The 'add_new_disk' ioctl can be used to add a device either as a
spare, or as an active disk that just needs to be resynced based on
write-intent-bitmap information (re-add)
Currently if a re-add is requested but fails we add as a spare
instead. This makes it impossible for user-space to check for
failure.
So change to require that a re-add attempt will either succeed or
completely fail. User-space can then decide what to do next.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There is a race when creating an md device by opening /dev/mdXX.
If two processes do this at much the same time they will follow the
call path
__blkdev_get -> get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup
The first will call
-> md_probe -> md_alloc -> add_disk -> blk_register_region
and the race happens when the second gets to kobj_lookup after
add_disk has called blk_register_region but before it returns to
md_alloc.
In the case the second will not call md_probe (as the probe is already
done) but will get a handle on the gendisk, return to __blkdev_get
which will then call md_open (via the ->open) pointer.
As mddev->gendisk hasn't been set yet, md_open will think something is
wrong an return with ERESTARTSYS.
This can loop endlessly while the first thread makes no progress
through add_disk. Nothing is blocking it, but due to scheduler
behaviour it doesn't get a turn.
So this is essentially a live-lock.
We fix this by simply moving the assignment to mddev->gendisk before
the call the add_disk() so md_open doesn't get confused.
Also move blk_queue_flush earlier because add_disk should be as late
as possible.
To make sure that md_open doesn't complete until md_alloc has done all
that is needed, we take mddev->open_mutex during the last part of
md_alloc. md_open will wait for this.
This can cause a lock-up on boot so Cc:ing for stable.
For 2.6.36 and earlier a different patch will be needed as the
'blk_queue_flush' call isn't there.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Tested-by: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Problem:
After raid4->raid0 takeover operation, another takeover operation
(e.g raid0->raid10) results "kernel oops".
Root cause:
Variables 'degraded' in mddev structure is not cleared
on raid45->raid0 takeover.
This patch reset this variable.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When an md device adds a request to a queue, it can call
mddev_check_plugged.
If this succeeds then we know that the md thread will be woken up
shortly, and ->plug_cnt will be non-zero until then, so some
processing can be delayed.
If it fails, then no unplug callback is expected and the make_request
function needs to do whatever is required to make the request happen.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the
normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when
called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available.
This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more.
So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5. Subsequent patches
with restore the plugging functionality.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We incorrectly returned -EINVAL when none of the devices in the array
had an integrity profile. This in turn prevented mdadm from starting
the metadevice. Fix this so we only return errors on mismatched
profiles and memory allocation failures.
Reported-by: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an
integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is
capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory.
Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at
metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not.
Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from
bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the
fs_bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snizer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Revert
b821eaa572
and
f3b99be19d
When I wrote the first of these I had a wrong idea about the
lifetime of 'struct block_device'. It can disappear at any time that
the block device is not open if it falls out of the inode cache.
So relying on the 'size' recorded with it to detect when the
device size has changed and so we need to revalidate, is wrong.
Rather, we really do need the 'changed' attribute stored directly in
the mddev and set/tested as appropriate.
Without this patch, a sequence of:
mknod / open / close / unlink
(which can cause a block_device to be created and then destroyed)
will result in a rescan of the partition table and consequence removal
and addition of partitions.
Several of these in a row can get udev racing to create and unlink and
other code can get confused.
With the patch, the rescan is only performed when needed and so there
are no races.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.35.
Reported-by: "Wojcik, Krzysztof" <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
'mdp' devices are md devices with preallocated device numbers
for partitions. As such it is possible to mknod and open a partition
before opening the whole device.
this causes md_probe() to be called with a device number of a
partition, which in-turn calls mddev_find with such a number.
However mddev_find expects the number of a 'whole device' and
does the wrong thing with partition numbers.
So add code to mddev_find to remove the 'partition' part of
a device number and just work with the 'whole device'.
This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28652
Reported-by: hkmaly@bigfoot.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
If the desired size of an array is set (via sysfs) before the array is
active (which is the normal sequence), we currrently call set_capacity
immediately.
This means that a subsequent 'open' (as can be caused by some
udev-triggers program) will notice the new size and try to probe for
partitions. However as the array isn't quite ready yet the read will
fail. Then when the array is read, as the size doesn't change again
we don't try to re-probe.
So when setting array size via sysfs, only call set_capacity if the
array is already active.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md_make_request was calling bio_sectors() for part_stat_add
after it was calling the make_request function. This is
bad because the make_request function can free the bio and
because the bi_size field can change around.
The fix here was suggested by Jens Axboe. It saves the
sector count before the make_request call. I hit this
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on while trying to break
his pretty fusionio card.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Activating a spare in an array while resync/recovery is already
happening can lead the that spare being marked in-sync when it isn't
really.
So don't allow the 'slot' to be set (this activating the device)
while resync/recovery is happening.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There is no need to set this to zero at this point. It will be
set to zero by remove_and_add_spares or at the start of
md_do_sync at the latest.
And setting it to zero before MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING is cleared can
make a 'zero' appear briefly in the 'sync_completed' sysfs attribute
just as resync is finishing.
So simply remove this setting to zero.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
remove_and_add_spares is called in two places where the needs really
are very different.
remove_and_add_spares should not be called on an array which is about
to be reshaped as some extra devices might have been manually added
and that would remove them. However if the array is 'read-auto',
that will currently happen, which is bad.
So in the 'ro != 0' case don't call remove_and_add_spares but simply
remove the failed devices as the comment suggests is needed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This flag is not needed and is used badly.
Devices that are included in a native-metadata array are reserved
exclusively for that array - and currently have AllReserved set.
They all are bd_claimed for the rdev and so cannot be shared.
Devices that are included in external-metadata arrays can be shared
among multiple arrays - providing there is no overlap.
These are bd_claimed for md in general - not for a particular rdev.
When changing the amount of a device that is used in an array we need
to check for overlap. This currently includes a check on AllReserved
So even without overlap, sharing with an AllReserved device is not
allowed.
However the bd_claim usage already precludes sharing with these
devices, so the test on AllReserved is not needed. And in fact it is
wrong.
As this is the only use of AllReserved, simply remove all usage and
definition of AllReserved.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If we try to update_raid_disks and it fails, we should put
'delta_disks' back to zero. This is important because some code,
such as slot_store, assumes that delta_disks has been validated.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
WQ_RESCUER is now an internal flag and should only be used in the
workqueue implementation proper. Use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead.
This doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit e09b457b (block: simplify holder symlink handling) incorrectly
assumed that there is only one link at maximum. dm may use multiple
links and expects block layer to track reference count for each link,
which is different from and unrelated to the exclusive device holder
identified by @holder when the device is opened.
Remove the single holder assumption and automatic removal of the link
and revive the per-link reference count tracking. The code
essentially behaves the same as before commit e09b457b sans the
unnecessary kobject reference count dancing.
While at it, note that this facility should not be used by anyone else
than the current ones. Sysfs symlinks shouldn't be abused like this
and the whole thing doesn't belong in the block layer at all.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* '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
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 e93f68a1fc 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: NeilBrown <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: NeilBrown <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: Rémi Rérolle <rrerolle@lacie.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <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: NeilBrown <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: NeilBrown <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: NeilBrown <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: Jonathan 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: Jonathan 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: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Jonathan 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: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When an md device is in the process of coming on line it is possible
for an IO request (typically a partition table probe) to get through
before the array is fully initialised, which can cause unexpected
behaviour (e.g. a crash).
So explicitly record when the array is ready for IO and don't allow IO
through until then.
There is no possibility for a similar problem when the array is going
off-line as there must only be one 'open' at that time, and it is busy
off-lining the array and so cannot send IO requests. So no memory
barrier is needed in md_stop()
This has been a bug since commit 409c57f380 in 2.6.30 which
introduced md_make_request. Before then, each personality would
register its own make_request_fn when it was ready.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.30.y onwards.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
commit 589a594be1 (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem were md_thread would
sometimes call the ->run function at a bad time.
If an error is detected during array start up after the md_thread has
been started, the md_thread is killed. This resulted in the ->run
function being called once. However the array may not be in a state
that it is safe to call ->run.
However the fix imposed meant that ->run was not called on a timeout.
This means that when an array goes idle, bitmap bits do not get
cleared promptly. While the array is busy the bits will still be
cleared when appropriate so this is not very serious. There is no
risk to data.
Change the test so that we only avoid calling ->run when the thread
is being stopped. This more explicitly addresses the problem situation.
This is suitable for 2.6.37-stable and any -stable kernel to which
589a594be1 was applied.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
block: trace event block fix unassigned field
block: add internal hd part table references
block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
kref: add kref_test_and_get
bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
sd: implement sd_check_events()
sr: implement sr_check_events()
...
Commit 1a855a0606 (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem where devices were
re-added when they shouldn't be but caused a regression in a less
common case that means sometimes devices cannot be re-added when they
should be.
In particular, when re-adding a device to an array without metadata
we should always access the device, but after the above commit we
didn't.
This patch sets the In_sync flag in that case so that the re-add
succeeds.
This patch is suitable for any -stable kernel to which 1a855a0606 was
applied.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length
When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This
forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be
used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a
metadevice.
There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up
to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had
completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in
sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing
commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver.
The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing.
We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the
block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned
into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking.
Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is
removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster
flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD.
Reported-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When we fail to start a raid10 for some reason, we call
md_unregister_thread to kill the thread that was created.
Unfortunately md_thread() will then make one call into the handler
(raid10d) even though md_wakeup_thread has not been called. This is
not safe and as md_unregister_thread is called after mddev->private
has been set to NULL, it will definitely cause a NULL dereference.
So fix this at both ends:
- md_thread should only call the handler if THREAD_WAKEUP has been
set.
- raid10 should call md_unregister_thread before setting things
to NULL just like all the other raid modules do.
This is applicable to 2.6.35 and later.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: "Citizen" <citizen_lee@thecus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
With v0.90 metadata, a hot-spare does not become a full member of the
array until recovery is complete. So if we re-add such a device to
the array, we know that all of it is as up-to-date as the event count
would suggest, and so it a bitmap-based recovery is possible.
However with v1.x metadata, the hot-spare immediately becomes a full
member of the array, but it record how much of the device has been
recovered. If the array is stopped and re-assembled recovery starts
from this point.
When such a device is hot-added to an array we currently lose the 'how
much is recovered' information and incorrectly included it as a full
in-sync member (after bitmap-based fixup).
This is wrong and unsafe and could corrupt data.
So be more careful about setting saved_raid_disk - which is what
guides the re-adding of devices back into an array.
The new code matches the code in slot_store which does a similar
thing, which is encouraging.
This is suitable for any -stable kernel.
Reported-by: "Dailey, Nate" <Nate.Dailey@stratus.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
As recorded in
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24012
it is possible for a flush request through md to hang. This is due to
an interaction between the recursion avoidance in
generic_make_request, the insistence in md of only having one flush
active at a time, and the possibility of dm (or md) submitting two
flush requests to a device from the one generic_make_request.
If a generic_make_request call into dm causes two flush requests to be
queued (as happens if the dm table has two targets - they get one
each), these two will be queued inside generic_make_request.
Assume they are for the same md device.
The first is processed and causes 1 or more flush requests to be sent
to lower devices. These get queued within generic_make_request too.
Then the second flush to the md device gets handled and it blocks
waiting for the first flush to complete. But it won't complete until
the two lower-device requests complete, and they haven't even been
submitted yet as they are on the generic_make_request queue.
The deadlock can be broken by using a separate thread to submit the
requests to lower devices. md has such a thread readily available:
md_wq.
So use it to submit these requests.
Reported-by: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
Tested-by: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
submit_flushes is called from exactly one place.
Move the code that is before and after that call into
submit_flushes.
This has not functional change, but will make the next patch
smaller and easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
None of the functions called between setting flush_pending to 1, and
atomic_dec_and_test can change flush_pending, or will anything
running in any other thread (as ->flush_bio is not NULL). So the
atomic_dec_and_test will always succeed.
So remove the atomic_sec and the atomic_dec_and_test.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Before 2.6.37, the md layer had a mechanism for catching I/Os with the
barrier flag set, and translating the barrier into barriers for all
the underlying devices. With 2.6.37, I/O barriers have become plain
old flushes, and the md code was updated to reflect this. However,
one piece was left out -- the md layer does not tell the block layer
that it supports flushes or FUA access at all, which results in md
silently dropping flush requests.
Since the support already seems there, just add this one piece of
bookkeeping.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When trying to grow an array by enlarging component devices,
rdev_size_store() expects the return value of rdev_size_change() to be
in sectors, but the actual value is returned in KBs.
This functionality was broken by commit
dd8ac336c1
so this patch is suitable for any kernel since 2.6.30.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
NeilBrown
Krzysztof Wojcik
Lucas De Marchi
Martin K. Petersen
Linus Torvalds
Jens Axboe
Tejun Heo
Chris Mason
Rémi Rérolle
Jonathan Brassow
Darrick J. Wong
Justin Maggard