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authorYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>2025-08-29 16:04:21 +0800
committerYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>2025-09-06 17:19:19 +0800
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md/md-bitmap: delay registration of bitmap_ops until creating bitmap
Currently bitmap_ops is registered while allocating mddev, this is fine when there is only one bitmap_ops. Delay setting bitmap_ops until creating bitmap, so that user can choose which bitmap to use before running the array. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/20250721171557.34587-7-yukuai@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Li Nan <linan122@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
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@@ -388,6 +388,9 @@ All md devices contain:
bitmap
The default internal bitmap
+If bitmap_type is not none, then additional bitmap attributes bitmap/xxx or
+llbitmap/xxx will be created after md device KOBJ_CHANGE event.
+
If bitmap_type is bitmap, then the md device will also contain:
bitmap/location