linux.git/drivers/md, branch v3.1-rc7

md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB to 4TB in 0.90 metadata.

2011-09-10T07:21:28+00:00

0.90 metadata uses an unsigned 32bit number to count the number of
kilobytes used from each device.
This should allow up to 4TB per device.
However we multiply this by 2 (to get sectors) before casting to a
larger type, so sizes above 2TB get truncated.

Also we allow rdev->sectors to be larger than 4TB, so it is possible
for the array to be resized larger than the metadata can handle.
So make sure rdev->sectors never exceeds 4TB when 0.90 metadata is in
used.

Also the sanity check at the end of super_90_load should include level
1 as it used ->size too. (RAID0 and Linear don't use ->size at all).

Reported-by: Pim Zandbergen 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid1,10: Remove use-after-free bug in make_request.

2011-09-10T07:21:23+00:00

A single request to RAID1 or RAID10 might result in multiple
requests if there are known bad blocks that need to be avoided.

To detect if we need to submit another write request we test:
 	if (sectors_handled < (bio->bi_size >> 9)) {

However this is after we call **_write_done() so the 'bio' no longer
belongs to us - the writes could have completed and the bio freed.

So move the **_write_done call until after the test against
bio->bi_size.

This addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41862

Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III 
Tested-by: Bruno Wolff III 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid10: unify handling of write completion.

2011-09-10T07:21:17+00:00

A write can complete at two different places:
1/ when the last member-device write completes, through
   raid10_end_write_request
2/ in make_request() when we remove the initial bias from ->remaining.

These two should do exactly the same thing and the comment says they
do, but they don't.

So factor the correct code out into a function and call it in both
places.  This makes the code much more similar to RAID1.

The difference is only significant if there is an error, and they
usually take a while, so it is unlikely that there will be an error
already when make_request is completing, so this is unlikely to cause
real problems.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: fix a hang on device failure.

2011-08-31T02:49:14+00:00

Waiting for a 'blocked' rdev to become unblocked in the raid5d thread
cannot work with internal metadata as it is the raid5d thread which
will clear the blocked flag.
This wasn't a problem in 3.0 and earlier as we only set the blocked
flag when external metadata was used then.
However we now set it always, so we need to be more careful.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: fix clearing of 'blocked' flag in the presence of bad blocks.

2011-08-30T06:20:17+00:00

When the 'blocked' flag on a device is cleared while there are
unacknowledged bad blocks we must fail the device.  This is needed for
backwards compatability of the interface.

The code currently uses the wrong test for "unacknowledged bad blocks
exist".  Change it to the right test.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/linear: avoid corrupting structure while waiting for rcu_free to complete.

2011-08-25T04:43:53+00:00

I don't know what I was thinking putting 'rcu' after a dynamically
sized array!  The array could still be in use when we call rcu_free()
(That is the point) so we mustn't corrupt it.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: use REQ_NOIDLE flag in md_super_write()

2011-08-25T04:43:34+00:00

Queue idling is used for the anticipation of immediate
sequencial I/O's but md_super_write() is a kind of one-
shot operation, coupled with md_super_wait(), so the
idling in this case will be just a waste of time.

Specifying REQ_NOIDLE prevents it. Instead of adding
the flag to submit_bio() directly, use pre-defined
macro WRITE_FLUSH_FUA.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: ensure changes to 'write-mostly' are reflected in metadata.

2011-08-25T04:43:08+00:00

The 'write-mostly' flag can be changed through sysfs.
With 0.90 metadata, those changes are reflected in the metadata.
For 1.x metadata, they aren't.

So fix super_1_sync to record 'write-mostly' status.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: report failure if a 'set faulty' request doesn't.

2011-08-25T04:42:51+00:00

Sometimes a device will refuse to be set faulty.  e.g. RAID1 will
never let the last working device become faulty.

So check if "md_error()" did manage to set the faulty flag and fail
with EBUSY if it didn't.

Resolves-Debian-Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601198
Reported-by: Mike Hommey 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

dm table: set flush capability based on underlying devices

2011-08-02T11:32:08+00:00

DM has always advertised both REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA flush capabilities
regardless of whether or not a given DM device's underlying devices
also advertised a need for them.

Block's flush-merge changes from 2.6.39 have proven to be more costly
for DM devices.  Performance regressions have been reported even when
DM's underlying devices do not advertise that they have a write cache.

Fix the performance regressions by configuring a DM device's flushing
capabilities based on those of the underlying devices' capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon