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2006-10-03[PATCH] md: Factor out part of raid1d into a separate functionNeilBrown
raid1d has toooo many nested block, so take the fix_read_error functionality out into a separate function. 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[PATCH] md: remove unnecessary variable x in stripe_to_pdidx()Coywolf Qi Hunt
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@freeforge.net> 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[PATCH] md: new sysfs interface for setting bits in the write-intent-bitmapPaul Clements
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[PATCH] md: remove 'working_disks' from raid10 stateNeilBrown
It isn't needed as mddev->degraded contains equivalent info. 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[PATCH] md: remove the working_disks and failed_disks from raid5 state data.NeilBrown
They are not needed. conf->failed_disks is the same as mddev->degraded and conf->working_disks is conf->raid_disks - mddev->degraded. 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[PATCH] md: replace magic numbers in sb_dirty with well defined bit flagsNeilBrown
Instead of magic numbers (0,1,2,3) in sb_dirty, we have some flags instead: MD_CHANGE_DEVS Some device state has changed requiring superblock update on all devices. MD_CHANGE_CLEAN The array has transitions from 'clean' to 'dirty' or back, requiring a superblock update on active devices, but possibly not on spares MD_CHANGE_PENDING A superblock update is underway. We wait for an update to complete by waiting for all flags to be clear. A flag can be set at any time, even during an update, without risk that the change will be lost. Stop exporting md_update_sb - isn't needed. 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[PATCH] md: factor out part of raid10d into a separate function.NeilBrown
raid10d has toooo many nested block, so take the fix_read_error functionality out into a separate function. 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[PATCH] md: the scheduled removal of the START_ARRAY ioctl for mdAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the START_ARRAY ioctl for md. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.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[PATCH] dm table: add target flushBryn Reeves
This patch adds support for a per-target dm_flush_fn method. This is needed to allow dm-loop to invalidate page cache mappings in response to BLKFLSBUF ioctl commands. Signed-off-by: Bryn Reeves <breeves@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: extract device limit settingBryn Reeves
Separate the setting of device I/O limits from dm_get_device(). dm-loop will use this. Signed-off-by: Bryn Reeves <breeves@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: use private biosetsStefan Bader
I found a problem within device-mapper that occurs in low-mem situations. It was found using a mirror target but I think in theory it would hit any setup that stacks device-mapper devices (like LVM on top of multipath). Since device-mapper core uses the common fs_bioset in clone_bio(), and a private, but still global, bio_set in split_bvec() it is possible that the filesystem and the first level target successfully get bios but the lower level target doesn't because there is no more memory and the pool was drained by upper layers. So the remapping will be stuck forever. To solve this device-mapper core needs to use a private bio_set for each device. Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm crypt: use private biosetsMilan Broz
In the low memory situation dm-crypt needs to use a private mempool of bios to avoid blocking. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm crypt: move io to workqueueMilan Broz
This patch is designed to help dm-crypt comply with the new constraints imposed by the following patch in -mm: md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch Under low memory the existing implementation relies upon waiting for I/O submitted recursively to generic_make_request() completing before the original generic_make_request() call can return. This patch moves the I/O submission to a workqueue so the original generic_make_request() can return immediately. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm crypt: restructure write processingMilan Broz
Restructure the dm-crypt write processing in preparation for workqueue changes in the next patches. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm crypt: restructure for workqueue changeMilan Broz
Restructure part of the dm-crypt code in preparation for workqueue changes. Use 'base_bio' or 'clone' variable names consistently throughout. No functional changes are included in this patch. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm crypt: add key msgMilan Broz
Add the facility to wipe the encryption key from memory (for example while a laptop is suspended) and reinstate it later (when the laptop gets resumed). Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm table: add target preresumeMilan Broz
This patch adds a target preresume hook. It is called before the targets are resumed and if it returns an error the resume gets cancelled. The crypt target will use this to indicate that it is unable to process I/O because no encryption key has been supplied. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: add debug macroBryn Reeves
Add CONFIG_DM_DEBUG and DMDEBUG() macro. Signed-off-by: Bryn Reeves <breeves@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: add uevent change event on resumeHannes Reinecke
Device-mapper devices are not accessible until a 'resume' ioctl has been issued. For userspace to find out when this happens we need to generate an uevent for udev to take appropriate action. As discussed at OLS we should send 'change' events for 'resume'. We can think of no useful purpose served by also having 'suspend' events. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm mpath: use kzallocMicha³ Miros³aw
Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() + memset(). Signed-off-by: Micha³ Miros³aw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm mpath: tidy ctrMicha³ Miros³aw
After initialising m->ti, there's no need to pass it in subsequent calls to static functions used for parsing parameters. Signed-off-by: Micha³ Miros³aw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm mirror: remove trailing space from tableJonathan Brassow
Remove trailing space from 'dmsetup table' output. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: fix freeing pending exceptionAlasdair G Kergon
If a snapshot became invalid while there are outstanding pending_exceptions, when pending_complete() processes each one it forgets to remove the corresponding exception from its exception table before freeing it. Fix this by moving the 'out:' label up one statement so that remove_exception() is always called. Then __invalidate_exception() no longer needs to call it and its 'pe' argument become superfluous. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: tidy pe ref countingAlasdair G Kergon
Rename sibling_count to ref_count and introduce get and put functions. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: add workqueueAlasdair G Kergon
Add a workqueue so that I/O can be queued up to be flushed from a separate thread (e.g. if local interrupts are disabled). A new per-snapshot spinlock pe_lock is introduced to protect queued_bios. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: tidy pending_completeAlasdair G Kergon
This patch rearranges the pending_complete() code so that the functional changes in subsequent patches are clearer. By consolidating the error and the non-error paths, we can move error_snapshot_bios() and __flush_bios() in line. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: tidy snapshot_mapAlasdair G Kergon
This patch rearranges the snapshot_map code so that the functional changes in subsequent patches are clearer. The only functional change is to replace the existing read lock with a write lock which the next patch needs. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: fix metadata writing when suspendingMark McLoughlin
When suspending a device-mapper device, dm_suspend() sleeps until all necessary I/O is completed. This state is triggered by a callback from persistent_commit(). But some I/O can still be issued *after* the callback (to prepare the next metadata area for use if the current one is full). This patch delays the callback until after that I/O is complete. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: make read and write exception functions voidMark McLoughlin
read_exception() and write_exception() only return an error if supplied with an out-of-range index. If this ever happens it's the result of a bug in the calling code so we handle this with an assertion and remove the error handling in the callers. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: fix metadata error handlingMark McLoughlin
Fix the error handling when store.read_metadata is called: the error should be returned immediately. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: allow zero chunk_sizeMark McLoughlin
The chunk size of snapshots cannot be changed so it is redundant to require it as a parameter when activating an existing snapshot. Allow a value of zero in this case and ignore it. For a new snapshot, use a default value if zero is specified. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm snapshot: fix invalidation ENOMEMMilan Broz
Fix ENOMEM error sign. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: fix alloc_dev error pathIshai Rabinovitz
While reading the code I found a bug in the error path in alloc_dev in dm.c When blk_alloc_queue fails there is no call to free_minor. This patch fixes the problem. Signed-off-by: Ishai Rabinovitz <ishai@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: support ioctls on mapped devices: fix with fake fileMilan Broz
The new ioctl code passes the wrong file pointer to the underlying device. No file pointer is available so make a temporary fake one. ioctl_by_bdev() does set_fs(KERNEL_DS) so it's for ioctls originating within the kernel and unsuitable here. We are processing ioctls that originated in userspace and mapping them to different devices. Fixing the existing callers that pass a NULL file struct and consolidating the fake_file users are separate matters to solve in later patches. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: export blkdev_driver_ioctlAlasdair G Kergon
Export blkdev_driver_ioctl for device-mapper. If we get as far as the device-mapper ioctl handler, we know the ioctl is not a standard block layer BLK* one, so we don't need to check for them a second time and can call blkdev_driver_ioctl() directly. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm mpath: support ioctlsMilan Broz
When an ioctl is performed on a multipath device simply pass it on to the underlying block device through current_path. If current path is not yet selected, select it. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm linear: support ioctlsMilan Broz
When an ioctl is performed on a device with a linear target, simply pass it on to the underlying block device. Note that the ioctl will pass through the filtering in blkdev_ioctl() twice. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] dm: support ioctls on mapped devicesMilan Broz
Extend the core device-mapper infrastructure to accept arbitrary ioctls on a mapped device provided that it has exactly one target and it is capable of supporting ioctls. [We can't use unlocked_ioctl because we need 'inode': 'file' might be NULL. Is it worth changing this?] Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > Am Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:31 schrieb Alasdair G Kergon: > > static struct block_device_operations dm_blk_dops = { > > .open = dm_blk_open, > > .release = dm_blk_close, > > +.ioctl = dm_blk_ioctl, > > .getgeo = dm_blk_getgeo, > > .owner = THIS_MODULE > > I guess this also needs a ->compat_ioctl method, otherwise it won't > work for ioctl numbers that have a compat_ioctl implementation in the > low-level device driver. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-30[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]David Howells
Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require the block layer to be present. This patch does the following: (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev support. (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls an item that uses the block layer. This includes: (*) Block I/O tracing. (*) Disk partition code. (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS. (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the block layer to do scheduling. Some drivers that use SCSI facilities - such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this. (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM drivers. (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL. (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book. (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set. sector_div() is, however, still used in places, and so is still available. (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and parts of linux/fs.h. (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled. (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set: (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening). (*) Makes some /proc changes: (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs. (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK. (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified. (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined. This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2. (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so). (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30[PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two partsJens Axboe
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into ->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands to block devices. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-21[BLOCK] dm-crypt: trivial comment improvementsRik Snel
Just some minor comment nits. - little-endian is better than low-endian - and since it is called essiv everywere it should also be essiv in the comments (and not ess_iv) Signed-off-by: Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[CRYPTO] users: Use crypto_hash interface instead of crypto_digestHerbert Xu
This patch converts all remaining crypto_digest users to use the new crypto_hash interface. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-21[BLOCK] dm-crypt: Use block ciphers where applicableHerbert Xu
This patch converts dm-crypt to use the new block cipher type where applicable. It also changes simple cipher operations to use the new encrypt_one/decrypt_one interface. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-09-01[PATCH] md: Fix issues with referencing rdev in md/raid1NeilBrown
We need to be careful when referencing mirrors[i].rdev. It can disappear under us at various times. So: fix a couple of problem places. comment a couple of non-problem places move an 'atomic_add' which deferences rdev down a little way to some where where it is sure to not be NULL. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] md: fix recent breakage of md/raid1 array checkingNeilBrown
A recent patch broke the ability to do a user-request check of a raid1. This patch fixes the breakage and also moves a comment that was dislocated by the same patch. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] md: avoid backward event updates in md superblock when degraded.NeilBrown
If we - shut down a clean array, - restart with one (or more) drive(s) missing - make some changes - pause, so that they array gets marked 'clean', the event count on the superblock of included drives will be the same as that of the removed drives. So adding the removed drive back in will cause it to be included with no resync. To avoid this, we only update the eventcount backwards when the array is not degraded. In this case there can (should) be no non-connected drives that we can get confused with, and this is the particular case where updating-backwards is valuable. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27[PATCH] dm: Fix deadlock under high i/o load in raid1 setup.Daniel Kobras
On an nForce4-equipped machine with two SATA disk in raid1 setup using dmraid, we experienced frequent deadlock of the system under high i/o load. 'cat /dev/zero > ~/zero' was the most reliable way to reproduce them: Randomly after a few GB, 'cp' would be left in 'D' state along with kjournald and kmirrord. The functions cp and kjournald were blocked in did vary, but kmirrord's wchan always pointed to 'mempool_alloc()'. We've seen this pattern on 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 kernels. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/142 indicates that this problem has been around even before. So much for the facts, here's my interpretation: mempool_alloc() first tries to atomically allocate the requested memory, or falls back to hand out preallocated chunks from the mempool. If both fail, it puts the calling process (kmirrord in this case) on a private waitqueue until somebody refills the pool. Where the only 'somebody' is kmirrord itself, so we have a deadlock. I worked around this problem by falling back to a (blocking) kmalloc when before kmirrord would have ended up on the waitqueue. This defeats part of the benefits of using the mempool, but at least keeps the system running. And it could be done with a two-line change. Note that mempool_alloc() clears the GFP_NOIO flag internally, and only uses it to decide whether to wait or return an error if immediate allocation fails, so the attached patch doesn't change behaviour in the non-deadlocking case. Path is against current git (2.6.18-rc4), but should apply to earlier versions as well. I've tested on 2.6.15, where this patch makes the difference between random lockup and a stable system. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kobras <kobras@linux.de> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-14[PATCH] dm: BUG/OOPS fixMichal Miroslaw
Fix BUG I tripped on while testing failover and multipathing. BUG shows up on error path in multipath_ctr() when parse_priority_group() fails after returning at least once without error. The fix is to initialize m->ti early - just after alloc()ing it. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c027c3d2 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#3] Modules linked in: qla2xxx ext3 jbd mbcache sg ide_cd cdrom floppy CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c027c3d2>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.17.3 #1) EIP is at dm_put_device+0xf/0x3b eax: 00000001 ebx: ee4fcac0 ecx: 00000000 edx: ee4fcac0 esi: ee4fc4e0 edi: ee4fc4e0 ebp: 00000000 esp: c5db3e78 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process multipathd (pid: 15912, threadinfo=c5db2000 task=ef485a90) Stack: ec4eda40 c02816bd ee4fc4c0 00000000 f7e89498 f883e0bc c02816f6 f7e89480 f7e8948c c0281801 ffffffea f7e89480 f883e080 c0281ffe 00000001 00000000 00000004 dfe9cab8 f7a693c0 f883e080 f883e0c0 ca4b99c0 c027c6ee 01400000 Call Trace: <c02816bd> free_pgpaths+0x31/0x45 <c02816f6> free_priority_group+0x25/0x2e <c0281801> free_multipath+0x35/0x67 <c0281ffe> multipath_ctr+0x123/0x12d <c027c6ee> dm_table_add_target+0x11e/0x18b <c027e5b4> populate_table+0x8a/0xaf <c027e62b> table_load+0x52/0xf9 <c027ec23> ctl_ioctl+0xca/0xfc <c027e5d9> table_load+0x0/0xf9 <c0152146> do_ioctl+0x3e/0x43 <c0152360> vfs_ioctl+0x16c/0x178 <c01523b4> sys_ioctl+0x48/0x60 <c01029b3> syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 97 f0 00 00 00 89 c1 83 c9 01 80 e2 01 0f 44 c1 88 43 14 8b 04 24 59 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 53 89 c1 89 d3 ff 4a 08 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 2a <8b> 01 8b 10 89 d8 e8 f6 fb ff ff 8b 03 8b 53 04 89 50 04 89 02 EIP: [<c027c3d2>] dm_put_device+0xf/0x3b SS:ESP 0068:c5db3e78 Signed-off-by: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-06[PATCH] md: Fix a bug that recently crept into md/linearNeilBrown
A recent patch that allowed linear arrays to be reconfigured on-line allowed in a bug which results in divide by zero - not all mddev->array_size were converted to conf->array_size. This patch finished the conversion and fixed the bug. The offending patch was commit 7c7546ccf6463edbeee8d9aac6de7be1cd80d08a. Thanks to Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com> for the bug report. Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10[PATCH] md: fix oops in error-handlingAndrew Morton
During early MD setup (superblock reading), we don't have a personality yet. But the error-handling code tries to dereference mddev->pers. Fix. Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>