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Jens Axboe 9b84754866 [PATCH] Suspend support for libata
This patch adds suspend patch to libata, and ata_piix in particular. For
most low level drivers, they should just need to add the 4 hooks to
work. As I can only test ata_piix, I didn't enable it for more
though.

Suspend support is the single most important feature on a notebook, and
most new notebooks have sata drives. It's quite embarrassing that we
_still_ do not support this. Right now, it's perfectly possible to
suspend the drive in mid-transfer.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:36:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 88202a0c84 [PATCH] md: allow sync-speed to be controlled per-device
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
NeilBrown 6d7ff7380b [PATCH] md: support adding new devices to md arrays via sysfs
Writing major:minor to md/new_dev will bind that device to the array.

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>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
NeilBrown 83303b613d [PATCH] md: allow available size of component devices to be set 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
Andrew Morton 6961ece46c [PATCH] md-export-rdev-data_offset-via-sysfs-fix
drivers/md/md.c: In function `offset_show':
drivers/md/md.c:1670: warning: long long unsigned int format, different type arg (arg 3)

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
NeilBrown 93c8cad03f [PATCH] md: export rdev->data_offset 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 014236d2b8 [PATCH] md: expose device slot information via sysfs
This the role that a device has in an array can be viewed and set.

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>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 2bf071bf50 [PATCH] md: keep better track of dev/array size when assembling md arrays
Move the checks - that dev size is never less than array size - into
bind_rdev_to_array to make sure it always happens properly (there is one place
where currently it doesn't).

Also reject any superblock which claims an array size smaller than the device
in question can hold.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown da943b9912 [PATCH] md: allow md/raid_disks to be settable
If array is active, try to reshape, else just set the value.

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>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 4dbcdc751c [PATCH] md: count corrected read errors per drive
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown d9d166c2a9 [PATCH] md: allow array level to be set textually 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 8bb93aaca2 [PATCH] md: expose md metadata format in sysfs
Allow it to be set to a particular version, or 'none'.

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>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown a35b0d695d [PATCH] md: allow md array component size to be accessed and set 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown 3b34380ae8 [PATCH] md: allow chunk_size to be settable through sysfs
... only before array is started of course.

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>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown 03c902e17f [PATCH] md: fix rdev->pending counts in raid1
When we do a user-requested check/repair, we lose count of the outstanding
requests...

Also make sure that when anything is written to md/sync_action, the
RECOVERY_NEEDED flag is set and the thread is woken up so any changes take
effect.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown c708443c00 [PATCH] md: make sure bitmap updates are visible through filesystem
When we update a page_cache page in the kernel, we need to flush_dache_page or
userspace might not see the 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 07dbd37727 [PATCH] drivers/md/md.c: make md_new_event() static
Make the needlessly global function md_new_event() static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:07 -08:00
NeilBrown 2989ddbd6e [PATCH] md: make a couple of names in md.c static
.. 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:07 -08:00
NeilBrown f188593ee7 [PATCH] md: fix typo in comment
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:07 -08:00
NeilBrown bce74dac08 [PATCH] md: helper function to match commands written to sysfs files
Commands written to sysfs files may, or my not, be \n terminated.  We want to
accept with case.  For this we use cmd_match.

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>
2006-01-06 08:34:07 -08:00
NeilBrown 1345b1d8ad [PATCH] md: define and use safe_put_page for md
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:07 -08:00
NeilBrown 7dd5d34c6c [PATCH] md: remove inappropriate limits in md/bitmap configuration.
The kernel should not be imposing these policy limits: The time between
bitmap updates should certainly be allowed to be more than 15 seconds, and
if someone wants a bitmap chunk size in excess of 4MB, the kernel isn't the
place to stop them.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:07 -08:00
NeilBrown 097426f689 [PATCH] md: fix possible problem in raid1/raid10 error overwriting
The code to overwrite/reread for addressing read errors in raid1/raid10
currently assumes that the read will not alter the buffer which could be used
to write to the next device.  This is not a safe assumption to make.

So we split the loops into a overwrite loop and a separate re-read loop, so
that the writing is complete before reading is attempted.

Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.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>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
NeilBrown 2604b703b6 [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
NeilBrown a24a8dd858 [PATCH] md: break out of a loop that doesn't need to run to completion
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
NeilBrown a8745db232 [PATCH] md: convert recently exported symbol to GPL
...because that seems to be the preferred practice these days.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
NeilBrown ea03aff93b [PATCH] md: convert various kmap calls to kmap_atomic
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
NeilBrown fccddba060 [PATCH] md: tidy up raid5/6 hash table code
- 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>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
NeilBrown 9ffae0cf3e [PATCH] md: convert md to use kzalloc throughout
Replace multiple kmalloc/memset pairs with kzalloc calls.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:05 -08:00
NeilBrown 2d1f3b5d1b [PATCH] md: clean up 'page' related names in md
Substitute:

  page_cache_get -> get_page
  page_cache_release -> put_page
  PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT -> PAGE_SHIFT
  PAGE_CACHE_SIZE -> PAGE_SIZE
  PAGE_CACHE_MASK -> PAGE_MASK
  __free_page -> put_page

because we aren't using the page cache, we are just using pages.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:05 -08:00
NeilBrown d7603b7e3a [PATCH] md: make /proc/mdstat pollable
With this patch it is possible to poll /proc/mdstat to detect arrays appearing
or disappearing, to detect failures, recovery starting, recovery completing,
and devices being added and removed.

It is similar to the poll-ability of /proc/mounts, though different in that:

We always report that the file is readable (because face it, it is, even if
only for EOF).

We report POLLPRI when there is a change so that select() can detect
it as an exceptional event.  Not only are these exceptional events, but
that is the mechanism that the current 'mdadm' uses to watch for events
(It also polls after a timeout).
(We also report POLLERR like /proc/mounts).

Finally, we only reset the per-file event counter when the start of the file
is read, rather than when poll() returns an event.  This is more robust as it
means that an fd will continue to report activity to poll/select until the
program clearly responds to that activity.

md_new_event takes an 'mddev' which isn't currently used, but it will be soon.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:05 -08:00
NeilBrown 0eb3ff12aa [PATCH] md: raid10 read-error handling - resync and read-only
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:05 -08:00
NeilBrown 4443ae10ca [PATCH] md: auto-correct correctable read errors in raid10
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:05 -08:00
NeilBrown 220946c901 [PATCH] md: make sure read error on last working drive of raid1 actually returns failure
We are inadvertently setting the R1BIO_Uptodate bit on read errors when we
decide not to try correcting (because there are no other working devices).
This means that the read error is reported to the client as success.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:04 -08:00
NeilBrown d11c171e63 [PATCH] md: allow raid1 to check consistency
Where performing a user-requested 'check' or 'repair', we read all readable
devices, and compare the contents.  We only write to blocks which had read
errors, or blocks with content that differs from the first good device found.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:04 -08:00
NeilBrown 18f08819f4 [PATCH] md: support check-without-repair of raid10 arrays
Also keep count on the number of errors found.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:04 -08:00
NeilBrown 9910f16af3 [PATCH] md: fix up some rdev rcu locking in raid5/6
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:04 -08:00
NeilBrown cf30a473a0 [PATCH] md: handle errors when read-only
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:04 -08:00
NeilBrown 69382e8537 [PATCH] md: better handling for read error in raid1 during resync
Handling of read errors during resync is separate from handling of read errors
during normal IO in raid1.  A previous patch added support for read errors
during normal IO.  This one adds support for read errors during resync or
recovery.

The key differences are that we don't need to freeze the array, because the
normal handling of resync means that this part of the array will be idle
except for resync, and the read/overwrite/re-read is needed in a separate
piece of code.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:04 -08:00
NeilBrown 3e198f7826 [PATCH] md: tidyup some issues with raid1 resync and prepare for catching read errors
We are dereferencing ->rdev without an rcu lock!

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:03 -08:00
NeilBrown ddaf22abaa [PATCH] md: attempt to auto-correct read errors in raid1
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:03 -08:00
NeilBrown d69762e984 [PATCH] md: improve handing of read errors with raid6
This is a simple port of match functionality across from raid5.  If we get a
read error, we don't kick the drive straight away, but try to over-write with
good data first.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:03 -08:00
NeilBrown ca65b73bd9 [PATCH] md: fix raid6 resync check/repair code
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:03 -08:00
NeilBrown 6cce3b23f6 [PATCH] md: write intent bitmap support for raid10
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:03 -08:00
NeilBrown b15c2e57f0 [PATCH] md: move bitmap_create to after md array has been initialised
This is important because bitmap_create uses
  mddev->resync_max_sectors
and that doesn't have a valid value until after the array
has been initialised (with pers->run()).
[It doesn't make a difference for current personalities that
 support bitmaps, but will make a difference for raid10]

This has the added advantage of meaning with can move the thread->timeout
manipulation inside the bitmap.c code instead of sprinkling identical code
throughout all personalities.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:03 -08:00
NeilBrown 6ff8d8ec06 [PATCH] md: allow dirty raid[456] arrays to be started at boot
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:02 -08:00
NeilBrown 14f8d26b8e [PATCH] md: small cleanups for raid5
Resync code:
  A test that isn't needed,
  a 'compute_block' that makes more sense
    elsewhere (And then doesn't need a test),
  a couple of BUG_ONs to confirm the change makes sense.

Printks:
  A few were missing KERN_*

Also fix a typo in a comment..

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:02 -08:00
NeilBrown 0a27ec96b6 [PATCH] md: improve raid10 "IO Barrier" concept
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:02 -08:00
NeilBrown 17999be4aa [PATCH] md: improve raid1 "IO Barrier" concept
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>
2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
Darrick J. Wong ac81b2ee45 [PATCH] make dm-mirror not issue invalid resync requests
I've been attempting to set up a (Host)RAID mirror with dm_mirror on
2.6.14.3, and I've been having a strange little problem.  The configuration
in question is a set of 9GB SCSI disks that have 17942584 sectors.  I set
up the dm_mirror table as such:

0 17942528 mirror core 2 2048 nosync 2 8:48 0 8:64 0

If I'm not mistaken, this sets up a 9GB RAID1 mriror with 1MB stripes
across both SCSI disks.  The sector count of the dm device is less than the
size of the disks, so we shouldn't fall off the end.  However, I always get
the messages like this in dmesg when I set up the dm table:

attempt to access beyond end of device
sdd: rw=0, want=17958656, limit=17942584

Clearly, something is trying to read sectors past the end of the drive.  I
traced it down to the __rh_recovery_prepare function in dm-raid1.c, which
gets called when we're putting the mirror set together.  This function
calls the dirty region log's get_resync_work function to see if there's any
resync that needs to be done, and queues up any areas that are out of sync.
 The log's get_resync_work function is actually a pointer to the
core_get_resync_work function in dm-log.c.

The core_get_resync_work function queries a bitset lc->sync_bits to find
out if there are any regions that are out of date (i.e.  the bit is 0),
which is where the problem occurs.  If every bit in lc->sync_bits is 1
(which is the case when we've just configured a new RAID1 with the nosync
option), the find_next_zero_bit does NOT return the size parameter
(lc->region_count in this case), it returns the size parameter rounded up
to the nearest multiple of 32!  I don't know if this is intentional, but
i386 and x86_64 both exhibit this behavior.

In any case, the statement "if (*region == lc->region_count)" looks like
it's supposed to catch the case where are no regions to resync and
return 0.  Since find_next_zero_bit apparently has a habit of returning
a value that's larger than lc->region_count, the enclosed patch changes
the equality test to a greater-than test so that we don't try to resync
areas outside of the RAID1 region.  Seeing as the HostRAID metadata
lives just past the end of the RAID1 data, mucking around in that area
is not a good idea.

I suppose another way to fix this would be to amend find_next_zero_bit so
that it doesn't return values larger than "size", but I don't know if
there's a reason for the current behavior.

Signed-Off-By: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00