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Linus Torvalds 1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 6d4561110a sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler.  Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-18 08:37:40 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman bb9074ff58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7'
Resolve the conflict between v2.6.32-rc7 where dn_def_dev_handler
gets a small bug fix and the sysctl tree where I am removing all
sysctl strategy routines.
2009-11-17 01:01:34 -08:00
NeilBrown 0261cd9f1c md: allow v0.91 metadata to record devices as being active but not in-sync.
This is a combination that didn't really make sense before.
However when a reshape is converting e.g. raid5 -> raid6, the extra
device is not fully in-sync, but is certainly active and contains
important data.
So allow that start to be meaningful and in particular get
the 'recovery_offset' value (which is needed for any non-in-sync
active device) from the reshape_position.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-11-13 17:40:48 +11:00
Eric W. Biederman 894d249115 sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
Now that sys_sysctl is a wrapper around /proc/sys all of
the binary sysctl support elsewhere in the tree is
dead code.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> for drivers/char/hpet.c
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:04:58 -08:00
NeilBrown 5e8651060c md: factor out updating of 'recovery_offset'.
Each device has its own 'recovery_offset' showing how far
recovery has progressed on the device.
As the only real significance of this is that fact that it can
be stored in the metadata and recovered at restart, and as
only 1.x metadata can do this, we were only updating
'recovery_offset' to 'curr_resync_completed' when updating
v1.x metadata.
But this is wrong, and we will shortly make limited use of this
field in v0.90 metadata.

So move the update into common code.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-11-12 12:08:04 +11:00
NeilBrown 24395a85d8 md: don't clear endpoint for resync when resync is interrupted.
If a 'sync_max' has been set (via sysfs), it is wrong to clear it
until a resync (or reshape or recovery ...) actually reached that
point.
So if a resync is interrupted (e.g. by device failure),
leave 'resync_max' unchanged.

This is particularly important for 'reshape' operations that do not
change the size of the array.  For such operations mdadm needs to
monitor the reshape taking rolling backups of the section being
reshaped.  If resync_max gets cleared, the reshape can get ahead of
mdadm and then the backups that mdadm creates are useless.

This is suitable for 2.6.31.y stable kernels.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-11-06 14:59:27 +11:00
NeilBrown 5e5e3e78ed md: Fix handling of raid5 array which is being reshaped to fewer devices.
When a raid5 (or raid6) array is being reshaped to have fewer devices,
conf->raid_disks is the latter and hence smaller number of devices.
However sometimes we want to use a number which is the total number of
currently required devices - the larger of the 'old' and 'new' sizes.
Before we implemented reducing the number of devices, this was always
'new' i.e. ->raid_disks.
Now we need max(raid_disks, previous_raid_disks) in those places.

This particularly affects assembling an array that was shutdown while
in the middle of a reshape to fewer devices.

md.c needs a similar fix when interpreting the md metadata.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-10-16 16:35:30 +11:00
NeilBrown 3fa841d7e7 md: report device as congested when suspended
This should writeback from coming when the device is temporarily
suspended.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-09-23 18:10:29 +10:00
NeilBrown 0da3c6194e md: Improve name of threads created by md_register_thread
The management thread for raid4,5,6 arrays are all called
mdX_raid5, independent of the actual raid level, which is wrong and
can be confusion.

So change md_register_thread to use the name from the personality
unless no alternate name (like 'resync' or 'reshape') is given.

This is simpler and more correct.

Cc: Jinzc <zhenchengjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-09-23 18:09:45 +10:00
NeilBrown a9f326ebf2 md: remove sparse waring "symbol xxx shadows an earlier one"
Rename some variable and remove some duplicate definitions
to avoid there warnings.  None of them are actual errors.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-09-23 18:06:41 +10:00
Alexey Dobriyan 83d5cde47d const: make block_device_operations const
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
NeilBrown 80ffb3ccea Fix new incorrect error return from do_md_stop.
Recent commit c8c00a6915
changed the exit paths in do_md_stop and was not quite
careful enough.  There is one path were 'err' now needs
to be cleared but it isn't.
So setting an array to readonly (with mdadm --readonly) will
work, but will incorrectly report and error: ENXIO.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-18 10:35:26 +10:00
NeilBrown 4d484a4a7a md: allow upper limit for resync/reshape to be set when array is read-only
Normally we only allow the upper limit for a reshape to be decreased
when the array not performing a sync/recovery/reshape, otherwise there
could be races.  But if an array is part-way through a reshape when it
is assembled the reshape is started immediately leaving no window
to set an upper bound.

If the array is started read-only, the reshape will be suspended until
the array becomes writable, so that provides a window during which it
is perfectly safe to reduce the upper limit of a reshape.

So: allow the upper limit (sync_max) to be reduced even if the reshape
thread is running, as long as the array is still read-only.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-13 10:41:50 +10:00
NeilBrown 51d5668cb2 md: never advance 'events' counter by more than 1.
When assembling arrays, md allows two devices to have different event
counts as long as the difference is only '1'.  This is to cope with
a system failure between updating the metadata on two difference
devices.

However there are currently times when we update the event count by
2.  This was done to keep the event count even when the array is clean
and odd when it is dirty, which allows us to avoid writing common
update to spare devices and so allow those spares to go to sleep.

This is bad for the above reason.  So change it to never increase by
two.  This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain, but that is only a
small cost.  The spares will get a few more updates but that will
still be spared (;-) most updates and can still go to sleep.

Prior to this patch there was a small chance that after a crash an
array would fail to assemble due to the overly large event count
mismatch.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-13 09:54:02 +10:00
NeilBrown c8c00a6915 Remove deadlock potential in md_open
A recent commit:
  commit 449aad3e25

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 d63a5a74de
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>
2009-08-10 12:50:52 +10:00
NeilBrown 449aad3e25 md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size of device.
As revalidate_disk calls check_disk_size_change, it will cause
any capacity change of a gendisk to be propagated to the blockdev
inode.  So use that instead of mucking about with locks and
i_size_write.

Also add a call to revalidate_disk in do_md_run and a few other places
where the gendisk capacity is changed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-03 10:59:58 +10:00
NeilBrown 70471dafe3 md: Handle growth of v1.x metadata correctly.
The v1.x metadata does not have a fixed size and can grow
when devices are added.
If it grows enough to require an extra sector of storage,
we need to update the 'sb_size' to match.

Without this, md can write out an incomplete superblock with a
bad checksum, which will be rejected when trying to re-assemble
the array.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-03 10:59:57 +10:00
NeilBrown 3673f305fa md: avoid array overflow with bad v1.x metadata
We trust the 'desc_nr' field in v1.x metadata enough to use it
as an index in an array.  This isn't really safe.
So range-check the value first.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-03 10:59:56 +10:00
NeilBrown 3a981b03f3 md: when a level change reduces the number of devices, remove the excess.
When an array is changed from RAID6 to RAID5, fewer drives are
needed.  So any device that is made superfluous by the level
conversion must be marked as not-active.
For the RAID6->RAID5 conversion, this will be a drive which only
has 'Q' blocks on it.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-08-03 10:59:55 +10:00
Andre Noll ac5e7113e7 md: Push down data integrity code to personalities.
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>
2009-08-03 10:59:47 +10:00
Joe Perches ad361c9884 Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats
Commit 5fd29d6ccb ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics.  printk
lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.

<level> is now included in the output on each additional use.

Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
NeilBrown e62e58a5ff md: use interruptible wait when duration is controlled by userspace.
User space can set various limits on an md array so that resync waits
when it gets to a certain point, or so that I/O is blocked for a short
while.
When md is waiting against one of these limit, it should use an
interruptible wait so as not to add to the load average, and so are
not to trigger a warning if the wait goes on for too long.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-07-01 13:15:35 +10:00
NeilBrown 0909dc448c md: tidy up error paths in md_alloc
As the recent bug in md_alloc showed, having a single exit path for
unlocking and putting is a good idea.  So restructure md_alloc to have
a single mutex_unlock and mddev_put, and use gotos where necessary.

Found-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-07-01 12:27:21 +10:00
NeilBrown 1ec22eb2b4 md: fix error path when duplicate name is found on md device creation.
When an md device is created by name (rather than number) we need to
check that the name is not already in use.  If this check finds a
duplicate, we return an error without dropping the lock or freeing
the newly create mddev.
This patch fixes that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Found-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-07-01 12:27:21 +10:00
NeilBrown b8d966efd9 md: avoid dereferencing NULL pointer when accessing suspend_* sysfs attributes.
If we try to modify one of the md/ sysfs files
  suspend_lo or suspend_hi
when the array is not active, we dereference a NULL.
Protect against that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-07-01 11:14:04 +10:00
Andre Noll 0894cc3066 md: Move check for bitmap presence to personality code.
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>
2009-06-18 08:49:23 +10:00
NeilBrown 8190e754e0 md: remove chunksize rounding from common code.
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>
2009-06-18 08:48:58 +10:00
NeilBrown 1b57f13223 md: move assignment of ->utime so that it never gets skipped.
Currently the assignment to utime gets skipped for 'external'
metadata.  So move it to the top of the function so that it
always gets effected.
This is of largely cosmetic interest.  Nothing actually depends
on ->utime being right for external arrays.
"mdadm --monitor" does use it for 0.90 and 1.x arrays, but with
mdadm-3.0, this is not important for external metadata.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-18 08:48:19 +10:00
Andre Noll 8c6ac868b1 md: Push down reconstruction log message to personality code.
Currently, the md layer checks in analyze_sbs() if the raid level
supports reconstruction (mddev->level >= 1) and if reconstruction is
in progress (mddev->recovery_cp != MaxSector).

Move that printk into the personality code of those raid levels that
care (levels 1, 4, 5, 6, 10).

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-18 08:48:06 +10:00
NeilBrown 50ac168a6e md: merge reconfig and check_reshape methods.
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>
2009-06-18 08:47:55 +10:00
NeilBrown 597a711b69 md: remove unnecessary arguments from ->reconfig method.
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>
2009-06-18 08:47:42 +10:00
Andre Noll 664e7c413f md: Convert mddev->new_chunk to sectors.
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>
2009-06-18 08:45:27 +10:00
Andre Noll 9d8f036362 md: Make mddev->chunk_size sector-based.
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>
2009-06-18 08:45:01 +10:00
raz ben yehuda 2ac06c3332 md: prepare for non-power-of-two chunk sizes
Remove chunk size check from md as this is now performed in the run
function in each personality.

Replace chunk size power 2 code calculations by a regular division.

Signed-off-by: raziebe@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-06-16 17:01:42 +10:00
Linus Torvalds c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
NeilBrown b492b852cd md: don't use locked_ioctl.
md has no need for the BKL - it does its own locking.
So md_ioctl doesn't need to be a locked_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-26 12:57:36 +10:00
NeilBrown 7a91ee1f62 md: don't update curr_resync_completed without also updating reshape_position.
In order for the metadata to always be consistent, we mustn't updated
curr_resync_completed without also updating reshape_position.

The reshape code updates both at the same time.  However since
commit 97e4f42d62
the common md_do_sync will sometimes update curr_resync_completed
but is not in a position to update reshape_position.
So if MD_RECOVERY_RESHAPE is set (indicating that a reshape is
happening, so reshape_position might change), don't update
curr_resync_completed in md_do_sync, leave it to the per-personality
reshape code.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-26 12:57:21 +10:00
NeilBrown b6a9ce688f md: export 'frozen' resync state through sysfs
The md resync engine has a 'frozen' state which ensures that
no resync/recovery.  This is used to avoid races.

Export this state through the 'sync_action' sysfs attribute
so that user-space can benefit and also avoid some races.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-26 09:41:17 +10:00
NeilBrown 2b69c83924 md: improve errno return when setting array_size
Instead of always returns EINVAL if anything goes wrong
when setting the array size, add the option of
  E2BIG
if the size requested is too large.  This makes it easier
for user-space to be sure what went wrong.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-26 09:41:17 +10:00
NeilBrown 62e1e389f8 md: always update level / chunk_size / layout when writing v1.x metadata.
We previously didn't update these fields when writing the metadata
because they could never change.  They can now, so we better write
them.
v0.90 metadata always updated these fields.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-26 09:40:59 +10:00
Martin K. Petersen e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
NeilBrown c4647292fd md: remove rd%d links immediately after stopping an array.
md maintains link in sys/mdXX/md/ to identify which device has
which role in the array. e.g.
   rd2 -> dev-sda

indicates that the device with role '2' in the array is sda.

These links are only present when the array is active.  They are
created immediately after ->run is called, and so should be removed
immediately after ->stop is called.
However they are currently removed a little bit later, and it is
possible for ->run to be called again, thus adding these links, before
they are removed.

So move the removal earlier so they are consistently only present when
the array is active.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-07 12:51:06 +10:00
NeilBrown 5bf2959754 md: remove ability to explicit set an inactive array to 'clean'.
Being able to write 'clean' to an 'array_state' of an inactive array
to activate it in 'clean' mode is both unnecessary and inconvenient.

It is unnecessary because the same can be achieved by writing
'active'.  This activates and array, but it still remains 'clean'
until the first write.

It is inconvenient because writing 'clean' is more often used to
cause an 'active' array to revert to 'clean' mode (thus blocking
any writes until a 'write-pending' is promoted to 'active').

Allowing 'clean' to both activate an array and mark an active array as
clean can lead to races:  One program writes 'clean' to mark the
active array as clean at the same time as another program writes
'inactive' to deactivate (stop) and active array.  Depending on which
writes first, the array could be deactivated and immediately
reactivated which isn't what was desired.

So just disable the use of 'clean' to activate an array.

This avoids a race that can be triggered with mdadm-3.0 and external
metadata, so it suitable for -stable.

Reported-by: Rafal Marszewski <rafal.marszewski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-07 12:50:57 +10:00
Jan Engelhardt 110518bccf md: constify VFTs
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-07 12:49:37 +10:00
NeilBrown dd71cf6b27 md: tidy up status_resync to handle large arrays.
Two problems in status_resync.
1/ It still used Kilobytes as the basic block unit, while most code
   now uses sectors uniformly.
2/ It doesn't allow for the possibility that max_sectors exceeds
   the range of "unsigned long".

So
 - change "max_blocks" to "max_sectors", and store sector numbers
   in there and in 'resync'
 - Make 'rt' a 'sector_t' so it can temporarily hold the number of
   remaining sectors.
 - use sector_div rather than normal division.
 - change the magic '100' used to preserve precision to '32'.
   + making it a power of 2 makes division easier
   + it doesn't need to be as large as it was chosen when we averaged
     speed over the entire run.  Now we average speed over the last 30
     seconds or so.

Reported-by: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-05-07 12:49:35 +10:00
NeilBrown c03f6a1969 md: update sync_completed and reshape_position even more often.
There are circumstances when a user-space process might need to
"oversee" a resync/reshape process.  For example when doing an
in-place reshape of a raid5, it is prudent to take a backup of each
section before reshaping it as this is the only way to provide
safety against an unplanned shutdown (i.e. crash/power failure).

The sync_max sysfs value can be used to stop the resync from
advancing beyond a particular point.
So user-space can:
  suspend IO to the first section and back it up
  set 'sync_max' to the end of the section
  wait for 'sync_completed' to reach that point
  resume IO on the first section and move on to the next section.

However this process requires the kernel and user-space to run in
lock-step which could introduce unnecessary delays.

It would be better if a 'double buffered' approach could be used with
userspace and kernel space working on different sections with the
'next' section always ready when the 'current' section is finished.

One problem with implementing this is that sync_completed is only
guaranteed to be updated when the sync process reaches sync_max.
(it is updated on a time basis at other times, but it is hard to rely
on that).  This defeats some of the double buffering.

With this patch, sync_completed (and reshape_position) get updated as
the current position approaches sync_max, so there is room for
userspace to advance sync_max early without losing updates.

To be precise, sync_completed is updated when the current sync
position reaches half way between the current value of sync_completed
and the value of sync_max.  This will usually be a good time for user
space to update sync_max.

If sync_max does not get updated, the updates to sync_completed
(together with associated metadata updates) will occur at an
exponentially increasing frequency which will get unreasonably fast
(one update every page) immediately before the process hits sync_max
and stops.  So the update rate will be unreasonably fast only for an
insignificant period of time.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-04-17 11:06:30 +10:00
NeilBrown acb180b0e3 md: improve usefulness and accuracy of sysfs file md/sync_completed.
The sync_completed file reports how much of a resync (or recovery or
reshape) has been completed.
However due to the possibility of out-of-order completion of writes,
it is not certain to be accurate.

We have an internal value - mddev->curr_resync_completed - which is an
accurate value (though it might not always be quite so uptodate).

So:
 - make curr_resync_completed be uptodate a little more often,
   particularly when raid5 reshape updates status in the metadata
 - report curr_resync_completed in the sysfs file
 - allow poll/select to report all updates to md/sync_completed.

This makes sync_completed completed usable by any external metadata
handler that wants to record this status information in its metadata.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-04-14 16:28:34 +10:00
NeilBrown 6d56e27844 md: allow setting newly added device to 'in_sync' via sysfs.
When adding devices to an active array via sysfs, there is currently
no way to mark a device as 'in-sync' which is useful when
incrementally assembling an array.

So add that option.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-04-14 12:01:57 +10:00
Linus Torvalds 223cdea4c4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (53 commits)
  md/raid5 revise rules for when to update metadata during reshape
  md/raid5: minor code cleanups in make_request.
  md: remove CONFIG_MD_RAID_RESHAPE config option.
  md/raid5: be more careful about write ordering when reshaping.
  md: don't display meaningless values in sysfs files resync_start and sync_speed
  md/raid5: allow layout and chunksize to be changed on active array.
  md/raid5: reshape using largest of old and new chunk size
  md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change layout
  md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change chunksize.
  md/raid5: clearly differentiate 'before' and 'after' stripes during reshape.
  Documentation/md.txt update
  md: allow number of drives in raid5 to be reduced
  md/raid5: change reshape-progress measurement to cope with reshaping backwards.
  md: add explicit method to signal the end of a reshape.
  md/raid5: enhance raid5_size to work correctly with negative delta_disks
  md/raid5: drop qd_idx from r6_state
  md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko
  md: raid5 run(): Fix max_degraded for raid level 4.
  md: 'array_size' sysfs attribute
  md: centralize ->array_sectors modifications
  ...
2009-04-03 09:08:19 -07:00