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* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
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Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
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As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h. This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h. This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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After the stack plugging introduction, these are called lockless.
Ensure that the counters are updated atomically.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (170 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
[SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
[SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
[SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
[SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
[SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
[SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
[SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
[SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
[SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
[SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
[SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
[SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
[SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
[SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
[SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
[SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
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Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
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MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an
integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is
capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory.
Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at
metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not.
Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from
bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the
fs_bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snizer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1480 commits)
bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status
xfrm: Refcount destination entry on xfrm_lookup
net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around that
bonding: get rid of IFF_SLAVE_INACTIVE netdev->priv_flag
bonding: wrap slave state work
net: get rid of multiple bond-related netdevice->priv_flags
bonding: register slave pointer for rx_handler
be2net: Bump up the version number
be2net: Copyright notice change. Update to Emulex instead of ServerEngines
e1000e: fix kconfig for crc32 dependency
netfilter ebtables: fix xt_AUDIT to work with ebtables
xen network backend driver
bonding: Improve syslog message at device creation time
bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice
bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
net_sched: fix ip_tos2prio
xfrm: fix __xfrm_route_forward()
be2net: Fix UDP packet detected status in RX compl
Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve
netxen: support for GbE port settings
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Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
with the staging updates.
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* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
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Conflicts:
block/blk-core.c
block/blk-flush.c
drivers/md/raid1.c
drivers/md/raid10.c
drivers/md/raid5.c
fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
fs/nilfs2/mdt.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h
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Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days,
capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from
the current process.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
[chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Revert
b821eaa572fd737faaf6928ba046e571526c36c6
and
f3b99be19ded511a1bf05a148276239d9f13eefa
When I wrote the first of these I had a wrong idea about the
lifetime of 'struct block_device'. It can disappear at any time that
the block device is not open if it falls out of the inode cache.
So relying on the 'size' recorded with it to detect when the
device size has changed and so we need to revalidate, is wrong.
Rather, we really do need the 'changed' attribute stored directly in
the mddev and set/tested as appropriate.
Without this patch, a sequence of:
mknod / open / close / unlink
(which can cause a block_device to be created and then destroyed)
will result in a rescan of the partition table and consequence removal
and addition of partitions.
Several of these in a row can get udev racing to create and unlink and
other code can get confused.
With the patch, the rescan is only performed when needed and so there
are no races.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.35.
Reported-by: "Wojcik, Krzysztof" <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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blk_throtl_exit assumes that ->queue_lock still exists,
so make sure that it does.
To do this, we stop redirecting ->queue_lock to conf->device_lock
and leave it pointing where it is initialised - __queue_lock.
As the blk_plug functions check the ->queue_lock is held, we now
take that spin_lock explicitly around the plug functions. We don't
need the locking, just the warning removal.
This is needed for any kernel with the blk_throtl code, which is
which is 2.6.37 and later.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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'mdp' devices are md devices with preallocated device numbers
for partitions. As such it is possible to mknod and open a partition
before opening the whole device.
this causes md_probe() to be called with a device number of a
partition, which in-turn calls mddev_find with such a number.
However mddev_find expects the number of a 'whole device' and
does the wrong thing with partition numbers.
So add code to mddev_find to remove the 'partition' part of
a device number and just work with the 'whole device'.
This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28652
Reported-by: hkmaly@bigfoot.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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If the desired size of an array is set (via sysfs) before the array is
active (which is the normal sequence), we currrently call set_capacity
immediately.
This means that a subsequent 'open' (as can be caused by some
udev-triggers program) will notice the new size and try to probe for
partitions. However as the array isn't quite ready yet the read will
fail. Then when the array is read, as the size doesn't change again
we don't try to re-probe.
So when setting array size via sysfs, only call set_capacity if the
array is already active.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Takeover raid1->raid0 not succeded. Kernel message is shown:
"md/raid0:md126: too few disks (1 of 2) - aborting!"
Problem was that we weren't updating ->raid_disks for that
takeover, unlike all the others.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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DM now has more information about the nature of the underlying storage
failure. Path failure is avoided if a request failed due to a target
error. Instead the target error is immediately passed up the stack.
Discard requests that fail due to non-target errors may now be retried.
Errors restricted to the path will be retried or returned if no
paths are available, irregarding the no_path_retry setting.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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Following symptoms were observed:
1. After raid0->raid10 takeover operation we have array with 2
missing disks.
When we add disk for rebuild, recovery process starts as expected
but it does not finish- it stops at about 90%, md126_resync process
hangs in "D" state.
2. Similar behavior is when we have mounted raid0 array and we
execute takeover to raid10. After this when we try to unmount array-
it causes process umount hangs in "D"
In scenarios above processes hang at the same function- wait_barrier
in raid10.c.
Process waits in macro "wait_event_lock_irq" until the
"!conf->barrier" condition will be true.
In scenarios above it never happens.
Reason was that at the end of level_store, after calling pers->run,
we call mddev_resume. This calls pers->quiesce(mddev, 0) with
RAID10, that calls lower_barrier.
However raise_barrier hadn't been called on that 'conf' yet,
so conf->barrier becomes negative, which is bad.
This patch introduces setting conf->barrier=1 after takeover
operation. It prevents to become barrier negative after call
lower_barrier().
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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md_make_request was calling bio_sectors() for part_stat_add
after it was calling the make_request function. This is
bad because the make_request function can free the bio and
because the bi_size field can change around.
The fix here was suggested by Jens Axboe. It saves the
sector count before the make_request call. I hit this
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on while trying to break
his pretty fusionio card.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Activating a spare in an array while resync/recovery is already
happening can lead the that spare being marked in-sync when it isn't
really.
So don't allow the 'slot' to be set (this activating the device)
while resync/recovery is happening.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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There is no need to set this to zero at this point. It will be
set to zero by remove_and_add_spares or at the start of
md_do_sync at the latest.
And setting it to zero before MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING is cleared can
make a 'zero' appear briefly in the 'sync_completed' sysfs attribute
just as resync is finishing.
So simply remove this setting to zero.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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read-only array
remove_and_add_spares is called in two places where the needs really
are very different.
remove_and_add_spares should not be called on an array which is about
to be reshaped as some extra devices might have been manually added
and that would remove them. However if the array is 'read-auto',
that will currently happen, which is bad.
So in the 'ro != 0' case don't call remove_and_add_spares but simply
remove the failed devices as the comment suggests is needed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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This patch introduces raid 1 to raid0 takeover operation
in kernel space.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@nbeee.brown>
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This flag is not needed and is used badly.
Devices that are included in a native-metadata array are reserved
exclusively for that array - and currently have AllReserved set.
They all are bd_claimed for the rdev and so cannot be shared.
Devices that are included in external-metadata arrays can be shared
among multiple arrays - providing there is no overlap.
These are bd_claimed for md in general - not for a particular rdev.
When changing the amount of a device that is used in an array we need
to check for overlap. This currently includes a check on AllReserved
So even without overlap, sharing with an AllReserved device is not
allowed.
However the bd_claim usage already precludes sharing with these
devices, so the test on AllReserved is not needed. And in fact it is
wrong.
As this is the only use of AllReserved, simply remove all usage and
definition of AllReserved.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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As spares can be added manually before a reshape starts, we need to
find them all to mark some of them as in_sync.
Previously we would abort looking for spares when we found an
unallocated spare what could not be added to the array (implying there
was no room for new spares). However already-added spares could be
later in the list, so we need to keep searching.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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As spares can be added to the array before the reshape is started,
we need to find and count them when checking there are enough.
The array could have been degraded, so we need to check all devices,
no just those out side of the range of devices in the array before
the reshape.
So instead of checking the index, check the In_sync flag as that
reliably tells if the device is a spare or this purpose.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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There are two consecutive 'if' statements.
if (mddev->delta_disks >= 0)
....
if (mddev->delta_disks > 0)
The code in the second is equally valid if delta_disks == 0, and these
two statements are the only place that 'added_devices' is used.
So make them a single if statement, make added_devices a local
variable, and re-indent it all.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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If we try to update_raid_disks and it fails, we should put
'delta_disks' back to zero. This is important because some code,
such as slot_store, assumes that delta_disks has been validated.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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WQ_RESCUER is now an internal flag and should only be used in the
workqueue implementation proper. Use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead.
This doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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Commit e09b457b (block: simplify holder symlink handling) incorrectly
assumed that there is only one link at maximum. dm may use multiple
links and expects block layer to track reference count for each link,
which is different from and unrelated to the exclusive device holder
identified by @holder when the device is opened.
Remove the single holder assumption and automatic removal of the link
and revive the per-link reference count tracking. The code
essentially behaves the same as before commit e09b457b sans the
unnecessary kobject reference count dancing.
While at it, note that this facility should not be used by anyone else
than the current ones. Sysfs symlinks shouldn't be abused like this
and the whole thing doesn't belong in the block layer at all.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (32 commits)
dm: raid456 basic support
dm: per target unplug callback support
dm: introduce target callbacks and congestion callback
dm mpath: delay activate_path retry on SCSI_DH_RETRY
dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn
dm log: use PTR_ERR value instead of ENOMEM
dm snapshot: avoid storing private suspended state
dm snapshot: persistent make metadata_wq multithreaded
dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent
dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered
dm stripe: switch from local workqueue to system_wq
dm: dont use flush_scheduled_work
dm snapshot: remove unused dm_snapshot queued_bios_work
dm ioctl: suppress needless warning messages
dm crypt: add loop aes iv generator
dm crypt: add multi key capability
dm crypt: add post iv call to iv generator
dm crypt: use io thread for reads only if mempool exhausted
dm crypt: scale to multiple cpus
dm crypt: simplify compatible table output
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* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md: Fix removal of extra drives when converting RAID6 to RAID5
md: range check slot number when manually adding a spare.
md/raid5: handle manually-added spares in start_reshape.
md: fix sync_completed reporting for very large drives (>2TB)
md: allow suspend_lo and suspend_hi to decrease as well as increase.
md: Don't let implementation detail of curr_resync leak out through sysfs.
md: separate meta and data devs
md-new-param-to_sync_page_io
md-new-param-to-calc_dev_sboffset
md: Be more careful about clearing flags bit in ->recovery
md: md_stop_writes requires mddev_lock.
md/raid5: use sysfs_notify_dirent_safe to avoid NULL pointer
md: Ensure no IO request to get md device before it is properly initialised.
md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s
md: fix regression resulting in delays in clearing bits in a bitmap
md: fix regression with re-adding devices to arrays with no metadata
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When a RAID6 is converted to a RAID5, the extra drive should
be discarded. However it isn't due to a typo in a comparison.
This bug was introduced in commit e93f68a1fc6 in 2.6.35-rc4
and is suitable for any -stable since than.
As the extra drive is not removed, the 'degraded' counter is wrong and
so the RAID5 will not respond correctly to a subsequent failure.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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When adding a spare to an active array, we should check the slot
number, but allow it to be larger than raid_disks if a reshape
is being prepared.
Apply the same test when adding a device to an
array-under-construction. It already had most of the test in place,
but not quite all.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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It is possible to manually add spares to specific slots before
starting a reshape.
raid5_start_reshape should recognised this possibility and include
it in the accounting.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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The values exported in the sync_completed file are unsigned long, which
overflows with very large drives, resulting in wrong values reported.
Since sync_completed uses sectors as unit, we'll start getting wrong
values with components larger than 2TB.
This patch simply replaces the use of unsigned long by unsigned long long.
Signed-off-by: Rémi Rérolle <rrerolle@lacie.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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The sysfs attributes 'suspend_lo' and 'suspend_hi' describe a region
to which read/writes are suspended so that the under lying data can be
manipulated without user-space noticing.
Currently the window they describe can only move forwards along the
device. However this is an unnecessary restriction which will cause
problems with planned developments.
So relax this restriction and allow these endpoints to move
arbitrarily.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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mddev->curr_resync has artificial values of '1' and '2' which are used
by the code which ensures only one resync is happening at a time on
any given device.
These values are internal and should never be exposed to user-space
(except when translated appropriately as in the 'pending' status in
/proc/mdstat).
Unfortunately they are as ->curr_resync is assigned to
->curr_resync_completed and that value is directly visible through
sysfs.
So change the assignments to ->curr_resync_completed to get the same
valued from elsewhere in a form that doesn't have the magic '1' or '2'
values.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Allow the metadata to be on a separate device from the
data.
This doesn't mean the data and metadata will by on separate
physical devices - it simply gives device-mapper and userspace
tools more flexibility.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Add new parameter to 'sync_page_io'.
The new parameter allows us to distinguish between metadata and data
operations. This becomes important later when we add the ability to
use separate devices for data and metadata.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
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When we allow for separate devices for data and metadata
in a later patch, we will need to be able to calculate
the superblock offset based on more than the bdev.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
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Setting ->recovery to 0 is generally not a good idea as it could clear
bits that shouldn't be cleared. In particular, MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN
should only be cleared on explicit request from user-space.
So when we need to clear things, just clear the bits that need
clearing.
As there are a few different places which reap a resync process - and
some do an incomplte job - factor out the code for doing the from
md_check_recovery and call that function instead of open coding part
of it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
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As md_stop_writes manipulates the sync_thread and calls md_update_sb,
it need to be called with mddev_lock held.
In all internal cases it is, but the symbol is exported for dm-raid to
call and in that case the lock won't be help.
Do make an exported version which takes the lock, and an internal
version which does not.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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With the module parameter 'start_dirty_degraded' set,
raid5_spare_active() previously called sysfs_notify_dirent() with a NULL
argument (rdev->sysfs_state) when a rebuild finished.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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When an md device is in the process of coming on line it is possible
for an IO request (typically a partition table probe) to get through
before the array is fully initialised, which can cause unexpected
behaviour (e.g. a crash).
So explicitly record when the array is ready for IO and don't allow IO
through until then.
There is no possibility for a similar problem when the array is going
off-line as there must only be one 'open' at that time, and it is busy
off-lining the array and so cannot send IO requests. So no memory
barrier is needed in md_stop()
This has been a bug since commit 409c57f3801 in 2.6.30 which
introduced md_make_request. Before then, each personality would
register its own make_request_fn when it was ready.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.30.y onwards.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
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Noticed-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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commit 589a594be1fb (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem were md_thread would
sometimes call the ->run function at a bad time.
If an error is detected during array start up after the md_thread has
been started, the md_thread is killed. This resulted in the ->run
function being called once. However the array may not be in a state
that it is safe to call ->run.
However the fix imposed meant that ->run was not called on a timeout.
This means that when an array goes idle, bitmap bits do not get
cleared promptly. While the array is busy the bits will still be
cleared when appropriate so this is not very serious. There is no
risk to data.
Change the test so that we only avoid calling ->run when the thread
is being stopped. This more explicitly addresses the problem situation.
This is suitable for 2.6.37-stable and any -stable kernel to which
589a594be1fb was applied.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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