10 Feb, 2010
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This fix is related to
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15142
but does not address that exact issue.
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(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: NeilBrown
30 Dec, 2009
5 commits
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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: Brett Russ
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Since commit dfc7064500061677720fa26352963c772d3ebe6b,
->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: NeilBrown
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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: Dan Williams
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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: NeilBrown
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evms configures md arrays by:
open device
send ioctl
close devicefor 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: NeilBrown
Cc: stable@kernel.org
16 Dec, 2009
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Cc: Neil Brown
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
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: André Goddard Rosa
Cc: Julia Lawall
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Richard Purdie
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Cc: David Howells
Cc:
Cc: Samuel Ortiz
Cc: Patrick McHardy
Cc: Takashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2009
14 commits
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Enable external metadata arrays to manage rebuild checkpointing via a
md/dev-XXX/recovery_start attribute which reflects rdev->recovery_offsetAlso update resync_start_store to allow 'none' to be written, for
consistency.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
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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: Dan Williams
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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: NeilBrown
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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: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: Andre Noll
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
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Suggested by Oren Held
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
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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: Robert Becker
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown -
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: NeilBrown
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll -
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: NeilBrown
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... and into bitmap_info. These are all configuration parameters
that need to be set before the bitmap is created.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
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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: NeilBrown
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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: NeilBrown
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll -
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: NeilBrown
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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: NeilBrown
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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: NeilBrown
Cc: stable@kernel.org
08 Dec, 2009
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
...
19 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
17 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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Resolve the conflict between v2.6.32-rc7 where dn_def_dev_handler
gets a small bug fix and the sysctl tree where I am removing all
sysctl strategy routines.
13 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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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: NeilBrown
12 Nov, 2009
2 commits
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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
Cc: Corey Minyard
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: Herbert Xu
Cc: Neil Brown
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch for drivers/char/hpet.c
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman -
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: NeilBrown
06 Nov, 2009
1 commit
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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: NeilBrown
16 Oct, 2009
1 commit
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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: NeilBrown
23 Sep, 2009
3 commits
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This should writeback from coming when the device is temporarily
suspended.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
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The management thread for raid4,5,6 arrays are all called
mdX_raid5, independent of the actual raid level, which is wrong and
can be confusion.So change md_register_thread to use the name from the personality
unless no alternate name (like 'resync' or 'reshape') is given.This is simpler and more correct.
Cc: Jinzc
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown -
Rename some variable and remove some duplicate definitions
to avoid there warnings. None of them are actual errors.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
22 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Recent commit c8c00a6915a2e3d10416e8bdd3138429beb96210
changed the exit paths in do_md_stop and was not quite
careful enough. There is one path were 'err' now needs
to be cleared but it isn't.
So setting an array to readonly (with mdadm --readonly) will
work, but will incorrectly report and error: ENXIO.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
13 Aug, 2009
2 commits
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Normally we only allow the upper limit for a reshape to be decreased
when the array not performing a sync/recovery/reshape, otherwise there
could be races. But if an array is part-way through a reshape when it
is assembled the reshape is started immediately leaving no window
to set an upper bound.If the array is started read-only, the reshape will be suspended until
the array becomes writable, so that provides a window during which it
is perfectly safe to reduce the upper limit of a reshape.So: allow the upper limit (sync_max) to be reduced even if the reshape
thread is running, as long as the array is still read-only.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
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When assembling arrays, md allows two devices to have different event
counts as long as the difference is only '1'. This is to cope with
a system failure between updating the metadata on two difference
devices.However there are currently times when we update the event count by
2. This was done to keep the event count even when the array is clean
and odd when it is dirty, which allows us to avoid writing common
update to spare devices and so allow those spares to go to sleep.This is bad for the above reason. So change it to never increase by
two. This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain, but that is only a
small cost. The spares will get a few more updates but that will
still be spared (;-) most updates and can still go to sleep.Prior to this patch there was a small chance that after a crash an
array would fail to assemble due to the overly large event count
mismatch.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
10 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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A recent commit:
commit 449aad3e25358812c43afc60918c5ad3819488e7introduced the possibility of an A-B/B-A deadlock between
bd_mutex and reconfig_mutex.__blkdev_get holds bd_mutex while calling md_open which takes
reconfig_mutex,
do_md_run is always called with reconfig_mutex held, and it now
takes bd_mutex in the call the revalidate_disk.This potential deadlock was not caught by lockdep due to the
use of mutex_lock_interruptible_nexted which was introduced
by
commit d63a5a74dee87883fda6b7d170244acaac5b05e8
do avoid a warning of an impossible deadlock.It is quite possible to split reconfig_mutex in to two locks.
One protects the array data structures while it is being
reconfigured, the other ensures that an array is never even partially
open while it is being deactivated.
In particular, the second lock prevents an open from completing
between the time when do_md_stop checks if there are any active opens,
and the time when the array is either set read-only, or when ->pers is
set to NULL. So we can be certain that no IO is in flight as the
array is being destroyed.So create a new lock, open_mutex, just to ensure exclusion between
'open' and 'stop'.This avoids the deadlock and also avoids the lockdep warning mentioned
in commit d63a5a74dReported-by: "Mike Snitzer"
Reported-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
03 Aug, 2009
2 commits
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As revalidate_disk calls check_disk_size_change, it will cause
any capacity change of a gendisk to be propagated to the blockdev
inode. So use that instead of mucking about with locks and
i_size_write.Also add a call to revalidate_disk in do_md_run and a few other places
where the gendisk capacity is changed.Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
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The v1.x metadata does not have a fixed size and can grow
when devices are added.
If it grows enough to require an extra sector of storage,
we need to update the 'sb_size' to match.Without this, md can write out an incomplete superblock with a
bad checksum, which will be rejected when trying to re-assemble
the array.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown