Information processing system having a data migration log

• US 9,619,170 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2015
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Daisuke, Nagai, Koichi, Watanabe, Takanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Lane, John A
• Application Number:
  US14/850,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20160011818A1
• Time in Patent Office: 579 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/008 Reliability or availability analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1004 to protect a block of data words, e.g. CRC or checksum G06F11/1076 takes precedence; security arrangements for protecting computers or computer systems against unauthorized activity G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1666 where the redundant component is memory or memory area
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0246 in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0611 in relation to response time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0617 in relation to availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/064 Management of blocks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0659 Command handling arrangements, e.g. command buffers, queues, command scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0665 at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0688 Non-volatile semiconductor memory arrays
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0689 Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 16/3495 Circuits or methods to detect or delay wearout of nonvolatile EPROM or EEPROM memory devices, e.g. by counting numbers of erase or reprogram cycles, by using multiple memory areas serially or cyclically
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 29/52 Protection of memory contents; Detection of errors in memory contents
• CPC Class Codes: G11C 29/82 for EEPROMs

Abstract

According to an embodiment, when a storage status of a first storage unit is recognized as a protected state, a control unit writes data to a second storage unit. When a read target address is recorded in a data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the second storage unit. When the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, the control unit reads data from the first storage unit.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a first storage unit including a readable and writable first memory;

a second storage unit including a readable and writable second memory;

an information processing device connectable to the first storage unit and the second storage unit; and

a data migration log area, wherein

the information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute;

first processing for determining a storage status of the first storage unit based on reliability information acquired from the first storage unit;

second processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as a protected state by the first processing, executing write on only the second storage unit of the first and second storage units, when a read target address is recorded in the data migration log area, executing read data from the second storage unit and, when the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, executing read data from the first storage unit;

third processing for recording an address of data written in the second storage unit in the data migration log area according to the write by the second processing; and

fourth processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is not recognized as the protected state by the first processing, executing read data from the first storage unit without reading from the data migration log area.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit performs comparison of the reliability information and a threshold in the first processing and, when determining based on the comparison that a life end condition of the first storage unit is met, determines that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit executes fourth processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as a low reliability state by the first processing, recognizing that the second storage unit is in a data migration destination state of data stored in the first storage unit and changing the storage status of the first storage unit to the protected state.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3, wherein, in the first processing, the control unit performs the comparison of the reliability information and the threshold and, when determining based on the comparison that a life end condition of the first storage unit is met, determines that the storage status of the first storage unit is the low reliability state.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit manages, in the third processing, the addresses of the stored data in the first and second storage units such that data of a same address is present in one of the first and second storage units.

6. The information processing system according to claim 5, wherein, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as the protected state, the control unit recognizes, in the third processing, the first storage unit and the second storage unit as a same logical unit.

7. The information processing system according to claim 6, further comprising one or a plurality of third storage units connectable to the information processing device and including readable and writable third memories, wherein

the control unit executes fifth processing for controlling the one or plurality of third storage units and the first storage unit to configure a RAID and controls, in the fifth processing, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as the protected state, the one or plurality of third storage units and the logical unit to configure the RAID.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein, in the second processing, the control unit executes processing for writing data read from the first storage unit in the second storage unit in parallel to the read processing.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a metadata storing unit configured to store metadata, wherein

in the third processing, the control unit records, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is not the protected state, in the metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the first storage unit to the first storage unit and records, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, in the metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the second storage unit to the second storage unit, and

in the second processing, in read processing, the control unit reads the data from the first storage unit when a mapping from a read target address to the first storage unit is recorded in the metadata and reads the data from the second storage unit when a mapping from the read target address to the second storage unit is recorded in the metadata.

10. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein, when the mapping to the first storage unit is absent in the metadata, the control unit determines that the storage status of the first storage unit is a state other than the protected state.

11. The information processing system according to claim 9, wherein the control unit executes seventh processing for, after it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, when a deletion processing command for data stored in the first storage unit is received, changing the metadata to invalidate a mapping from an address of the deletion target data to the first storage unit.

12. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit executes sixth processing for, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, storing first metadata stored in the first storage unit in the second storage unit as second metadata and managing the addresses of the stored data in the first and second storage units using the second metadata, and

in the third processing, the control unit records, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is not the protected state, in the first metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the first storage unit to the first storage unit and records, when it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, in the second metadata, a mapping from an address of data written in the second storage unit to the second storage unit.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit executes eighth processing for, after it is determined by the first processing that the storage status of the first storage unit is the protected state, when a deletion processing command for data stored in the first storage unit is received, recording an address of a deletion target data by the deletion processing command in the data migration log area.

14. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit executes ninth processing for selecting data to be migrated to the second storage unit among data written in the first storage unit and, when all addresses corresponding to the data to be migrated are stored in the data migration log area, ending the protected state of the first storage unit.

15. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the data migration log area is stored in the second storage unit.

16. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein, in the third processing, in recording a first address in the data migration log area, when a second address overlapping the first address or continuous to the first address is already stored in the data migration log area, the control unit records a third address obtained by combining the first address and the second address in the data migration log area and invalidates the second address.

17. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the control unit executes tenth processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is not recognized as the protected state by the first processing, erasing the data migration log area.

18. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a relay unit configured to perform communication with the first storage unit and the information processing device, wherein

the relay unit determines a state of the first storage unit based on reliability information acquired from the first storage unit and, when determining that the state of the storage unit is the protected state, transmits, to the information processing device, storage unit information indicating that the first storage unit is a storage unit that supports only a read operation of read and write operations, and

upon receiving the storage unit information, the control unit determines in the first processing that the state of the first storage unit is the protected state.

19. An information processing system comprising:

a first storage unit including a readable and writable first memory;

a second storage unit including a readable and writable second memory;

an information processing device connectable to the first storage unit and the second storage unit; and

a data migration log area, wherein

the information processing device includes a control unit configured to execute;

first processing for determining a storage status of the first storage unit based on reliability information acquired from the first storage unit;

second processing for, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as a protected state by the first processing, executing write on only the second storage unit of the first and second storage units and executing read on at least one of the first and second storage units; and

third processing for updating addresses of stored data in the first and second storage units according to the write by the second processing, wherein

the control unit is configured to

in the third processing, when the storage status of the first storage unit is recognized as the protected state by the first processing, record an address of data written in the second storage unit in the data migration log area, and

in the second processing, when a read target address is recorded in the data migration log area, read data from the second storage unit in the read processing and, when the read target address is not recorded in the data migration log area, read data from the first storage unit in the read processing.

20. The information processing system according to claim 19, wherein the control unit executes fourth processing for selecting data to be migrated to the second storage unit among data written in the first storage unit and, when all addresses corresponding to the data to be migrated are stored in the data migration log area, ending the protected state of the first storage unit.