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authorGuoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>2017-07-04 06:20:30 +0300
committerShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>2017-07-10 20:30:41 +0300
commit4aaf7694f841edc96fe0f72958aabe59204b3611 (patch)
tree585730b5ab2b04fb7a96994caa37b08eaa143da7 /drivers/md
parentaf3c8d98508d37541d4bf57f13a984a7f73a328c (diff)
downloadlinux-4aaf7694f841edc96fe0f72958aabe59204b3611.tar.xz
md/bitmap: don't read page from device with Bitmap_sync
The device owns Bitmap_sync flag needs recovery to become in sync, and read page from this type device could get stale status. Also add comments for Bitmap_sync bit per the suggestion from Shaohua and Neil. Previous disscussion can be found here: https://marc.info/?t=149760428900004&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/bitmap.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.h4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index f4eace5ea184..40f3cd7eab0f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ static int read_sb_page(struct mddev *mddev, loff_t offset,
rdev_for_each(rdev, mddev) {
if (! test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)
- || test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags))
+ || test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)
+ || test_bit(Bitmap_sync, &rdev->flags))
continue;
target = offset + index * (PAGE_SIZE/512);
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 991f0fe2dcc6..b50eb4ac1b82 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -134,7 +134,9 @@ enum flag_bits {
Faulty, /* device is known to have a fault */
In_sync, /* device is in_sync with rest of array */
Bitmap_sync, /* ..actually, not quite In_sync. Need a
- * bitmap-based recovery to get fully in sync
+ * bitmap-based recovery to get fully in sync.
+ * The bit is only meaningful before device
+ * has been passed to pers->hot_add_disk.
*/
WriteMostly, /* Avoid reading if at all possible */
AutoDetected, /* added by auto-detect */