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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>
2009-03-31md: Represent raid device size in sectors.Andre Noll
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mdk_rdev_s to "sectors" and changes this field to store sectors instead of blocks. All users of this field, linear.c, raid0.c and md.c, are fixed up accordingly which gets rid of many multiplications and divisions. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md: Make mddev->size sector-based.Andre Noll
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mddev_s to "dev_sectors" and stores the number of 512-byte sectors instead of the number of 1K-blocks in it. All users of that field, including raid levels 1,4-6,10, are adjusted accordingly. This simplifies the code a bit because it allows to get rid of a couple of divisions/multiplications by two. In order to make checkpatch happy, some minor coding style issues have also been addressed. In particular, size_store() now uses strict_strtoull() instead of simple_strtoull(). Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md: occasionally checkpoint drive recovery to reduce duplicate effort after ↵NeilBrown
a crash Version 1.x metadata has the ability to record the status of a partially completed drive recovery. However we only update that record on a clean shutdown. It would be nice to update it on unclean shutdowns too, particularly when using a bitmap that removes much to the 'sync' effort after an unclean shutdown. One complication with checkpointing recovery is that we only know where we are up to in terms of IO requests started, not which ones have completed. And we need to know what has completed to record how much is recovered. So occasionally pause the recovery until all submitted requests are completed, then update the record of where we are up to. When we have a bitmap, we already do that pause occasionally to keep the bitmap up-to-date. So enhance that code to record the recovery offset and schedule a superblock update. And when there is no bitmap, just pause 16 times during the resync to do a checkpoint. '16' is a fairly arbitrary number. But we don't really have any good way to judge how often is acceptable, and it seems like a reasonable number for now. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31md: move md_k.h from include/linux/raid/ to drivers/md/NeilBrown
It really is nicer to keep related code together.. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>