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Dan Williams e542713529 md: do not count blocked devices as spares
remove_and_add_spares() assumes that failed devices have been hot-removed
from the array.  Removal is skipped in the 'blocked' case so do not count a
device in this state as 'spare'.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2008-07-28 17:52:44 -07:00
Dan Williams d8e64406a0 md: delay notification of 'active_idle' to the recovery thread
sysfs_notify might sleep, so do not call it from md_safemode_timeout.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2008-07-23 13:09:48 -07:00
NeilBrown 4b80991c6c md: Protect access to mddev->disks list using RCU
All modifications and most access to the mddev->disks list are made
under the reconfig_mutex lock.  However there are three places where
the list is walked without any locking.  If a reconfig happens at this
time, havoc (and oops) can ensue.

So use RCU to protect these accesses:
  - wrap them in rcu_read_{,un}lock()
  - use list_for_each_entry_rcu
  - add to the list with list_add_rcu
  - delete from the list with list_del_rcu
  - delay the 'free' with call_rcu rather than schedule_work

Note that export_rdev did a list_del_init on this list.  In almost all
cases the entry was not in the list anymore so it was a no-op and so
safe.  It is no longer safe as after list_del_rcu we may not touch
the list_head.
An audit shows that export_rdev is called:
  - after unbind_rdev_from_array, in which case the delete has
     already been done,
  - after bind_rdev_to_array fails, in which case the delete isn't needed.
  - before the device has been put on a list at all (e.g. in
      add_new_disk where reading the superblock fails).
  - and in autorun devices after a failure when the device is on a
      different list.

So remove the list_del_init call from export_rdev, and add it back
immediately before the called to export_rdev for that last case.

Note also that ->same_set is sometimes used for lists other than
mddev->list (e.g. candidates).  In these cases rcu is not needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 17:05:25 +10:00
NeilBrown f2ea68cf42 md: only count actual openers as access which prevent a 'stop'
Open isn't the only thing that increments ->active.  e.g. reading
/proc/mdstat will increment it briefly.  So to avoid false positives
in testing for concurrent access, introduce a new counter that counts
just the number of times the md device it open.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 17:05:25 +10:00
Andre Noll f233ea5c9e md: Make mddev->array_size sector-based.
This patch renames the array_size field of struct mddev_s to array_sectors
and converts all instances to use units of 512 byte sectors instead of 1k
blocks.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 17:05:22 +10:00
Andre Noll 15f4a5fdf3 md: Make super_type->rdev_size_change() take sector-based sizes.
Also, change the type of the size parameter from unsigned long long to
sector_t and rename it to num_sectors.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 14:42:12 +10:00
Andre Noll d07bd3bcc4 md: Fix check for overlapping devices.
The checks in overlaps() expect all parameters either in block-based
or sector-based quantities. However, its single caller passes two
rdev->data_offset arguments as well as two rdev->size arguments, the
former being sector counts while the latter are measured in 1K blocks.

This could cause rdev_size_store() to accept an invalid size from user
space. Fix it by passing only sector-based quantities to overlaps().

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 14:42:07 +10:00
Neil Brown d7027458d6 md: Tidy up rdev_size_store a bit:
- used strict_strtoull in place of simple_strtoull
 - use my_mddev in place of rdev->mddev (they have the same value)
and more significantly,
 - don't adjust mddev->size to fit, rather reject changes which make
   rdev->size smaller than mddev->size

Adjusting mddev->size is a hangover from bind_rdev_to_array which
does a similar thing.  But it really is a better design to insist that
mddev->size is set as required, then the rdev->sizes are set to allow
for that.  The previous way invites confusion.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 14:22:18 +10:00
Andre Noll 0f420358e3 md: Turn rdev->sb_offset into a sector-based quantity.
Rename it to sb_start to make sure all users have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:23 +10:00
Andre Noll b73df2d3d6 md: Make calc_dev_sboffset() return a sector count.
As BLOCK_SIZE_BITS is 10 and

	MD_NEW_SIZE_SECTORS(2 * x) = 2 * NEW_SIZE_BLOCKS(x),

the return value of calc_dev_sboffset() doubles. Fix up all three
callers accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:23 +10:00
Andre Noll e7debaa495 md: Replace calc_dev_size() by calc_num_sectors().
Number of sectors is the preferred unit for sizes of raid devices,
so change calc_dev_size() so that it returns this unit instead of
the number of 1K blocks.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:23 +10:00
Andre Noll d71f9f88d7 md: Make update_size() take the number of sectors.
Changing the internal representations of sizes of raid devices
from 1K blocks to sector counts (512B units) is desirable because
it allows to get rid of many divisions/multiplications and unnecessary
casts that are present in the current code.

This patch is a first step in this direction. It replaces the old
1K-based "size" argument of update_size() by "num_sectors" and
fixes up its two callers.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:22 +10:00
Neil Brown df5b20cf68 md: Better control of when do_md_stop is allowed to stop the array.
do_md_stop check the number of active users before allowing the array
to be stopped.
Two problems:
  1/ it assumes the request is coming through an open file descriptor
     (via ioctl) so it allows for that.  This is not always the case.
  2/ it doesn't do the check it the array hasn't been activated.
     This is not good for cases when we use an inactive array to hold
     some devices in a container.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:22 +10:00
Andre Noll 26ef379f53 md: get_disk_info(): Don't convert between signed and unsigned and back.
The current code copies a signed int from user space, converts it to
unsigned and passes the unsigned value to find_rdev_nr() which expects
a signed value. Simply pass the signed value from user space directly.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:21 +10:00
Andre Noll 80fab1d77b md: Simplify restart_array().
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:21 +10:00
Andre Noll ebc2433728 md: alloc_disk_sb(): Return proper error value.
If alloc_page() fails, ENOMEM is a more suitable error value
than EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:20 +10:00
Andre Noll ce0c8e05f8 md: Simplify sb_equal().
The only caller of sb_equal() tests the return value against
zero, so it's OK to return the negated return value of memcmp().

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:20 +10:00
Andre Noll 05710466c9 md: Simplify uuid_equal().
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:20 +10:00
Andre Noll 35020f1a06 md: sb_equal(): Fix misleading printk.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:53:20 +10:00
Andre Noll 7f6ce76928 md: Fix a typo in the comment to cmd_match().
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:53:00 +10:00
Andre Noll 910d8cb3f4 md: Fix typo in array_state comment.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:52:45 +10:00
Andre Noll 9687a60c78 md: sync_speed_show(): Trivial cleanups.
- Remove superfluous parentheses.
- Make format string match the type of the variable that is printed.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:52:26 +10:00
Andre Noll 13e53df354 md: do_md_run(): Fix misleading error message.
In case pers->run() succeeds but creating the bitmap fails, we
print an error message stating that pers->run() has failed.

Print this message only if pers->run() really failed.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:52:15 +10:00
Andre Noll 2f9618ce63 md: md_getgeo(): Move comment to proper position.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:52:00 +10:00
Andre Noll bb57fc64b2 md: md_ioctl(): Fix misleading indentation.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-08 10:51:29 +10:00
Dan Williams b5470dc5fc md: resolve external metadata handling deadlock in md_allow_write
md_allow_write() marks the metadata dirty while holding mddev->lock and then
waits for the write to complete.  For externally managed metadata this causes a
deadlock as userspace needs to take the lock to communicate that the metadata
update has completed.

Change md_allow_write() in the 'external' case to start the 'mark active'
operation and then return -EAGAIN.  The expected side effects while waiting for
userspace to write 'active' to 'array_state' are holding off reshape (code
currently handles -ENOMEM), cause some 'stripe_cache_size' change requests to
fail, cause some GET_BITMAP_FILE ioctl requests to fall back to GFP_NOIO, and
cause updates to 'raid_disks' to fail.  Except for 'stripe_cache_size' changes
these failures can be mitigated by coordinating with mdmon.

md_write_start() still prevents writes from occurring until the metadata
handler has had a chance to take action as it unconditionally waits for
MD_CHANGE_CLEAN to be cleared.

[neilb@suse.de: return -EAGAIN, try GFP_NOIO]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2008-06-30 17:18:19 -07:00
Chris Webb 0cd17fec98 Support changing rdev size on running arrays.
From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>

Allow /sys/block/mdX/md/rdY/size to change on running arrays, moving the
superblock if necessary for this metadata version. We prevent the available
space from shrinking to less than the used size, and allow it to be set to zero
to fill all the available space on the underlying device.

Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:46 +10:00
Neil Brown 526647320e Make sure all changes to md/dev-XX/state are notified
The important state change happens during an interrupt
in md_error.  So just set a flag there and call sysfs_notify
later in process context.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:44 +10:00
Neil Brown a99ac97113 Make sure all changes to md/degraded are notified.
When a device fails, when a spare is activated, when
an array is reshaped, or when an array is started,
the extent to which the array is degraded can change.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:43 +10:00
Neil Brown 72a23c211e Make sure all changes to md/sync_action are notified.
When the 'resync' thread starts or stops, when we explicitly
set sync_action, or when we determine that there is definitely nothing
to do, we notify sync_action.

To stop "sync_action" from occasionally showing the wrong value,
we introduce a new flags - MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER - to say that a
recovery is probably needed or happening, and we make sure
that we set MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING before clearing MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:41 +10:00
Neil Brown 0fd62b861e Make sure all changes to md/array_state are notified.
Changes in md/array_state could be of interest to a monitoring
program.  So make sure all changes trigger a notification.

Exceptions:
   changing active_idle to active is not reported because it
      is frequent and not interesting.
   changing active to active_idle is only reported on arrays
      with externally managed metadata, as it is not interesting
      otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:36 +10:00
Neil Brown c7d0c941ae Don't reject HOT_REMOVE_DISK request for an array that is not yet started.
There is really no need for this test here, and there are valid
cases for selectively removing devices from an array that
it not actually active.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:34 +10:00
Neil Brown 199050ea1f rationalise return value for ->hot_add_disk method.
For all array types but linear, ->hot_add_disk returns 1 on
success, 0 on failure.
For linear, it returns 0 on success and -errno on failure.

This doesn't cause a functional problem because the ->hot_add_disk
function of linear is used quite differently to the others.
However it is confusing.

So convert all to return 0 for success or -errno on failure
and fix call sites to match.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:33 +10:00
Neil Brown 6c2fce2ef6 Support adding a spare to a live md array with external metadata.
i.e. extend the 'md/dev-XXX/slot' attribute so that you can
tell a device to fill an vacant slot in an and md array.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:31 +10:00
Neil Brown 8ed0a5216a Enable setting of 'offset' and 'size' of a hot-added spare.
offset_store and rdev_size_store allow control of the region of a
device which is to be using in an md/raid array.
They only allow these values to be set when an array is being assembled,
as changing them on an active array could be dangerous.
However when adding a spare device to an array, we might need to
set the offset and size before starting recovery.  So allow
these values to be set also if "->raid_disk < 0" which indicates that
the device is still a spare.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:29 +10:00
Neil Brown 1a0fd49773 Don't try to make md arrays dirty if that is not meaningful.
Arrays personalities such as 'raid0' and 'linear' have no redundancy,
and so marking them as 'clean' or 'dirty' is not meaningful.
So always allow write requests without requiring a superblock update.

Such arrays types are detected by ->sync_request being NULL.  If it is
not possible to send a sync request we don't need a 'dirty' flag because
all a dirty flag does is trigger some sync_requests.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:27 +10:00
Neil Brown f48ed53838 Close race in md_probe
There is a possible race in md_probe.  If two threads call md_probe
for the same device, then one could exit (having checked that
->gendisk exists) before the other has called kobject_init_and_add,
thus returning an incomplete kobj which will cause problems when
we try to add children to it.

So extend the range of protection of disks_mutex slightly to
avoid this possibility.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:26 +10:00
Neil Brown 5e96ee65c8 Allow setting start point for requested check/repair
This makes it possible to just resync a small part of an array.
e.g. if a drive reports that it has questionable sectors,
a 'repair' of just the region covering those sectors will
cause them to be read and, if there is an error, re-written
with correct data.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:24 +10:00
Neil Brown 9bbbca3a0e Fix error paths if md_probe fails.
md_probe can fail (e.g. alloc_disk could fail) without
returning an error (as it alway returns NULL).
So when we call mddev_find immediately afterwards, we need
to check that md_probe actually succeeded.  This means checking
that mdev->gendisk is non-NULL.

cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:17 +10:00
Dan Williams a6d8113a98 md: fix uninitialized use of mddev->recovery_wait
If an array was created with --assume-clean we will oops when trying to
set ->resync_max.

Fix this by initializing ->recovery_wait in mddev_find.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-06 11:29:08 -07:00
NeilBrown dfc7064500 md: restart recovery cleanly after device failure.
When we get any IO error during a recovery (rebuilding a spare), we abort
the recovery and restart it.

For RAID6 (and multi-drive RAID1) it may not be best to restart at the
beginning: when multiple failures can be tolerated, the recovery may be
able to continue and re-doing all that has already been done doesn't make
sense.

We already have the infrastructure to record where a recovery is up to
and restart from there, but it is not being used properly.
This is because:
  - We sometimes abort with MD_RECOVERY_ERR rather than just MD_RECOVERY_INTR,
    which causes the recovery not be be checkpointed.
  - We remove spares and then re-added them which loses important state
    information.

The distinction between MD_RECOVERY_ERR and MD_RECOVERY_INTR really isn't
needed.  If there is an error, the relevant drive will be marked as
Faulty, and that is enough to ensure correct handling of the error.  So we
first remove MD_RECOVERY_ERR, changing some of the uses of it to
MD_RECOVERY_INTR.

Then we cause the attempt to remove a non-faulty device from an array to
fail (unless recovery is impossible as the array is too degraded).  Then
when remove_and_add_spares attempts to remove the devices on which
recovery can continue, it will fail, they will remain in place, and
recovery will continue on them as desired.

Issue:  If we are halfway through rebuilding a spare and another drive
fails, and a new spare is immediately available,  do we want to:
 1/ complete the current rebuild, then go back and rebuild the new spare or
 2/ restart the rebuild from the start and rebuild both devices in
    parallel.

Both options can be argued for.  The code currently takes option 2 as
  a/ this requires least code change
  b/ this results in a minimally-degraded array in minimal time.

Cc: "Eivind Sarto" <ivan@kasenna.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:10 -07:00
Bernd Schubert 90b08710e4 md: allow parallel resync of md-devices.
In some configurations, a raid6 resync can be limited by CPU speed
(Calculating P and Q and moving data) rather than by device speed.  In
these cases there is nothing to be gained byt serialising resync of arrays
that share a device, and doing the resync in parallel can provide benefit.
 So add a sysfs tunable to flag an array as being allowed to resync in
parallel with other arrays that use (a different part of) the same device.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:10 -07:00
Dan Williams 4f54b0e948 md: notify userspace on 'stop' events
This additional notification to 'array_state' is needed to allow the
monitor application to learn about stop events via sysfs.  The
sysfs_notify("sync_action") call that comes at the end of do_md_stop()
(via md_new_event) is insufficient since the 'sync_action' attribute has
been removed by this point.

(Seems like a sysfs-notify-on-removal patch is a better fix.  Currently
removal updates the event count but does not wake up waiters)

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:10 -07:00
NeilBrown 09a44cc150 md: notify userspace on 'write-pending' changes to array_state
When an array enters write pending, 'array_state' changes, so we must be
sure to sysfs_notify.

Also, when waiting for user-space to acknowledge 'write-pending' by
marking the metadata as dirty, we don't want to wait for MD_CHANGE_DEVS to
be cleared as that might not happen.  So explicity test for the bits that
we are really interested in.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:10 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 6bcfd60186 md: kill file_path wrapper
Kill the trivial and rather pointless file_path wrapper around d_path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:09 -07:00
Dan Williams 6bfe0b4990 md: support blocking writes to an array on device failure
Allows a userspace metadata handler to take action upon detecting a device
failure.

Based on an original patch by Neil Brown.

Changes:
-added blocked_wait waitqueue to rdev
-don't qualify Blocked with Faulty always let userspace block writes
-added md_wait_for_blocked_rdev to wait for the block device to be clear, if
 userspace misses the notification another one is sent every 5 seconds
-set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED after clearing "blocked"
-kill DoBlock flag, just test mddev->external

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:33 -07:00
Dan Williams 11e2ede022 md: prevent duplicates in bind_rdev_to_array
Found when trying to reassemble an active externally managed array.  Without
this check we hit the more noisy "sysfs duplicate" warning in the later call
to kobject_add.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:33 -07:00
Dan Williams 242b363e22 md: remove a stray command from a copy and paste error in resync_start_store
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:33 -07:00
NeilBrown 648b629ed4 md: fix up switching md arrays between read-only and read-write
When setting an array to 'readonly' or to 'active' via sysfs, we must make the
appropriate set_disk_ro call too.

Also when switching to "read_auto" (which is like readonly, but blocks on the
first write so that metadata can be marked 'dirty') we need to be more careful
about what state we are changing from.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:32 -07:00
NeilBrown 31a59e3425 md: fix 'safemode' handling for external metadata.
'safemode' relates to marking an array as 'clean' if there has been no write
traffic for a while (a couple of seconds), to reduce the chance of the array
being found dirty on reboot.

->safemode is set to '1' when there have been no write for a while, and it
gets set to '0' when the superblock is updates with the 'clean' flag set.

This requires a few fixes for 'external' metadata:
 - When an array is set to 'clean' via sysfs, 'safemode' must be cleared.
 - when we write to an array that has 'safemode' set (there must have been
        some delay in updating the metadata), we need to clear safemode.
 - Don't try to update external metadata in md_check_recovery for safemode
        transitions - it won't work.

Also, don't try to support "immediate safe mode" (safemode==2) for external
metadata, it cannot really work (the safemode timeout can be set very low if
this is really needed).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:32 -07:00