linux-stable.git/drivers/md/md.c, branch v3.6

md: make sure metadata is updated when spares are activated or removed.

2012-09-19T02:54:22+00:00

It isn't always necessary to update the metadata when spares are
removed as the presence-or-not of a spare isn't really important to
the integrity of an array.
Also activating a spare doesn't always require updating the metadata
as the update on 'recovery-completed' is usually sufficient.

However the introduction of 'replacement' devices have made these
transitions sometimes more important.  For example the 'Replacement'
flag isn't cleared until the original device is removed, so we need
to ensure a metadata update after that 'spare' is removed.

So set MD_CHANGE_DEVS whenever a spare is activated or removed, to
complement the current situation where it is set when a spare is added
or a device is failed (or a number of other less common situations).

This is suitable for -stable as out-of-data metadata could lead
to data corruption.
This is only relevant for 3.3 and later 9when 'replacement' as
introduced.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Don't truncate size at 4TB for RAID0 and Linear

2012-08-16T06:46:12+00:00

commit 27a7b260f71439c40546b43588448faac01adb93
   md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB to 4TB in 0.90 metadata.

changed 0.90 metadata handling to truncated size to 4TB as that is
all that 0.90 can record.
However for RAID0 and Linear, 0.90 doesn't need to record the size, so
this truncation is not needed and causes working arrays to become too small.

So avoid the truncation for RAID0 and Linear

This bug was introduced in 3.1 and is suitable for any stable kernels
from then onwards.
As the offending commit was tagged for 'stable', any stable kernel
that it was applied to should also get this patch.  That includes
at least 2.6.32, 2.6.33 and 3.0. (Thanks to Ben Hutchings for
providing that list).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown

Merge branch 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-08-01T16:06:47+00:00

Pull block driver changes from Jens Axboe:

 - Making the plugging support for drivers a bit more sane from Neil.
   This supersedes the plugging change from Shaohua as well.

 - The usual round of drbd updates.

 - Using a tail add instead of a head add in the request completion for
   ndb, making us find the most completed request more quickly.

 - A few floppy changes, getting rid of a duplicated flag and also
   running the floppy init async (since it takes forever in boot terms)
   from Andi.

* 'for-3.6/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  floppy: remove duplicated flag FD_RAW_NEED_DISK
  blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.
  block: stack unplug
  blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.
  md: remove plug_cnt feature of plugging.
  block/nbd: micro-optimization in nbd request completion
  drbd: announce FLUSH/FUA capability to upper layers
  drbd: fix max_bio_size to be unsigned
  drbd: flush drbd work queue before invalidate/invalidate remote
  drbd: fix potential access after free
  drbd: call local-io-error handler early
  drbd: do not reset rs_pending_cnt too early
  drbd: reset congestion information before reporting it in /proc/drbd
  drbd: report congestion if we are waiting for some userland callback
  drbd: differentiate between normal and forced detach
  drbd: cleanup, remove two unused global flags
  floppy: Run floppy initialization asynchronous

blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.

2012-07-31T07:08:15+00:00

This will allow md/raid to know why the unplug was called,
and will be able to act according - if !from_schedule it
is safe to perform tasks which could themselves schedule.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.

2012-07-31T07:08:14+00:00

Both md and umem has similar code for getting notified on an
blk_finish_plug event.
Centralize this code in block/ and allow each driver to
provide its distinctive difference.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md: remove plug_cnt feature of plugging.

2012-07-31T07:08:14+00:00

This seemed like a good idea at the time, but after further thought I
cannot see it making a difference other than very occasionally and
testing to try to exercise the case it is most likely to help did not
show any performance difference by removing it.

So remove the counting of active plugs and allow 'pending writes' to
be activated at any time, not just when no plugs are active.

This is only relevant when there is a write-intent bitmap, and the
updating of the bitmap will likely introduce enough delay that
the single-threading of bitmap updates will be enough to collect large
numbers of updates together.

Removing this will make it easier to centralise the unplug code, and
will clear the other for other unplug enhancements which have a
measurable effect.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md: remove duplicated test on ->openers when calling do_md_stop()

2012-07-31T00:04:55+00:00

do_md_stop tests mddev->openers while holding ->open_mutex,
and fails if this count is too high.
So callers do not need to check mddev->openers and doing so isn't
very meaningful as they don't hold ->open_mutex so the number could
change.

So remove the unnecessary tests on mddev->openers.
These are not called often enough for there to be any gain in
an early test on ->open_mutex to avoid the need for a slightly more
costly mutex_lock call.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: avoid crash when stopping md array races with closing other open fds.

2012-07-19T05:59:18+00:00

md will refuse to stop an array if any other fd (or mounted fs) is
using it.
When any fs is unmounted of when the last open fd is closed all
pending IO will be flushed (e.g. sync_blockdev call in __blkdev_put)
so there will be no pending IO to worry about when the array is
stopped.

However in order to send the STOP_ARRAY ioctl to stop the array one
must first get and open fd on the block device.
If some fd is being used to write to the block device and it is closed
after mdadm open the block device, but before mdadm issues the
STOP_ARRAY ioctl, then there will be no last-close on the md device so
__blkdev_put will not call sync_blockdev.

If this happens, then IO can still be in-flight while md tears down
the array and bad things can happen (use-after-free and subsequent
havoc).

So in the case where do_md_stop is being called from an open file
descriptor, call sync_block after taking the mutex to ensure there
will be no new openers.

This is needed when setting a read-write device to read-only too.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: majianpeng 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: fix bug in handling of new_data_offset

2012-07-19T05:59:18+00:00

commit c6563a8c38fde3c1c7fc925a10bde3ca20799301
    md: add possibility to change data-offset for devices.

introduced a 'new_data_offset' attribute which should normally
be the same as 'data_offset', but can be explicitly set to a different
value to allow a reshape operation to move the data.

Unfortunately when the 'data_offset' is explicitly set through
sysfs, the new_data_offset is not also set, so the two would become
out-of-sync incorrectly.

One result of this is that trying to set the 'size' after the
'data_offset' would fail because it is not permitted to set the size
when the 'data_offset' and 'new_data_offset' are different - as that
can be confusing.
Consequently when mdadm tried to do this while assembling an IMSM
array it would fail.

This bug was introduced in 3.5-rc1.

Reported-by: Brian Downing 
Bisected-by: Brian Downing 
Tested-by: Brian Downing 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: support re-add of recovering devices.

2012-07-03T05:59:06+00:00

We currently only allow a device to be re-added if it appear to be
in-sync.  This is overly restrictive as it may be desirable to re-add
a device that is in the middle of recovery.

So remove the test for "InSync" - the test on rdev->raid_disk is
sufficient to ensure that the re-add will succeed.

Reported-by: Alexander Lyakas 
Tested-by: Alexander Lyakas 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown