dm cache metadata: save in-core policy_hint_size to on-disk superblock

commit fd2fa95416188a767a63979296fa3e169a9ef5ec upstream.

policy_hint_size starts as 0 during __write_initial_superblock().  It
isn't until the policy is loaded that policy_hint_size is set in-core
(cmd->policy_hint_size).  But it never got recorded in the on-disk
superblock because __commit_transaction() didn't deal with transfering
the in-core cmd->policy_hint_size to the on-disk superblock.

The in-core cmd->policy_hint_size gets initialized by metadata_open()'s
__begin_transaction_flags() which re-reads all superblock fields.
Because the superblock's policy_hint_size was never properly stored, when
the cache was created, hints_array_available() would always return false
when re-activating a previously created cache.  This means
__load_mappings() always considered the hints invalid and never made use
of the hints (these hints served to optimize).

Another detremental side-effect of this oversight is the cache_check
utility would fail with: "invalid hint width: 0"

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
index 4a4e9c75fc4cddca59c30df2f18ebaa6f0baaa61..98f58eeb7dc5f229aa1275724879f4b9f08678bf 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-cache-metadata.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static int __write_initial_superblock(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd)
        disk_super->version = cpu_to_le32(cmd->version);
        memset(disk_super->policy_name, 0, sizeof(disk_super->policy_name));
        memset(disk_super->policy_version, 0, sizeof(disk_super->policy_version));
-       disk_super->policy_hint_size = 0;
+       disk_super->policy_hint_size = cpu_to_le32(0);
 
        __copy_sm_root(cmd, disk_super);
 
@@ -700,6 +700,7 @@ static int __commit_transaction(struct dm_cache_metadata *cmd,
        disk_super->policy_version[0] = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_version[0]);
        disk_super->policy_version[1] = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_version[1]);
        disk_super->policy_version[2] = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_version[2]);
+       disk_super->policy_hint_size = cpu_to_le32(cmd->policy_hint_size);
 
        disk_super->read_hits = cpu_to_le32(cmd->stats.read_hits);
        disk_super->read_misses = cpu_to_le32(cmd->stats.read_misses);