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2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (24 commits) md: clean up do_md_stop md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes. md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutex md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync md/bitmap: separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures. md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log. md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps. md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls. md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs. md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar. md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface. md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery. md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure. md/raid5: export is_congested test raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue md: add support for raising dm events. md: export various start/stop interfaces md: split out md_rdev_init md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEAN md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk ...
2010-08-10Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/libraid-2.6 into for-linusNeilBrown
2010-08-09Merge branch 'async' of macbook:git/btrfs-unstableDavid Woodhouse
Conflicts: drivers/md/Makefile lib/raid6/unroll.pl
2010-08-08md: clean up do_md_stopNeilBrown
There is only one error exit from do_md_stop, so make that more explicit and discard the 'err' variable. Also drop the 'revalidate' variable by moving the unlock calls around. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-08md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes.NeilBrown
Move the deletion of sysfs attributes from reconfig_mutex to open_mutex didn't really help as a process can try to take open_mutex while holding reconfig_mutex, so the same deadlock can happen, just requiring one more process to be involved in the chain. I looks like I cannot easily use locking to wait for the sysfs deletion to complete, so don't. The only things that we cannot do while the deletions are still pending is other things which can change the sysfs namespace: run, takeover, stop. Each of these can fail with -EBUSY. So set a flag while doing a sysfs deletion, and fail run, takeover, stop if that flag is set. This is suitable for 2.6.35.x Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-08md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutexDan Williams
Commit b821eaa5 "md: remove ->changed and related code" moved revalidate_disk() under open_mutex, and lockdep noticed. [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.32-mdadm-locking #1 ------------------------------------------------------- mdadm/3640 is trying to acquire lock: (&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811acecb>] revalidate_disk+0x5b/0x90 but task is already holding lock: (&mddev->open_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa055e07a>] do_md_stop+0x4a/0x4d0 [md_mod] which lock already depends on the new lock. It is suitable for 2.6.35.x Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Reported-by: Przemyslaw Czarnowski <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-07block: push down BKL into .open and .releaseArnd Bergmann
The open and release block_device_operations are currently called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must first make sure that all drivers that currently rely on this have no regressions. This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release operations for all block drivers to prepare for the next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL with their own locks or remove it completely when it can be shown that it is not needed. The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}. Most of these two functions is also under the protection of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to ->open and ->release, and the common code does not access any global data structures that need the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completelyFUJITA Tomonori
This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the blk_queue_ordered API). Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07dm: stop using q->prepare_flush_fnFUJITA Tomonori
use REQ_FLUSH flag instead. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: unify flags for struct bio and struct requestChristoph Hellwig
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too. This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them. Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07block: remove wrappers for request type/flagsChristoph Hellwig
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in struct requests. This allows much easier grepping for different request types instead of unwinding through macros. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resyncNeilBrown
If the 'bio_split' path in raid10-read is used while resync/recovery is happening it is possible to deadlock. Fix this be elevating ->nr_waiting for the duration of both parts of the split request. This fixes a bug that has been present since 2.6.22 but has only started manifesting recently for unknown reasons. It is suitable for and -stable since then. Reported-by: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org> Tested-by: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-07-26md/bitmap: separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures.NeilBrown
dm makes this distinction between ->ctr and ->resume, so we need to too. Also get the new bitmap_load to clear out the bitmap first, as this is most consistent with the dm suspend/resume approach Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log.NeilBrown
This allows md/raid5 to fully work as a dm target. Normally md uses a 'filemap' which contains a list of pages of bits each of which may be written separately. dm-log uses and all-or-nothing approach to writing the log, so when using a dm-log, ->filemap is NULL and the flags normally stored in filemap_attr are stored in ->logattrs instead. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps.NeilBrown
A bitmap is stored as one page per 2048 bits. If none of the bits are set, the page is not allocated. When bitmap_get_counter finds that a page isn't allocate, it just reports that one bit work of space isn't flagged, rather than reporting that 2048 bits worth of space are unflagged. This can cause searches for flagged bits (e.g. bitmap_close_sync) to do more work than is really necessary. So change bitmap_get_counter (when creating) to report a number of blocks that more accurately reports the range of the device for which no counter currently exists. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls.NeilBrown
1/ use md_unplug in bitmap.c as we will soon be using bitmaps under arrays with no queue attached. 2/ Don't bother plugging the queue when we set a bit in the bitmap. The reason for this was to encourage as many bits as possible to get set before we unplug and write stuff out. However every personality already plugs the queue after bitmap_startwrite either directly (raid1/raid10) or be setting STRIPE_BIT_DELAY which causes the queue to be plugged later (raid5). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs.NeilBrown
For dm-raid45 we will want to use bitmaps in dm-targets which don't have entries in sysfs, so cope with the mddev not living in sysfs. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar.NeilBrown
Fixes some whitespace problems Fixed some checkpatch.pl complaints. Replaced kmalloc ... memset(0), with kzalloc Fixed an unlikely memory leak on an error path. Reformatted a number of 'if/else' sets, sometimes replacing goto with an else clause. Removed some old comments and commented-out code. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.NeilBrown
Also remove remaining accesses to ->queue and ->gendisk when ->queue is NULL (As it is in a DM target). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.NeilBrown
If an array doesn't have a 'queue' then md_do_sync cannot unplug it. In that case it will have a 'plugger', so make that available to the mddev, and use it to unplug the array if needed. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.NeilBrown
md/raid5 uses the plugging infrastructure provided by the block layer and 'struct request_queue'. However when we plug raid5 under dm there is no request queue so we cannot use that. So create a similar infrastructure that is much lighter weight and use it for raid5. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: export is_congested testNeilBrown
the dm module will need this for dm-raid45. Also only access ->queue->backing_dev_info->congested_fn if ->queue actually exists. It won't in a dm target. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queueNeilBrown
dm-raid456 does not provide a 'queue' for raid5 to use, so we must make raid5 stop depending on the queue. First: read_ahead dm handles read-ahead adjustment fully in userspace, so simply don't do any readahead adjustments if there is no queue. Also re-arrange code slightly so all the accesses to ->queue are together. Finally, move the blk_queue_merge_bvec function into the 'if' as the ->split_io setting in dm-raid456 has the same effect. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: add support for raising dm events.NeilBrown
dm uses scheduled work to raise events to user-space. So allow md device to have work_structs and schedule them on an error. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: export various start/stop interfacesNeilBrown
export entry points for starting and stopping md arrays. This will be used by a module to make md/raid5 work under dm. Also stop calling md_stop_writes from md_stop, as that won't work well with dm - it will want to call the two separately. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: split out md_rdev_initNeilBrown
This functionality will be needed separately in a subsequent patch, so split it into it's own exported function. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEANNeilBrown
When MD_CHANGE_CLEAN is set we might block in md_write_start. So we should only set it when fairly sure that something will clear it. There are two places where it is set so as to encourage a metadata update to record the progress of resync/recovery. This should only be done if the internal metadata update mechanisms are in use, which can be tested by by inspecting '->persistent'. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no ↵NeilBrown
gendisk We will shortly allow md devices with no gendisk (they are attached to a dm-target instead). That will cause mdname() to return 'mdX'. There is one place where mdname really needs to be unique: when creating the name for a slab cache. So in that case, if there is no gendisk, you the address of the mddev formatted in HEX to provide a unique name. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21md/raid5: factor out code for changing size of stripe cache.NeilBrown
Separate the actual 'change' code from the sysfs interface so that it can eventually be called internally. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21md: reduce dependence on sysfs.NeilBrown
We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not visible. So allow md to not connect to sysfs. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md/raid5: don't include 'spare' drives when reshaping to fewer devices.NeilBrown
There are few situations where it would make any sense to add a spare when reducing the number of devices in an array, but it is conceivable: A 6 drive RAID6 with two missing devices could be reshaped to a 5 drive RAID6, and a spare could become available just in time for the reshape, but not early enough to have been recovered first. 'freezing' recovery can make this easy to do without any races. However doing such a thing is a bad idea. md will not record the partially-recovered state of the 'spare' and when the reshape finished it will think that the spare is still spare. Easiest way to avoid this confusion is to simply disallow it. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md/raid5: add a missing 'continue' in a loop.NeilBrown
As the comment says, the tail of this loop only applies to devices that are not fully in sync, so if In_sync was set, we should avoid the rest of the loop. This bug will hardly ever cause an actual problem. The worst it can do is allow an array to be assembled that is dirty and degraded, which is not generally a good idea (without warning the sysadmin first). This will only happen if the array is RAID4 or a RAID5/6 in an intermediate state during a reshape and so has one drive that is all 'parity' - no data - while some other device has failed. This is certainly possible, but not at all common. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md/raid5: Allow recovered part of partially recovered devices to be in-syncNeilBrown
During a recovery of reshape the early part of some devices might be in-sync while the later parts are not. We we know we are looking at an early part it is good to treat that part as in-sync for stripe calculations. This is particularly important for a reshape which suffers device failure. Treating the data as in-sync can mean the difference between data-safety and data-loss. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md/raid5: More careful check for "has array failed".NeilBrown
When we are reshaping an array, the device failure combinations that cause us to decide that the array as failed are more subtle. In particular, any 'spare' will be fully in-sync in the section of the array that has already been reshaped, thus failures that affect only that section are less critical. So encode this subtlety in a new function and call it as appropriate. The case that showed this problem was a 4 drive RAID5 to 8 drive RAID6 conversion where the last two devices failed. This resulted in: good good good good incomplete good good failed failed while converting a 5-drive RAID6 to 8 drive RAID5 The incomplete device causes the whole array to look bad, bad as it was actually good for the section that had been converted to 8-drives, all the data was actually safe. Reported-by: Terry Morris <tbmorris@tbmorris.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: Don't update ->recovery_offset when reshaping an array to fewer devices.NeilBrown
When an array is reshaped to have fewer devices, the reshape proceeds from the end of the devices to the beginning. If a device happens to be non-In_sync (which is possible but rare) we would normally update the ->recovery_offset as the reshape progresses. However that would be wrong as the recover_offset records that the early part of the device is in_sync, while in fact it would only be the later part that is in_sync, and in any case the offset number would be measured from the wrong end of the device. Relatedly, if after a reshape a spare is discovered to not be recoverred all the way to the end, not allow spare_active to incorporate it in the array. This becomes relevant in the following sample scenario: A 4 drive RAID5 is converted to a 6 drive RAID6 in a combined operation. The RAID5->RAID6 conversion will cause a 5 drive to be included as a spare, then the 5drive -> 6drive reshape will effectively rebuild that spare as it progresses. The 6th drive is treated as in_sync the whole time as there is never any case that we might consider reading from it, but must not because there is no valid data. If we interrupt this reshape part-way through and reverse it to return to a 5-drive RAID6 (or event a 4-drive RAID5), we don't want to update the recovery_offset - as that would be wrong - and we don't want to include that spare as active in the 5-drive RAID6 when the reversed reshape completed and it will be mostly out-of-sync still. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md/raid5: avoid oops when number of devices is reduced then increased.NeilBrown
The entries in the stripe_cache maintained by raid5 are enlarged when we increased the number of devices in the array, but not shrunk when we reduce the number of devices. So if entries are added after reducing the number of devices, we much ensure to initialise the whole entry, not just the part that is currently relevant. Otherwise if we enlarge the array again, we will reference uninitialised values. As grow_buffers/shrink_buffer now want to use a count that is stored explicity in the raid_conf, they should get it from there rather than being passed it as a parameter. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: enable raid4->raid0 takeoverMaciej Trela
Only level 5 with layout=PARITY_N can be taken over to raid0 now. Lets allow level 4 either. Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: clear layout after ->raid0 takeoverMaciej Trela
After takeover from raid5/10 -> raid0 mddev->layout is not cleared. Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: fix raid10 takeover: use new_layout for setup_confMaciej Trela
Use mddev->new_layout in setup_conf. Also use new_chunk, and don't set ->degraded in takeover(). That gets set in run() Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: fix handling of array level takeover that re-arranges devices.NeilBrown
Most array level changes leave the list of devices largely unchanged, possibly causing one at the end to become redundant. However conversions between RAID0 and RAID10 need to renumber all devices (except 0). This renumbering is currently being done in the ->run method when the new personality takes over. However this is too late as the common code in md.c might already have invalidated some of the devices if they had a ->raid_disk number that appeared to high. Moving it into the ->takeover method is too early as the array is still active at that time and wrong ->raid_disk numbers could cause confusion. So add a ->new_raid_disk field to mdk_rdev_s and use it to communicate the new raid_disk number. Now the common code knows exactly which devices need to be renumbered, and which can be invalidated, and can do it all at a convenient time when the array is suspend. It can also update some symlinks in sysfs which previously were not be updated correctly. Reported-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24md: raid10: Fix null pointer dereference in fix_read_error()Prasanna S. Panchamukhi
Such NULL pointer dereference can occur when the driver was fixing the read errors/bad blocks and the disk was physically removed causing a system crash. This patch check if the rcu_dereference() returns valid rdev before accessing it in fix_read_error(). Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Prasanna S. Panchamukhi <prasanna.panchamukhi@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Becker <rbecker@riverbed.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24Restore partition detection of newly created md arrays.NeilBrown
Commit b821eaa572fd737faaf6928ba046e571526c36c6 broke partition detection for md arrays. The logic was almost right. However if revalidate_disk is called when the device is not yet open, bdev->bd_disk won't be set, so the flush_disk() Call will not set bd_invalidated. So when md_open is called we still need to ensure that ->bd_invalidated gets set. This is easily done with a call to check_disk_size_change in the place where the offending commit removed check_disk_change. At the important times, the size will have changed from 0 to non-zero, so check_disk_size_change will set bd_invalidated. Tested-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Reported-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-27md: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno valueAkinobu Mita
By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate errno value. This converts the cpu notifiers for raid5. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-21Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits) fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode * simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in ->readpage() and friends AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper ... Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
2010-05-22Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linusNeilBrown
Conflicts: drivers/md/md.c - Resolved conflict in md_update_sb - Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-21sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventionsChristoph Hellwig
Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range. The next step will be removig the dentry argument from ->fsync, but given the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather defer this until after the main merge window. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.Eric W. Biederman
The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*. What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the sysfs dirent structure. For directories that should show different contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and /sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the context in which those directories should be visible. Effectively this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer. I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories. For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug hardware or which modules are currently loaded. Which means I need a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged. To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created and managed by sysfs itself. Users of this interface: - define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration. - call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations - sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid - Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock. - Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject. Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer. For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially one line functions, and look to remain that. Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons, and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the existing namespace pointer. The work needed in sysfs is more extensive. At each directory or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate tag to place on the sysfs_dirent. Likewise at each symlink or directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out which tag goes along with the name I am deleting. Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and symlinks are supported. There is not enough information in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem to solve. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: don't insist on valid event count for spare devices.NeilBrown
Devices which know that they are spares do not really need to have an event count that matches the rest of the array, so there are no data-in-sync issues. It is enough that the uuid matches. So remove the requirement that the event count is up-to-date. We currently still write out and event count on spares, but this allows us in a year or 3 to stop doing that completely. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md: simplify updating of event count to sometimes avoid updating spares.NeilBrown
When updating the event count for a simple clean <-> dirty transition, we try to avoid updating the spares so they can safely spin-down. As the event_counts across an array must be +/- 1, this means decrementing the event_count on a dirty->clean transition. This is not always safe and we have to avoid the unsafe time. We current do this with a misguided idea about it being safe or not depending on whether the event_count is odd or even. This approach only works reliably in a few common instances, but easily falls down. So instead, simply keep internal state concerning whether it is safe or not, and always assume it is not safe when an array is first assembled. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded stateGabriele A. Trombetti
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 <janos.haar@netcenter.hu> Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti <g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com> Reported-by: Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org