linux.git/drivers/md/raid5.h, branch v3.11

md/raid5: fix interaction of 'replace' and 'recovery'.

2013-07-25T06:46:57+00:00

If a device in a RAID4/5/6 is being replaced while another is being
recovered, then the writes to the replacement device currently don't
happen, resulting in corruption when the replacement completes and the
new drive takes over.

This is because the replacement writes are only triggered when
's.replacing' is set and not when the similar 's.sync' is set (which
is the case during resync and recovery - it means all devices need to
be read).

So schedule those writes when s.replacing is set as well.

In this case we cannot use "STRIPE_INSYNC" to record that the
replacement has happened as that is needed for recording that any
parity calculation is complete.  So introduce STRIPE_REPLACED to
record if the replacement has happened.

For safety we should also check that STRIPE_COMPUTE_RUN is not set.
This has a similar effect to the "s.locked == 0" test.  The latter
ensure that now IO has been flagged but not started.  The former
checks if any parity calculation has been flagged by not started.
We must wait for both of these to complete before triggering the
'replace'.

Add a similar test to the subsequent check for "are we finished yet".
This possibly isn't needed (is subsumed in the STRIPE_INSYNC test),
but it makes it more obvious that the REPLACE will happen before we
think we are finished.

Finally if a NeedReplace device is not UPTODATE then that is an
error.  We really must trigger a warning.

This bug was introduced in commit 9a3e1101b827a59ac9036a672f5fa8d5279d0fe2
(md/raid5:  detect and handle replacements during recovery.)
which introduced replacement for raid5.
That was in 3.3-rc3, so any stable kernel since then would benefit
from this fix.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.3+)
Reported-by: qindehua <13691222965@163.com>
Tested-by: qindehua 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirely

2013-03-20T02:21:14+00:00

Once instance of this Kconfig macro remained after commit
51acbcec6c42b24482bac18e42befc822524535d ("md: remove
CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456"). Remove that one too. And, while we're at it,
also remove it from the defconfig files that carry it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: ensure sync and DISCARD don't happen at the same time.

2013-03-20T02:20:59+00:00

A number of problems can occur due to races between
resync/recovery and discard.

- if sync_request calls handle_stripe() while a discard is
  happening on the stripe, it might call handle_stripe_clean_event
  before all of the individual discard requests have completed
  (so some devices are still locked, but not all).
  Since commit ca64cae96037de16e4af92678814f5d4bf0c1c65
     md/raid5: Make sure we clear R5_Discard when discard is finished.
  this will cause R5_Discard to be cleared for the parity device,
  so handle_stripe_clean_event() will not be called when the other
  devices do become unlocked, so their ->written will not be cleared.
  This ultimately leads to a WARN_ON in init_stripe and a lock-up.

- If handle_stripe_clean_event() does clear R5_UPTODATE at an awkward
  time for resync, it can lead to s->uptodate being less than disks
  in handle_parity_checks5(), which triggers a BUG (because it is
  one).

So:
 - keep R5_Discard on the parity device until all other devices have
   completed their discard request
 - make sure we don't try to have a 'discard' and a 'sync' action at
   the same time.
   This involves a new stripe flag to we know when a 'discard' is
   happening, and the use of R5_Overlap on the parity disk so when a
   discard is wanted while a sync is active, so we know to wake up
   the discard at the appropriate time.

Discard support for RAID5 was added in 3.7, so this is suitable for
any -stable kernel since 3.7.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+)
Reported-by: Jes Sorensen 
Tested-by: Jes Sorensen 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

MD: raid5 trim support

2012-10-11T02:49:05+00:00

Discard for raid4/5/6 has limitation. If discard request size is
small, we do discard for one disk, but we need calculate parity and
write parity disk.  To correctly calculate parity, zero_after_discard
must be guaranteed. Even it's true, we need do discard for one disk
but write another disks, which makes the parity disks wear out
fast. This doesn't make sense. So an efficient discard for raid4/5/6
should discard all data disks and parity disks, which requires the
write pattern to be (A, A+chunk_size, A+chunk_size*2...). If A's size
is smaller than chunk_size, such pattern is almost impossible in
practice. So in this patch, I only handle the case that A's size
equals to chunk_size. That is discard request should be aligned to
stripe size and its size is multiple of stripe size.

Since we can only handle request with specific alignment and size (or
part of the request fitting stripes), we can't guarantee
zero_after_discard even zero_after_discard is true in low level
drives.

The block layer doesn't send down correctly aligned requests even
correct discard alignment is set, so I must filter out.

For raid4/5/6 parity calculation, if data is 0, parity is 0. So if
zero_after_discard is true for all disks, data is consistent after
discard.  Otherwise, data might be lost. Let's consider a scenario:
discard a stripe, write data to one disk and write parity disk. The
stripe could be still inconsistent till then depending on using data
from other data disks or parity disks to calculate new parity. If the
disk is broken, we can't restore it. So in this patch, we only enable
discard support if all disks have zero_after_discard.

If discard fails in one disk, we face the similar inconsistent issue
above. The patch will make discard follow the same path as normal
write request. If discard fails, a resync will be scheduled to make
the data consistent. This isn't good to have extra writes, but data
consistency is important.

If a subsequent read/write request hits raid5 cache of a discarded
stripe, the discarded dev page should have zero filled, so the data is
consistent. This patch will always zero dev page for discarded request
stripe. This isn't optimal because discard request doesn't need such
payload. Next patch will avoid it.

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

Merge tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2012-08-02T18:34:40+00:00

Pull additional md update from NeilBrown:
 "This contains a few patches that depend on plugging changes in the
  block layer so needed to wait for those.

  It also contains a Kconfig fix for the new RAID10 support in dm-raid."

* tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10
  md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.
  raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way
  raid5: make_request use batch stripe release

raid5: make_request use batch stripe release

2012-08-01T22:33:00+00:00

make_request() does stripe release for every stripe and the stripe usually has
count 1, which makes previous release_stripe() optimization not work. In my
test, this release_stripe() becomes the heaviest pleace to take
conf->device_lock after previous patches applied.

Below patch makes stripe release batch. All the stripes will be released in
unplug. The STRIPE_ON_UNPLUG_LIST bit is to protect concurrent access stripe
lru.

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

raid5: Add R5_ReadNoMerge flag which prevent bio from merging at block layer

2012-07-31T00:04:21+00:00

Because bios will merge at block-layer,so bios-error may caused by other
bio which be merged into to the same request.
Using this flag,it will find exactly error-sector and not do redundant
operation like re-write and re-read.

V0->V1:Using REQ_FLUSH instead REQ_NOMERGE avoid bio merging at block
layer.

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

raid5: add a per-stripe lock

2012-07-19T06:01:31+00:00

Add a per-stripe lock to protect stripe specific data. The purpose is to reduce
lock contention of conf->device_lock.

stripe ->toread, ->towrite are protected by per-stripe lock.  Accessing bio
list of the stripe is always serialized by this lock, so adding bio to the
lists (add_stripe_bio()) and removing bio from the lists (like
ops_run_biofill()) not race.

If bio in ->read, ->written ... list are not shared by multiple stripes, we
don't need any lock to protect ->read, ->written, because STRIPE_ACTIVE will
protect them. If the bio are shared,  there are two protections:
1. bi_phys_segments acts as a reference count
2. traverse the list uses r5_next_bio, which makes traverse never access bio
not belonging to the stripe

Let's have an example:
|  stripe1 |  stripe2    |  stripe3  |
...bio1......|bio2|bio3|....bio4.....

stripe2 has 4 bios, when it's finished, it will decrement bi_phys_segments for
all bios, but only end_bio for bio2 and bio3. bio1->bi_next still points to
bio2, but this doesn't matter. When stripe1 is finished, it will not touch bio2
because of r5_next_bio check. Next time stripe1 will end_bio for bio1 and
stripe3 will end_bio bio4.

before add_stripe_bio() addes a bio to a stripe, we already increament the bio
bi_phys_segments, so don't worry other stripes release the bio.

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

raid5: support sync request

2012-05-22T03:55:05+00:00

REQ_SYNC is ignored in current raid5 code. Block layer does use it to do
policy,
for example ioscheduler. This patch adds it.

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

md/raid5: allow for change in data_offset while managing a reshape.

2012-05-20T23:27:01+00:00

The important issue here is incorporating the different in data_offset
into calculations concerning when we might need to over-write data
that is still thought to be valid.

To this end we find the minimum offset difference across all devices
and add that where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown