1. 14 12月, 2009 9 次提交
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      raid: improve MD/raid10 handling of correctable read errors. · 1e50915f
      Robert Becker 提交于
      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: NRobert Becker <Rob.Becker@riverbed.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      1e50915f
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      md: Support write-intent bitmaps with externally managed metadata. · ece5cff0
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      ece5cff0
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      md: support updating bitmap parameters via sysfs. · 43a70507
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      43a70507
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      md: factor out parsing of fixed-point numbers · 72e02075
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      72e02075
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      md: support bitmap offset appropriate for external-metadata arrays. · f6af949c
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      f6af949c
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      md: move offset, daemon_sleep and chunksize out of bitmap structure · 42a04b50
      NeilBrown 提交于
      ... and into bitmap_info.  These are all configuration parameters
      that need to be set before the bitmap is created.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      42a04b50
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      md: collect bitmap-specific fields into one structure. · c3d9714e
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      c3d9714e
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      md: support barrier requests on all personalities. · a2826aa9
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      a2826aa9
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      md/bitmap: protect against bitmap removal while being updated. · aa5cbd10
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      aa5cbd10
  2. 23 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  3. 21 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 10 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Remove deadlock potential in md_open · c8c00a69
      NeilBrown 提交于
      A recent commit:
        commit 449aad3e
      
      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 d63a5a74
      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 d63a5a74Reported-by: N"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>
      Reported-by: N"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      c8c00a69
  5. 03 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      md: Push down data integrity code to personalities. · ac5e7113
      Andre Noll 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      ac5e7113
  6. 18 6月, 2009 6 次提交
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      md: Move check for bitmap presence to personality code. · 0894cc30
      Andre Noll 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      0894cc30
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      md: remove chunksize rounding from common code. · 8190e754
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      8190e754
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      md: merge reconfig and check_reshape methods. · 50ac168a
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      50ac168a
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      md: remove unnecessary arguments from ->reconfig method. · 597a711b
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      597a711b
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      md: Convert mddev->new_chunk to sectors. · 664e7c41
      Andre Noll 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      664e7c41
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      md: Make mddev->chunk_size sector-based. · 9d8f0363
      Andre Noll 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      9d8f0363
  7. 14 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 31 3月, 2009 14 次提交
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      md: add explicit method to signal the end of a reshape. · cea9c228
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      cea9c228
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      md: 'array_size' sysfs attribute · b522adcd
      Dan Williams 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      b522adcd
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      md: centralize ->array_sectors modifications · 1f403624
      Dan Williams 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      1f403624
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      md: add 'size' as a personality method · 80c3a6ce
      Dan Williams 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      80c3a6ce
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      md: add ->takeover method to support changing the personality managing an array · 245f46c2
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      245f46c2
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      md: enable suspend/resume of md devices. · 409c57f3
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      409c57f3
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      md: Represent raid device size in sectors. · dd8ac336
      Andre Noll 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      dd8ac336
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      md: Make mddev->size sector-based. · 58c0fed4
      Andre Noll 提交于
      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: NAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      58c0fed4
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      md: occasionally checkpoint drive recovery to reduce duplicate effort after a crash · 97e4f42d
      NeilBrown 提交于
      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: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      97e4f42d
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      md: move md_k.h from include/linux/raid/ to drivers/md/ · 43b2e5d8
      NeilBrown 提交于
      It really is nicer to keep related code together..
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      43b2e5d8
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      md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c · bff61975
      NeilBrown 提交于
      This makes the includes more explicit, and is preparation for moving
      md_k.h to drivers/md/md.h
      
      Remove include/raid/md.h as its only remaining use was to #include
      other files.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      bff61975
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      md: move most content from md.h to md_k.h · 92022950
      NeilBrown 提交于
      The extern function definitions are kernel-internal definitions, so
      they belong in md_k.h
      
      The MD_*_VERSION values could reasonably go in a number of places,
      but md_u.h seems most reasonable.
      
      This leaves almost nothing in md.h.  It will go soon.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      92022950
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      md: move LEVEL_* definition from md_k.h to md_u.h · 8b2b5c21
      NeilBrown 提交于
      .. as they are part of the user-space interface.
      Also move MdpMinorShift into there so we can remove duplication.
      
      Lastly move mdp_major in.  It is less obviously part of the user-space
      interface, but do_mounts_md.c uses it, and it is acting a bit like
      user-space.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      8b2b5c21
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      md: Fix is_mddev_idle test (again). · eea1bf38
      NeilBrown 提交于
      There are two problems with is_mddev_idle.
      
      1/ sync_io is 'atomic_t' and hence 'int'.  curr_events and all the
         rest are 'long'.
         So if sync_io were to wrap on a 64bit host, the value of
         curr_events would go very negative suddenly, and take a very
         long time to return to positive.
      
         So do all calculations as 'int'.  That gives us plenty of precision
         for what we need.
      
      2/ To initialise rdev->last_events we simply call is_mddev_idle, on
         the assumption that it will make sure that last_events is in a
         suitable range.  It used to do this, but now it does not.
         So now we need to be more explicit about initialisation.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      eea1bf38
  9. 09 1月, 2009 5 次提交
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      md: don't retry recovery of raid1 that fails due to error on source drive. · 4044ba58
      NeilBrown 提交于
      If a raid1 has only one working drive and it has a sector which
      gives an error on read, then an attempt to recover onto a spare will
      fail, but as the single remaining drive is not removed from the
      array, the recovery will be immediately re-attempted, resulting
      in an infinite recovery loop.
      
      So detect this situation and don't retry recovery once an error
      on the lone remaining drive is detected.
      
      Allow recovery to be retried once every time a spare is added
      in case the problem wasn't actually a media error.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      4044ba58
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      md: Allow md devices to be created by name. · efeb53c0
      NeilBrown 提交于
      Using sequential numbers to identify md devices is somewhat artificial.
      Using names can be a lot more user-friendly.
      
      Also, creating md devices by opening the device special file is a bit
      awkward.
      
      So this patch provides a new option for creating and naming devices.
      
      Writing a name such as "md_home" to
          /sys/modules/md_mod/parameters/new_array
      will cause an array with that name to be created.  It will appear in
      /sys/block/ /proc/partitions and /proc/mdstat as 'md_home'.
      It will have an arbitrary minor number allocated.
      
      md devices that a created by an open are destroyed on the last
      close when the device is inactive.
      For named md devices, they will not be destroyed until the array
      is explicitly stopped, either with the STOP_ARRAY ioctl or by
      writing 'clear' to /sys/block/md_XXXX/md/array_state.
      
      The name of the array must start 'md_' to avoid conflict with
      other devices.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      efeb53c0
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      md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed. · d3374825
      NeilBrown 提交于
      Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module
      is unloaded.  This is essentially because the gendisk holds a
      reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the
      gendisk, this a circular reference.
      
      If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure
      that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed.  However it
      is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable
      this.
      
      So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the
      gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed.  However this has a
      complication.
      Between the call
         __blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe
      and the call
         __blkdev_get->md_open
      
      there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so
      unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be
      destroyed prematurely.
      
      Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable
      moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during
      which a new reference to the gendisk can be created.  We need to
      ensure that this reference can not be used.  i.e. the ->open must
      fail.
      
      So:
       1/  in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which
           indicates that the array should be treated as active, even
           though there are no references, and no appearance of activity.
           This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it
           is no longer needed.
           This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and
           md_open.
      
       2/  In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches
           the gendisk that we did open.
           If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify
           __blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case.
           In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until
           the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so
           we loop at most once.
      
      Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first
      appears.   If we allow an md device that was just created by an open
      to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev
      configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened
      and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open,
      and then close and so on.
      So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active
      at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it.  This means that
      all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly
      when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it
      cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be
      removed).
      
      As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute
        echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state
      we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other
      kobjects.  This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to
      complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work().
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      d3374825
    • C
      md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly · 159ec1fc
      Cheng Renquan 提交于
      The rdev_for_each macro defined in <linux/raid/md_k.h> is identical to
      list_for_each_entry_safe, from <linux/list.h>, it should be defined to
      use list_for_each_entry_safe, instead of reinventing the wheel.
      
      But some calls to each_entry_safe don't really need a safe version,
      just a direct list_for_each_entry is enough, this could save a temp
      variable (tmp) in every function that used rdev_for_each.
      
      In this patch, most rdev_for_each loops are replaced by list_for_each_entry,
      totally save many tmp vars; and only in the other situations that will call
      list_del to delete an entry, the safe version is used.
      Signed-off-by: NCheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      159ec1fc
    • N
      md: use sysfs_notify_dirent to notify changes to md/sync_action. · 0c3573f1
      NeilBrown 提交于
      There is no compelling need for this, but sysfs_notify_dirent is a
      nicer interface and the change is good for consistency.
      Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      0c3573f1
  10. 21 10月, 2008 1 次提交