Big change is new hot-replacement.
A slot in an array can hold 2 devices - one that
wants-replacement and one that is the replacement.
Once the replacement is built - either from the
original or (in the case of errors) from elsewhere,
the wants-replacement device will be removed.
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Merge tag 'md-3.3' of git://neil.brown.name/md
md update for 3.3
Big change is new hot-replacement.
A slot in an array can hold 2 devices - one that
wants-replacement and one that is the replacement.
Once the replacement is built - either from the
original or (in the case of errors) from elsewhere,
the wants-replacement device will be removed.
* tag 'md-3.3' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (36 commits)
md/raid1: Mark device want_replacement when we see a write error.
md/raid1: If there is a spare and a want_replacement device, start replacement.
md/raid1: recognise replacements when assembling arrays.
md/raid1: handle activation of replacement device when recovery completes.
md/raid1: Allow a failed replacement device to be removed.
md/raid1: Allocate spare to store replacement devices and their bios.
md/raid1: Replace use of mddev->raid_disks with conf->raid_disks.
md/raid10: If there is a spare and a want_replacement device, start replacement.
md/raid10: recognise replacements when assembling array.
md/raid10: Allow replacement device to be replace old drive.
md/raid10: handle recovery of replacement devices.
md/raid10: Handle replacement devices during resync.
md/raid10: writes should get directed to replacement as well as original.
md/raid10: allow removal of failed replacement devices.
md/raid10: preferentially read from replacement device if possible.
md/raid10: change read_balance to return an rdev
md/raid10: prepare data structures for handling replacement.
md/raid5: Mark device want_replacement when we see a write error.
md/raid5: If there is a spare and a want_replacement device, start replacement.
md/raid5: recognise replacements when assembling array.
...
Move invalidate_bdev, block_sync_page into fs/block_dev.c. Export
kill_bdev as well, so brd doesn't have to open code it. Reduce
buffer_head.h requirement accordingly.
Removed a rather large comment from invalidate_bdev, as it looked a bit
obsolete to bother moving. The small comment replacing it says enough.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
When attempting to add a spare to a RAID[456] array, also consider
adding it as a replacement for a want_replacement device.
This requires that common md code attempt hot_add even when the array
is not formally degraded.
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
hot-replace is a feature being added to md which will allow a
device to be replaced without removing it from the array first.
With hot-replace a spare can be activated and recovery can start while
the original device is still in place, thus allowing a transition from
an unreliable device to a reliable device without leaving the array
degraded during the transition. It can also be use when the original
device is still reliable but it not wanted for some reason.
This will eventually be supported in RAID4/5/6 and RAID10.
This patch adds a super-block flag to distinguish the replacement
device. If an old kernel sees this flag it will reject the device.
It also adds two per-device flags which are viewable and settable via
sysfs.
"want_replacement" can be set to request that a device be replaced.
"replacement" is set to show that this device is replacing another
device.
The "rd%d" links in /sys/block/mdXx/md only apply to the original
device, not the replacement. We currently don't make links for the
replacement - there doesn't seem to be a need.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Soon an array will be able to have multiple devices with the
same raid_disk number (an original and a replacement). So removing
a device based on the number won't work. So pass the actual device
handle instead.
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When setting the slot number on a device in an active array we
currently check that the number is not already in use.
We then call into the personality's hot_add_disk function
which performs the same test and returns the same error.
Thus the common test is not needed.
As we will shortly be changing some personalities to allow duplicates
in some cases (to support hot-replace), the common test will become
inconvenient.
So remove the common test.
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The info is already available in /proc/mdstat and /sys/block in
an accessible form so there is no point in putting a road-block in
the ioctl for information gathering.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Before performing a recovery we try to remove any spares that
might not be working, then add any that might have become relevant.
Currently we abort on the first spare that cannot be added.
This is a false optimisation.
It is conceivable that - depending on rules in the personality - a
subsequent spare might be accepted.
Also the loop does other things like count the available spares and
reset the 'recovery_offset' value.
If we abort early these might not happen properly.
So remove the early abort.
In particular if you have an array what is undergoing recovery and
which has extra spares, then the recovery may not restart after as
reboot as the could of 'spares' might end up as zero.
Reported-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When we mark blocks as bad we need them to be acknowledged by the
metadata handler promptly.
For an in-kernel metadata handler that was already being done. But
for an external metadata handler we need to alert it of the change by
sending a notification through the sysfs file. This adds that
notification.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Once a device is marked Faulty the badblocks - whether acknowledged or
not - become irrelevant. So they shouldn't cause the device to be
marked as Blocked.
Without this patch, a process might write "-blocked" to clear the
Blocked status, but while that will correctly fail the device, it
won't remove the apparent 'blocked' status.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When we are accessing an mddev via sysfs we know that the
mddev cannot disappear because it has an embedded kobj which
is refcounted by sysfs.
And we also take the mddev_lock.
However this is not enough.
The final mddev_put could have been called and the
mddev_delayed_delete is waiting for sysfs to let go so it can destroy
the kobj and mddev.
In this state there are a lot of changes that should not be attempted.
To to guard against this we:
- initialise mddev->all_mddevs in on last put so the state can be
easily detected.
- in md_attr_show and md_attr_store, check ->all_mddevs under
all_mddevs_lock and mddev_get the mddev if it still appears to
be active.
This means that if we get to sysfs as the mddev is being deleted we
will get -EBUSY.
rdev_attr_store and rdev_attr_show are similar but already have
sufficient protection. They check that rdev->mddev still points to
mddev after taking mddev_lock. As this is cleared before delayed
removal which can only be requested under the mddev_lock, this
ensure the rdev and mddev are still alive.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We like md devices to disappear when they really are not needed.
However it is not possible to tell from the current state whether it
is needed or not. We can only tell from recent history of changes.
In particular immediately after we create an md device it looks very
similar to immediately after we have finished with it.
So we always preserve a newly created md device until something
significant happens. This state is stored in 'hold_active'.
The normal case is to keep it until an ioctl happens, as that will
normally either activate it, or explicitly de-activate it. If it
doesn't then it was probably created by mistake and it is now time to
get rid of it.
We can also modify an array via sysfs (instead of via ioctl) and we
currently treat any change via sysfs like an ioctl as a sign that if
it now isn't more active, it should be destroyed.
However this is not appropriate as changes made via sysfs are more
gradual so we should look for a more definitive change.
So this patch only clears 'hold_active' from UNTIL_IOCTL to clear when
the array_state is changed via sysfs. Other changes via sysfs
are ignored.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
* 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (29 commits)
block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up
blk-throttle: use queue_is_locked() instead of lockdep_is_held()
blk-throttle: Take blkcg->lock while traversing blkcg->policy_list
blk-throttle: Free up policy node associated with deleted rule
block: warn if tag is greater than real_max_depth.
block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue
blk-flush: move the queue kick into
blk-flush: fix invalid BUG_ON in blk_insert_flush
block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio.
block: fix a typo in the blk-cgroup.h file
block: initialize the bounce pool if high memory may be added later
block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown
block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules
block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead
block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio()
block: reorganize queue draining
block: drop unnecessary blk_get/put_queue() in scsi_cmd_ioctl() and blk_get_tg()
block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free
block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h
block: fix genhd refcounting in blkio_policy_parse_and_set()
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to "mddev_t" -> "struct mddev" conversion
and making the request functions be of type "void" instead of "int" in
- drivers/md/{faulty.c,linear.c,md.c,md.h,multipath.c,raid0.c,raid1.c,raid10.c,raid5.c}
- drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
A pending cleanup will mean that module.h won't be implicitly
everywhere anymore. Make sure the modular drivers in md dir
are actually calling out for <module.h> explicitly in advance.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
If an incremental recovery was interrupted, a subsequent
re-add will result in a full recovery, even though an
incremental should be possible (seen with raid1).
Solve this problem by not updating the superblock on the
recovering device until array is not degraded any longer.
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When we add a device to an active array it can be meaningful to set
the 'insync' flag. This indicates that the device is in-sync with the
array except for locations recorded in the bitmap.
A bitmap-based recovery can then bring it completely in-sync.
Internally we move that flag to 'saved_raid_disk' but forgot to clear
In_sync like we do in add_new_disk.
So clear In_sync after moving its value to saved_raid_disk.
Reported-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The typedefs are just annoying. 'mdk' probably refers to 'md_k.h'
which used to be an include file that defined this thing.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The md_notify_reboot() method includes a call to mdelay(1000),
to deal with "exotic SCSI devices" which are too volatile on
reboot. The delay is unconditional. Even if the machine does
not have any block devices, let alone MD devices, the kernel
shutdown sequence is slowed down.
1 second does not matter much with physical hardware, but with
certain virtualization use cases any wasted time in the bootup
& shutdown sequence counts for alot.
* drivers/md/md.c: md_notify_reboot() - only impose a delay if
there was at least one MD device to be stopped during reboot
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Two related problems:
1/ some error paths call "md_unregister_thread(mddev->thread)"
without subsequently clearing ->thread. A subsequent call
to mddev_unlock will try to wake the thread, and crash.
2/ Most calls to md_wakeup_thread are protected against the thread
disappeared either by:
- holding the ->mutex
- having an active request, so something else must be keeping
the array active.
However mddev_unlock calls md_wakeup_thread after dropping the
mutex and without any certainty of an active request, so the
->thread could theoretically disappear.
So we need a spinlock to provide some protections.
So change md_unregister_thread to take a pointer to the thread
pointer, and ensure that it always does the required locking, and
clears the pointer properly.
Reported-by: "Moshe Melnikov" <moshe@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
cc: stable@kernel.org
There is very little benefit in allowing to let a ->make_request
instance update the bios device and sector and loop around it in
__generic_make_request when we can archive the same through calling
generic_make_request from the driver and letting the loop in
generic_make_request handle it.
Note that various drivers got the return value from ->make_request and
returned non-zero values for errors.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
0.90 metadata uses an unsigned 32bit number to count the number of
kilobytes used from each device.
This should allow up to 4TB per device.
However we multiply this by 2 (to get sectors) before casting to a
larger type, so sizes above 2TB get truncated.
Also we allow rdev->sectors to be larger than 4TB, so it is possible
for the array to be resized larger than the metadata can handle.
So make sure rdev->sectors never exceeds 4TB when 0.90 metadata is in
used.
Also the sanity check at the end of super_90_load should include level
1 as it used ->size too. (RAID0 and Linear don't use ->size at all).
Reported-by: Pim Zandbergen <P.Zandbergen@macroscoop.nl>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When the 'blocked' flag on a device is cleared while there are
unacknowledged bad blocks we must fail the device. This is needed for
backwards compatability of the interface.
The code currently uses the wrong test for "unacknowledged bad blocks
exist". Change it to the right test.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Queue idling is used for the anticipation of immediate
sequencial I/O's but md_super_write() is a kind of one-
shot operation, coupled with md_super_wait(), so the
idling in this case will be just a waste of time.
Specifying REQ_NOIDLE prevents it. Instead of adding
the flag to submit_bio() directly, use pre-defined
macro WRITE_FLUSH_FUA.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The 'write-mostly' flag can be changed through sysfs.
With 0.90 metadata, those changes are reflected in the metadata.
For 1.x metadata, they aren't.
So fix super_1_sync to record 'write-mostly' status.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Sometimes a device will refuse to be set faulty. e.g. RAID1 will
never let the last working device become faulty.
So check if "md_error()" did manage to set the faulty flag and fail
with EBUSY if it didn't.
Resolves-Debian-Bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601198
Reported-by: Mike Hommey <mh+reportbug@glandium.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (75 commits)
md/raid10: handle further errors during fix_read_error better.
md/raid10: Handle read errors during recovery better.
md/raid10: simplify read error handling during recovery.
md/raid10: record bad blocks due to write errors during resync/recovery.
md/raid10: attempt to fix read errors during resync/check
md/raid10: Handle write errors by updating badblock log.
md/raid10: clear bad-block record when write succeeds.
md/raid10: avoid writing to known bad blocks on known bad drives.
md/raid10 record bad blocks as needed during recovery.
md/raid10: avoid reading known bad blocks during resync/recovery.
md/raid10 - avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 3
md/raid10: avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 2
md/raid10: avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 1
md/raid10: Split handle_read_error out from raid10d.
md/raid10: simplify/reindent some loops.
md/raid5: Clear bad blocks on successful write.
md/raid5. Don't write to known bad block on doubtful devices.
md/raid5: write errors should be recorded as bad blocks if possible.
md/raid5: use bad-block log to improve handling of uncorrectable read errors.
md/raid5: avoid reading from known bad blocks.
...
When recovering one or more devices, if all the good devices have
bad blocks we should record a bad block on the device being rebuilt.
If this fails, we need to abort the recovery.
To ensure we don't think that we aborted later than we actually did,
we need to move the check for MD_RECOVERY_INTR earlier in md_do_sync,
in particular before mddev->curr_resync is updated.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
It is only safe to choose not to write to a bad block if that bad
block is safely recorded in metadata - i.e. if it has been
'acknowledged'.
If it hasn't we need to wait for the acknowledgement.
We support that using rdev->blocked wait and
md_wait_for_blocked_rdev by introducing a new device flag
'BlockedBadBlock'.
This flag is only advisory.
It is cleared whenever we acknowledge a bad block, so that a waiter
can re-check the particular bad blocks that it is interested it.
It should be set by a caller when they find they need to wait.
This (set after test) is inherently racy, but as
md_wait_for_blocked_rdev already has a timeout, losing the race will
have minimal impact.
When we clear "Blocked" was also clear "BlockedBadBlocks" incase it
was set incorrectly (see above race).
We also modify the way we manage 'Blocked' to fit better with the new
handling of 'BlockedBadBlocks' and to make it consistent between
externally managed and internally managed metadata. This requires
that each raidXd loop checks if the metadata needs to be written and
triggers a write (md_check_recovery) if needed. Otherwise a queued
write request might cause raidXd to wait for the metadata to write,
and only that thread can write it.
Before writing metadata, we set FaultRecorded for all devices that
are Faulty, then after writing the metadata we clear Blocked for any
device for which the Fault was certainly Recorded.
The 'faulty' device flag now appears in sysfs if the device is faulty
*or* it has unacknowledged bad blocks. So user-space which does not
understand bad blocks can continue to function correctly.
User space which does, should not assume a device is faulty until it
sees the 'faulty' flag, and then sees the list of unacknowledged bad
blocks is empty.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a device has ever seen a write error, we will want to handle
known-bad-blocks differently.
So create an appropriate state flag and export it via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Now that we have a bad block list, we should not read from those
blocks.
There are several main parts to this:
1/ read_balance needs to check for bad blocks, and return not only
the chosen device, but also how many good blocks are available
there.
2/ fix_read_error needs to avoid trying to read from bad blocks.
3/ read submission must be ready to issue multiple reads to
different devices as different bad blocks on different devices
could mean that a single large read cannot be served by any one
device, but can still be served by the array.
This requires keeping count of the number of outstanding requests
per bio. This count is stored in 'bi_phys_segments'
4/ retrying a read needs to also be ready to submit a smaller read
and queue another request for the rest.
This does not yet handle bad blocks when reading to perform resync,
recovery, or check.
'md_trim_bio' will also be used for RAID10, so put it in md.c and
export it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Space must have been allocated when array was created.
A feature flag is set when the badblock list is non-empty, to
ensure old kernels don't load and trust the whole device.
We only update the on-disk badblocklist when it has changed.
If the badblocklist (or other metadata) is stored on a bad block, we
don't cope very well.
If metadata has no room for bad block, flag bad-blocks as disabled,
and do the same for 0.90 metadata.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This can show the log (providing it fits in one page) and
allows bad blocks to be 'acknowledged' meaning that they
have safely been recorded in metadata.
Clearing bad blocks is not allowed via sysfs (except for
code testing). A bad block can only be cleared when
a write to the block succeeds.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
This the first step in allowing md to track bad-blocks per-device so
that we can fail individual blocks rather than the whole device.
This patch just adds a data structure for recording bad blocks, with
routines to add, remove, search the list.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
When calling bioset_create we pass the size of the front_pad as
sizeof(mddev)
which looks suspicious as mddev is a pointer and so it looks like a
common mistake where
sizeof(*mddev)
was intended.
The size is actually correct as we want to store a pointer in the
front padding of the bios created by the bioset, so make the intent
more explicit by using
sizeof(mddev_t *)
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch causes MD to generate an event (for device-mapper) when the
synchronization thread is reaped. This is expected behavior for device-mapper.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
page_address() returns void pointer, so the casts can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If we hit a read error while recovering a mirror, we want to abort the
recovery without necessarily failing the disk - as having a disk this
a read error is better than not having an array at all.
Currently this is managed with a per-array flag "recovery_disabled"
and is only implemented for RAID1. For RAID10 we will need finer
grained control as we might want to disable recovery for individual
devices separately.
So push more of the decision making into the personality.
'recovery_disabled' is now a 'cookie' which is copied when the
personality want to disable recovery and is changed when a device is
added to the array as this is used as a trigger to 'try recovery
again'.
This will allow RAID10 to get the control that it needs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit c89a8eee61 ("Allow faulty devices to be removed from a
readonly array.") added some work on ro array in the function,
but it couldn't be done since we didn't allow the ro array to be
handled from the beginning. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There are places where sysfs links to rdev are handled
in a same way. Add the helper functions to consolidate
them.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file'
allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking
structure.
All current users are switched over to use the new counter.
Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If a device fails in a way that causes pending request to take a while
to complete, md will not be able to immediately remove it from the
array in remove_and_add_spares.
It will then incorrectly look like a spare device and md will try to
recover it even though it is failed.
This leads to a recovery process starting and instantly aborting over
and over again.
We should check if the device is faulty before considering it to be a
spare. This will avoid trying to start a recovery that cannot
proceed.
This bug was introduced in 2.6.26 so that patch is suitable for any
kernel since then.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Jim Paradis <james.paradis@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Linus Torvalds