linux/drivers/md, branch v2.6.34

md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.

2010-05-07T11:10:57Z

Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that it could spin down and say spun down. Device failure/removal etc are still recorded on spares. However commit 51d5668cb2e3fd1827a55 broke this 50% of the time, depending on whether the event count is even or odd. The change log entry said: This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and 'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain, how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it could take arbitrarily long. So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even, force a second metadata-update immediately. There are already cases where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a device fails during the metadata update). We just piggy-back on that. Reported-by: Joe Bryant Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: stable@kernel.org

md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state

2010-05-07T11:10:35Z

Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour. Tested-by: Janos Haar Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti Reported-by: Janos Haar Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: stable@kernel.org

md/raid5: fix previous patch.

2010-04-22T21:08:28Z

Previous patch changes stripe and chunk_number to sector_t but mistakenly did not update all of the divisions to use sector_dev(). This patch changes all the those divisions (actually the '%' operator) to sector_div. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31 chunks.

2010-04-20T04:13:34Z

With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks. Make sure this works. Reported-by: Brett King Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: stable@kernel.org

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2010-03-18T23:55:24Z

* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md: deal with merge_bvec_fn in component devices better.

md: deal with merge_bvec_fn in component devices better.

2010-03-16T06:04:24Z

If a component device has a merge_bvec_fn then as we never call it we must ensure we never need to. Currently this is done by setting max_sector to 1 PAGE, however this does not stop a bio being created with several sub-page iovecs that would violate the merge_bvec_fn. So instead set max_segments to 1 and set the segment boundary to the same as a page boundary to ensure there is only ever one single-page segment of IO requested at a time. This can particularly be an issue when 'xen' is used as it is known to submit multiple small buffers in a single bio. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: stable@kernel.org

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49Z

Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm raid1: fix deadlock when suspending failed device

2010-03-06T02:32:35Z

To prevent deadlock, bios in the hold list should be flushed before dm_rh_stop_recovery() is called in mirror_suspend(). The recovery can't start because there are pending bios and therefore dm_rh_stop_recovery deadlocks. When there are pending bios in the hold list, the recovery waits for the completion of the bios after recovery_count is acquired. The recovery_count is released when the recovery finished, however, the bios in the hold list are processed after dm_rh_stop_recovery() in mirror_presuspend(). dm_rh_stop_recovery() also acquires recovery_count, then deadlock occurs. Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon Reviewed-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm: eliminate some holes data structures

2010-03-06T02:32:33Z

Eliminate a 4-byte hole in 'struct dm_io_memory' by moving 'offset' above the 'ptr' to which it applies (size reduced from 24 to 16 bytes). And by association, 1-4 byte hole is eliminated in 'struct dm_io_request' (size reduced from 56 to 48 bytes). Eliminate all 6 4-byte holes and 1 cache-line in 'struct dm_snapshot' (size reduced from 392 to 368 bytes). Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon