[Devel] [PATCH hci-8.1 v3 0/3] block/blk-cbt: don't lose writes held across a dm suspend
Pavel Tikhomirov
ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com
Tue Oct 27 13:18:39 MSK 2026
Fix CBT missing writes that request-based dm holds across a suspend,
which made incremental backups taken with ploop-backup silently lose
data.
Claude tested full and incremental ploop-backup under write load (a
random writer, and fio with 4 jobs x iodepth 64): the incremental backup
lost blocks without the fix, and was consistent 10/10 with it. CBT
start/stop and device resize under fio ran without warnings.
https://virtuozzo.atlassian.net/browse/VSTOR-149268
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>
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Changes in v3:
- New patch: account a write delayed by blk-throttle in CBT, as the
throttle dispatch work skipped CBT (sashiko review).
- New patch: shift the CBT block size as unsigned, and use the unsigned
shift in the new cbt_set_present() too (sashiko review).
- Link to v2: http://lore.virtuozzo.com/20261027-ptikhomirov-vstor-149268-cbt-account-at-rq-start-v2-1-c64ee6178730@virtuozzo.com
Changes in v2:
- No GFP_ATOMIC allocation at dispatch: bitmap pages are now allocated
at bio submission, and the dispatch hook only sets bits in present pages.
- A page missing at dispatch (a write submitted before BLKCBTSTART) is
allocated with GFP_NOIO from the kblockd workqueue, and dm-rq returns
BLK_STS_RESOURCE so that blk-mq dispatches the request again later,
instead of setting CBT_ERROR when an atomic allocation fails.
- Move the hook from dm_start_request() to dm_mq_queue_rq(), before the
request is started, so that it can return BLK_STS_RESOURCE.
- Link to v1: http://lore.virtuozzo.com/20261016-ptikhomirov-vstor-149268-cbt-account-at-rq-start-v1-1-1f20b151431d@virtuozzo.com
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Pavel Tikhomirov (3):
block/blk-cbt: shift the block size as unsigned
block/blk-throttle: account a throttled write in CBT
block/blk-cbt: account a write request also when dm starts it
block/blk-cbt.c | 183 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
block/blk-throttle.c | 5 +-
drivers/md/dm-rq.c | 3 +
include/linux/blkdev.h | 5 ++
4 files changed, 192 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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base-commit: f5d1fdcfffe101fe2bafa7df09d95d2e811c5c5e
change-id: 20261016-ptikhomirov-vstor-149268-cbt-account-at-rq-start-a592cf2010aa
Best regards,
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Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>
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