linux.git/drivers/md/linear.c, branch v2.6.33

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

md linear: Protecting mddev with rcu locks to avoid races

2009-06-17T22:49:35+00:00

Due to the lack of memory ordering guarantees, we may have races around
mddev->conf.

In particular, the correct contents of the structure we get from
dereferencing ->private might not be visible to this CPU yet, and
they might not be correct w.r.t mddev->raid_disks.

This patch addresses the problem using rcu protection to avoid
such race conditions.

Signed-off-by: SandeepKsinha 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Move check for bitmap presence to personality code.

2009-06-17T22:49:23+00:00

If the superblock of a component device indicates the presence of a
bitmap but the corresponding raid personality does not support bitmaps
(raid0, linear, multipath, faulty), then something is seriously wrong
and we'd better refuse to run such an array.

Currently, this check is performed while the superblocks are examined,
i.e. before entering personality code. Therefore the generic md layer
must know which raid levels support bitmaps and which do not.

This patch avoids this layer violation without adding identical code
to various personalities. This is accomplished by introducing a new
public function to md.c, md_check_no_bitmap(), which replaces the
hard-coded checks in the superblock loading functions.

A call to md_check_no_bitmap() is added to the ->run method of each
personality which does not support bitmaps and assembly is aborted
if at least one component device contains a bitmap.

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