With the introduction of the boolean sync parameter, the API looks a
little inconsistent as offlining is still an int.  Convert offlining to a
bool for the sake of being tidy.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path

Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails.
Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the
caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not
going to have a significantly better success rate.

This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to
indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not.
For reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called
asynchronously, direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is
called synchronously as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build/merge fix]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Lumpy reclaim is disruptive.  It reclaims a large number of pages and
ignores the age of the pages it reclaims.  This can incur significant
stalls and potentially increase the number of major faults.

Compaction has reached the point where it is considered reasonably stable
(meaning it has passed a lot of testing) and is a potential candidate for
displacing lumpy reclaim.  This patch introduces an alternative to lumpy
reclaim whe compaction is available called reclaim/compaction.  The basic
operation is very simple - instead of selecting a contiguous range of
pages to reclaim, a number of order-0 pages are reclaimed and then
compaction is later by either kswapd (compact_zone_order()) or direct
compaction (__alloc_pages_direct_compact()).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional task_struct naming]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently lumpy_mode is an enum and determines if lumpy reclaim is off,
syncronous or asyncronous.  In preparation for using compaction instead of
lumpy reclaim, this patch converts the flags into a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

In preparation for a patches promoting the use of memory compaction over
lumpy reclaim, this patch adds trace points for memory compaction
activity.  Using them, we can monitor the scanning activity of the
migration and free page scanners as well as the number and success rates
of pages passed to page migration.
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently there is no way to find whether a process has locked its pages
in memory or not.  And which of the memory regions are locked in memory.

Add a new field "Locked" to export this information via the smaps file.
Signed-off-by: NNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Acked-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge mpage_end_io_read() and mpage_end_io_write() into mpage_end_io() to
eliminate code duplication.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: NHai Shan <shan.hai@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Testing ->mapping and ->index without a ref is not stable as the page
may have been reused at this point.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Currently, kswapd() has deep nesting and is slightly hard to read.  Clean
this up.
Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() should return true if it actually
transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state although it seems nobody
uses its return value at present.
Signed-off-by: NBob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Use correct function name, remove incorrect apostrophe

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When wb_writeback() is called in WB_SYNC_ALL mode, work->nr_to_write is
usually set to LONG_MAX.  The logic in wb_writeback() then calls
__writeback_inodes_sb() with nr_to_write == MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES and we
easily end up with non-positive nr_to_write after the function returns, if
the inode has more than MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES dirty pages at the moment.

When nr_to_write is <= 0 wb_writeback() decides we need another round of
writeback but this is wrong in some cases!  For example when a single
large file is continuously dirtied, we would never finish syncing it
because each pass would be able to write MAX_WRITEBACK_PAGES and inode
dirty timestamp never gets updated (as inode is never completely clean).
Thus __writeback_inodes_sb() would write the redirtied inode again and
again.

Fix the issue by setting nr_to_write to LONG_MAX in WB_SYNC_ALL mode.  We
do not need nr_to_write in WB_SYNC_ALL mode anyway since
write_cache_pages() does livelock avoidance using page tagging in
WB_SYNC_ALL mode.

This makes wb_writeback() call __writeback_inodes_sb() only once on
WB_SYNC_ALL.  The latter function won't livelock because it works on

- a finite set of files by doing queue_io() once at the beginning
- a finite set of pages by PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE page tagging

After this patch, program from http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/24/154 is no
longer able to stall sync forever.

[fengguang.wu@intel.com: fix locking comment]
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Background writeback is easily livelockable in a loop in wb_writeback() by
a process continuously re-dirtying pages (or continuously appending to a
file).  This is in fact intended as the target of background writeback is
to write dirty pages it can find as long as we are over
dirty_background_threshold.

But the above behavior gets inconvenient at times because no other work
queued in the flusher thread's queue gets processed.  In particular, since
e.g.  sync(1) relies on flusher thread to do all the IO for it, sync(1)
can hang forever waiting for flusher thread to do the work.

Generally, when a flusher thread has some work queued, someone submitted
the work to achieve a goal more specific than what background writeback
does.  Moreover by working on the specific work, we also reduce amount of
dirty pages which is exactly the target of background writeout.  So it
makes sense to give specific work a priority over a generic page cleaning.

Thus we interrupt background writeback if there is some other work to do.
We return to the background writeback after completing all the queued
work.

This may delay the writeback of expired inodes for a while, however the
expired inodes will eventually be flushed to disk as long as the other
works won't livelock.

[fengguang.wu@intel.com: update comment]
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This tracks when balance_dirty_pages() tries to wakeup the flusher thread
for background writeback (if it was not started already).
Suggested-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Check whether background writeback is needed after finishing each work.

When bdi flusher thread finishes doing some work check whether any kind of
background writeback needs to be done (either because
dirty_background_ratio is exceeded or because we need to start flushing
old inodes).  If so, just do background write back.

This way, bdi_start_background_writeback() just needs to wake up the
flusher thread.  It will do background writeback as soon as there is no
other work.

This is a preparatory patch for the next patch which stops background
writeback as soon as there is other work to do.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold() and restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold() exist
to adjust the per-cpu vmstat thresholds while kswapd is awake to avoid
errors due to counter drift.  The functions duplicate some code so this
patch replaces them with a single set_pgdat_percpu_threshold() that takes
a callback function to calculate the desired threshold as a parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability tweak]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(): don't use for_each_online_cpu]
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit aa454840 ("calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory
is low") noted that watermarks were based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES.  To
avoid synchronization overhead, these counters are maintained on a per-cpu
basis and drained both periodically and when a threshold is above a
threshold.  On large CPU systems, the difference between the estimate and
real value of NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high.  The system can get into a
case where pages are allocated far below the min watermark potentially
causing livelock issues.  The commit solved the problem by taking a better
reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory was low.

Unfortately, as reported by Shaohua Li this accurate reading can consume a
large amount of CPU time on systems with many sockets due to cache line
bouncing.  This patch takes a different approach.  For large machines
where counter drift might be unsafe and while kswapd is awake, the per-cpu
thresholds for the target pgdat are reduced to limit the level of drift to
what should be a safe level.  This incurs a performance penalty in heavy
memory pressure by a factor that depends on the workload and the machine
but the machine should function correctly without accidentally exhausting
all memory on a node.  There is an additional cost when kswapd wakes and
sleeps but the event is not expected to be frequent - in Shaohua's test
case, there was one recorded sleep and wake event at least.

To ensure that kswapd wakes up, a safe version of zone_watermark_ok() is
introduced that takes a more accurate reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when called
from wakeup_kswapd, when deciding whether it is really safe to go back to
sleep in sleeping_prematurely() and when deciding if a zone is really
balanced or not in balance_pgdat().  We are still using an expensive
function but limiting how often it is called.

When the test case is reproduced, the time spent in the watermark
functions is reduced.  The following report is on the percentage of time
spent cumulatively spent in the functions zone_nr_free_pages(),
zone_watermark_ok(), __zone_watermark_ok(), zone_watermark_ok_safe(),
zone_page_state_snapshot(), zone_page_state().

vanilla                      11.6615%
disable-threshold            0.2584%

David said:

: We had to pull aa454840 "mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate
: of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake" from 2.6.36
: internally because tests showed that it would cause the machine to stall
: as the result of heavy kswapd activity.  I merged it back with this fix as
: it is pending in the -mm tree and it solves the issue we were seeing, so I
: definitely think this should be pushed to -stable (and I would seriously
: consider it for 2.6.37 inclusion even at this late date).
Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reported-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: NNicolas Bareil <nico@chdir.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.37.1, 2.6.36.x]
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This warning was added in commit bdff746a ("clone: prepare to recycle
CLONE_STOPPED") three years ago.  2.6.26 came and went.  As far as I know,
no-one is actually using CLONE_STOPPED.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When working in RS485 mode, the atmel_serial driver keeps RTS high after
the initialization of the serial port.  It goes low only after the first
character has been sent.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify code]
Signed-off-by: NClaudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: NArkadiusz Bubala <arkadiusz.bubala@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NArkadiusz Bubala <arkadiusz.bubala@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Use modern per_cpu API to increment {soft|hard}irq counters, and use
per_cpu allocation for (struct irq_desc)->kstats_irq instead of an array.

This gives better SMP/NUMA locality and saves few instructions per irq.

With small nr_cpuids values (8 for example), kstats_irq was a small array
(less than L1_CACHE_BYTES), potentially source of false sharing.

In the !CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ case, remove the huge, NUMA/cache unfriendly
kstat_irqs_all[NR_IRQS][NR_CPUS] array.

Note: we still populate kstats_irq for all possible irqs in
early_irq_init().  We probably could use on-demand allocations.  (Code
included in alloc_descs()).  Problem is not all IRQS are used with a prior
alloc_descs() call.

kstat_irqs_this_cpu() is not used anymore, remove it.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Since the original maintainer-Joseph Chan (josephchan@via.com.tw) doesn't
handle the Linux driver for VIA now, I would like to request to update the
maintainer for the SD/MMC CARD CONTROLLER DRIVER and VIA
UNICHROME(PRO)/CHROME9 FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER before we find a better one.
Signed-off-by: NBruce Chang <brucechang@via.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (32 commits)
  dm: raid456 basic support
  dm: per target unplug callback support
  dm: introduce target callbacks and congestion callback
  dm mpath: delay activate_path retry on SCSI_DH_RETRY
  dm: remove superfluous irq disablement in dm_request_fn
  dm log: use PTR_ERR value instead of ENOMEM
  dm snapshot: avoid storing private suspended state
  dm snapshot: persistent make metadata_wq multithreaded
  dm: use non reentrant workqueues if equivalent
  dm: convert workqueues to alloc_ordered
  dm stripe: switch from local workqueue to system_wq
  dm: dont use flush_scheduled_work
  dm snapshot: remove unused dm_snapshot queued_bios_work
  dm ioctl: suppress needless warning messages
  dm crypt: add loop aes iv generator
  dm crypt: add multi key capability
  dm crypt: add post iv call to iv generator
  dm crypt: use io thread for reads only if mempool exhausted
  dm crypt: scale to multiple cpus
  dm crypt: simplify compatible table output
  ...

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: Fix removal of extra drives when converting RAID6 to RAID5
  md: range check slot number when manually adding a spare.
  md/raid5: handle manually-added spares in start_reshape.
  md: fix sync_completed reporting for very large drives (>2TB)
  md: allow suspend_lo and suspend_hi to decrease as well as increase.
  md: Don't let implementation detail of curr_resync leak out through sysfs.
  md: separate meta and data devs
  md-new-param-to_sync_page_io
  md-new-param-to-calc_dev_sboffset
  md: Be more careful about clearing flags bit in ->recovery
  md: md_stop_writes requires mddev_lock.
  md/raid5: use sysfs_notify_dirent_safe to avoid NULL pointer
  md: Ensure no IO request to get md device before it is properly initialised.
  md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s
  md: fix regression resulting in delays in clearing bits in a bitmap
  md: fix regression with re-adding devices to arrays with no metadata

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] fix build error - arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c

This reverts commit 0fdae42d, which
wasn't really supposed to go in, and causes lots of annoying warnings.

Quoth Andrew:
  "Complete brainfart - I meant to drop that patch ages ago."

Quoth Greg:
  "Ick, yeah, that patch isn't ok to go in as-is, all of the callers
   need to be fixed up first, which is what I thought we had agreed on..."
Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NGreg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Stephen Rothwell reports that the vfs merge broke the build of ecryptfs.
The breakage comes from commit 66cb7666 ("sanitize ecryptfs
->mount()") which was obviously not even build tested. Tssk, tssk, Al.

This is the minimal build fixup for the situation, although I don't have
a filesystem to actually test it with.
Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c:621: error: duplicate 'static'

Introduced by commit c74a1cbb

    pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
Signed-off-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

When a RAID6 is converted to a RAID5, the extra drive should
be discarded.  However it isn't due to a typo in a comparison.

This bug was introduced in commit e93f68a1 in 2.6.35-rc4
and is suitable for any -stable since than.

As the extra drive is not removed, the 'degraded' counter is wrong and
so the RAID5 will not respond correctly to a subsequent failure.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

When adding a spare to an active array, we should check the slot
number, but allow it to be larger than raid_disks if a reshape
is being prepared.

Apply the same test when adding a device to an
array-under-construction.  It already had most of the test in place,
but not quite all.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

It is possible to manually add spares to specific slots before
starting a reshape.
raid5_start_reshape should recognised this possibility and include
it in the accounting.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

The values exported in the sync_completed file are unsigned long, which
overflows with very large drives, resulting in wrong values reported.

Since sync_completed uses sectors as unit, we'll start getting wrong
values with components larger than 2TB.

This patch simply replaces the use of unsigned long by unsigned long long.
Signed-off-by: NRémi Rérolle <rrerolle@lacie.com>
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

The sysfs attributes 'suspend_lo' and 'suspend_hi' describe a region
to which read/writes are suspended so that the under lying data can be
manipulated without user-space noticing.
Currently the window they describe can only move forwards along the
device.  However this is an unnecessary restriction which will cause
problems with planned developments.
So relax this restriction and allow these endpoints to move
arbitrarily.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

mddev->curr_resync has artificial values of '1' and '2' which are used
by the code which ensures only one resync is happening at a time on
any given device.

These values are internal and should never be exposed to user-space
(except when translated appropriately as in the 'pending' status in
/proc/mdstat).

Unfortunately they are as ->curr_resync is assigned to
->curr_resync_completed and that value is directly visible through
sysfs.

So change the assignments to ->curr_resync_completed to get the same
valued from elsewhere in a form that doesn't have the magic '1' or '2'
values.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Allow the metadata to be on a separate device from the
data.

This doesn't mean the data and metadata will by on separate
physical devices - it simply gives device-mapper and userspace
tools more flexibility.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

Add new parameter to 'sync_page_io'.

The new parameter allows us to distinguish between metadata and data
operations.  This becomes important later when we add the ability to
use separate devices for data and metadata.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>

When we allow for separate devices for data and metadata
in a later patch, we will need to be able to calculate
the superblock offset based on more than the bdev.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>

Setting ->recovery to 0 is generally not a good idea as it could clear
bits that shouldn't be cleared.  In particular, MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN
should only be cleared on explicit request from user-space.

So when we need to clear things, just clear the bits that need
clearing.

As there are a few different places which reap a resync process - and
some do an incomplte job - factor out the code for doing the from
md_check_recovery and call that function instead of open coding part
of it.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>

As md_stop_writes manipulates the sync_thread and calls md_update_sb,
it need to be called with mddev_lock held.

In all internal cases it is, but the symbol is exported for dm-raid to
call and in that case the lock won't be help.
Do make an exported version which takes the lock, and an internal
version which does not.
Signed-off-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

With the module parameter 'start_dirty_degraded' set,
raid5_spare_active() previously called sysfs_notify_dirent() with a NULL
argument (rdev->sysfs_state) when a rebuild finished.
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>