scripts.
For example if you wanted to create and test a single 4-disk Raid-Z2
configuration using disks [A-D]1 with dedicated ZIL and L2ARC devices
you could run the following.
$ ZIL="log A2" L2ARC="cache B2" RANKS=1 CHANNELS=4 LEVEL=2 \
zpool-create.sh -c zpool-raidz
$ zpool status tank
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
A1 ONLINE 0 0 0
B1 ONLINE 0 0 0
C1 ONLINE 0 0 0
D1 ONLINE 0 0 0
logs
A2 ONLINE 0 0 0
cache
B2 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
Support for rolling back datasets require a functional ZPL, which we currently
do not have. The zfs command does not check for ZPL support before attempting
a rollback, and in preparation for rolling back a zvol it removes the minor
node of the device. To prevent the zvol device node from disappearing after a
failed rollback operation, this change wraps the zfs_do_rollback() function in
an #ifdef HAVE_ZPL and returns ENOSYS in the absence of a ZPL. This is
consistent with the behavior of other ZPL dependent commands such as mount.
The orginal error message observed with this bug was rather confusing:
internal error: Unknown error 524
Aborted
This was because zfs_ioc_rollback() returns ENOTSUP if we don't HAVE_ZPL, but
Linux actually has no such error code. It should instead return EOPNOTSUPP, as
that is how ENOTSUP is defined in user space. With that we would have gotten
the somewhat more helpful message
cannot rollback 'tank/fish': unsupported version
This is rather a moot point with the above changes since we will no longer make
that ioctl call without a ZPL. But, this change updates the error code just in
case.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Increasing the default zio_wr_int thread count from 8 to 16 improves
write performence by 13% on large systems. More testing need to be
done but I suspect the ideal tuning here is ZTI_BATCH() with a minimum
of 8 threads.
Linux kernel thread names are expected to be short. This change shortens
the zio thread names to 10 characters leaving a few chracters to append
the /<cpuid> to which the thread is bound. For example: z_wr_iss/0.
It's important to clear mp->owner after calling mutex_unlock()
because when CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is defined the mutex owner
is verified in mutex_unlock(). If we set it to NULL this check
fails and the lockdep support is immediately disabled.
On some older kernels, i.e. 2.6.18, zvol_ioctl_by_inode() may get passed a NULL
file pointer if the user tries to mount a zvol without a filesystem on it.
This change adds checks to prevent a null pointer dereference.
Closes#73.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
As of linux-2.6.35 the shrinker callback API now takes an additional
argument. The shrinker struct is passed to the callback so that users
can embed the shrinker structure in private data and use container_of()
to access it. This removes the need to always use global state for the
shrinker.
To handle this we add the SPL_AC_3ARGS_SHRINKER_CALLBACK autoconf
check to properly detect the API. Then we simply setup a callback
function with the correct number of arguments. For now we do not make
use of the new 3rd argument.
Some sudo configurations may not include /sbin in the PATH.
libzfs_load_module() currently does not call modprobe with an absolute path, so
it may fail under such configurations if called under sudo. This change adds
the absolute path to modprobe so we no longer rely on how PATH is set.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Creating whole-disk vdevs can intermittently fail if a udev-managed symlink to
the disk partition is already in place. To avoid this, we now remove any such
symlink before partitioning the disk. This makes zpool_label_disk_wait() truly
wait for the new link to show up instead of returning if it finds an old link
still in place. Otherwise there is a window between when udev deletes and
recreates the link during which access attempts will fail with ENOENT.
Also, clean up a comment about waiting for udev to create symlinks. It no
longer needs to describe the special cases for the link names, since that is
now handled in a separate helper function.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This test performs a sanity check of the zpool add and remove commands. It
tests adding and removing both a cache disk and a log disk to and from a zpool.
Usage of both a shorthand device path and a full path is covered. The test
uses a scsi_debug device as the disk to be added and removed. This is done so
that zpool will see it as a whole disk and partition it, which it does not
currently done for loopback devices. We want to verify that the manipulation
done to whole disks paths to hide the parition information does not break the
add/remove interface.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Portability between Solaris and Linux isn't really an issue for us anymore, and
removing sections like this one helps simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
zpool status displays abbreviated vdev names without leading path components
and, in the case of whole disks, without partition information. Also, the
zpool subcommands 'create' and 'add' support using shorthand devices names
without qualified paths. Prior to this change, however, removing a device
generally required specifying its name as it is stored in the vdev label. So
while zpool status might list a cache disk with a name like A16, removing it
would require a full path such as /dev/disk/zpool/A16-part1, which is
non-intuitive.
This change adds support for shorthand device names with the remove subcommand
so one can simply type, for example,
zpool remove tank A16
A consequence of this change is that including the partition information when
removing a whole-disk vdev now results in an error. While this is arguably the
correct behavior, it is a departure from how zpool previously worked in this
project.
This change removes the only reference to ctd_check_path(), so that function is
also removed to avoid compiler warnings.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
This change adds two helper functions for working with vdev names and paths.
zfs_resolve_shortname() resolves a shorthand vdev name to an absolute path
of a file in /dev, /dev/disk/by-id, /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-path,
/dev/disk/by-uuid, /dev/disk/zpool. This was previously done only in the
function is_shorthand_path(), but we need a general helper function to
implement shorthand names for additional zpool subcommands like remove.
is_shorthand_path() is accordingly updated to call the helper function.
There is a minor change in the way zfs_resolve_shortname() tests if a file
exists. is_shorthand_path() effectively used open() and stat64() to test for
file existence, since its scope includes testing if a device is a whole disk
and collecting file status information. zfs_resolve_shortname(), on the other
hand, only uses access() to test for existence and leaves it to the caller to
perform any additional file operations. This seemed like the most general and
lightweight approach, and still preserves the semantics of is_shorthand_path().
zfs_append_partition() appends a partition suffix to a device path. This
should be used to generate the name of a whole disk as it is stored in the vdev
label. The user-visible names of whole disks do not contain the partition
information, while the name in the vdev label does. The code was lifted from
the function make_disks(), which now just calls the helper function. Again,
having a helper function to do this supports general handling of shorthand
names in the user interface.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Eleven new zpool configurations were added to allow testing of various
failure cases. The first 5 zpool configurations leverage the 'faulty'
md device type which allow us to simuluate IO errors at the block layer.
The last 6 zpool configurations leverage the scsi_debug module provided
by modern kernels. This device allows you to create virtual scsi
devices which are backed by a ram disk. With this setup we can verify
the full IO stack by injecting faults at the lowest layer. Both methods
of fault injection are important to verifying the IO stack.
The zfs code itself also provides a mechanism for error injection
via the zinject command line tool. While we should also take advantage
of this appraoch to validate the code it does not address any of the
Linux integration issues which are the most concerning. For the
moment we're trusting that the upstream Solaris guys are running
zinject and would have caught internal zfs logic errors.
Currently, there are 6 r/w test cases layered on top of the 'faulty'
md devices. They include 3 writes tests for soft/transient errors,
hard/permenant errors, and all writes error to the device. There
are 3 matching read tests for soft/transient errors, hard/permenant
errors, and fixable read error with a write. Although for this last
case zfs doesn't do anything special.
The seventh test case verifies zfs detects and corrects checksum
errors. In this case one of the drives is extensively damaged and
by dd'ing over large sections of it. We then ensure zfs logs the
issue and correctly rebuilds the damage.
The next test cases use the scsi_debug configuration to injects error
at the bottom of the scsi stack. This ensures we find any flaws in the
scsi midlayer or our usage of it. Plus it stresses the device specific
retry, timeout, and error handling outside of zfs's control.
The eighth test case is to verify that the system correctly handles an
intermittent device timeout. Here the scsi_debug device drops 1 in N
requests resulting in a retry either at the block level. The ZFS code
does specify the FAILFAST option but it turns out that for this case
the Linux IO stack with still retry the command. The FAILFAST logic
located in scsi_noretry_cmd() does no seem to apply to the simply
timeout case. It appears to be more targeted to specific device or
transport errors from the lower layers.
The ninth test case handles a persistent failure in which the device
is removed from the system by Linux. The test verifies that the failure
is detected, the device is made unavailable, and then can be successfully
re-add when brought back online. Additionally, it ensures that errors
and events are logged to the correct places and the no data corruption
has occured due to the failure.
It turns out that 'zpool events' over 1024 bytes in size where being
silently dropped. This was discovered while writing the zfault.sh
tests to validate common failure modes.
This could occur because the zfs interface for passing an arbitrary
size nvlist_t over an ioctl() is to provide a buffer for the packed
nvlist which is usually big enough. In this case 1024 byte is the
default. If the kernel determines the buffer is to small it returns
ENOMEM and the minimum required size of the nvlist_t. This was
working properly but in the case of 'zpool events' the event stream
was advanced dispite the error. Thus the retry with the bigger
buffer would succeed but it would skip over the previous event.
The fix is to pass this size to zfs_zevent_next() and determine
before removing the event from the list if it will fit. This was
preferable to checking after the event was returned because this
avoids the need to rewind the stream.
While there is no right maximum timeout for a disk IO we can start
laying the ground work to measure how long they do take in practice.
This change simply measures the IO time and if it exceeds 30s an
event is posted for 'zpool events'.
This value was carefully selected because for sd devices it implies
that at least one timeout (SD_TIMEOUT) has occured. Unfortunately,
even with FAILFAST set we may retry and request and not get an
error. This behavior is strongly dependant on the device driver
and how it is hooked in to the scsi error handling stack. However
by setting the limit at 30s we can log the event even if no error
was returned.
Slightly longer term we can start recording these delays perhaps
as a simple power-of-two histrogram. This histogram can then be
reported as part of the 'zpool status' command when given an command
line option.
None of this code changes the internal behavior of ZFS. Currently
it is simply for reporting excessively long delays.
ZFS works best when it is notified as soon as possible when a device
failure occurs. This allows it to immediately start any recovery
actions which may be needed. In theory Linux supports a flag which
can be set on bio's called FAILFAST which provides this quick
notification by disabling the retry logic in the lower scsi layers.
That's the theory at least. In practice is turns out that while the
flag exists you oddly have to set it with the BIO_RW_AHEAD flag.
And even when it's set it you may get retries in the low level
drivers decides that's the right behavior, or if you don't get the
right error codes reported to the scsi midlayer.
Unfortunately, without additional kernels patchs there's not much
which can be done to improve this. Basically, this just means that
it may take 2-3 minutes before a ZFS is notified properly that a
device has failed. This can be improved and I suspect I'll be
submitting patches upstream to handle this.
To make the 'zpool events' output simple to parse with awk the extra
newline after embedded nvlists has been dropped. This allows the
entire event to be parsed as a single whitespace seperated record.
The -H option has been added to operate in scripted mode. For the
'zpool events' command this means don't print the header. The usage
of -H is consistent with scripted mode for other zpool commands.
