linux-stable.git/drivers/md/linear.c, branch linux-2.6.33.y

md/linear: avoid possible oops and array stop

2010-07-05T18:15:49+00:00

commit ef2f80ff7325b2c1888ff02ead28957b5840bf51 upstream.

Since commit ef286f6fa673cd7fb367e1b145069d8dbfcc6081
it has been important that each personality clears
->private in the ->stop() function, or sets it to a
attribute group to be removed.
linear.c doesn't.  This can sometimes lead to an oops,
though it doesn't always.

Suitable for 2.6.33-stable and 2.6.34.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: deal with merge_bvec_fn in component devices better.

2010-04-26T14:48:03+00:00

commit 627a2d3c29427637f4c5d31ccc7fcbd8d312cd71 upstream.

If a component device has a merge_bvec_fn then as we never call it
we must ensure we never need to.  Currently this is done by setting
max_sector to 1 PAGE, however this does not stop a bio being created
with several sub-page iovecs that would violate the merge_bvec_fn.

So instead set max_phys_segments to 1 and set the segment boundary to the
same as a page boundary to ensure there is only ever one single-page
segment of IO requested at a time.

This can particularly be an issue when 'xen' is used as it is
known to submit multiple small buffers in a single bio.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules.

2009-12-14T01:51:41+00:00

Suggested by  Oren Held 

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: support barrier requests on all personalities.

2009-12-14T01:49:49+00:00

Previously barriers were only supported on RAID1.  This is because
other levels requires synchronisation across all devices and so needed
a different approach.
Here is that approach.

When a barrier arrives, we send a zero-length barrier to every active
device.  When that completes - and if the original request was not
empty -  we submit the barrier request itself (with the barrier flag
cleared) and then submit a fresh load of zero length barriers.

The barrier request itself is asynchronous, but any subsequent
request will block until the barrier completes.

The reason for clearing the barrier flag is that a barrier request is
allowed to fail.  If we pass a non-empty barrier through a striping
raid level it is conceivable that part of it could succeed and part
could fail.  That would be way too hard to deal with.
So if the first run of zero length barriers succeed, we assume all is
sufficiently well that we send the request and ignore errors in the
second run of barriers.

RAID5 needs extra care as write requests may not have been submitted
to the underlying devices yet.  So we flush the stripe cache before
proceeding with the barrier.

Note that the second set of zero-length barriers are submitted
immediately after the original request is submitted.  Thus when
a personality finds mddev->barrier to be set during make_request,
it should not return from make_request until the corresponding
per-device request(s) have been queued.

That will be done in later patches.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll

md: report device as congested when suspended

2009-09-23T08:10:29+00:00

This should writeback from coming when the device is temporarily
suspended.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

bio: first step in sanitizing the bio->bi_rw flag testing

2009-09-11T12:33:31+00:00

Get rid of any functions that test for these bits and make callers
use bio_rw_flagged() directly. Then it is at least directly apparent
what variable and flag they check.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size of device.

2009-08-03T00:59:58+00:00

As revalidate_disk calls check_disk_size_change, it will cause
any capacity change of a gendisk to be propagated to the blockdev
inode.  So use that instead of mucking about with locks and
i_size_write.

Also add a call to revalidate_disk in do_md_run and a few other places
where the gendisk capacity is changed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Push down data integrity code to personalities.

2009-08-03T00:59:47+00:00

This patch replaces md_integrity_check() by two new public functions:
md_integrity_register() and md_integrity_add_rdev() which are both
personality-independent.

md_integrity_register() is called from the ->run and ->hot_remove
methods of all personalities that support data integrity.  The
function iterates over the component devices of the array and
determines if all active devices are integrity capable and if their
profiles match. If this is the case, the common profile is registered
for the mddev via blk_integrity_register().

The second new function, md_integrity_add_rdev() is called from the
->hot_add_disk methods, i.e. whenever a new device is being added
to a raid array. If the new device does not support data integrity,
or has a profile different from the one already registered, data
integrity for the mddev is disabled.

For raid0 and linear, only the call to md_integrity_register() from
the ->run method is necessary.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Use new topology calls to indicate alignment and I/O sizes

2009-07-01T01:13:45+00:00

Switch MD over to the new disk_stack_limits() function which checks for
aligment and adjusts preferred I/O sizes when stacking.

Also indicate preferred I/O sizes where applicable.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/linear: use call_rcu to free obsolete 'conf' structures.

2009-06-17T22:49:42+00:00

Current, when we update the 'conf' structure, when adding a
drive to a linear array, we keep the old version around until
the array is finally stopped, as it is not safe to free it
immediately.

Now that we have rcu protection on all accesses to 'conf',
we can use call_rcu to free it more promptly.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown