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NeilBrown f699bf2328 md:Documentation/md.txt - fix typo
Reported-by: CoolCold <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-06-09 11:43:04 +10:00
CoolCold 28a8397852 md: Update documentation for sync_min and sync_max entries
linux/Documentation/md.txt is missing description for sync_min and
sync_max entries.
This patch adds description for sync_min and sync_max entries.

Signed-off-by: Roman Ovchinnikov <coolthecold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-20 15:40:01 +10:00
Justin P. Mattock 0ea6e61122 Documentation: update broken web addresses.
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
Francis Galiegue a33f32244d Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.

Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
Dan Williams 06e3c817b7 md: add 'recovery_start' per-device sysfs attribute
Enable external metadata arrays to manage rebuild checkpointing via a
md/dev-XXX/recovery_start attribute which reflects rdev->recovery_offset

Also update resync_start_store to allow 'none' to be written, for
consistency.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:58:57 +11:00
NeilBrown ece5cff0da md: Support write-intent bitmaps with externally managed metadata.
In this case, the metadata needs to not be in the same
sector as the bitmap.
md will not read/write any bitmap metadata.  Config must be
done via sysfs and when a recovery makes the array non-degraded
again, writing 'true' to 'bitmap/can_clear' will allow bits in
the bitmap to be cleared again.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:41 +11:00
NeilBrown 43a705076e md: support updating bitmap parameters via sysfs.
A new attribute directory 'bitmap' in 'md' is created which
contains files for configuring the bitmap.
'location' identifies where the bitmap is, either 'none',
or 'file' or 'sector offset from metadata'.
Writing 'location' can create or remove a bitmap.
Adding a 'file' bitmap this way is not yet supported.
'chunksize' and 'time_base' must be set before 'location'
can be set.

'chunksize' can be set before creating a bitmap, but is
currently always over-ridden by the bitmap superblock.

'time_base' and 'backlog' can be updated at any time.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
2009-12-14 12:51:41 +11:00
NeilBrown 1137354234 Documentation/md.txt update
Update md.txt to reflect recent changes in a number of sysfs
attributes.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:18:37 +11:00
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
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
Dan Williams 8b3e6cdc53 md: introduce get_priority_stripe() to improve raid456 write performance
Improve write performance by preventing the delayed_list from dumping all its
stripes onto the handle_list in one shot.  Delayed stripes are now further
delayed by being held on the 'hold_list'.  The 'hold_list' is bypassed when:

  * a STRIPE_IO_STARTED stripe is found at the head of 'handle_list'
  * 'handle_list' is empty and i/o is being done to satisfy full stripe-width
    write requests
  * 'bypass_count' is less than 'bypass_threshold'.  By default the threshold
    is 1, i.e. every other stripe handled is a preread stripe provided the
    top two conditions are false.

Benchmark data:
System: 2x Xeon 5150, 4x SATA, mem=1GB
Baseline: 2.6.24-rc7
Configuration: mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-e] -n 4 -l 5 --assume-clean
Test1: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024k count=2048
  * patched:  +33% (stripe_cache_size = 256), +25% (stripe_cache_size = 512)

Test2: tiobench --size 2048 --numruns 5 --block 4096 --block 131072 (XFS)
  * patched: +13%
  * patched + preread_bypass_threshold = 0: +37%

Changes since v1:
* reduce bypass_threshold from (chunk_size / sectors_per_chunk) to (1) and
  make it configurable.  This defaults to fairness and modest performance
  gains out of the box.
Changes since v2:
* [neilb@suse.de]: kill STRIPE_PRIO_HI and preread_needed as they are not
  necessary, the important change was clearing STRIPE_DELAYED in
  add_stripe_bio and this has been moved out to make_request for the hang
  fix.
* [neilb@suse.de]: simplify get_priority_stripe
* [dan.j.williams@intel.com]: reset the bypass_count when ->hold_list is
  sampled empty (+11%)
* [dan.j.williams@intel.com]: decrement the bypass_count at the detection
  of stripes being naturally promoted off of hold_list +2%.  Note, resetting
  bypass_count instead of decrementing on these events yields +4% but that is
  probably too aggressive.
Changes since v3:
* cosmetic fixups

Tested-by: James W. Laferriere <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
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>
2008-04-28 08:58:42 -07:00
NeilBrown c620727779 md: allow a maximum extent to be set for resyncing
This allows userspace to control resync/reshape progress and synchronise it
with other activities, such as shared access in a SAN, or backing up critical
sections during a tricky reshape.

Writing a number of sectors (which must be a multiple of the chunk size if
such is meaningful) causes a resync to pause when it gets to that point.

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>
2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
NeilBrown 08a02ecd28 md: allow reshape_position for md arrays to be set via sysfs
"reshape_position" records how much progress has been made on a "reshape"
(adding drives, changing layout or chunksize).

When it is set, the number of drives, layout and chunksize can have
two possible values, an old an a new.

So allow these different values to be visible, and allow both old and new to
be set: Set the old ones first, then the reshape_position, then the new
values.

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>
2007-05-09 12:30:57 -07:00
Matt LaPlante d6bc8ac9e1 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 992caacf11 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
Matt LaPlante fff9289b21 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
Matt LaPlante 3f6dee9b2a Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:45:33 +02:00
NeilBrown d33a56d363 [PATCH] md: fix duplicity of levels in md.txt
md.txt has two sections describing the 'level' sysfs attribute, and some of
the text is out-of-date.  So make just one section, and make it right.

Cc: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:18 -07:00
Paul Clements 9b1d1dac18 [PATCH] md: new sysfs interface for setting bits in the write-intent-bitmap
Add a new sysfs interface that allows the bitmap of an array to be dirtied.
The interface is write-only, and is used as follows:

echo "1000" > /sys/block/md2/md/bitmap

(dirty the bit for chunk 1000 [offset 0] in the in-memory and on-disk
bitmaps of array md2)

echo "1000-2000" > /sys/block/md1/md/bitmap

(dirty the bits for chunks 1000-2000 in md1's bitmap)

This is useful, for example, in cluster environments where you may need to
combine two disjoint bitmaps into one (following a server failure, after a
secondary server has taken over the array).  By combining the bitmaps on
the two servers, a full resync can be avoided (This was discussed on the
list back on March 18, 2005, "[PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes" thread).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:17 -07:00
NeilBrown f655675b3f [PATCH] md: Allow the write_mostly flag to be set via sysfs
It appears in /sys/mdX/md/dev-YYY/state
and can be set or cleared by writing 'writemostly' or '-writemostly'
respectively.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:40 -07:00
NeilBrown a94213b1fa [PATCH] md: Allow resync_start to be set and queried via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:40 -07:00
NeilBrown d4dbd0250e [PATCH] md: Allow raid 'layout' to be read and set via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:39 -07:00
NeilBrown 45dc2de1e5 [PATCH] md: Allow rdev state to be set via sysfs
The md/dev-XXX/state file can now be written:

 "faulty" simulates an error on the device
 "remove" removes the device from the array (if it is not busy)

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:39 -07:00
NeilBrown 9e653b6342 [PATCH] md: Set/get state of array via sysfs
This allows the state of an md/array to be directly controlled via sysfs and
adds the ability to stop and array without tearing it down.

Array states/settings:

 clear
     No devices, no size, no level
     Equivalent to STOP_ARRAY ioctl
 inactive
     May have some settings, but array is not active
        all IO results in error
     When written, doesn't tear down array, but just stops it
 suspended (not supported yet)
     All IO requests will block. The array can be reconfigured.
     Writing this, if accepted, will block until array is quiescent
 readonly
     no resync can happen.  no superblocks get written.
     write requests fail
 read-auto
     like readonly, but behaves like 'clean' on a write request.

 clean - no pending writes, but otherwise active.
     When written to inactive array, starts without resync
     If a write request arrives then
       if metadata is known, mark 'dirty' and switch to 'active'.
       if not known, block and switch to write-pending
     If written to an active array that has pending writes, then fails.
 active
     fully active: IO and resync can be happening.
     When written to inactive array, starts with resync

 write-pending (not supported yet)
     clean, but writes are blocked waiting for 'active' to be written.

 active-idle
     like active, but no writes have been seen for a while (100msec).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:39 -07:00
NeilBrown 16f17b39f3 [PATCH] md: increase the delay before marking metadata clean, and make it configurable
When a md array has been idle (no writes) for 20msecs it is marked as 'clean'.
 This delay turns out to be too short for some real workloads.  So increase it
to 200msec (the time to update the metadata should be a tiny fraction of that)
and make it sysfs-configurable.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:37 -07:00
NeilBrown 88202a0c84 [PATCH] md: allow sync-speed to be controlled per-device
Also export current (average) speed and status in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
NeilBrown 6d7ff7380b [PATCH] md: support adding new devices to md arrays via sysfs
Writing major:minor to md/new_dev will bind that device to the array.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
NeilBrown 83303b613d [PATCH] md: allow available size of component devices to be set via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:10 -08:00
NeilBrown 93c8cad03f [PATCH] md: export rdev->data_offset via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 014236d2b8 [PATCH] md: expose device slot information via sysfs
This the role that a device has in an array can be viewed and set.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown da943b9912 [PATCH] md: allow md/raid_disks to be settable
If array is active, try to reshape, else just set the value.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 4dbcdc751c [PATCH] md: count corrected read errors per drive
Store this total in superblock (As appropriate), and make it available to
userspace via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown d9d166c2a9 [PATCH] md: allow array level to be set textually via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:09 -08:00
NeilBrown 8bb93aaca2 [PATCH] md: expose md metadata format in sysfs
Allow it to be set to a particular version, or 'none'.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown a35b0d695d [PATCH] md: allow md array component size to be accessed and set via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown 3b34380ae8 [PATCH] md: allow chunk_size to be settable through sysfs
... only before array is started of course.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:08 -08:00
NeilBrown 6ff8d8ec06 [PATCH] md: allow dirty raid[456] arrays to be started at boot
See patch to md.txt for more details

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:02 -08:00
NeilBrown bb636547b0 [PATCH] md: document sysfs usage of md, and make a couple of small refinements
Document in Documentation/md.txt the files that now appear in sysfs, and make
a couple of small refinements to exactly when 'level' and 'raid_disks' are
empty, to make it match the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:56:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00