From d6e34d362a05cda61baaf8e231ad3f0e8665a9cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:31:40 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] dmsquash: Add rd.live.overlay.thin

This option changes the underlying mechanism for the overlay in the

dmsquash module.

Instead of a plain dm snapshot a dm thin snapshot is used. The advantage

of the thin snapshot is, that the TRIM command is recognized, which

means that at runtime, only the occupied blocks will be claimed from

memory, and freed blocks will really be freed in ram.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>

---

 dracut.cmdline.7.asc                            |  7 +++++++

 modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-

 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc

index 60826a1..9ddad0f 100644

--- a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc

+++ b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc

@@ -834,6 +834,13 @@ Enables debug output from the live boot process.

 Specifies the directory within the squashfs where the ext3fs.img or rootfs.img

 can be found.  By default, this is __LiveOS__.

+**rd.live.overlay.thin=**1::

+Enables the usage of thin snapshots instead of classic dm snapshots.

+The advantage of thin snapshots is, that they support discards, and will free

+blocks which are not claimed by the filesystem. In this use case this means,

+that memory is given back to the kernel, when the filesystem does not claim it

+anymore.

+

 **rd.writable.fsimg=**1::

 Enables writable filesystem support.  The system will boot with a fully 

 writable filesystem without snapshots __(see notes above about available live boot options)__.

diff --git a/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh b/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh

index 9c08e94..45f724c 100755

--- a/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh

+++ b/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ getargbool 0 rd.writable.fsimg -d -y writable_fsimg && writable_fsimg="yes"

 overlay_size=$(getarg rd.live.overlay.size=)

 [ -z "$overlay_size" ] && overlay_size=512

+getargbool 0 rd.live.overlay.thin && thin_snapshot="yes"

+

 # CD/DVD media check

 [ -b $livedev ] && fs=$(blkid -s TYPE -o value $livedev)

 if [ "$fs" = "iso9660" -o "$fs" = "udf" ]; then

@@ -146,7 +148,30 @@ do_live_overlay() {

         base=$BASE_LOOPDEV

         over=$OVERLAY_LOOPDEV

     fi

-    echo 0 $sz snapshot $base $over p 8 | dmsetup create live-rw

+    if [ -n "$thin_snapshot" ]; then

+        modprobe dm_thin_pool

+        mkdir /run/initramfs/thin-overlay

+

+        # In block units (512b)

+        thin_data_sz=$(( $overlay_size * 1024 * 1024 / 512 ))

+        thin_meta_sz=$(( $thin_data_sz / 10 ))

+

+        # It is important to have the backing file on a tmpfs

+        # this is needed to let the loopdevice support TRIM

+        dd if=/dev/null of=/run/initramfs/thin-overlay/meta bs=1b count=1 seek=$((thin_meta_sz)) 2> /dev/null

+        dd if=/dev/null of=/run/initramfs/thin-overlay/data bs=1b count=1 seek=$((thin_data_sz)) 2> /dev/null

+

+        THIN_META_LOOPDEV=$( losetup --show -f /run/initramfs/thin-overlay/meta )

+        THIN_DATA_LOOPDEV=$( losetup --show -f /run/initramfs/thin-overlay/data )

+

+        echo 0 $thin_data_sz thin-pool $THIN_META_LOOPDEV $THIN_DATA_LOOPDEV 1024 1024 | dmsetup create live-overlay-pool

+        dmsetup message /dev/mapper/live-overlay-pool 0 "create_thin 0"

+

+        # Create a snapshot of the base image

+        echo 0 $sz thin /dev/mapper/live-overlay-pool 0 $base | dmsetup create live-rw

+    else

+        echo 0 $sz snapshot $base $over p 8 | dmsetup create live-rw

+    fi

     # Create a device that always points to a ro base image

     echo 0 $sz linear $base 0 | dmsetup create --readonly live-base