linux.git/drivers/md/md.c, branch v3.7-rc2

Merge tag 'md-3.7' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2012-10-13T20:22:01+00:00

Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 - "discard" support, some dm-raid improvements and other assorted bits
   and pieces.

* tag 'md-3.7' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (29 commits)
  md: refine reporting of resync/reshape delays.
  md/raid5: be careful not to resize_stripes too big.
  md: make sure manual changes to recovery checkpoint are saved.
  md/raid10: use correct limit variable
  md: writing to sync_action should clear the read-auto state.
  Subject: [PATCH] md:change resync_mismatches to atomic64_t to avoid races
  md/raid5: make sure to_read and to_write never go negative.
  md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.
  md/raid5: protect debug message against NULL derefernce.
  md/raid5: add some missing locking in handle_failed_stripe.
  MD: raid5 avoid unnecessary zero page for trim
  MD: raid5 trim support
  md/bitmap:Don't use IS_ERR to judge alloc_page().
  md/raid1: Don't release reference to device while handling read error.
  raid: replace list_for_each_continue_rcu with new interface
  add further __init annotations to crypto/xor.c
  DM RAID: Fix for "sync" directive ineffectiveness
  DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter
  DM RAID: Add rebuild capability for RAID10
  DM RAID: Move 'rebuild' checking code to its own function
  ...

md: refine reporting of resync/reshape delays.

2012-10-11T03:25:57+00:00

If 'resync_max' is set to 0 (as is often done when starting a
reshape, so the mdadm can remain in control during a sensitive
period), and if the reshape request is initially delayed because
another array using the same array is resyncing or reshaping etc,
when user-space cannot easily tell when the delay changes from being
due to a conflicting reshape, to being due to resync_max = 0.

So introduce a new state: (curr_resync == 3) to reflect this, make
sure it is visible both via /proc/mdstat and via the "sync_completed"
sysfs attribute, and ensure that the event transition from one delay
state to the other is properly notified.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: make sure manual changes to recovery checkpoint are saved.

2012-10-11T03:22:17+00:00

If you make an array bigger but suppress resync of the new region with
  mdadm --grow /dev/mdX --size=max --assume-clean

then stop the array before anything is written to it, the effect of
the "--assume-clean" is lost and the array will resync the new space
when restarted.
So ensure that we update the metadata in the case.

Reported-by: Sebastian Riemer 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: writing to sync_action should clear the read-auto state.

2012-10-11T03:19:39+00:00

In some cases array are started in 'read-auto' state where in
nothing gets written to any device until the array is written
to.  The purpose of this is to make accidental auto-assembly
of the wrong arrays less of a risk, and to allow arrays to be
started to read suspend-to-disk images without actually changing
anything (as might happen if the array were dirty and a
resync seemed necessary).

Explicitly writing the 'sync_action' for a read-auto array currently
doesn't clear the read-auto state, so the sync action doesn't
happen, which can be confusing.

So allow any successful write to sync_action to clear any read-auto
state.

Reported-by: Alexander Kühn 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Subject: [PATCH] md:change resync_mismatches to atomic64_t to avoid races

2012-10-11T03:17:59+00:00

Now that multiple threads can handle stripes, it is safer to
use an atomic64_t for resync_mismatches, to avoid update races.

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

MD RAID10: Prep for DM RAID10 device replacement capability

2012-10-11T02:38:58+00:00

MD RAID10:  Fix a couple potential kernel panics if RAID10 is used by dm-raid

When device-mapper uses the RAID10 personality through dm-raid.c, there is no
'gendisk' structure in mddev and some sysfs information is also not populated.

This patch avoids touching those non-existent structures.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: avoid taking the mutex on some ioctls.

2012-10-11T02:37:33+00:00

Some ioctls don't need to take the mutex and doing so can cause
a delay as it is held during super-block update.
So move those ioctls out of the mutex and rely on rcu locking
to ensure we don't access stale data.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

MD: change the parameter of md thread

2012-10-11T02:34:00+00:00

Change the thread parameter, so the thread can carry extra info. Next patch
will use it.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Merge branch 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-10-11T00:04:23+00:00

Pull block IO update from Jens Axboe:
 "Core block IO bits for 3.7.  Not a huge round this time, it contains:

   - First series from Kent cleaning up and generalizing bio allocation
     and freeing.

   - WRITE_SAME support from Martin.

   - Mikulas patches to prevent O_DIRECT crashes when someone changes
     the block size of a device.

   - Make bio_split() work on data-less bio's (like trim/discards).

   - A few other minor fixups."

Fixed up silent semantic mis-merge as per Mikulas Patocka and Andrew
Morton.  It is due to the VM no longer using a prio-tree (see commit
6b2dbba8b6ac: "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree").

So make set_blocksize() use mapping_mapped() instead of open-coding the
internal VM knowledge that has changed.

* 'for-3.7/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
  block: makes bio_split support bio without data
  scatterlist: refactor the sg_nents
  scatterlist: add sg_nents
  fs: fix include/percpu-rwsem.h export error
  percpu-rw-semaphore: fix documentation typos
  fs/block_dev.c:1644:5: sparse: symbol 'blkdev_mmap' was not declared
  blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore
  Fix a crash when block device is read and block size is changed at the same time
  block: fix request_queue->flags initialization
  block: lift the initial queue bypass mode on blk_register_queue() instead of blk_init_allocated_queue()
  block: ioctl to zero block ranges
  block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME
  block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
  block: Consolidate command flag and queue limit checks for merges
  block: Clean up special command handling logic
  block/blk-tag.c: Remove useless kfree
  block: remove the duplicated setting for congestion_threshold
  block: reject invalid queue attribute values
  block: Add bio_clone_bioset(), bio_clone_kmalloc()
  block: Consolidate bio_alloc_bioset(), bio_kmalloc()
  ...

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