linux.git/drivers/md/md.h, branch v4.4

MD: change journal disk role to disk 0

2015-12-18T04:19:16+00:00

Neil pointed out setting journal disk role to raid_disks will confuse
reshape if we support reshape eventually. Switching the role to 0 (we
should be fine as long as the value >=0) and skip sysfs file creation to
avoid error.

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

MD: add new bit to indicate raid array with journal

2015-11-01T02:48:29+00:00

If a raid array has journal feature bit set, add a new bit to indicate
this. If the array is started without journal disk existing, we know
there is something wrong.

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

md: skip resync for raid array with journal

2015-11-01T02:48:26+00:00

If a raid array has journal, the journal can guarantee the consistency,
we can skip resync after a unclean shutdown. The exception is raid
creation or user initiated resync, which we still do a raid resync.

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

md: override md superblock recovery_offset for journal device

2015-10-24T06:16:18+00:00

Journal device stores data in a log structure. We need record the log
start. Here we override md superblock recovery_offset for this purpose.
This field of a journal device is meaningless otherwise.

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

MD: add a new disk role to present write journal device

2015-10-24T06:16:18+00:00

Next patches will use a disk as raid5/6 journaling. We need a new disk
role to present the journal device and add MD_FEATURE_JOURNAL to
feature_map for backward compability.

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

md-cluster: Improve md_reload_sb to be less error prone

2015-10-12T06:34:48+00:00

md_reload_sb is too simplistic and it explicitly needs to determine
the changes made by the writing node. However, there are multiple areas
where a simple reload could fail.

Instead, read the superblock of one of the "good" rdevs and update
the necessary information:

- read the superblock into a newly allocated page, by temporarily
  swapping out rdev->sb_page and calling ->load_super.
- if that fails return
- if it succeeds, call check_sb_changes
  1. iterates over list of active devices and checks the matching
   dev_roles[] value.
   	If that is 'faulty', the device must be  marked as faulty
	 - call md_error to mark the device as faulty. Make sure
	   not to set CHANGE_DEVS and wakeup mddev->thread or else
	   it would initiate a resync process, which is the responsibility
	   of the "primary" node.
	 - clear the Blocked bit
	 - Call remove_and_add_spares() to hot remove the device.
	If the device is 'spare':
	 - call remove_and_add_spares() to get the number of spares
	   added in this operation.
	 - Reduce mddev->degraded to mark the array as not degraded.
  2. reset recovery_cp
- read the rest of the rdevs to update recovery_offset. If recovery_offset
  is equal to MaxSector, call spare_active() to set it In_sync

This required that recovery_offset be initialized to MaxSector, as
opposed to zero so as to communicate the end of sync for a rdev.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues

block: kill merge_bvec_fn() completely

2015-08-13T18:31:57+00:00

As generic_make_request() is now able to handle arbitrarily sized bios,
it's no longer necessary for each individual block driver to define its
own ->merge_bvec_fn() callback. Remove every invocation completely.

Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Lars Ellenberg 
Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Yehuda Sadeh 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Alex Elder 
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" 
Acked-by: NeilBrown  (for the 'md' bits)
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
[dpark: also remove ->merge_bvec_fn() in dm-thin as well as
 dm-era-target, and resolve merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park 
Signed-off-by: Ming Lin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback: separate out include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h

2015-06-02T14:33:34+00:00

With the planned cgroup writeback support, backing-dev related
declarations will be more widely used across block and cgroup;
unfortunately, including backing-dev.h from include/linux/blkdev.h
makes cyclic include dependency quite likely.

This patch separates out backing-dev-defs.h which only has the
essential definitions and updates blkdev.h to include it.  c files
which need access to more backing-dev details now include
backing-dev.h directly.  This takes backing-dev.h off the common
include dependency chain making it a lot easier to use it across block
and cgroup.

v2: fs/fat build failure fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md: remove 'go_faster' option from ->sync_request()

2015-04-21T22:00:40+00:00

This option is not well justified and testing suggests that
it hardly ever makes any difference.

The comment suggests there might be a need to wait for non-resync
activity indicated by ->nr_waiting, however raise_barrier()
already waits for all of that.

So just remove it to simplify reasoning about speed limiting.

This allows us to remove a 'FIXME' comment from raid5.c as that
never used the flag.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: Export and rename find_rdev_nr_rcu

2015-04-21T21:59:39+00:00

This is required by the clustering module (patches to follow) to
find the device to remove or re-add.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown