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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (107 commits)
vfs: use ERR_CAST for err-ptr tossing in lookup_instantiate_filp
isofs: Remove global fs lock
jffs2: fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() killing a directory
fix IN_DELETE_SELF on overwriting rename() on ramfs et.al.
mm/truncate.c: fix build for CONFIG_BLOCK not enabled
fs:update the NOTE of the file_operations structure
Remove dead code in dget_parent()
AFS: Fix silly characters in a comment
switch d_add_ci() to d_splice_alias() in "found negative" case as well
simplify gfs2_lookup()
jfs_lookup(): don't bother with . or ..
get rid of useless dget_parent() in btrfs rename() and link()
get rid of useless dget_parent() in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers
drivers: fix up various ->llseek() implementations
fs: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA properly in all fs's that define their own llseek
Ext4: handle SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA generically
Btrfs: implement our own ->llseek
fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags
reiserfs: make reiserfs default to barrier=flush
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Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c due to the new
shrinker callout for the inode cache, that clashed with the xfs code to
start the periodic workers later.
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Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file'
allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking
structure.
All current users are switched over to use the new counter.
Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The rcu callback free_conf() just calls a kfree(),
so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(free_conf).
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Use COUNTER()/NEEDED() macro instead of open-coding them.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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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>
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Signed-off-by: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Make use of is_power_of_2 macro.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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>
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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>
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This variable 'disk' is never used - how odd.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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- 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>
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conf->working_disks duplicates information already available
in mddev->degraded.
So remove working_disks.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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>
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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>
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