dm: Improve zone resource limits handling
The generic stacking of limits implemented in the block layer cannot correctly handle stacking of zone resource limits (max open zones and max active zones) because these limits are for an entire device but the stacking may be for a portion of that device (e.g. a dm-linear target that does not cover an entire block device). As a result, when DM devices are created on top of zoned block devices, the DM device never has any zone resource limits advertized, which is only correct if all underlying target devices also have no zone resource limits. If at least one target device has resource limits, the user may see either performance issues (if the max open zone limit of the device is exceeded) or write I/O errors if the max active zone limit of one of the underlying target devices is exceeded. While it is very difficult to correctly and reliably stack zone resource limits in general, cases where targets are not sharing zone resources of the same device can be dealt with relatively easily. Such situation happens when a target maps all sequential zones of a zoned block device: for such mapping, other targets mapping other parts of the same zoned block device can only contain conventional zones and thus will not require any zone resource to correctly handle write operations. For a mapped device constructed with such targets, which includes mapped devices constructed with targets mapping entire zoned block devices, the zone resource limits can be reliably determined using the non-zero minimum of the zone resource limits of all targets. For mapped devices that include targets partially mapping the set of sequential write required zones of zoned block devices, instead of advertizing no zone resource limits, it is also better to set the mapped device limits to the non-zero minimum of the limits of all targets. In this case the limits for a target depend on the number of sequential zones being mapped: if this number of zone is larger than the limits, then the limits of the device apply and can be used. If on the other hand the target maps a number of zones smaller than the limits, then no limits is needed and we can assume that the target has no limits (limits set to 0). This commit improves zone resource limits handling as described above by modifying dm_set_zones_restrictions() to iterate the targets of a mapped device to evaluate the max open and max active zone limits. This relies on an internal "stacking" of the limits of the target devices combined with a direct counting of the number of sequential zones mapped by the targets. 1) For a target mapping an entire zoned block device, the limits for the target are set to the limits of the device. 2) For a target partially mapping a zoned block device, the number of mapped sequential zones is used to determine the limits: if the target maps more sequential write required zones than the device limits, then the limits of the device are used as-is. If the number of mapped sequential zones is lower than the limits, then we assume that the target has no limits (limits set to 0). As this evaluation is done for each target, the zone resource limits for the mapped device are evaluated as the non-zero minimum of the limits of all the targets. For configurations resulting in unreliable limits, i.e. a table containing a target partially mapping a zoned device, a warning message is issued. The counting of mapped sequential zones for the target is done using the new function dm_device_count_zones() which performs a report zones on the entire block device with the callback dm_device_count_zones_cb(). This count of mapped sequential zones is also used to determine if the mapped device contains only conventional zones. This allows simplifying dm_set_zones_restrictions() to not do a report zones just for this. For mapped devices mapping only conventional zones, as before, the mapped device is changed to a regular device by setting its zoned limit to false and clearing all its zone related limits. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611023639.89277-4-dlemoal@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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