From patchwork Mon Jan 6 14:24:39 2025 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Damien Le Moal X-Patchwork-Id: 13927534 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78A731DED6F for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2025 14:25:25 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736173525; cv=none; b=V4oL0wJXJy7gAlywXKgAi+1S+z2dxvW6Q4UTZupoVyg/FkbqiC1+mY+lXX5zVmWwBnws2bYQkRPtYQJW5yqHM2GmMAK6v8EkaIOT5kZstwy9rLeM6a8GJV0SLyLCbnptJvWci4pedWcXoRxUWiBGmUx3uIma3n4N+qJeAbQLQWY= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736173525; c=relaxed/simple; bh=HZ6vRpGjF2vwoVVmQsFuodSLd1FyoTszqVaNB9HBZ9k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=NZnRpf4Y60CAR2ZVP5jCRCPh4flKnixkdY1g3TSYfPwjtkzAg3V5EjVRR6AXh5UrJFNl2tXGQltzOZOZkId35P/1JCl1x0YmPqC1FaKqPOfuKGtIplwu1cd/MinEYl1ulxfjo+iRBlNI7Rj4HOOJD4GJ3djRwTeiULogu83PTOI= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=C4NrhUJ3; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="C4NrhUJ3" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6B8CC4CEE2; Mon, 6 Jan 2025 14:25:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1736173525; bh=HZ6vRpGjF2vwoVVmQsFuodSLd1FyoTszqVaNB9HBZ9k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=C4NrhUJ3u6WbL1CnEQG/N1o9Sk1WHilP5pS393giaHg/mA5EOENMxE0lTUuX2rcoz lkU1Zoen50D+m+5bKRNyH2ChOSvZCRD5wuHIA8v1EZc74XuXVqPrxXJzjA3HBMyokh t7d5T+tltXnnCDkVMPVUT6/YwfjNx6nERO6Zv/89jTSITqgZnIRrgxDyvFBztlF0az Xe5QKmyOueZCjDWH0XGkkK9l9F1WwZWlPTLCaa9Lnwao21U6znkqxBo5g7Wh9xhusO 3z2xa2yDnmySLHPb1qwOejyUaFXAAObeK+Kg5owEhtjf37S+yfroMRZsk/FPQLRWQU W2+ge3Mr/SFeg== From: Damien Le Moal To: Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Documentation: Document the new zoned loop block device driver Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 23:24:39 +0900 Message-ID: <20250106142439.216598-3-dlemoal@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.1 In-Reply-To: <20250106142439.216598-1-dlemoal@kernel.org> References: <20250106142439.216598-1-dlemoal@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-block@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Introduce the zoned_loop.rst documentation file under admin-guide/blockdev to document the zoned loop block device driver. An overview of the driver is provided and its usage to create and delete zoned devices described. Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal --- Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/index.rst | 1 + .../admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst | 168 ++++++++++++++++++ MAINTAINERS | 1 + 3 files changed, 170 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/index.rst index 957ccf617797..3262397ebe8f 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/index.rst @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Block Devices nbd paride ramdisk + zoned_loop zram drbd/index diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e437f501b0ae --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +======================= +Zoned Loop Block Device +======================= + +.. Contents: + + 1) Overview + 2) Creating a Zoned Device + 3) Deleting a Zoned Device + 4) Example + + +1) Overview +----------- + +The zoned loop block device driver (zloop) allows a user to create a zoned block +device using one regular file per zone as backing storage. This driver does not +directly control any hardware and uses read, write and truncate operations to +regular files of a file system to emulate a zoned block device. + +Using zloop, zoned block devices with a configurable capacity, zone size and +number of conventional zones can be created. The storage for each zone of the +device is implemented using a regular file with a maximum size equal to the zone +size. The size of a file backing a conventional zone is always equal to the zone +size. The size of a file backing a sequential zone indicates the amount of data +sequentially written to the file, that is, the size of the file directly +indicates the position of the write pointer of the zone. + +When resetting a sequential zone, its backing file size is truncated to zero. +Conversely, for a zone finish operation, the backing file is truncated to the +zone size. With this, the maximum capacity of a zloop zoned block device created +can be larger configured to be larger than the storage space available on the +backing file system. Of course, for such configuration, writing more data than +the storage space available on the backing file system will result in write +errors. + +The zoned loop block device driver implements a complete zone transition state +machine. That is, zones can be empty, implicitly opened, explicitly opened, +closed or full. The current implementation does not support any limits on the +maximum number of open and active zones. + +No user tools are necessary to create and delete zloop devices. + +2) Creating a Zoned Device +-------------------------- + +Once the zloop module is loaded (or if zloop is compiled in the kernel), the +character device file /dev/zloop-control can be used to add a zloop device. +This is done by writing an "add" command directly to the /dev/zloop-control +device:: + + $ modprobe zloop + $ ls -l /dev/zloop* + crw-------. 1 root root 10, 123 Jan 6 19:18 /dev/zloop-control + + $ mkdir -p + $ echo "add [options]" > /dev/zloop-control + +The options available for the add command can be listed by reading the +/dev/zloop-control device:: + + $ cat /dev/zloop-control + add id=%d,capacity_mb=%u,zone_size_mb=%u,zone_capacity_mb=%u,conv_zones=%u,base_dir=%s,nr_queues=%u,queue_depth=%u + remove id=%d + +In more details, the options that can be used with the "add" command are as +follows. + +================ =========================================================== +id Device number (the X in /dev/zloopX). + Default: automatically assigned. +capacity_mb Device total capacity in MiB. This is always rounded up to + the nearest higher multiple of the zone size. + Default: 16384 MiB (16 GiB). +zone_size_mb Device zone size in MiB. Default: 256 MiB. +zone_capacity_mb Device zone capacity (must always be equal to or lower than + the zone size. Default: zone size. +conv_zones Total number of conventioanl zones starting from sector 0. + Default: 8. +base_dir Path to the base directoy where to create the directory + containing the zone files of the device. + Default=/var/local/zloop. + The device directory containing the zone files is always + named with the device ID. E.g. the default zone file + directory for /dev/zloop0 is /var/local/zloop/0. +nr_queues Number of I/O queues of the zoned block device. This value is + always capped by the number of online CPUs + Default: 1 +queue_depth Maximum I/O queue depth per I/O queue. + Default: 64 +================ =========================================================== + +3) Deleting a Zoned Device +-------------------------- + +Deleting an unused zoned loop block device is done by issuing the "remove" +command to /dev/zloop-control, specifying the ID of the device to remove:: + + $ echo "remove id=X" > /dev/zloop-control + +The remove command does not have any option. + +A zoned device that was removed can be re-added again without any change to the +state of the device zones: the device zones are restored to their last state +before the device was removed. Adding again a zoned device after it was removed +must always be done using the same configuration as when the device was first +added. If a zone configuration change is detected, an error will be returned and +the zoned device will not be created. + +To fully delete a zoned device, after executing the remove operation, the device +base directory containing the backing files of the device zones must be deleted. + +4) Example +---------- + +The following sequence of commands creates a 2GB zoned device with zones of 64 +MB and a zone capacity of 63 MB:: + + $ modprobe zloop + $ mkdir -p /var/local/zloop/0 + $ echo "add capacity_mb=2048,zone_size_mb=64,zone_capacity=63MB" > /dev/zloop-control + +For the device created (/dev/zloop0), the zone backing files are all created +under the default base directory (/var/local/zloop):: + + $ ls -l /var/local/zloop/0 + total 0 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000000 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000001 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000002 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000003 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000004 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000005 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000006 + -rw-------. 1 root root 67108864 Jan 6 22:23 cnv-000007 + -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jan 6 22:23 seq-000008 + -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jan 6 22:23 seq-000009 + ... + +The zoned device created (/dev/zloop0) can then be used normally:: + + $ lsblk -z + NAME ZONED ZONE-SZ ZONE-NR ZONE-AMAX ZONE-OMAX ZONE-APP ZONE-WGRAN + zloop0 host-managed 64M 32 0 0 1M 4K + $ blkzone report /dev/zloop0 + start: 0x000000000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x000020000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x000040000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x000060000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x000080000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x0000a0000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x0000c0000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x0000e0000, len 0x020000, cap 0x020000, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 0(nw) [type: 1(CONVENTIONAL)] + start: 0x000100000, len 0x020000, cap 0x01f800, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 1(em) [type: 2(SEQ_WRITE_REQUIRED)] + start: 0x000120000, len 0x020000, cap 0x01f800, wptr 0x000000 reset:0 non-seq:0, zcond: 1(em) [type: 2(SEQ_WRITE_REQUIRED)] + ... + +Deleting this device is done using the command:: + + $ echo "remove id=0" > /dev/zloop-control + +The removed device can be re-added again using the same "add" command as when +the device was first created. To fully delete a zoned device, its backing files +should also be deleted after executing the remove command:: + + $ rm -r /var/local/zloop/0 diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 49076a506b6b..a61b5d2827af 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -25977,6 +25977,7 @@ M: Damien Le Moal R: Christoph Hellwig L: linux-block@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained +F: Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/zoned_loop.rst F: drivers/block/zloop.c ZONEFS FILESYSTEM