dm thin: allow metadata space larger than supported to go unused

It was always intended that a user could provide a thin metadata device
that is larger than the max supported by the on-disk format.  The extra
space would just go unused.

Unfortunately that never worked.  If the user attempted to use a larger
metadata device on creation they would get an error like the following:

 device-mapper: space map common: space map too large
 device-mapper: transaction manager: couldn't create metadata space map
 device-mapper: thin metadata: tm_create_with_sm failed
 device-mapper: table: 252:17: thin-pool: Error creating metadata object
 device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

Fix this by allowing the initial metadata space map creation to cap its
size at the max number of blocks supported (DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS).
get_metadata_dev_size() must also impose DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS (via
THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS), otherwise extending metadata would cap at
THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS_WARNING (which is larger than supported).

Also, the calculation for THIN_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS didn't account for
the sizeof the disk_bitmap_header.  So the supported maximum metadata
size is a bit smaller (reduced from 33423360 to 33292800 sectors).

Lastly, remove the "excess space will not be used" warning message from
get_metadata_dev_size(); it resulted in printing the warning multiple
times.  Factor out warn_if_metadata_device_too_big(), call it from
pool_ctr() and maybe_resize_metadata_dev().

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c
index 536782e3bcb7..e9bdd462f4f5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.c
@@ -680,6 +680,8 @@ int dm_sm_metadata_create(struct dm_space_map *sm,
 	if (r)
 		return r;
 
+	if (nr_blocks > DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS)
+		nr_blocks = DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS;
 	r = sm_ll_extend(&smm->ll, nr_blocks);
 	if (r)
 		return r;
diff --git a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.h b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.h
index 39bba0801cf2..64df923974d8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.h
+++ b/drivers/md/persistent-data/dm-space-map-metadata.h
@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@
 
 #include "dm-transaction-manager.h"
 
+#define DM_SM_METADATA_BLOCK_SIZE (4096 >> SECTOR_SHIFT)
+
+/*
+ * The metadata device is currently limited in size.
+ *
+ * We have one block of index, which can hold 255 index entries.  Each
+ * index entry contains allocation info about ~16k metadata blocks.
+ */
+#define DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS (255 * ((1 << 14) - 64))
+#define DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_SECTORS (DM_SM_METADATA_MAX_BLOCKS * DM_SM_METADATA_BLOCK_SIZE)
+
 /*
  * Unfortunately we have to use two-phase construction due to the cycle
  * between the tm and sm.