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<title>DM RAID: Add message/status support for changing sync action</title>
<updated>2013-04-24T01:42:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Brassow</name>
<email>jbrassow@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-24T01:42:43+00:00</published>
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DM RAID:  Add message/status support for changing sync action

This patch adds a message interface to dm-raid to allow the user to more
finely control the sync actions being performed by the MD driver.  This
gives the user the ability to initiate "check" and "repair" (i.e. scrubbing).
Two additional fields have been appended to the status output to provide more
information about the type of sync action occurring and the results of those
actions, specifically: &lt;sync_action&gt; and &lt;mismatch_cnt&gt;.  These new fields
will always be populated.  This is essentially the device-mapper way of doing
what MD controls through the 'sync_action' sysfs file and shows through the
'mismatch_cnt' sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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DM RAID:  Add message/status support for changing sync action

This patch adds a message interface to dm-raid to allow the user to more
finely control the sync actions being performed by the MD driver.  This
gives the user the ability to initiate "check" and "repair" (i.e. scrubbing).
Two additional fields have been appended to the status output to provide more
information about the type of sync action occurring and the results of those
actions, specifically: &lt;sync_action&gt; and &lt;mismatch_cnt&gt;.  These new fields
will always be populated.  This is essentially the device-mapper way of doing
what MD controls through the 'sync_action' sysfs file and shows through the
'mismatch_cnt' sysfs file.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T01:22:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-06T01:22:08+00:00</published>
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Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 "Mostly little bugfixes.

  Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
  number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
  loss."

* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: expedite metadata update when switching  read-auto -&gt; active
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
  md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
  md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
  md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
  md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
  DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
  MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
  md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
  md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
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Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 "Mostly little bugfixes.

  Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
  number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
  loss."

* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: expedite metadata update when switching  read-auto -&gt; active
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
  md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
  md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
  md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
  md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
  DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
  MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
  md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
  md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
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<entry>
<title>dm: rename request variables to bios</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alasdair G Kergon</name>
<email>agk@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:47+00:00</published>
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Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Use 'bio' in the name of variables and functions that deal with
bios rather than 'request' to avoid confusion with the normal
block layer use of 'request'.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: fix truncated status strings</title>
<updated>2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-01T22:45:44+00:00</published>
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Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti-&gt;type-&gt;status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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Avoid returning a truncated table or status string instead of setting
the DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG when the last target of a table fills the
buffer.

When processing a table or status request, the function retrieve_status
calls ti-&gt;type-&gt;status. If ti-&gt;type-&gt;status returns non-zero,
retrieve_status assumes that the buffer overflowed and sets
DM_BUFFER_FULL_FLAG.

However, targets don't return non-zero values from their status method
on overflow. Most targets returns always zero.

If a buffer overflow happens in a target that is not the last in the
table, it gets noticed during the next iteration of the loop in
retrieve_status; but if a buffer overflow happens in the last target, it
goes unnoticed and erroneously truncated data is returned.

In the current code, the targets behave in the following way:
* dm-crypt returns -ENOMEM if there is not enough space to store the
  key, but it returns 0 on all other overflows.
* dm-thin returns errors from the status method if a disk error happened.
  This is incorrect because retrieve_status doesn't check the error
  code, it assumes that all non-zero values mean buffer overflow.
* all the other targets always return 0.

This patch changes the ti-&gt;type-&gt;status function to return void (because
most targets don't use the return code). Overflow is detected in
retrieve_status: if the status method fills up the remaining space
completely, it is assumed that buffer overflow happened.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms</title>
<updated>2013-02-26T00:55:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Brassow</name>
<email>jbrassow@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-21T02:28:10+00:00</published>
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DM RAID:  Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms

Until now, dm-raid.c only supported the "near" algorthm of MD's RAID10
implementation.  This patch adds support for the "far" and "offset"
algorithms, but only with the improved redundancy that is brought with
the introduction of the 'use_far_sets' bit, which shifts copied stripes
according to smaller sets vs the entire array.  That is, the 17th bit
of the 'layout' variable that defines the RAID10 implementation will
always be set.   (More information on how the 'layout' variable selects
the RAID10 algorithm can be found in the opening comments of
drivers/md/raid10.c.)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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DM RAID:  Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms

Until now, dm-raid.c only supported the "near" algorthm of MD's RAID10
implementation.  This patch adds support for the "far" and "offset"
algorithms, but only with the improved redundancy that is brought with
the introduction of the 'use_far_sets' bit, which shifts copied stripes
according to smaller sets vs the entire array.  That is, the 17th bit
of the 'layout' variable that defines the RAID10 implementation will
always be set.   (More information on how the 'layout' variable selects
the RAID10 algorithm can be found in the opening comments of
drivers/md/raid10.c.)

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>DM-RAID: Fix RAID10's check for sufficient redundancy</title>
<updated>2013-01-24T01:02:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Brassow</name>
<email>jbrassow@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-23T03:42:18+00:00</published>
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Before attempting to activate a RAID array, it is checked for sufficient
redundancy.  That is, we make sure that there are not too many failed
devices - or devices specified for rebuild - to undermine our ability to
activate the array.  The current code performs this check twice - once to
ensure there were not too many devices specified for rebuild by the user
('validate_rebuild_devices') and again after possibly experiencing a failure
to read the superblock ('analyse_superblocks').  Neither of these checks are
sufficient.  The first check is done properly but with insufficient
information about the possible failure state of the devices to make a good
determination if the array can be activated.  The second check is simply
done wrong in the case of RAID10 because it doesn't account for the
independence of the stripes (i.e. mirror sets).  The solution is to use the
properly written check ('validate_rebuild_devices'), but perform the check
after the superblocks have been read and we know which devices have failed.
This gives us one check instead of two and performs it in a location where
it can be done right.

Only RAID10 was affected and it was affected in the following ways:
- the code did not properly catch the condition where a user specified
  a device for rebuild that already had a failed device in the same mirror
  set.  (This condition would, however, be caught at a deeper level in MD.)
- the code triggers a false positive and denies activation when devices in
  independent mirror sets have failed - counting the failures as though they
  were all in the same set.

The most likely place this error was introduced (or this patch should have
been included) is in commit 4ec1e369 - first introduced in v3.7-rc1.
Consequently this fix should also go in v3.7.y, however there is a
small conflict on the .version in raid_target, so I'll submit a
separate patch to -stable.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Before attempting to activate a RAID array, it is checked for sufficient
redundancy.  That is, we make sure that there are not too many failed
devices - or devices specified for rebuild - to undermine our ability to
activate the array.  The current code performs this check twice - once to
ensure there were not too many devices specified for rebuild by the user
('validate_rebuild_devices') and again after possibly experiencing a failure
to read the superblock ('analyse_superblocks').  Neither of these checks are
sufficient.  The first check is done properly but with insufficient
information about the possible failure state of the devices to make a good
determination if the array can be activated.  The second check is simply
done wrong in the case of RAID10 because it doesn't account for the
independence of the stripes (i.e. mirror sets).  The solution is to use the
properly written check ('validate_rebuild_devices'), but perform the check
after the superblocks have been read and we know which devices have failed.
This gives us one check instead of two and performs it in a location where
it can be done right.

Only RAID10 was affected and it was affected in the following ways:
- the code did not properly catch the condition where a user specified
  a device for rebuild that already had a failed device in the same mirror
  set.  (This condition would, however, be caught at a deeper level in MD.)
- the code triggers a false positive and denies activation when devices in
  independent mirror sets have failed - counting the failures as though they
  were all in the same set.

The most likely place this error was introduced (or this patch should have
been included) is in commit 4ec1e369 - first introduced in v3.7-rc1.
Consequently this fix should also go in v3.7.y, however there is a
small conflict on the .version in raid_target, so I'll submit a
separate patch to -stable.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: remove map_info</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T20:23:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T20:23:41+00:00</published>
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This patch removes map_info from bio-based device mapper targets.
map_info is still used for request-based targets.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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This patch removes map_info from bio-based device mapper targets.
map_info is still used for request-based targets.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm raid: round region_size to power of two</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T20:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Brassow</name>
<email>jbrassow@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T20:23:33+00:00</published>
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If the user does not supply a bitmap region_size to the dm raid target,
a reasonable size is computed automatically.  If this is not a power of 2,
the md code will report an error later.

This patch catches the problem early and rounds the region_size to the
next power of two.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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If the user does not supply a bitmap region_size to the dm raid target,
a reasonable size is computed automatically.  If this is not a power of 2,
the md code will report an error later.

This patch catches the problem early and rounds the region_size to the
next power of two.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>DM RAID: Fix for "sync" directive ineffectiveness</title>
<updated>2012-10-11T02:42:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Brassow</name>
<email>jbrassow@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-11T02:42:19+00:00</published>
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There are two table arguments that can be given to a DM RAID target
that control whether the array is forced to (re)synchronize or skip
initialization: "sync" and "nosync".  When "sync" is given, we set
mddev-&gt;recovery_cp to 0 in order to cause the device to resynchronize.
This is insufficient if there is a bitmap in use, because the array
will simply look at the bitmap and see that there is no recovery
necessary.

The fix is to skip over the loading of the superblocks when "sync" is
given, causing new superblocks to be written that will force the array
to go through initialization (i.e. synchronization).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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There are two table arguments that can be given to a DM RAID target
that control whether the array is forced to (re)synchronize or skip
initialization: "sync" and "nosync".  When "sync" is given, we set
mddev-&gt;recovery_cp to 0 in order to cause the device to resynchronize.
This is insufficient if there is a bitmap in use, because the array
will simply look at the bitmap and see that there is no recovery
necessary.

The fix is to skip over the loading of the superblocks when "sync" is
given, causing new superblocks to be written that will force the array
to go through initialization (i.e. synchronization).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter</title>
<updated>2012-10-11T02:40:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Brassow</name>
<email>jbrassow@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-11T02:40:36+00:00</published>
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DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter

The "rebuild" parameter takes an index argument that starts counting from
zero.  The conditional used to validate the index was using '&gt;' rather than
'&gt;=', leaving the door open for an index value that would be 1 too large.

Reported-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter

The "rebuild" parameter takes an index argument that starts counting from
zero.  The conditional used to validate the index was using '&gt;' rather than
'&gt;=', leaving the door open for an index value that would be 1 too large.

Reported-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow &lt;jbrassow@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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