1. 18 May, 2010 8 commits
  2. 17 May, 2010 2 commits
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: manage redundancy group in sysfs when changing level. · a64c876f
      NeilBrown authored
      
      Some levels expect the 'redundancy group' to be present,
      others don't.
      So when we change level of an array we might need to
      add or remove this group.
      
      This requires fixing up the current practice of overloading ->private
      to indicate (when ->pers == NULL) that something needs to be removed.
      So create a new ->to_remove to fill that role.
      
      When changing levels, we may need to add or remove attributes.  When
      changing RAID5 -> RAID6, we both add and remove the same thing.  It is
      important to catch this and optimise it out as the removal is delayed
      until a lock is released, so trying to add immediately would cause
      problems.
      
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      a64c876f
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: remove unneeded sysfs files more promptly · b6eb127d
      NeilBrown authored
      
      When an array is stopped we need to remove some
      sysfs files which are dependent on the type of array.
      
      We need to delay that deletion as deleting them while holding
      reconfig_mutex can lead to deadlocks.
      
      We currently delay them until the array is completely destroyed.
      However it is possible to deactivate and then reactivate the array.
      It is also possible to need to remove sysfs files when changing level,
      which can potentially happen several times before an array is
      destroyed.
      
      So we need to delete these files more promptly: as soon as
      reconfig_mutex is dropped.
      
      We need to ensure this happens before do_md_run can restart the array,
      so we use open_mutex for some extra locking.  This is not deadlock
      prone.
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      b6eb127d
  3. 11 May, 2010 1 commit
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      md: set mddev readonly flag on blkdev BLKROSET ioctl · e2218350
      Dan Williams authored
      
      When the user sets the block device to readwrite then the mddev should
      follow suit.  Otherwise, the BUG_ON in md_write_start() will be set to
      trigger.
      
      The reverse direction, setting mddev->ro to match a set readonly
      request, can be ignored because the blkdev level readonly flag precludes
      the need to have mddev->ro set correctly.  Nevermind the fact that
      setting mddev->ro to 1 may fail if the array is in use.
      
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      e2218350
  4. 09 Feb, 2010 1 commit
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: fix some lockdep issues between md and sysfs. · ef286f6f
      NeilBrown authored
      ======
      This fix is related to
          http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15142
      
      
      but does not address that exact issue.
      ======
      
      sysfs does like attributes being removed while they are being accessed
      (i.e. read or written) and waits for the access to complete.
      
      As accessing some md attributes takes the same lock that is held while
      removing those attributes a deadlock can occur.
      
      This patch addresses 3 issues in md that could lead to this deadlock.
      
      Two relate to calling flush_scheduled_work while the lock is held.
      This is probably a bad idea in general and as we use schedule_work to
      delete various sysfs objects it is particularly bad.
      
      In one case flush_scheduled_work is called from md_alloc (called by
      md_probe) called from do_md_run which holds the lock.  This call is
      only present to ensure that ->gendisk is set.  However we can be sure
      that gendisk is always set (though possibly we couldn't when that code
      was originally written.  This is because do_md_run is called in three
      different contexts:
        1/ from md_ioctl.  This requires that md_open has succeeded, and it
           fails if ->gendisk is not set.
        2/ from writing a sysfs attribute.  This can only happen if the
           mddev has been registered in sysfs which happens in md_alloc
           after ->gendisk has been set.
        3/ from autorun_array which is only called by autorun_devices, which
           checks for ->gendisk to be set before calling autorun_array.
      So the call to md_probe in do_md_run can be removed, and the check on
      ->gendisk can also go.
      
      
      In the other case flush_scheduled_work is being called in do_md_stop,
      purportedly to wait for all md_delayed_delete calls (which delete the
      component rdevs) to complete.  However there really isn't any need to
      wait for them - they have already been disconnected in all important
      ways.
      
      The third issue is that raid5->stop() removes some attribute names
      while the lock is held.  There is already some infrastructure in place
      to delay attribute removal until after the lock is released (using
      schedule_work).  So extend that infrastructure to remove the
      raid5_attrs_group.
      
      This does not address all lockdep issues related to the sysfs
      "s_active" lock.  The rest can be address by splitting that lockdep
      context between symlinks and non-symlinks which hopefully will happen.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      ef286f6f
  5. 29 Dec, 2009 5 commits
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: allow a resync that is waiting for other resync to complete, to be aborted. · 404e4b43
      NeilBrown authored
      
      If two arrays share a device, then they will not both resync at the
      same time.  One will wait for the other to complete.
      While waiting, the MD_RECOVERY_INTR flag is not checked so a device
      failure, which would make the resync pointless, does not cause the
      resync to abort, so the failed device cannot be removed (as it cannot
      be remove while a resync is happening).
      
      So add a test for MD_RECOVERY_INTR.
      Reported-by: default avatarBrett Russ <bruss@netezza.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      404e4b43
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: remove unnecessary code from do_md_run · 7fb9dadc
      NeilBrown authored
      Since commit dfc70645
      
      ,
      ->hot_remove_disks has not removed non-failed devices from
      an array until recovery is no longer possible.
      So the code in do_md_run to get around the fact that
      md_check_recovery (which calls ->hot_remove_disks) would
      remove partially-in-sync devices is no longer needed.
      
      So remove it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      7fb9dadc
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      md: make recovery started by do_md_run() visible via sync_action · a2d79c32
      Dan Williams authored
      
      By default md_do_sync() will perform recovery if no other actions are
      specified.  However, action_show() relies on MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER to be
      set otherwise it returns 'idle'.  So, add a missing set
      MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER when starting recovery.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      a2d79c32
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: fix small irregularity with start_ro module parameter · 0f9552b5
      NeilBrown authored
      
      The start_ro modules parameter can be used to force arrays to be
      started in 'auto-readonly' in which they are read-only until the first
      write.  This ensures that no resync/recovery happens until something
      else writes to the device.  This is important for resume-from-disk
      off an md array.
      
      However if an array is started 'readonly' (by writing 'readonly' to
      the 'array_state' sysfs attribute) we want it to be really 'readonly',
      not 'auto-readonly'.
      
      So strengthen the condition to only set auto-readonly if the
      array is not already read-only.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      0f9552b5
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evms · cbd19983
      NeilBrown authored
      
      evms configures md arrays by:
        open device
        send ioctl
        close device
      
      for each different ioctl needed.
      Since 2.6.29, the device can disappear after the 'close'
      unless a significant configuration has happened to the device.
      The change made by "SET_ARRAY_INFO" can too minor to stop the device
      from disappearing, but important enough that losing the change is bad.
      
      So: make sure SET_ARRAY_INFO sets mddev->ctime, and keep the device
      active as long as ctime is non-zero (it gets zeroed with lots of other
      things when the array is stopped).
      
      This is suitable for -stable kernels since 2.6.29.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      cbd19983
  6. 15 Dec, 2009 2 commits
    • Joe Perches's avatar
      drivers/md/md.c: use %pU to print UUIDs · 7b75c2f8
      Joe Perches authored
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      7b75c2f8
    • André Goddard Rosa's avatar
      tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function · e7d2860b
      André Goddard Rosa authored
      Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading
      spaces from strings all over the tree.
      
      It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide:
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
        64688     584     592   65864   10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE)
        64641     584     592   65817   10119 (TOTALS-AFTER)
      
      Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
      remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
      evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
      "a char equals zero is never a space".
      
      Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr
      
      ) below,
      and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files:
          drivers/leds/led-class.c
          drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c
          drivers/video/output.c
      
      @@
      expression str;
      @@
      
      ( // ignore skip_spaces cases
      while (*str &&  isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) }
      |
      - *str &&
      isspace(*str)
      )
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
      Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
      Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
      Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e7d2860b
  7. 13 Dec, 2009 14 commits
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      md: add 'recovery_start' per-device sysfs attribute · 06e3c817
      Dan Williams authored
      
      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: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      06e3c817
    • Dan Williams's avatar
      md: rcu_read_lock() walk of mddev->disks in md_do_sync() · 4e59ca7d
      Dan Williams authored
      
      Other walks of this list are either under rcu_read_lock() or the list
      mutation lock (mddev_lock()).  This protects against the improbable case of a
      disk being removed from the array at the start of md_do_sync().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
      4e59ca7d
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: integrate spares into array at earliest opportunity. · 93be75ff
      NeilBrown authored
      
      As v1.x metadata can record that a member of the array is
      not completely recovered, it make sense to record that a
      spare has become a regular member of the array at the earliest
      opportunity.
      So remove the tests on "recovery_offset > 0" in super_1_sync
      as they really aren't needed, and schedule a metadata update
      immediately after adding spares to a degraded array.
      
      This means that if a crash happens immediately after a recovery
      starts, the new device will be included in the array and recovery will
      continue from wherever it was up to.  Previously this didn't happen
      unless recovery was at least 1/16 of the way through.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      93be75ff
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      md: move compat_ioctl handling into md.c · aa98aa31
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      
      The RAID ioctls are only implemented in md.c, so the
      handling for them should also be moved there from
      fs/compat_ioctl.c.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      aa98aa31
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules. · 0efb9e61
      NeilBrown authored
      
      Suggested by  Oren Held <orenhe@il.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      0efb9e61
    • Robert Becker's avatar
      raid: improve MD/raid10 handling of correctable read errors. · 1e50915f
      Robert Becker authored
      
      We've noticed severe lasting performance degradation of our raid
      arrays when we have drives that yield large amounts of media errors.
      The raid10 module will queue each failed read for retry, and also
      will attempt call fix_read_error() to perform the read recovery.
      Read recovery is performed while the array is frozen, so repeated
      recovery attempts can degrade the performance of the array for
      extended periods of time.
      
      With this patch I propose adding a per md device max number of
      corrected read attempts.  Each rdev will maintain a count of
      read correction attempts in the rdev->read_errors field (not
      used currently for raid10). When we enter fix_read_error()
      we'll check to see when the last read error occurred, and
      divide the read error count by 2 for every hour since the
      last read error. If at that point our read error count
      exceeds the read error threshold, we'll fail the raid device.
      
      In addition in this patch I add sysfs nodes (get/set) for
      the per md max_read_errors attribute, the rdev->read_errors
      attribute, and added some printk's to indicate when
      fix_read_error fails to repair an rdev.
      
      For testing I used debugfs->fail_make_request to inject
      IO errors to the rdev while doing IO to the raid array.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Becker <Rob.Becker@riverbed.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      1e50915f
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: support updating bitmap parameters via sysfs. · 43a70507
      NeilBrown authored
      
      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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      43a70507
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: factor out parsing of fixed-point numbers · 72e02075
      NeilBrown authored
      
      safe_delay_store can parse fixed point numbers (for fractions
      of a second).  We will want to do that for another sysfs
      file soon, so factor out the code.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      72e02075
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: move offset, daemon_sleep and chunksize out of bitmap structure · 42a04b50
      NeilBrown authored
      
      ... and into bitmap_info.  These are all configuration parameters
      that need to be set before the bitmap is created.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      42a04b50
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: collect bitmap-specific fields into one structure. · c3d9714e
      NeilBrown authored
      
      In preparation for making bitmap fields configurable via sysfs,
      start tidying up by making a single structure to contain the
      configuration fields.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      c3d9714e
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: support barrier requests on all personalities. · a2826aa9
      NeilBrown authored
      
      Previously barriers were only supported on RAID1.  This is because
      other levels requires synchronisation across all devices and so needed
      a different approach.
      Here is that approach.
      
      When a barrier arrives, we send a zero-length barrier to every active
      device.  When that completes - and if the original request was not
      empty -  we submit the barrier request itself (with the barrier flag
      cleared) and then submit a fresh load of zero length barriers.
      
      The barrier request itself is asynchronous, but any subsequent
      request will block until the barrier completes.
      
      The reason for clearing the barrier flag is that a barrier request is
      allowed to fail.  If we pass a non-empty barrier through a striping
      raid level it is conceivable that part of it could succeed and part
      could fail.  That would be way too hard to deal with.
      So if the first run of zero length barriers succeed, we assume all is
      sufficiently well that we send the request and ignore errors in the
      second run of barriers.
      
      RAID5 needs extra care as write requests may not have been submitted
      to the underlying devices yet.  So we flush the stripe cache before
      proceeding with the barrier.
      
      Note that the second set of zero-length barriers are submitted
      immediately after the original request is submitted.  Thus when
      a personality finds mddev->barrier to be set during make_request,
      it should not return from make_request until the corresponding
      per-device request(s) have been queued.
      
      That will be done in later patches.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
      a2826aa9
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: don't reset curr_resync_completed after an interrupted resync · efa59339
      NeilBrown authored
      
      If a resync/recovery/check/repair is interrupted for some reason, it
      can be useful to know exactly where it got up to.
      So in that case, do not clear curr_resync_completed.
      Initialise it when starting a resync/recovery/... instead.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      efa59339
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: adjust resync_min usefully when resync aborts. · c07b70ad
      NeilBrown authored
      
      When a 'check' or 'repair' finished we should clear resync_min
      so that a future check/repair will cover the whole array (by default).
      However if it is interrupted, we should update resync_min to
      where we got up to, so that when the check/repair continues it
      just does the remainder of the array.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      c07b70ad
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md/bitmap: protect against bitmap removal while being updated. · aa5cbd10
      NeilBrown authored
      
      A write intent bitmap can be removed from an array while the
      array is active.
      When this happens, all IO is suspended and flushed before the
      bitmap is removed.
      However it is possible that bitmap_daemon_work is still running to
      clear old bits from the bitmap.  If it is, it can dereference the
      bitmap after it has been freed.
      
      So introduce a new mutex to protect bitmap_daemon_work and get it
      before destroying a bitmap.
      
      This is suitable for any current -stable kernel.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      aa5cbd10
  8. 18 Nov, 2009 1 commit
  9. 13 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: allow v0.91 metadata to record devices as being active but not in-sync. · 0261cd9f
      NeilBrown authored
      
      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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      0261cd9f
  10. 12 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support · 894d2491
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      
      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: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      894d2491
  11. 11 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: factor out updating of 'recovery_offset'. · 5e865106
      NeilBrown authored
      
      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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      5e865106
  12. 05 Nov, 2009 1 commit
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: don't clear endpoint for resync when resync is interrupted. · 24395a85
      NeilBrown authored
      
      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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      24395a85
  13. 16 Oct, 2009 1 commit
    • NeilBrown's avatar
      md: Fix handling of raid5 array which is being reshaped to fewer devices. · 5e5e3e78
      NeilBrown authored
      
      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: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
      5e5e3e78
  14. 23 Sep, 2009 1 commit