linux/drivers/md/raid1.c, branch v3.8

Merge branch 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2012-12-17T21:39:11Z

Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe: "Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8. The branch contains: - A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge window. Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the situation on individual pulls can be improved. - A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss. - Queue improvement for loop from Lukas. This grew into adding a generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is also using it. - A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne. - Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID to be used as an identifier." * 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits) drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options drbd: Remove obsolete check drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface xen-blkfront: free allocated page xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36 block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string cciss: use check_signature() cciss: cleanup bitops usage drbd: use copy_highpage drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed ...

wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface

2012-11-30T10:47:57Z

New wait_event{_interruptible}_lock_irq{_cmd} macros added. This commit moves the private wait_event_lock_irq() macro from MD to regular wait includes, introduces new macro wait_event_lock_irq_cmd() instead of using the old method with omitting cmd parameter which is ugly and makes a use of new macros in the MD. It also introduces the _interruptible_ variant. The use of new interface is when one have a special lock to protect data structures used in the condition, or one also needs to invoke "cmd" before putting it to sleep. All new macros are expected to be called with the lock taken. The lock is released before sleep and is reacquired afterwards. We will leave the macro with the lock held. Note to DM: IMO this should also fix theoretical race on waitqueue while using simultaneously wait_event_lock_irq() and wait_event() because of lack of locking around current state setting and wait queue removal. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner Cc: Neil Brown Cc: David Howells Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md/raid1{,0}: fix deadlock in bitmap_unplug.

2012-11-27T01:14:40Z

If the raid1 or raid10 unplug function gets called from a make_request function (which is very possible) when there are bios on the current->bio_list list, then it will not be able to successfully call bitmap_unplug() and it could need to submit more bios and wait for them to complete. But they won't complete while current->bio_list is non-empty. So detect that case and handle the unplugging off to another thread just like we already do when called from within the scheduler. RAID1 version of bug was introduced in 3.6, so that part of fix is suitable for 3.6.y. RAID10 part won't apply. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser Reported-by: Peter Maloney Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid1: Fix assembling of arrays containing Replacements.

2012-10-31T00:42:03Z

setup_conf in raid1.c uses conf->raid_disks before assigning a value. It is used when including 'Replacement' devices. The consequence is that assembling an array which contains a replacement will misbehave and either not include the replacement, or not include the device being replaced. Though this doesn't lead directly to data corruption, it could lead to reduced data safety. So use mddev->raid_disks, which is initialised, instead. Bug was introduced by commit c19d57980b38a5bb613a898937a1cf85f422fb9b md/raid1: recognise replacements when assembling arrays. in 3.3, so fix is suitable for 3.3.y thru 3.6.y. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Subject: [PATCH] md:change resync_mismatches to atomic64_t to avoid races

2012-10-11T03:17:59Z

Now that multiple threads can handle stripes, it is safer to use an atomic64_t for resync_mismatches, to avoid update races. Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid1: Don't release reference to device while handling read error.

2012-10-11T02:44:30Z

When we get a read error, we arrange for raid1d to handle it. Currently we release the reference on the device. This can result in conf->mirrors[read_disk].rdev being NULL in fix_read_error, if the device happens to get removed before the read error is handled. So instead keep the reference until the read error has been fully handled. Reported-by: hank Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

MD: change the parameter of md thread

2012-10-11T02:34:00Z

Change the thread parameter, so the thread can carry extra info. Next patch will use it. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: raid 1 supports TRIM

2012-10-11T02:28:54Z

This makes md raid 1 support TRIM. If one disk supports discard and another not, or one has discard_zero_data and another not, there could be inconsistent between data from such disks. But this should not matter, discarded data is useless. This will add extra copy in rebuild though. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Merge tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2012-08-02T18:34:40Z

Pull additional md update from NeilBrown: "This contains a few patches that depend on plugging changes in the block layer so needed to wait for those. It also contains a Kconfig fix for the new RAID10 support in dm-raid." * tag 'md-3.6' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md/dm-raid: DM_RAID should select MD_RAID10 md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread. raid5: raid5d handle stripe in batch way raid5: make_request use batch stripe release

md/raid1: submit IO from originating thread instead of md thread.

2012-08-01T22:33:20Z

queuing writes to the md thread means that all requests go through the one processor which may not be able to keep up with very high request rates. So use the plugging infrastructure to submit all requests on unplug. If a 'schedule' is needed, we fall back on the old approach of handing the requests to the thread for it to handle. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown