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2011-06-28md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.NeilBrown
If a device fails in a way that causes pending request to take a while to complete, md will not be able to immediately remove it from the array in remove_and_add_spares. It will then incorrectly look like a spare device and md will try to recover it even though it is failed. This leads to a recovery process starting and instantly aborting over and over again. We should check if the device is faulty before considering it to be a spare. This will avoid trying to start a recovery that cannot proceed. This bug was introduced in 2.6.26 so that patch is suitable for any kernel since then. Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Jim Paradis <james.paradis@stratus.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-14md/raid5: remove unusual use of bio_iovec_idx()Namhyung Kim
In the bio_for_each_segment loop, bvl always points current bio_vec, so the same as bio_iovec_idx(, i). Let's get rid of it. Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-14md/raid5: fix FUA request handling in ops_run_io()Namhyung Kim
Commit e9c7469bb4f5 ("md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support") introduced R5_WantFUA flag and set rw to WRITE_FUA in that case. However remaining code still checks whether rw is exactly same as WRITE or not, so FUAed-write ends up with being treated as READ. Fix it. This bug has been present since 2.6.37 and the fix is suitable for any -stable kernel since then. It is not clear why this has not caused more problems. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-14md/raid5: fix raid5_set_bi_hw_segmentsNamhyung Kim
The @bio->bi_phys_segments consists of active stripes count in the lower 16 bits and processed stripes count in the upper 16 bits. So logical-OR operator should be bitwise one. This bug has been present since 2.6.27 and the fix is suitable for any -stable kernel since then. Fortunately the bad code is only used on error paths and is relatively unlikely to be hit. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09md/bitmap: remove unused fields from struct bitmapNamhyung Kim
Get rid of ->syncchunk and ->counter_bits since they're never used. Also discard COUNTER_BYTE_RATIO which is unused. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09md/bitmap: use proper accessor macroNamhyung Kim
Use COUNTER()/NEEDED() macro instead of open-coding them. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09md: check ->hot_remove_disk when removing diskNamhyung Kim
Check pers->hot_remove_disk instead of pers->hot_add_disk in slot_store() during disk removal. The linear personality only has ->hot_add_disk and no ->hot_remove_disk, so that removing disk in the array resulted to following kernel bug: $ sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=linear --raid-devices=4 /dev/loop[0-3] $ echo none | sudo tee /sys/block/md0/md/dev-loop2/slot BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [< (null)>] (null) PGD c9f5d067 PUD 8575a067 PMD 0 Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP CPU 2 Modules linked in: linear loop bridge stp llc kvm_intel kvm asus_atk0110 sr_mod cdrom sg Pid: 10450, comm: tee Not tainted 3.0.0-rc1-leonard+ #173 System manufacturer System Product Name/P5G41TD-M PRO RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>] [< (null)>] (null) RSP: 0018:ffff880085757df0 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: ffffffffa00168e0 RBX: ffff8800d1431800 RCX: 000000000000006e RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff88008543c000 RBP: ffff880085757e48 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 000000000000000a R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88008543c2e0 R12: 00000000ffffffff R13: ffff8800b4641000 R14: 0000000000000005 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007fe8c9e05700(0000) GS:ffff88011fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000b4502000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process tee (pid: 10450, threadinfo ffff880085756000, task ffff8800c9f08000) Stack: ffffffff8138496a ffff8800b4641000 ffff88008543c268 0000000000000000 ffff8800b4641000 ffff88008543c000 ffff8800d1431868 ffffffff81a78a90 ffff8800b4641000 ffff88008543c000 ffff8800d1431800 ffff880085757e98 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8138496a>] ? slot_store+0xaa/0x265 [<ffffffff81384bae>] rdev_attr_store+0x89/0xa8 [<ffffffff8115a96a>] sysfs_write_file+0x108/0x144 [<ffffffff81106b87>] vfs_write+0xb1/0x10d [<ffffffff8106e6c0>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x111/0x135 [<ffffffff81106cac>] sys_write+0x4d/0x77 [<ffffffff814fe702>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [< (null)>] (null) RSP <ffff880085757df0> CR2: 0000000000000000 ---[ end trace ba5fc64319a826fb ]--- Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09md: Using poll /proc/mdstat can monitor the events of adding a spare disks马建朋
Signed-off-by: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09MD: use is_power_of_2 macroJonathan Brassow
Make use of is_power_of_2 macro. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09MD: raid5 do not set fullsyncJonathan Brassow
Add check to determine if a device needs full resync or if partial resync will do RAID 5 was assuming that if a device was not In_sync, it must undergo a full resync. We add a check to see if 'saved_raid_disk' is the same as 'raid_disk'. If it is, we can safely skip the full resync and rely on the bitmap for partial recovery instead. This is the legitimate purpose of 'saved_raid_disk', from md.h: int saved_raid_disk; /* role that device used to have in the * array and could again if we did a partial * resync from the bitmap */ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09MD: support initial bitmap creation in-kernelJonathan Brassow
Add bitmap support to the device-mapper specific metadata area. This patch allows the creation of the bitmap metadata area upon initial array creation via device-mapper. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-08MD: add sync_super to mddev_t structJonathan Brassow
Add the 'sync_super' function pointer to MD array structure (struct mddev_s) If device-mapper (dm-raid.c) is to define its own on-disk superblock and be able to load it, there must still be a way for MD to initiate superblock updates. The simplest way to make this happen is to provide a pointer in the MD array structure that can be set by device-mapper (or other module) with a function to do this. If the function has been set, it will be used; otherwise, the method with be looked up via 'super_types' as usual. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-08MD: raid1 changes to allow use by device mapperJonathan Brassow
MD RAID1: Changes to allow RAID1 to be used by device-mapper (dm-raid.c) Added the necessary congestion function and conditionalize calls requiring an array 'queue' or 'gendisk'. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-08MD: move thread wakeups into resumeJonathan Brassow
Move personality and sync/recovery thread starting outside md_run. Moving the wakeup's of the personality and sync/recovery threads out of md_run and into do_md_run and mddev_resume solves two issues: 1) It allows bitmap_load to be called before the sync_thread is run and 2) when MD personalities are used by device-mapper (dm-raid.c), the start-up of the array is better alligned with device-mapper primatives (CTR/resume/suspend/DTR). I/O - in this case, recovery operations - should not happen until after a resume has taken place. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-08MD: possible typoJonathan Brassow
Make message a bit clearer by s/blocks/k/ I chose 'k' vs 'kiB' or 'kB' because it is what is used earlier in the message. 'k' may be a bit ambigous, but I think it's better than "blocks" which normally means 512, but means 1024 in MD. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-08MD: no sync IO while suspendedJonathan Brassow
Disallow resync I/O while the RAID array is suspended. Recovery, resync, and metadata I/O should not be allowed while a device is suspended. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-08MD: no integrity register if no gendiskJonathan Brassow
Don't attempt md_integrity_register if there is no gendisk struct available. When MD arrays are built via device-mapper, the gendisk structure is not available via mddev. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: return client directly and not through a pointerMikulas Patocka
Return client directly from dm_kcopyd_client_create, not through a parameter, making it consistent with dm_io_client_create. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: reserve fewer pagesMikulas Patocka
Reserve just the minimum of pages needed to process one job. Because we allocate pages from page allocator, we don't need to reserve a large number of pages. The maximum job size is SUB_JOB_SIZE and we calculate the number of reserved pages based on this. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm io: use fixed initial mempool sizeMikulas Patocka
Replace the arbitrary calculation of an initial io struct mempool size with a constant. The code calculated the number of reserved structures based on the request size and used a "magic" multiplication constant of 4. This patch changes it to reserve a fixed number - itself still chosen quite arbitrarily. Further testing might show if there is a better number to choose. Note that if there is no memory pressure, we can still allocate an arbitrary number of "struct io" structures. One structure is enough to process the whole request. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: alloc pages from the main page allocatorMikulas Patocka
This patch changes dm-kcopyd so that it allocates pages from the main page allocator with __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY flags (so that it can fail in case of memory pressure). If the allocation fails, dm-kcopyd allocates pages from its own reserve. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: add gfp parm to alloc_plMikulas Patocka
Introduce a parameter for gfp flags to alloc_pl() for use in following patches. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: remove superfluous page allocation spinlockMikulas Patocka
Remove the spinlock protecting the pages allocation. The spinlock is only taken on initialization or from single-threaded workqueue. Therefore, the spinlock is useless. The spinlock is taken in kcopyd_get_pages and kcopyd_put_pages. kcopyd_get_pages is only called from run_pages_job, which is only called from process_jobs called from do_work. kcopyd_put_pages is called from client_alloc_pages (which is initialization function) or from run_complete_job. run_complete_job is only called from process_jobs called from do_work. Another spinlock, kc->job_lock is taken each time someone pushes or pops some work for the worker thread. Once we take kc->job_lock, we guarantee that any written memory is visible to the other CPUs. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: preallocate sub jobs to avoid deadlockMikulas Patocka
There's a possible theoretical deadlock in dm-kcopyd because multiple allocations from the same mempool are required to finish a request. Avoid this by preallocating sub jobs. There is a mempool of 512 entries. Each request requires up to 9 entries from the mempool. If we have at least 57 concurrent requests running, the mempool may overflow and mempool allocations may start blocking until another entry is freed to the mempool. Because the same thread is used to free entries to the mempool and allocate entries from the mempool, this may result in a deadlock. This patch changes it so that one mempool entry contains all 9 "struct kcopyd_job" required to fulfill the whole request. The allocation is done only once in dm_kcopyd_copy and no further mempool allocations are done during request processing. If dm_kcopyd_copy is not run in the completion thread, this implementation is deadlock-free. MIN_JOBS needs reducing accordingly and we've chosen to reduce it further to 8. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm kcopyd: avoid pointless job splittingMikulas Patocka
Don't split SUB_JOB_SIZE jobs If the job size equals SUB_JOB_SIZE, there is no point in splitting it. Splitting it just unnecessarily wastes time, because the split job size is SUB_JOB_SIZE too. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm mpath: do not fail paths after integrity errorsMartin K. Petersen
Integrity errors need to be passed to the owner of the integrity metadata for processing. Consequently EILSEQ should be passed up the stack. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm table: reject devices without request fnsMilan Broz
This patch adds a check that a block device has a request function defined before it is used. Otherwise, misconfiguration can cause an oops. Because we are allowing devices with zero size e.g. an offline multipath device as in commit 2cd54d9bedb79a97f014e86c0da393416b264eb3 ("dm: allow offline devices") there needs to be an additional check to ensure devices are initialised. Some block devices, like a loop device without a backing file, exist but have no request function. Reproducer is trivial: dm-mirror on unbound loop device (no backing file on loop devices) dmsetup create x --table "0 8 mirror core 2 8 sync 2 /dev/loop0 0 /dev/loop1 0" and mirror resync will immediatelly cause OOps. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) ? generic_make_request+0x2bd/0x590 ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xad/0x190 submit_bio+0x53/0xe0 ? bio_add_page+0x3b/0x50 dispatch_io+0x1ca/0x210 [dm_mod] ? read_callback+0x0/0xd0 [dm_mirror] dm_io+0xbb/0x290 [dm_mod] do_mirror+0x1e0/0x748 [dm_mirror] Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-29dm table: allow targets to support discards internallyMike Snitzer
Permit a target to support discards regardless of whether or not all its underlying devices do. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2011-05-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined") perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course'). treewide: fix a few typos in comments regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations" audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured' arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option. treewide: remove extra semicolons ...
2011-05-11md: allow resync_start to be set while an array is active.NeilBrown
The sysfs attribute 'resync_start' (known internally as recovery_cp), records where a resync is up to. A value of 0 means the array is not known to be in-sync at all. A value of MaxSector means the array is believed to be fully in-sync. When the size of member devices of an array (RAID1,RAID4/5/6) is increased, the array can be increased to match. This process sets resync_start to the old end-of-device offset so that the new part of the array gets resynced. However with RAID1 (and RAID6) a resync is not technically necessary and may be undesirable. So it would be good if the implied resync after the array is resized could be avoided. So: change 'resync_start' so the value can be changed while the array is active, and as a precaution only allow it to be changed while resync/recovery is 'frozen'. Changing it once resync has started is not going to be useful anyway. This allows the array to be resized without a resync by: write 'frozen' to 'sync_action' write new size to 'component_size' (this will set resync_start) write 'none' to 'resync_start' write 'idle' to 'sync_action'. Also slightly improve some tests on recovery_cp when resizing raid1/raid5. Now that an arbitrary value could be set we should be more careful in our tests. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid10: reformat some loops with less indenting.NeilBrown
When a loop ends with an 'if' with a large body, it is neater to make the if 'continue' on the inverse condition, and then the body is indented less. Apply this pattern 3 times, and wrap some other long lines. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid10: remove unused variable.NeilBrown
This variable 'disk' is never used - how odd. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid10: make more use of 'slot' in raid10d.NeilBrown
Now that we have a 'slot' variable, make better use of it to simplify some code a little. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid10: some tidying up in fix_read_errorNeilBrown
Currently the rdev on which a read error happened could be removed before we perform the fix_error handling. This requires extra tests for NULL. So delay the rdev_dec_pending call until after the call to fix_read_error so that we can be sure that the rdev still exists. This allows an 'if' clause to be removed so the body gets re-indented back one level. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid1: improve handling of pages allocated for write-behind.NeilBrown
The current handling and freeing of these pages is a bit fragile. We only keep the list of allocated pages in each bio, so we need to still have a valid bio when freeing the pages, which is a bit clumsy. So simply store the allocated page list in the r1_bio so it can easily be found and freed when we are finished with the r1_bio. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid1: try fix_sync_read_error before process_checks.NeilBrown
If we get a read error during resync/recovery we current repeat with single-page reads to find out just where the error is, and possibly read each page from a different device. With check/repair we don't currently do that, we just fail. However it is possible that while all devices fail on the large 64K read, we might be able to satisfy each 4K from one device or another. So call fix_sync_read_error before process_checks to maximise the chance of finding good data and writing it out to the devices with read errors. For this to work, we need to set the 'uptodate' flags properly after fix_sync_read_error has succeeded. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid1: tidy up new functions: process_checks and fix_sync_read_error.NeilBrown
These changes are mostly cosmetic: 1/ change mddev->raid_disks to conf->raid_disks because the later is technically safer, though in current practice it doesn't matter in this particular context. 2/ Rearrange two for / if loops to have an early 'continue' so the body of the 'if' doesn't need to be indented so much. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid1: split out two sub-functions from sync_request_writeNeilBrown
sync_request_write is too big and too deep. So split out two self-contains bits of functionality into separate function. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md: make error_handler functions more uniform and correct.NeilBrown
- there is no need to test_bit Faulty, as that was already done in md_error which is the only caller of these functions. - MD_CHANGE_DEVS should be set *after* faulty is set to ensure metadata is updated correctly. - spinlock should be held while updating ->degraded. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/multipath: discard ->working_disks in favour of ->degradedNeilBrown
conf->working_disks duplicates information already available in mddev->degraded. So remove working_disks. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/raid1: clean up read_balance.NeilBrown
read_balance has two loops which both look for a 'best' device based on slightly different criteria. This is clumsy and makes is hard to add extra criteria. So replace it all with a single loop that combines everything. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md: simplify raid10 read_balanceNeilBrown
raid10 read balance has two different loop for looking through possible devices to chose the best. Collapse those into one loop and generally make the code more readable. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md/bitmap: fix saving of events_cleared and other state.NeilBrown
If a bitmap is found to be 'stale' the events_cleared value is set to match 'events'. However if the array is degraded this does not get stored on disk. This can subsequently lead to incorrect behaviour. So change bitmap_update_sb to always update events_cleared in the superblock from the known events_cleared. For neatness also set ->state from ->flags. This requires updating ->state whenever we update ->flags, which makes sense anyway. This is suitable for any active -stable release. cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md: reject a re-add request that cannot be honoured.NeilBrown
The 'add_new_disk' ioctl can be used to add a device either as a spare, or as an active disk that just needs to be resynced based on write-intent-bitmap information (re-add) Currently if a re-add is requested but fails we add as a spare instead. This makes it impossible for user-space to check for failure. So change to require that a re-add attempt will either succeed or completely fail. User-space can then decide what to do next. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11md: Fix race when creating a new md device.NeilBrown
There is a race when creating an md device by opening /dev/mdXX. If two processes do this at much the same time they will follow the call path __blkdev_get -> get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup The first will call -> md_probe -> md_alloc -> add_disk -> blk_register_region and the race happens when the second gets to kobj_lookup after add_disk has called blk_register_region but before it returns to md_alloc. In the case the second will not call md_probe (as the probe is already done) but will get a handle on the gendisk, return to __blkdev_get which will then call md_open (via the ->open) pointer. As mddev->gendisk hasn't been set yet, md_open will think something is wrong an return with ERESTARTSYS. This can loop endlessly while the first thread makes no progress through add_disk. Nothing is blocking it, but due to scheduler behaviour it doesn't get a turn. So this is essentially a live-lock. We fix this by simply moving the assignment to mddev->gendisk before the call the add_disk() so md_open doesn't get confused. Also move blk_queue_flush earlier because add_disk should be as late as possible. To make sure that md_open doesn't complete until md_alloc has done all that is needed, we take mddev->open_mutex during the last part of md_alloc. md_open will wait for this. This can cause a lock-up on boot so Cc:ing for stable. For 2.6.36 and earlier a different patch will be needed as the 'blk_queue_flush' call isn't there. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Tested-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-05-10md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').Jesper Juhl
There's a small typo in a comment in drivers/md/raid5.c - 'Of course' is misspelled as 'Ofcourse'. This patch fixes the spelling error. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-04-21raid5: fix build error, sector_t usageRandy Dunlap
Change <sectors> from unsigned long long to sector_t. This matches its source field. ERROR: "__udivdi3" [drivers/md/raid456.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-20md: Cleanup after raid45->raid0 takeoverKrzysztof Wojcik
Problem: After raid4->raid0 takeover operation, another takeover operation (e.g raid0->raid10) results "kernel oops". Root cause: Variables 'degraded' in mddev structure is not cleared on raid45->raid0 takeover. This patch reset this variable. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-20md: Fix dev_sectors on takeover from raid0 to raid4/5NeilBrown
A raid0 array doesn't set 'dev_sectors' as each device might contribute a different number of sectors. So when converting to a RAID4 or RAID5 we need to set dev_sectors as they need the number. We have already verified that in fact all devices do contribute the same number of sectors, so use that number. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-20md/raid5: remove setting of ->queue_lockNeilBrown
We previously needed to set ->queue_lock to match the raid5 device_lock so we could safely use queue_flag_* operations (e.g. for plugging). which test the ->queue_lock is in fact locked. However that need has completely gone away and is unlikely to come back to remove this now-pointless setting. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>