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2010-10-28md: use separate bio pool for each md device.NeilBrown
bio_clone and bio_alloc allocate from a common bio pool. If an md device is stacked with other devices that use this pool, or under something like swap which uses the pool, then the multiple calls on the pool can cause deadlocks. So allocate a local bio pool for each md array and use that rather than the common pool. This pool is used both for regular IO and metadata updates. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28md: change type of first arg to sync_page_io.NeilBrown
Currently sync_page_io takes a 'bdev'. Every caller passes 'rdev->bdev'. We will soon want another field out of the rdev in sync_page_io, So just pass the rdev instead of the bdev out of it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-19Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrierJens Axboe
Conflicts: block/blk-core.c drivers/block/loop.c mm/swapfile.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA supportTejun Heo
This patch converts md to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER. In the core part (md.c), the following changes are notable. * Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA don't interfere with processing of other requests and thus there is no reason to mark the queue congested while FLUSH/FUA is in progress. * REQ_FLUSH/FUA failures are final and its users don't need retry logic. Retry logic is removed. * Preflush needs to be issued to all member devices but FUA writes can be handled the same way as other writes - their processing can be deferred to request_queue of member devices. md_barrier_request() is renamed to md_flush_request() and simplified accordingly. For linear, raid0 and multipath, the core changes are enough. raid1, 5 and 10 need the following conversions. * raid1: Handling of FLUSH/FUA bio's can simply be deferred to request_queues of member devices. Barrier related logic removed. * raid5: Queue draining logic dropped. FUA bit is propagated through biodrain and stripe resconstruction such that all the updated parts of the stripe are written out with FUA writes if any of the dirtying writes was FUA. preread_active_stripes handling in make_request() is updated as suggested by Neil Brown. * raid10: FUA bit needs to be propagated to write clones. linear, raid0, 1, 5 and 10 tested. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-30md: resolve confusion of MD_CHANGE_CLEANNeilBrown
MD_CHANGE_CLEAN is used for two different purposes and this leads to confusion. One of the purposes is largely mirrored by MD_CHANGE_PENDING which is not used for anything else, so have MD_CHANGE_PENDING take over that purpose fully. The two purposes are: 1/ tell md_update_sb that an update is needed and that it is just a clean/dirty transition. 2/ tell user-space that an transition from clean to dirty is pending (something wants to write), and tell te kernel (by clearin the flag) that the transition is OK. The first purpose remains wit MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, the second is moved fully to MD_CHANGE_PENDING. This means that various places which conditionally set or cleared MD_CHANGE_CLEAN no longer need to be conditional. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (24 commits) md: clean up do_md_stop md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes. md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutex md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync md/bitmap: separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures. md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log. md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps. md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls. md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs. md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar. md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface. md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery. md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure. md/raid5: export is_congested test raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue md: add support for raising dm events. md: export various start/stop interfaces md: split out md_rdev_init md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEAN md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk ...
2010-08-08md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes.NeilBrown
Move the deletion of sysfs attributes from reconfig_mutex to open_mutex didn't really help as a process can try to take open_mutex while holding reconfig_mutex, so the same deadlock can happen, just requiring one more process to be involved in the chain. I looks like I cannot easily use locking to wait for the sysfs deletion to complete, so don't. The only things that we cannot do while the deletions are still pending is other things which can change the sysfs namespace: run, takeover, stop. Each of these can fail with -EBUSY. So set a flag while doing a sysfs deletion, and fail run, takeover, stop if that flag is set. This is suitable for 2.6.35.x Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-07block: unify flags for struct bio and struct requestChristoph Hellwig
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too. This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them. Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log.NeilBrown
This allows md/raid5 to fully work as a dm target. Normally md uses a 'filemap' which contains a list of pages of bits each of which may be written separately. dm-log uses and all-or-nothing approach to writing the log, so when using a dm-log, ->filemap is NULL and the flags normally stored in filemap_attr are stored in ->logattrs instead. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls.NeilBrown
1/ use md_unplug in bitmap.c as we will soon be using bitmaps under arrays with no queue attached. 2/ Don't bother plugging the queue when we set a bit in the bitmap. The reason for this was to encourage as many bits as possible to get set before we unplug and write stuff out. However every personality already plugs the queue after bitmap_startwrite either directly (raid1/raid10) or be setting STRIPE_BIT_DELAY which causes the queue to be plugged later (raid5). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar.NeilBrown
Fixes some whitespace problems Fixed some checkpatch.pl complaints. Replaced kmalloc ... memset(0), with kzalloc Fixed an unlikely memory leak on an error path. Reformatted a number of 'if/else' sets, sometimes replacing goto with an else clause. Removed some old comments and commented-out code. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.NeilBrown
If an array doesn't have a 'queue' then md_do_sync cannot unplug it. In that case it will have a 'plugger', so make that available to the mddev, and use it to unplug the array if needed. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.NeilBrown
md/raid5 uses the plugging infrastructure provided by the block layer and 'struct request_queue'. However when we plug raid5 under dm there is no request queue so we cannot use that. So create a similar infrastructure that is much lighter weight and use it for raid5. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: add support for raising dm events.NeilBrown
dm uses scheduled work to raise events to user-space. So allow md device to have work_structs and schedule them on an error. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: export various start/stop interfacesNeilBrown
export entry points for starting and stopping md arrays. This will be used by a module to make md/raid5 work under dm. Also stop calling md_stop_writes from md_stop, as that won't work well with dm - it will want to call the two separately. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: split out md_rdev_initNeilBrown
This functionality will be needed separately in a subsequent patch, so split it into it's own exported function. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21md: reduce dependence on sysfs.NeilBrown
We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not visible. So allow md to not connect to sysfs. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: fix handling of array level takeover that re-arranges devices.NeilBrown
Most array level changes leave the list of devices largely unchanged, possibly causing one at the end to become redundant. However conversions between RAID0 and RAID10 need to renumber all devices (except 0). This renumbering is currently being done in the ->run method when the new personality takes over. However this is too late as the common code in md.c might already have invalidated some of the devices if they had a ->raid_disk number that appeared to high. Moving it into the ->takeover method is too early as the array is still active at that time and wrong ->raid_disk numbers could cause confusion. So add a ->new_raid_disk field to mdk_rdev_s and use it to communicate the new raid_disk number. Now the common code knows exactly which devices need to be renumbered, and which can be invalidated, and can do it all at a convenient time when the array is suspend. It can also update some symlinks in sysfs which previously were not be updated correctly. Reported-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: simplify updating of event count to sometimes avoid updating spares.NeilBrown
When updating the event count for a simple clean <-> dirty transition, we try to avoid updating the spares so they can safely spin-down. As the event_counts across an array must be +/- 1, this means decrementing the event_count on a dirty->clean transition. This is not always safe and we have to avoid the unsafe time. We current do this with a misguided idea about it being safe or not depending on whether the event_count is odd or even. This approach only works reliably in a few common instances, but easily falls down. So instead, simply keep internal state concerning whether it is safe or not, and always assume it is not safe when an array is first assembled. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: pass mddev to make_request functions rather than request_queueNeilBrown
We used to pass the personality make_request function direct to the block layer so the first argument had to be a queue. But now we have the intermediary md_make_request so it makes at lot more sense to pass a struct mddev_s. It makes it possible to have an mddev without its own queue too. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: remove ->changed and related code.NeilBrown
We set ->changed to 1 and call check_disk_change at the end of md_open so that bd_invalidated would be set and thus partition rescan would happen appropriately. Now that we call revalidate_disk directly, which sets bd_invalidates, that indirection is no longer needed and can be removed. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: discard StateChanged device flag.NeilBrown
This was needed when sysfs files could only be 'notified' from process context. Now that we have sys_notify_direct, we can call it directly from an interrupt. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: remove some dead fields from mddev_sNeilBrown
These fields have never been used. commit 4b6d287f627b5fb6a49f78f9e81649ff98c62bb7 added them, but also added identical files to bitmap_super_s, and only used the latter. So remove these unused fields. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-17md: manage redundancy group in sysfs when changing level.NeilBrown
Some levels expect the 'redundancy group' to be present, others don't. So when we change level of an array we might need to add or remove this group. This requires fixing up the current practice of overloading ->private to indicate (when ->pers == NULL) that something needs to be removed. So create a new ->to_remove to fill that role. When changing levels, we may need to add or remove attributes. When changing RAID5 -> RAID6, we both add and remove the same thing. It is important to catch this and optimise it out as the removal is delayed until a lock is released, so trying to add immediately would cause problems. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14raid: improve MD/raid10 handling of correctable read errors.Robert Becker
We've noticed severe lasting performance degradation of our raid arrays when we have drives that yield large amounts of media errors. The raid10 module will queue each failed read for retry, and also will attempt call fix_read_error() to perform the read recovery. Read recovery is performed while the array is frozen, so repeated recovery attempts can degrade the performance of the array for extended periods of time. With this patch I propose adding a per md device max number of corrected read attempts. Each rdev will maintain a count of read correction attempts in the rdev->read_errors field (not used currently for raid10). When we enter fix_read_error() we'll check to see when the last read error occurred, and divide the read error count by 2 for every hour since the last read error. If at that point our read error count exceeds the read error threshold, we'll fail the raid device. In addition in this patch I add sysfs nodes (get/set) for the per md max_read_errors attribute, the rdev->read_errors attribute, and added some printk's to indicate when fix_read_error fails to repair an rdev. For testing I used debugfs->fail_make_request to inject IO errors to the rdev while doing IO to the raid array. Signed-off-by: Robert Becker <Rob.Becker@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: Support write-intent bitmaps with externally managed metadata.NeilBrown
In this case, the metadata needs to not be in the same sector as the bitmap. md will not read/write any bitmap metadata. Config must be done via sysfs and when a recovery makes the array non-degraded again, writing 'true' to 'bitmap/can_clear' will allow bits in the bitmap to be cleared again. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: support updating bitmap parameters via sysfs.NeilBrown
A new attribute directory 'bitmap' in 'md' is created which contains files for configuring the bitmap. 'location' identifies where the bitmap is, either 'none', or 'file' or 'sector offset from metadata'. Writing 'location' can create or remove a bitmap. Adding a 'file' bitmap this way is not yet supported. 'chunksize' and 'time_base' must be set before 'location' can be set. 'chunksize' can be set before creating a bitmap, but is currently always over-ridden by the bitmap superblock. 'time_base' and 'backlog' can be updated at any time. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2009-12-14md: factor out parsing of fixed-point numbersNeilBrown
safe_delay_store can parse fixed point numbers (for fractions of a second). We will want to do that for another sysfs file soon, so factor out the code. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: support bitmap offset appropriate for external-metadata arrays.NeilBrown
For md arrays were metadata is managed externally, the kernel does not know about a superblock so the superblock offset is 0. If we want to have a write-intent-bitmap near the end of the devices of such an array, we should support sector_t sized offset. We need offset be possibly negative for when the bitmap is before the metadata, so use loff_t instead. Also add sanity check that bitmap does not overlap with data. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: move offset, daemon_sleep and chunksize out of bitmap structureNeilBrown
... and into bitmap_info. These are all configuration parameters that need to be set before the bitmap is created. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: collect bitmap-specific fields into one structure.NeilBrown
In preparation for making bitmap fields configurable via sysfs, start tidying up by making a single structure to contain the configuration fields. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14md: support barrier requests on all personalities.NeilBrown
Previously barriers were only supported on RAID1. This is because other levels requires synchronisation across all devices and so needed a different approach. Here is that approach. When a barrier arrives, we send a zero-length barrier to every active device. When that completes - and if the original request was not empty - we submit the barrier request itself (with the barrier flag cleared) and then submit a fresh load of zero length barriers. The barrier request itself is asynchronous, but any subsequent request will block until the barrier completes. The reason for clearing the barrier flag is that a barrier request is allowed to fail. If we pass a non-empty barrier through a striping raid level it is conceivable that part of it could succeed and part could fail. That would be way too hard to deal with. So if the first run of zero length barriers succeed, we assume all is sufficiently well that we send the request and ignore errors in the second run of barriers. RAID5 needs extra care as write requests may not have been submitted to the underlying devices yet. So we flush the stripe cache before proceeding with the barrier. Note that the second set of zero-length barriers are submitted immediately after the original request is submitted. Thus when a personality finds mddev->barrier to be set during make_request, it should not return from make_request until the corresponding per-device request(s) have been queued. That will be done in later patches. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2009-12-14md/bitmap: protect against bitmap removal while being updated.NeilBrown
A write intent bitmap can be removed from an array while the array is active. When this happens, all IO is suspended and flushed before the bitmap is removed. However it is possible that bitmap_daemon_work is still running to clear old bits from the bitmap. If it is, it can dereference the bitmap after it has been freed. So introduce a new mutex to protect bitmap_daemon_work and get it before destroying a bitmap. This is suitable for any current -stable kernel. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-09-23md: report device as congested when suspendedNeilBrown
This should writeback from coming when the device is temporarily suspended. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar
trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-08-10Remove deadlock potential in md_openNeilBrown
A recent commit: commit 449aad3e25358812c43afc60918c5ad3819488e7 introduced the possibility of an A-B/B-A deadlock between bd_mutex and reconfig_mutex. __blkdev_get holds bd_mutex while calling md_open which takes reconfig_mutex, do_md_run is always called with reconfig_mutex held, and it now takes bd_mutex in the call the revalidate_disk. This potential deadlock was not caught by lockdep due to the use of mutex_lock_interruptible_nexted which was introduced by commit d63a5a74dee87883fda6b7d170244acaac5b05e8 do avoid a warning of an impossible deadlock. It is quite possible to split reconfig_mutex in to two locks. One protects the array data structures while it is being reconfigured, the other ensures that an array is never even partially open while it is being deactivated. In particular, the second lock prevents an open from completing between the time when do_md_stop checks if there are any active opens, and the time when the array is either set read-only, or when ->pers is set to NULL. So we can be certain that no IO is in flight as the array is being destroyed. So create a new lock, open_mutex, just to ensure exclusion between 'open' and 'stop'. This avoids the deadlock and also avoids the lockdep warning mentioned in commit d63a5a74d Reported-by: "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com> Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-03md: Push down data integrity code to personalities.Andre Noll
This patch replaces md_integrity_check() by two new public functions: md_integrity_register() and md_integrity_add_rdev() which are both personality-independent. md_integrity_register() is called from the ->run and ->hot_remove methods of all personalities that support data integrity. The function iterates over the component devices of the array and determines if all active devices are integrity capable and if their profiles match. If this is the case, the common profile is registered for the mddev via blk_integrity_register(). The second new function, md_integrity_add_rdev() is called from the ->hot_add_disk methods, i.e. whenever a new device is being added to a raid array. If the new device does not support data integrity, or has a profile different from the one already registered, data integrity for the mddev is disabled. For raid0 and linear, only the call to md_integrity_register() from the ->run method is necessary. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-17md: Move check for bitmap presence to personality code.Andre Noll
If the superblock of a component device indicates the presence of a bitmap but the corresponding raid personality does not support bitmaps (raid0, linear, multipath, faulty), then something is seriously wrong and we'd better refuse to run such an array. Currently, this check is performed while the superblocks are examined, i.e. before entering personality code. Therefore the generic md layer must know which raid levels support bitmaps and which do not. This patch avoids this layer violation without adding identical code to various personalities. This is accomplished by introducing a new public function to md.c, md_check_no_bitmap(), which replaces the hard-coded checks in the superblock loading functions. A call to md_check_no_bitmap() is added to the ->run method of each personality which does not support bitmaps and assembly is aborted if at least one component device contains a bitmap. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-17md: remove chunksize rounding from common code.NeilBrown
It is easiest to round sizes to multiples of chunk size in the personality code for those personalities which care. Those personalities now do the rounding, so we can remove that function from common code. Also remove the upper bound on the size of a chunk, and the lower bound on the size of a device (1 chunk), neither of which really buy us anything. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-17md: merge reconfig and check_reshape methods.NeilBrown
The difference between these two methods is artificial. Both check that a pending reshape is valid, and perform any aspect of it that can be done immediately. 'reconfig' handles chunk size and layout. 'check_reshape' handles raid_disks. So make them just one method. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-17md: remove unnecessary arguments from ->reconfig method.NeilBrown
Passing the new layout and chunksize as args is not necessary as the mddev has fields for new_check and new_layout. This is preparation for combining the check_reshape and reconfig methods Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-17md: Convert mddev->new_chunk to sectors.Andre Noll
A straight-forward conversion which gets rid of some multiplications/divisions/shifts. The patch also introduces a couple of new ones, most of which are due to conf->chunk_size still being represented in bytes. This will be cleaned up in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-17md: Make mddev->chunk_size sector-based.Andre Noll
This patch renames the chunk_size field to chunk_sectors with the implied change of semantics. Since is_power_of_2(chunk_size) = is_power_of_2(chunk_sectors << 9) = is_power_of_2(chunk_sectors) these bits don't need an adjustment for the shift. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-04-14md: tiny md.h cleanupsChristoph Hellwig
- update inclusion guard and make sure it covers the whole file - remove superflous #ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK - make sure all required headers are included so that new users aren't required to include others before Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md: add explicit method to signal the end of a reshape.NeilBrown
Currently raid5 (the only module that supports restriping) notices that the reshape has finished be sync_request being given a large value, and handles any cleanup them. This patch changes it so md_check_recovery calls into an explicit finish_reshape method as well. The clean-up from sync_request can do things that need to be done promptly, typically things local to the raid5_conf_t structure. The "finish_reshape" method is called under the mddev_lock so it can do things involving reconfiguring the device. This allows us to get rid of md_set_array_sectors_locked, which would have caused a deadlock if you tried to stop and array while a reshape was happening. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md: 'array_size' sysfs attributeDan Williams
Allow userspace to set the size of the array according to the following semantics: 1/ size must be <= to the size returned by mddev->pers->size(mddev, 0, 0) a) If size is set before the array is running, do_md_run will fail if size is greater than the default size b) A reshape attempt that reduces the default size to less than the set array size should be blocked 2/ once userspace sets the size the kernel will not change it 3/ writing 'default' to this attribute returns control of the size to the kernel and reverts to the size reported by the personality Also, convert locations that need to know the default size from directly reading ->array_sectors to <pers>_size. Resync/reshape operations always follow the default size. Finally, fixup other locations that read a number of 1k-blocks from userspace to use strict_blocks_to_sectors() which checks for unsigned long long to sector_t overflow and blocks to sectors overflow. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-03-31md: centralize ->array_sectors modificationsDan Williams
Get personalities out of the business of directly modifying ->array_sectors. Lays groundwork to introduce policy on when ->array_sectors can be modified. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-03-31md: add 'size' as a personality methodDan Williams
In preparation for giving userspace control over ->array_sectors we need to be able to retrieve the 'default' size, and the 'anticipated' size when a reshape is requested. For personalities that do not reshape emit a warning if anything but the default size is requested. In the raid5 case we need to update ->previous_raid_disks to make the new 'default' size available. Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-03-31md: add ->takeover method to support changing the personality managing an arrayNeilBrown
Implement this for RAID6 to be able to 'takeover' a RAID5 array. The new RAID6 will use a layout which places Q on the last device, and that device will be missing. If there are any available spares, one will immediately have Q recovered onto it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md: enable suspend/resume of md devices.NeilBrown
To be able to change the 'level' of an md/raid array, we need to suspend the device so that no requests are active - then move some pointers around etc. The code already keeps counts of active requests and the ->quiesce function can be used to wait until those counts hit zero. However the quiesce function blocks new requests once they are all ready 'inside' the personality module, and that is too late if we want to replace the personality modules. So make all md requests come in through a common md_make_request function that keeps track of how many requests have entered the modules but may not yet be on the internal reference counts. Allow md_make_request to be blocked when we want to suspend the device, and make it possible to wait for all those in-transit requests to be added to internal lists so that ->quiesce can wait for them. There is still a problem that when a request completes, we drop the ref count inside the personality code so there is a short time between when the refcount hits zero, and when the personality code is no longer being used. The personality code never blocks (schedule or spinlock) between dropping the refcount and exiting the routine, so this should be safe (as put_module calls synchronize_sched() before unmapping the module code). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>