linux-stable.git/drivers/md/raid5.c, branch v3.10

Merge tag 'md-3.10-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2013-06-13T17:13:29+00:00

Pull md bugfixes from Neil Brown:
 "A few bugfixes for md

  Some tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md-3.10-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid1,5,10: Disable WRITE SAME until a recovery strategy is in place
  md/raid1,raid10: use freeze_array in place of raise_barrier in various places.
  md/raid1: consider WRITE as successful only if at least one non-Faulty and non-rebuilding drive completed it.
  md: md_stop_writes() should always freeze recovery.

md/raid1,5,10: Disable WRITE SAME until a recovery strategy is in place

2013-06-13T04:49:54+00:00

There are cases where the kernel will believe that the WRITE SAME
command is supported by a block device which does not, in fact,
support WRITE SAME.  This currently happens for SATA drivers behind a
SAS controller, but there are probably a hundred other ways that can
happen, including drive firmware bugs.

After receiving an error for WRITE SAME the block layer will retry the
request as a plain write of zeroes, but mdraid will consider the
failure as fatal and consider the drive failed.  This has the effect
that all the mirrors containing a specific set of data are each
offlined in very rapid succession resulting in data loss.

However, just bouncing the request back up to the block layer isn't
ideal either, because the whole initial request-retry sequence should
be inside the write bitmap fence, which probably means that md needs
to do its own conversion of WRITE SAME to write zero.

Until the failure scenario has been sorted out, disable WRITE SAME for
raid1, raid5, and raid10.

[neilb: added raid5]

This patch is appropriate for any -stable since 3.7 when write_same
support was added.

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

raid5: Initialize bi_vcnt

2013-05-30T06:44:39+00:00

The patch that converted raid5 to use bio_reset() forgot to initialize
bi_vcnt.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Ilia Mirkin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00

Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...

md/raid5: avoid an extra write when writing to a known-bad-block.

2013-04-24T01:42:42+00:00

If we write to a known-bad-block it will be flags as having
a ReadError by analyse_stripe, but the write will proceed anyway
(as it should).  Then the read-error handling will kick in an
write again, then re-read.

We don't need that 'write-again', so set R5_ReWrite so it looks like
it has already been done.  Then we will just get the re-read, which we
want.

Reported-by: majianpeng 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: Change or of some order to improve efficiency.

2013-04-24T01:42:41+00:00

As the function call is the most expensive of these tests it should be
done later in the chain so that it can be avoided in some cases.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"

2013-04-18T16:00:26+00:00

This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f.

Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.

Jens says:
 "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
  the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).

  The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
  queueing up a revert and pull request."

Reported-by: Wanlong Gao 
Requested-by: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'writeback-workqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq into for-3.10/core

2013-04-02T08:04:39+00:00

Tejun writes:

-----

This is the pull request for the earlier patchset[1] with the same
name.  It's only three patches (the first one was committed to
workqueue tree) but the merge strategy is a bit involved due to the
dependencies.

* Because the conversion needs features from wq/for-3.10,
  block/for-3.10/core is based on rc3, and wq/for-3.10 has conflicts
  with rc3, I pulled mainline (rc5) into wq/for-3.10 to prevent those
  workqueue conflicts from flaring up in block tree.

* Resolving the issue that Jan and Dave raised about debugging
  requires arch-wide changes.  The patchset is being worked on[2] but
  it'll have to go through -mm after these changes show up in -next,
  and not included in this pull request.

The three commits are located in the following git branch.

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git writeback-workqueue

Pulling it into block/for-3.10/core produces a conflict in
drivers/md/raid5.c between the following two commits.

  e3620a3ad5 ("MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available")
  2f6db2a707 ("raid5: use bio_reset()")

The conflict is trivial - one removes an "if ()" conditional while the
other removes "rbi->bi_next = NULL" right above it.  We just need to
remove both.  The merged branch is available at

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git block-test-merge

so that you can use it for verification.  The test merge commit has
proper merge description.

While these changes are a bit of pain to route, they make code simpler
and even have, while minute, measureable performance gain[3] even on a
workload which isn't particularly favorable to showing the benefits of
this conversion.

----

Fixed up the conflict.

Conflicts:
	drivers/md/raid5.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'md-3.9-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2013-03-23T22:49:49+00:00

Pull md fixes from NeilBrown:
 "A few bugfixes for md

   - recent regressions in raid5
   - recent regressions in dmraid
   - a few instances of CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 linger

  Several tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md-3.9-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirely
  md/raid5: ensure sync and DISCARD don't happen at the same time.
  MD: Prevent sysfs operations on uninitialized kobjects
  MD RAID5: Avoid accessing gendisk or queue structs when not available
  md/raid5: schedule_construction should abort if nothing to do.

raid5: use bio_reset()

2013-03-23T21:15:35+00:00

Had to shuffle the code around a bit (where bi_rw and bi_end_io were
set), but shouldn't really be anything tricky here

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
CC: Jens Axboe 
CC: NeilBrown