If md is asked to store a bitmap in a file, it tries to hold onto the page
cache pages for that file, manipulate them directly, and call a cocktail of
operations to write the file out. I don't believe this is a supportable
approach.
This patch changes the approach to use the same approach as swap files. i.e.
bmap is used to enumerate all the block address of parts of the file and we
write directly to those blocks of the device.
swapfile only uses parts of the file that provide a full pages at contiguous
addresses. We don't have that luxury so we have to cope with pages that are
non-contiguous in storage. To handle this we attach buffers to each page, and
store the addresses in those buffers.
With this approach the pagecache may contain data which is inconsistent with
what is on disk. To alleviate the problems this can cause, md invalidates the
pagecache when releasing the file. If the file is to be examined while the
array is active (a non-critical but occasionally useful function), O_DIRECT io
must be used. And new version of mdadm will have support for this.
This approach simplifies a lot of code:
- we no longer need to keep a list of pages which we need to wait for,
as the b_endio function can keep track of how many outstanding
writes there are. This saves a mempool.
- -EAGAIN returns from write_page are no longer possible (not sure if
they ever were actually).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
md/bitmap currently has a separate thread to wait for writes to the bitmap
file to complete (as we cannot get a callback on that action).
However this isn't needed as bitmap_unplug is called from process context and
waits for the writeback thread to do it's work. The same result can be
achieved by doing the waiting directly in bitmap_unplug.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch makes the needlessly global md_print_devices() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The "industry standard" DDF format allows for a stripe/offset layout where
data is duplicated on different stripes. e.g.
A B C D
D A B C
E F G H
H E F G
(columns are drives, rows are stripes, LETTERS are chunks of data).
This is similar to raid10's 'far' mode, but not quite the same. So enhance
'far' mode with a 'far/offset' option which follows the layout of DDFs
stripe/offset.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
For a while we have had checkpointing of resync. The version-1 superblock
allows recovery to be checkpointed as well, and this patch implements that.
Due to early carelessness we need to add a feature flag to signal that the
recovery_offset field is in use, otherwise older kernels would assume that a
partially recovered array is in fact fully recovered.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There is a lot of commonality between raid5.c and raid6main.c. This patches
merges both into one module called raid456. This saves a lot of code, and
paves the way for online raid5->raid6 migrations.
There is still duplication, e.g. between handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6.
This will probably be cleaned up later.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The largest chunk size the code can support without substantial surgery is
2^30 bytes, so make that the limit instead of an arbitrary 4Meg. Some day,
the 'chunksize' should change to a sector-shift instead of a byte-count. Then
no limit would be needed.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
reshape_position is a 64bit field that was not 64bit aligned. So swap with
new_level.
NOTE: this is a user-visible change. However:
- The bad code has not appeared in a released kernel
- This code is still marked 'experimental'
- This only affects version-1 superblock, which are not in wide use
- These field are only used (rather than simply reported) by user-space
tools in extemely rare circumstances : after a reshape crashes in the
first second of the reshape process.
So I believe that, at this stage, the change is safe. Especially if people
heed the 'help' message on use mdadm-2.4.1.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
... being careful that mutex_trylock is inverted wrt down_trylock
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This allows user-space to access data safely. This is needed for raid5
reshape as user-space needs to take a backup of the first few stripes before
allowing reshape to commence.
It will also be useful in cluster-aware raid1 configurations so that all
cluster members can leave a section of the array untouched while a
resync/recovery happens.
A 'start' and 'end' of the suspended range are written to 2 sysfs attributes.
Note that only one range can be suspended at a time.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
check_reshape checks validity and does things that can be done instantly -
like adding devices to raid1. start_reshape initiates a restriping process to
convert the whole array.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Instead of checkpointing at each stripe, only checkpoint when a new write
would overwrite uncheckpointed data. Block any write to the uncheckpointed
area. Arbitrarily checkpoint at least every 3Meg.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We allow the superblock to record an 'old' and a 'new' geometry, and a
position where any conversion is up to. The geometry allows for changing
chunksize, layout and level as well as number of devices.
When using verion-0.90 superblock, we convert the version to 0.91 while the
conversion is happening so that an old kernel will refuse the assemble the
array. For version-1, we use a feature bit for the same effect.
When starting an array we check for an incomplete reshape and restart the
reshape process if needed. If the reshape stopped at an awkward time (like
when updating the first stripe) we refuse to assemble the array, and let
user-space worry about it.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds raid5_reshape and end_reshape which will start and finish the
reshape processes.
raid5_reshape is only enabled in CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE is set, to discourage
accidental use.
Read the 'help' for the CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE entry.
and Make sure that you have backups, just in case.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch provides the core of the resize/expand process.
sync_request notices if a 'reshape' is happening and acts accordingly.
It allocated new stripe_heads for the next chunk-wide-stripe in the target
geometry, marking them STRIPE_EXPANDING.
Then it finds which stripe heads in the old geometry can provide data needed
by these and marks them STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE. This causes stripe_handle to
read all blocks on those stripes.
Once all blocks on a STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE stripe_head are read, any that are
needed are copied into the corresponding STRIPE_EXPANDING stripe_head. Once a
STRIPE_EXPANDING stripe_head is full, it is marks STRIPE_EXPAND_READY and then
is written out and released.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We need to allow that different stripes are of different effective sizes, and
use the appropriate size. Also, when a stripe is being expanded, we must
block any IO attempts until the stripe is stable again.
Key elements in this change are:
- each stripe_head gets a 'disk' field which is part of the key,
thus there can sometimes be two stripe heads of the same area of
the array, but covering different numbers of devices. One of these
will be marked STRIPE_EXPANDING and so won't accept new requests.
- conf->expand_progress tracks how the expansion is progressing and
is used to determine whether the target part of the array has been
expanded yet or not.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Before a RAID-5 can be expanded, we need to be able to expand the stripe-cache
data structure.
This requires allocating new stripes in a new kmem_cache. If this succeeds,
we copy cache pages over and release the old stripes and kmem_cache.
We then allocate new pages. If that fails, we leave the stripe cache at it's
new size. It isn't worth the effort to shrink it back again.
Unfortuanately this means we need two kmem_cache names as we, for a short
period of time, we have two kmem_caches. So they are raid5/%s and
raid5/%s-alt
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The remainder of this batch implements raid5 reshaping. Currently the only
shape change that is supported is added a device, but it is envisioned that
changing the chunksize and layout will also be supported, as well as changing
the level (e.g. 1->5, 5->6).
The reshape process naturally has to move all of the data in the array, and so
should be used with caution. It is believed to work, and some testing does
support this, but wider testing would be great for increasing my confidence.
You will need a version of mdadm newer than 2.3.1 to make use of raid5 growth.
This is because mdadm need to take a copy of a 'critical section' at the
start of the array incase there is a crash at an awkward moment. On restart,
mdadm will restore the critical section and allow reshape to continue.
I hope to release a 2.4-pre by early next week - it still needs a little more
polishing.
This patch:
Previously the array of disk information was included in the raid5 'conf'
structure which was allocated to an appropriate size. This makes it awkward
to change the size of that array. So we split it off into a separate
kmalloced array which will require a little extra indexing, but is much easier
to grow.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Both R1BIO_Barrier and R1BIO_Returned are 4 !!!!
This means that barrier requests don't get returned (i.e. b_endio called)
because it looks like they already have been.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Also export current (average) speed and status in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Store this total in superblock (As appropriate), and make it available to
userspace via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
.. because they aren't used outside md.c
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
md sometimes call put_page on NULL pointers (treating it like kfree). This is
not safe, so define and use a 'safe_put_page' which checks for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
md supports multiple different RAID level, each being implemented by a
'personality' (which is often in a separate module).
These personalities have fairly artificial 'numbers'. The numbers
are use to:
1- provide an index into an array where the various personalities
are recorded
2- identify the module (via an alias) which implements are particular
personality.
Neither of these uses really justify the existence of personality numbers.
The array can be replaced by a linked list which is searched (array lookup
only happens very rarely). Module identification can be done using an alias
based on level rather than 'personality' number.
The current 'raid5' modules support two level (4 and 5) but only one
personality. This slight awkwardness (which was handled in the mapping from
level to personality) can be better handled by allowing raid5 to register 2
personalities.
With this change in place, the core md module does not need to have an
exhaustive list of all possible personalities, so other personalities can be
added independently.
This patch also moves the check for chunksize being non-zero into the ->run
routines for the personalities that need it, rather than having it in core-md.
This has a side effect of allowing 'faulty' and 'linear' not to have a
chunk-size set.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- replace open-coded hash chain with hlist macros
- Fix hash-table size at one page - it is already quite generous, so there
will never be a need to use multiple pages, so no need for __get_free_pages
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add in correct read-error handling for resync and read-only situations.
When read-only, we don't over-write, so we need to mark the failed drive in
the r10_bio so we don't re-try it. During resync, we always read all blocks,
so if there is a read error, we simply over-write it with the good block that
we found (assuming we found one).
Note that the recovery case still isn't handled in an interesting way. There
is nothing useful to do for the 2-copies case. If there are 3 or more copies,
then we could try reading from one of the non-missing copies, but this is a
bit complicated and very rarely would be used, so I'm leaving it for now.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Largely just a cross-port from raid1.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There is this "FIXME" comment with a typo in it!! that been annoying me for
days, so I just had to remove it.
conf->disks[i].rdev should only be accessed if
- we know we hold a reference or
- the mddev->reconfig_sem is down or
- we have a rcu_readlock
handle_stripe was referencing rdev in three places without any of these. For
the first two, get an rcu_readlock. For the last, the same access
(md_sync_acct call) is made a little later after the rdev has been claimed
under and rcu_readlock, if R5_Syncio is set. So just use that access...
However R5_Syncio isn't really needed as the 'syncing' variable contains the
same information. So use that instead.
Issues, comment, and fix are identical in raid5 and raid6.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On a read-error we suspend the array, then synchronously read the block from
other arrays until we find one where we can read it. Then we try writing the
good data back everywhere and make sure it works. If any write or subsequent
read fails, only then do we fail the device out of the array.
To be able to suspend the array, we need to also keep track of how many
requests are queued for handling by raid1d.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
raid6 currently does not check the P/Q syndromes when doing a resync, it just
calculates the correct value and writes it. Doing the check can reduce writes
(often to 0) for a resync, and it is needed to properly implement the
echo check > sync_action
operation.
This patch implements the appropriate checks and tidies up some related code.
It also allows raid6 user-requested resync to bypass the intent bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
See patch to md.txt for more details
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
raid10 needs to put up a barrier to new requests while it does resync or other
background recovery. The code for this is currently open-coded, slighty
obscure by its use of two waitqueues, and not documented.
This patch gathers all the related code into 4 functions, and includes a
comment which (hopefully) explains what is happening.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
raid1 needs to put up a barrier to new requests while it does resync or other
background recovery. The code for this is currently open-coded, slighty
obscure by its use of two waitqueues, and not documented.
This patch gathers all the related code into 4 functions, and includes a
comment which (hopefully) explains what is happening.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are a few loose ends following the conversion of md to use kthreads:
- Some fields in mdk_thread_t that aren't needed (kthreads does it's own
completion and manages it's own name).
- thread->run is now never NULL, so no need to check
- Some tests for signal_pending that aren't needed (As we don't use signals
to stop threads any more)
- Some flush_signals are not needed
- Some waits are interruptible and don't need to be.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We can only accept BARRIER requests if all slaves handle
barriers, and that can, of course, change with time....
So we keep track of whether the whole array seems safe for barriers,
and also whether each individual rdev handles barriers.
We initially assumes barriers are OK.
When writing the superblock we try a barrier, and if that fails, we flag
things for no-barriers. This will usually clear the flags fairly quickly.
If writing the superblock finds that BIO_RW_BARRIER is -ENOTSUPP, we need to
resubmit, so introduce function "md_super_wait" which waits for requests to
finish, and retries ENOTSUPP requests without the barrier flag.
When writing the real raid1, write requests which were BIO_RW_BARRIER but
which aresn't supported need to be retried. So raid1d is enhanced to do this,
and when any bio write completes (i.e. no retry needed) we remove it from the
r1bio, so that devices needing retry are easy to find.
We should hardly ever get -ENOTSUPP errors when writing data to the raid.
It should only happen if:
1/ the device used to support BARRIER, but now doesn't. Few devices
change like this, though raid1 can!
or
2/ the array has no persistent superblock, so there was no opportunity to
pre-test for barriers when writing the superblock.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Current bitmaps use set_bit et.al and so are host-endian, which means
not-portable. Oops.
Define a new version number (4) for which bitmaps are little-endian.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This has the advantage of removing the confusion caused by 'rdev_t' and
'mddev_t' both having 'in_sync' fields.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Two refinements to the 'attempt-overwrite-on-read-error' mechanism.
1/ If the array is read-only, don't attempt an over-write.
2/ If there are more than max_nr_stripes read errors on a device with
no success, fail the drive. This will make sure a dead
drive will be eventually kicked even when we aren't trying
to rewrite (which would normally kick a dead drive more quickly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There isn't really a need for raid5 attributes to be an a subdirectory,
so this patch moves them from
/sys/block/mdX/md/raid5/attribute
to
/sys/block/mdX/md/attribute
This suggests that all md personalities should co-operate about
namespace usage, but that shouldn't be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With this, raid5 can be asked to check parity without repairing it. It also
keeps a count of the number of incorrect parity blocks found (mismatches) and
reports them through sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
You can trigger a 'check' with
echo check > /sys/block/mdX/md/scan_mode
or a check-and-repair errors with
echo repair > /sys/block/mdX/md/scan_mode
and read the current state from the same file.
Note: personalities need to know the different between 'check' and 'repair',
but don't yet. Until they do, 'check' will be the same as 'repair' and will
just do a normal resync pass.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
/sys/block/mdX/md/raid5/
contains raid5-related attributes.
Currently
stripe_cache_size
is number of entries in stripe cache, and is settable.
stripe_cache_active
is number of active entries, and in only readable.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Each device in an md array how has a corresponding
/sys/block/mdX/md/devNN/
directory which can contain attributes. Currently there is only 'state' which
summarises the state, nd 'super' which has a copy of the superblock, and
'block' which is a symlink to the block device.
Also, /sys/block/mdX/md/rdNN represents slot 'NN' in the array, and is a
symlink to the relevant 'devNN'. Obviously spare devices do not have a slot
in the array, and so don't have such a symlink.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Start using kobjects in mddevs, and provide a couple of simple attributes
(level and disks). Attributes live in
/sys/block/mdX/md/attr-name
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch changes the behaviour of raid5 when it gets a read error.
Instead of just failing the device, it tried to find out what should have
been there, and writes it over the bad block. For some media-errors, this
has a reasonable chance of fixing the error. If the write succeeds, and a
subsequent read succeeds as well, raid5 decided the address is OK and
conitnues.
Instead of failing a drive on read-error, we attempt to re-write the block,
and then re-read. If that all works, we allow the device to remain in the
array.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Most awkward part of this is delaying write requests until bitmap updates have
been flushed.
To achieve this, we have a sequence number (seq_flush) which is incremented
each time the raid5 is unplugged.
If the raid thread notices that this has changed, it flushes bitmap changes,
and assigned the value of seq_flush to seq_write.
When a write request arrives, it is given the number from seq_write, and that
write request may not complete until seq_flush is larger than the saved seq
number.
We have a new queue for storing stripes which are waiting for a bitmap flush
and an extra flag for stripes to record if the write was 'degraded' and so
should not clear the a bit in the bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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