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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block</title>
<updated>2010-12-20T17:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-12-20T17:19:46+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
  block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
  block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
  blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
  blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
  block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
  drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
  block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
  block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
  blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
  blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
  block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
  drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length
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<title>block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead</title>
<updated>2010-12-17T07:35:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2010-12-01T18:41:49+00:00</published>
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When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This
forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be
used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a
metadevice.

There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up
to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had
completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in
sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing
commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver.

The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing.
We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the
block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned
into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking.
Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is
removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster
flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD.

Reported-by: Ed Lin &lt;ed.lin@promise.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This
forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be
used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a
metadevice.

There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up
to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had
completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in
sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing
commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver.

The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing.
We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the
block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned
into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking.
Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is
removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster
flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD.

Reported-by: Ed Lin &lt;ed.lin@promise.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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<title>md: protect against NULL reference when waiting to start a raid10.</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T06:02:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
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<published>2010-12-09T06:02:14+00:00</published>
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When we fail to start a raid10 for some reason, we call
md_unregister_thread to kill the thread that was created.

Unfortunately md_thread() will then make one call into the handler
(raid10d) even though md_wakeup_thread has not been called.  This is
not safe and as md_unregister_thread is called after mddev-&gt;private
has been set to NULL, it will definitely cause a NULL dereference.

So fix this at both ends:
 - md_thread should only call the handler if THREAD_WAKEUP has been
   set.
 - raid10 should call md_unregister_thread before setting things
   to NULL just like all the other raid modules do.

This is applicable to 2.6.35 and later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: "Citizen" &lt;citizen_lee@thecus.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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When we fail to start a raid10 for some reason, we call
md_unregister_thread to kill the thread that was created.

Unfortunately md_thread() will then make one call into the handler
(raid10d) even though md_wakeup_thread has not been called.  This is
not safe and as md_unregister_thread is called after mddev-&gt;private
has been set to NULL, it will definitely cause a NULL dereference.

So fix this at both ends:
 - md_thread should only call the handler if THREAD_WAKEUP has been
   set.
 - raid10 should call md_unregister_thread before setting things
   to NULL just like all the other raid modules do.

This is applicable to 2.6.35 and later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: "Citizen" &lt;citizen_lee@thecus.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: fix bug with re-adding of partially recovered device.</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T05:36:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
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<published>2010-12-09T05:36:28+00:00</published>
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With v0.90 metadata, a hot-spare does not become a full member of the
array until recovery is complete.  So if we re-add such a device to
the array, we know that all of it is as up-to-date as the event count
would suggest, and so it a bitmap-based recovery is possible.

However with v1.x metadata, the hot-spare immediately becomes a full
member of the array, but it record how much of the device has been
recovered.  If the array is stopped and re-assembled recovery starts
from this point.

When such a device is hot-added to an array we currently lose the 'how
much is recovered' information and incorrectly included it as a full
in-sync member (after bitmap-based fixup).
This is wrong and unsafe and could corrupt data.

So be more careful about setting saved_raid_disk - which is what
guides the re-adding of devices back into an array.
The new code matches the code in slot_store which does a similar
thing, which is encouraging.

This is suitable for any -stable kernel.

Reported-by: "Dailey, Nate" &lt;Nate.Dailey@stratus.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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With v0.90 metadata, a hot-spare does not become a full member of the
array until recovery is complete.  So if we re-add such a device to
the array, we know that all of it is as up-to-date as the event count
would suggest, and so it a bitmap-based recovery is possible.

However with v1.x metadata, the hot-spare immediately becomes a full
member of the array, but it record how much of the device has been
recovered.  If the array is stopped and re-assembled recovery starts
from this point.

When such a device is hot-added to an array we currently lose the 'how
much is recovered' information and incorrectly included it as a full
in-sync member (after bitmap-based fixup).
This is wrong and unsafe and could corrupt data.

So be more careful about setting saved_raid_disk - which is what
guides the re-adding of devices back into an array.
The new code matches the code in slot_store which does a similar
thing, which is encouraging.

This is suitable for any -stable kernel.

Reported-by: "Dailey, Nate" &lt;Nate.Dailey@stratus.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: fix possible deadlock in handling flush requests.</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T05:17:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-09T05:17:51+00:00</published>
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As recorded in
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24012

it is possible for a flush request through md to hang.  This is due to
an interaction between the recursion avoidance in
generic_make_request, the insistence in md of only having one flush
active at a time, and the possibility of dm (or md) submitting two
flush requests to a device from the one generic_make_request.

If a generic_make_request call into dm causes two flush requests to be
queued (as happens if the dm table has two targets - they get one
each), these two will be queued inside generic_make_request.

Assume they are for the same md device.
The first is processed and causes 1 or more flush requests to be sent
to lower devices.  These get queued within generic_make_request too.
Then the second flush to the md device gets handled and it blocks
waiting for the first flush to complete.  But it won't complete until
the two lower-device requests complete, and they haven't even been
submitted yet as they are on the generic_make_request queue.

The deadlock can be broken by using a separate thread to submit the
requests to lower devices.  md has such a thread readily available:
md_wq.

So use it to submit these requests.

Reported-by: Giacomo Catenazzi &lt;cate@cateee.net&gt;
Tested-by: Giacomo Catenazzi &lt;cate@cateee.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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As recorded in
    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24012

it is possible for a flush request through md to hang.  This is due to
an interaction between the recursion avoidance in
generic_make_request, the insistence in md of only having one flush
active at a time, and the possibility of dm (or md) submitting two
flush requests to a device from the one generic_make_request.

If a generic_make_request call into dm causes two flush requests to be
queued (as happens if the dm table has two targets - they get one
each), these two will be queued inside generic_make_request.

Assume they are for the same md device.
The first is processed and causes 1 or more flush requests to be sent
to lower devices.  These get queued within generic_make_request too.
Then the second flush to the md device gets handled and it blocks
waiting for the first flush to complete.  But it won't complete until
the two lower-device requests complete, and they haven't even been
submitted yet as they are on the generic_make_request queue.

The deadlock can be broken by using a separate thread to submit the
requests to lower devices.  md has such a thread readily available:
md_wq.

So use it to submit these requests.

Reported-by: Giacomo Catenazzi &lt;cate@cateee.net&gt;
Tested-by: Giacomo Catenazzi &lt;cate@cateee.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: move code in to submit_flushes.</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T05:04:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-09T05:04:25+00:00</published>
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submit_flushes is called from exactly one place.
Move the code that is before and after that call into
submit_flushes.

This has not functional change, but will make the next patch
smaller and easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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submit_flushes is called from exactly one place.
Move the code that is before and after that call into
submit_flushes.

This has not functional change, but will make the next patch
smaller and easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: remove handling of flush_pending in md_submit_flush_data</title>
<updated>2010-12-09T04:59:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-12-09T04:59:01+00:00</published>
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None of the functions called between setting flush_pending to 1, and
atomic_dec_and_test can change flush_pending, or will anything
running in any other thread (as -&gt;flush_bio is not NULL).  So the
atomic_dec_and_test will always succeed.
So remove the atomic_sec and the atomic_dec_and_test.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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None of the functions called between setting flush_pending to 1, and
atomic_dec_and_test can change flush_pending, or will anything
running in any other thread (as -&gt;flush_bio is not NULL).  So the
atomic_dec_and_test will always succeed.
So remove the atomic_sec and the atomic_dec_and_test.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>md: Call blk_queue_flush() to establish flush/fua support</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T05:40:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@us.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T05:40:33+00:00</published>
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Before 2.6.37, the md layer had a mechanism for catching I/Os with the
barrier flag set, and translating the barrier into barriers for all
the underlying devices.  With 2.6.37, I/O barriers have become plain
old flushes, and the md code was updated to reflect this.  However,
one piece was left out -- the md layer does not tell the block layer
that it supports flushes or FUA access at all, which results in md
silently dropping flush requests.

Since the support already seems there, just add this one piece of
bookkeeping.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Before 2.6.37, the md layer had a mechanism for catching I/Os with the
barrier flag set, and translating the barrier into barriers for all
the underlying devices.  With 2.6.37, I/O barriers have become plain
old flushes, and the md code was updated to reflect this.  However,
one piece was left out -- the md layer does not tell the block layer
that it supports flushes or FUA access at all, which results in md
silently dropping flush requests.

Since the support already seems there, just add this one piece of
bookkeeping.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: fix return value of rdev_size_change()</title>
<updated>2010-11-24T05:36:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin Maggard</name>
<email>jmaggard10@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T05:36:17+00:00</published>
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When trying to grow an array by enlarging component devices,
rdev_size_store() expects the return value of rdev_size_change() to be
in sectors, but the actual value is returned in KBs.

This functionality was broken by commit
     dd8ac336c13fd8afdb082ebacb1cddd5cf727889
so this patch is suitable for any kernel since 2.6.30.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Maggard &lt;jmaggard10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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When trying to grow an array by enlarging component devices,
rdev_size_store() expects the return value of rdev_size_change() to be
in sectors, but the actual value is returned in KBs.

This functionality was broken by commit
     dd8ac336c13fd8afdb082ebacb1cddd5cf727889
so this patch is suitable for any kernel since 2.6.30.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Maggard &lt;jmaggard10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<title>block: read i_size with i_size_read()</title>
<updated>2010-11-10T13:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-08T13:39:12+00:00</published>
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Convert direct reads of an inode's i_size to using i_size_read().

i_size_{read,write} use a seqcount to protect reads from accessing
incomple writes.  Concurrent i_size_write()s require mutual exclussion
to protect the seqcount that is used by i_size_{read,write}.  But
i_size_read() callers do not need to use additional locking.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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Convert direct reads of an inode's i_size to using i_size_read().

i_size_{read,write} use a seqcount to protect reads from accessing
incomple writes.  Concurrent i_size_write()s require mutual exclussion
to protect the seqcount that is used by i_size_{read,write}.  But
i_size_read() callers do not need to use additional locking.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jaxboe@fusionio.com&gt;
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