linux.git/drivers/md/raid5.c, branch v2.6.30

md/raid5: fix bug in reshape code when chunk_size decreases.

2009-06-09T06:32:22+00:00

Now that we support changing the chunksize, we calculate
"reshape_sectors" to be the max of number of sectors in old
and new chunk size.
However there is one please where we still use 'chunksize'
rather than 'reshape_sectors'.
This causes a reshape that reduces the size of chunks to freeze.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5 - avoid deadlocks in get_active_stripe during reshape

2009-06-09T04:39:59+00:00

md has functionality to 'quiesce' and array so that all pending
IO completed and no new IO starts.  This is used to achieve a
stable state before making internal changes.

Currently this quiescing applies equally to normal IO, resync
IO, and reshape IO.
However there is a problem with applying it to reshape IO.
Reshape can have multiple 'stripe_heads' that must be active together.
If the quiesce come between allocating the first and the last of
such a collection, then we deadlock, as the last will not be allocated
until the quiesce is lifted, the quiesce will not be lifted until the
first (which has been allocated) gets used, and that first cannot be
used until the last is allocated.

It is not necessary to inhibit reshape IO when a quiesce is
requested.  Those places in the code that require a full quiesce will
ensure the reshape thread is not running at all.

So allow reshape requests to get access to new stripe_heads without
being blocked by a 'quiesce'.

This only affects in-place reshapes (i.e. where the array does not
grow or shrink) and these are only newly supported.  So this patch is
not needed in earlier kernels.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: use conf->raid_disks in preference to mddev->raid_disk

2009-06-09T04:30:31+00:00

mddev->raid_disks can be changed and any time by a request from
user-space.  It is a suggestion as to what number of raid_disks is
desired.

conf->raid_disks can only be changed by the raid5 module with suitable
locks in place.  It is a statement as to the current number of
raid_disks.

There are two places where the latter should be used, but the former
is used.  This can lead to a crash when reshaping an array.

This patch changes to mddev-> to conf->

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: raid5: change incorrect usage of 'min' macro to 'min_t'

2009-05-27T11:39:05+00:00

A recent patch to raid5.c use min on an int and a sector_t.
This isn't allowed.
So change it to min_t(sector_t,x,y).

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: raid5: avoid sector values going negative when testing reshape progress.

2009-05-26T02:41:08+00:00

As sector_t in unsigned, we cannot afford to let 'safepos' etc go
negative.
So replace
   a -= b;
by
   a -= min(b,a);

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: update sync_completed and reshape_position even more often.

2009-04-17T01:06:30+00:00

There are circumstances when a user-space process might need to
"oversee" a resync/reshape process.  For example when doing an
in-place reshape of a raid5, it is prudent to take a backup of each
section before reshaping it as this is the only way to provide
safety against an unplanned shutdown (i.e. crash/power failure).

The sync_max sysfs value can be used to stop the resync from
advancing beyond a particular point.
So user-space can:
  suspend IO to the first section and back it up
  set 'sync_max' to the end of the section
  wait for 'sync_completed' to reach that point
  resume IO on the first section and move on to the next section.

However this process requires the kernel and user-space to run in
lock-step which could introduce unnecessary delays.

It would be better if a 'double buffered' approach could be used with
userspace and kernel space working on different sections with the
'next' section always ready when the 'current' section is finished.

One problem with implementing this is that sync_completed is only
guaranteed to be updated when the sync process reaches sync_max.
(it is updated on a time basis at other times, but it is hard to rely
on that).  This defeats some of the double buffering.

With this patch, sync_completed (and reshape_position) get updated as
the current position approaches sync_max, so there is room for
userspace to advance sync_max early without losing updates.

To be precise, sync_completed is updated when the current sync
position reaches half way between the current value of sync_completed
and the value of sync_max.  This will usually be a good time for user
space to update sync_max.

If sync_max does not get updated, the updates to sync_completed
(together with associated metadata updates) will occur at an
exponentially increasing frequency which will get unreasonably fast
(one update every page) immediately before the process hits sync_max
and stops.  So the update rate will be unreasonably fast only for an
insignificant period of time.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: improve usefulness and accuracy of sysfs file md/sync_completed.

2009-04-14T06:28:34+00:00

The sync_completed file reports how much of a resync (or recovery or
reshape) has been completed.
However due to the possibility of out-of-order completion of writes,
it is not certain to be accurate.

We have an internal value - mddev->curr_resync_completed - which is an
accurate value (though it might not always be quite so uptodate).

So:
 - make curr_resync_completed be uptodate a little more often,
   particularly when raid5 reshape updates status in the metadata
 - report curr_resync_completed in the sysfs file
 - allow poll/select to report all updates to md/sync_completed.

This makes sync_completed completed usable by any external metadata
handler that wants to record this status information in its metadata.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5 revise rules for when to update metadata during reshape

2009-03-31T04:28:40+00:00

We currently update the metadata :
 1/ every 3Megabytes
 2/ When the place we will write new-layout data to is recorded in
    the metadata as still containing old-layout data.

Rule one exists to avoid having to re-do too much reshaping in the
face of a crash/restart.  So it should really be time based rather
than size based.  So change it to "every 10 seconds".

Rule two turns out to be too harsh when restriping an array
'in-place', as in that case the metadata much be updates for every
stripe.
For the in-place update, it can only possibly be safe from a crash if
some user-space program data a backup of every e.g. few hundred
stripes before allowing them to be reshaped.  In that case, the
constant metadata update is pointless.
So only update the metadata if the new metadata will report that the
end of the 'old-layout' data is beyond where we are currently
writing 'new-layout' data.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: minor code cleanups in make_request.

2009-03-31T04:27:18+00:00

... and to be certain the that make_request doesn't wait forever,
add a 'wake_up' when ->reshape_progress has been set to MaxSector

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: remove CONFIG_MD_RAID_RESHAPE config option.

2009-03-31T04:27:05+00:00

This was only needed when the code was experimental.  Most of it
is well tested now, so the option is no longer useful.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown