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NeilBrown b098636cf0 md: allow resync_start to be set while an array is active.
The sysfs attribute 'resync_start' (known internally as recovery_cp),
records where a resync is up to.  A value of 0 means the array is
not known to be in-sync at all.  A value of MaxSector means the array
is believed to be fully in-sync.

When the size of member devices of an array (RAID1,RAID4/5/6) is
increased, the array can be increased to match.  This process sets
resync_start to the old end-of-device offset so that the new part of
the array gets resynced.

However with RAID1 (and RAID6) a resync is not technically necessary
and may be undesirable.  So it would be good if the implied resync
after the array is resized could be avoided.

So: change 'resync_start' so the value can be changed while the array
is active, and as a precaution only allow it to be changed while
resync/recovery is 'frozen'.  Changing it once resync has started is
not going to be useful anyway.

This allows the array to be resized without a resync by:
  write 'frozen' to 'sync_action'
  write new size to 'component_size' (this will set resync_start)
  write 'none' to 'resync_start'
  write 'idle' to 'sync_action'.

Also slightly improve some tests on recovery_cp when resizing
raid1/raid5.  Now that an arbitrary value could be set we should be
more careful in our tests.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 15:52:21 +10:00
NeilBrown af6d7b760c md/raid1: improve handling of pages allocated for write-behind.
The current handling and freeing of these pages is a bit fragile.
We only keep the list of allocated pages in each bio, so we need to
still have a valid bio when freeing the pages, which is a bit clumsy.

So simply store the allocated page list in the r1_bio so it can easily
be found and freed when we are finished with the r1_bio.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:51:19 +10:00
NeilBrown 7ca78d57d1 md/raid1: try fix_sync_read_error before process_checks.
If we get a read error during resync/recovery we current repeat with
single-page reads to find out just where the error is, and possibly
read each page from a different device.

With check/repair we don't currently do that, we just fail.
However it is possible that while all devices fail on the large 64K
read, we might be able to satisfy each 4K from one device or another.

So call fix_sync_read_error before process_checks to maximise the
chance of finding good data and writing it out to the devices with
read errors.

For this to work, we need to set the 'uptodate' flags properly after
fix_sync_read_error has succeeded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:50:37 +10:00
NeilBrown 78d7f5f726 md/raid1: tidy up new functions: process_checks and fix_sync_read_error.
These changes are mostly cosmetic:

1/ change mddev->raid_disks to conf->raid_disks because the later is
   technically safer, though in current practice it doesn't matter in
   this particular context.
2/ Rearrange two for / if loops to have an early 'continue' so the
   body of the 'if' doesn't need to be indented so much.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:48:56 +10:00
NeilBrown a68e587035 md/raid1: split out two sub-functions from sync_request_write
sync_request_write is too big and too deep.
So split out two self-contains bits of functionality into separate
function.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:40:44 +10:00
NeilBrown 76073054c9 md/raid1: clean up read_balance.
read_balance has two loops which both look for a 'best'
device based on slightly different criteria.
This is clumsy and makes is hard to add extra criteria.

So replace it all with a single loop that combines everything.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:34:56 +10:00
NeilBrown c3b328ac84 md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
We just need to make sure that an unplug event wakes up the md
thread, which is exactly what mddev_check_plugged does.

Also remove some plug-related code that is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:43 +10:00
NeilBrown e1dfa0a297 md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
md/raid submits a lot of IO from the various raid threads.
So adding start/finish plug calls to those so that some
plugging happens.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:41 +10:00
Martin K. Petersen a91a2785b2 block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an
integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is
capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory.

Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at
metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not.

Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from
bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the
fs_bio_set.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snizer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-17 11:11:05 +01:00
Jens Axboe 4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
NeilBrown da9cf5050a md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit
blk_throtl_exit assumes that ->queue_lock still exists,
so make sure that it does.
To do this, we stop redirecting ->queue_lock to conf->device_lock
and leave it pointing where it is initialised - __queue_lock.

As the blk_plug functions check the ->queue_lock is held, we now
take that spin_lock explicitly around the plug functions.  We don't
need the locking, just the warning removal.

This is needed for any kernel with the blk_throtl code, which is
which is 2.6.37 and later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-02-21 18:25:57 +11:00
Jonathan Brassow ccebd4c415 md-new-param-to_sync_page_io
Add new parameter to 'sync_page_io'.

The new parameter allows us to distinguish between metadata and data
operations.  This becomes important later when we add the ability to
use separate devices for data and metadata.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
2011-01-14 09:14:33 +11:00
Joe Perches 067032bc62 md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s
Noticed-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-01-14 09:14:33 +11:00
NeilBrown 8f9e0ee38f md/raid1: really fix recovery looping when single good device fails.
Commit 4044ba58dd supposedly fixed a
problem where if a raid1 with just one good device gets a read-error
during recovery, the recovery would abort and immediately restart in
an infinite loop.

However it depended on raid1_remove_disk removing the spare device
from the array.  But that does not happen in this case.  So add a test
so that in the 'recovery_disabled' case, the device will be removed.

This suitable for any kernel since 2.6.29 which is when
recovery_disabled was introduced.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Sebastian Färber <faerber@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-11-24 16:39:46 +11:00
NeilBrown f3ac8bf7ce md: tidy up device searches in read_balance.
The code for searching through the device list to read-balance in
raid1 is rather clumsy and hard to follow.  Try to simplify it a bit.

No important functionality change here.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-29 16:40:33 +11:00
NeilBrown 046abeede7 md/raid1: fix some typos in comments.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-29 16:40:33 +11:00
NeilBrown 9b19553e0b md/raid1: discard unused variable.
This structure field (flushing_bio_list) is never used, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-29 16:40:33 +11:00
NeilBrown a167f66324 md: use separate bio pool for each md device.
bio_clone and bio_alloc allocate from a common bio pool.
If an md device is stacked with other devices that use this pool, or under
something like swap which uses the pool, then the multiple calls on
the pool can cause deadlocks.

So allocate a local bio pool for each md array and use that rather
than the common pool.

This pool is used both for regular IO and metadata updates.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:15 +11:00
NeilBrown 2b193363ef md: change type of first arg to sync_page_io.
Currently sync_page_io takes a 'bdev'.
Every caller passes 'rdev->bdev'.
We will soon want another field out of the rdev in sync_page_io,
So just pass the rdev instead of the bdev out of it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:11 +11:00
NeilBrown 1c4588e9c1 md/raid1: perform mem allocation before disabling writes during resync.
Though this mem alloc is GFP_NOIO an so will not deadlock, it seems
better to do the allocation before 'raise_barrier' which stops any IO
requests while the resync proceeds.

raid10 always uses this order, so it is at least consistent to do the
same in raid1.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:09 +11:00
NeilBrown 6746557f03 md: use bio_kmalloc rather than bio_alloc when failure is acceptable.
bio_alloc can never fail (as it uses a mempool) but an block
indefinitely, especially if the caller is holding a reference to a
previously allocated bio.

So these to places which both handle failure and hold multiple bios
should not use bio_alloc, they should use bio_kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:06 +11:00
NeilBrown 4e78064f42 md: Fix possible deadlock with multiple mempool allocations.
It is not safe to allocate from a mempool while holding an item
previously allocated from that mempool as that can deadlock when the
mempool is close to exhaustion.

So don't use a bio list to collect the bios to write to multiple
devices in raid1 and raid10.
Instead queue each bio as it becomes available so an unplug will
activate all previously allocated bios and so a new bio has a chance
of being allocated.

This means we must set the 'remaining' count to '1' before submitting
any requests, then when all are submitted, decrement 'remaining' and
possible handle the write completion at that point.

Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:34:07 +11:00
NeilBrown 57dab0bdf6 md: use sector_t in bitmap_get_counter
bitmap_get_counter returns the number of sectors covered
by the counter in a pass-by-reference variable.
In some cases this can be very large, so make it a sector_t
for safety.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:32:26 +11:00
Jens Axboe fa251f8990 Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	drivers/block/loop.c
	mm/swapfile.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-19 09:13:04 +02:00
NeilBrown db8d9d3591 md/raid1: minor bio initialisation improvements.
When performing a resync we pre-allocate some bios and repeatedly use
them.  This requires us to re-initialise them each time.
One field (bi_comp_cpu) and some flags weren't being initiaised
reliably.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-07 12:00:50 +11:00
NeilBrown 7571ae887d md/raid1: avoid overflow in raid1 resync when bitmap is in use.
bitmap_start_sync returns - via a pass-by-reference variable - the
number of sectors before we need to check with the bitmap again.
Since commit ef42567335 this number can be substantially larger,
2^27 is a common value.

Unfortunately it is an 'int' and so when raid1.c:sync_request shifts
it 9 places to the left it becomes 0.  This results in a zero-length
read which the scsi layer justifiably complains about.

This patch just removes the shift so the common case becomes safe with
a trivially-correct patch.

In the next merge window we will convert this 'int' to a 'sector_t'

Reported-by: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-07 11:54:46 +11:00
Tejun Heo e9c7469bb4 md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support
This patch converts md to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now
deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER.  In the core part (md.c), the following
changes are notable.

* Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA don't interfere with
  processing of other requests and thus there is no reason to mark the
  queue congested while FLUSH/FUA is in progress.

* REQ_FLUSH/FUA failures are final and its users don't need retry
  logic.  Retry logic is removed.

* Preflush needs to be issued to all member devices but FUA writes can
  be handled the same way as other writes - their processing can be
  deferred to request_queue of member devices.  md_barrier_request()
  is renamed to md_flush_request() and simplified accordingly.

For linear, raid0 and multipath, the core changes are enough.  raid1,
5 and 10 need the following conversions.

* raid1: Handling of FLUSH/FUA bio's can simply be deferred to
  request_queues of member devices.  Barrier related logic removed.

* raid5: Queue draining logic dropped.  FUA bit is propagated through
  biodrain and stripe resconstruction such that all the updated parts
  of the stripe are written out with FUA writes if any of the dirtying
  writes was FUA.  preread_active_stripes handling in make_request()
  is updated as suggested by Neil Brown.

* raid10: FUA bit needs to be propagated to write clones.

linear, raid0, 1, 5 and 10 tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
NeilBrown 2c7d46ec19 md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again
commit 7b6d91daee changed the behaviour
of a few variables in raid1 and raid10 from flags to bit-sets, but
left them as type 'bool' so they did not work.

Change them (back) to unsigned long.
(historical note: see 1ef04fefe2)

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> and many others
2010-08-18 16:16:05 +10:00
NeilBrown 6b96562054 md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions.
md_check_recovery expects ->spare_active to return 'true' if any
spares were activated, but none of them do, so the consequent change
in 'degraded' is not notified through sysfs.

So count the number of spares activated, subtract it from 'degraded'
just once, and return it.

Reported-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-18 12:04:32 +10:00
Adrian Drzewiecki e6ffbcb6cd md: Notify sysfs when RAID1/5/10 disk is In_sync.
When RAID1 is done syncing disks, it'll update the state
of synced rdevs to In_sync. But it neglected to notify
sysfs that the attribute changed. So any programs that
are waiting for an rdev's state to change will not be
woken.

(raid5/raid10 added by neilb)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-18 11:49:02 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig 7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
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>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
NeilBrown 19fdb9eefb Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus
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>
2010-05-22 08:31:36 +10:00
NeilBrown af3a2cd6b8 md: Fix read balancing in RAID1 and RAID10 on drives > 2TB
read_balance uses a "unsigned long" for a sector number which
will get truncated beyond 2TB.
This will cause read-balancing to be non-optimal, and can cause
data to be read from the 'wrong' branch during a resync.  This has a
very small chance of returning wrong data.

Reported-by: Jordan Russell <jr-list-2010@quo.to>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:28:00 +10:00
NeilBrown 9dd1e2faf7 md/raid1: improve printk messages
Make sure the array name is included in a uniform way in all printk
messages.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:59 +10:00
NeilBrown e555190d82 md/raid1: delay reads that could overtake behind-writes.
When a raid1 array is configured to support write-behind
on some devices, it normally only reads from other devices.
If all devices are write-behind (because the rest have failed)
it is possible for a read request to be serviced before a
behind-write request, which would appear as data corruption.

So when forced to read from a WriteMostly device, wait for any
write-behind to complete, and don't start any more behind-writes.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:57 +10:00
NeilBrown d754c5ae1f md/raid1: fix confusing 'redirect sector' message.
This message seems to suggest the named device is the one on which a
read failed, however it is actually the device that the read will be
redirected to.
So make the message a little clearer.

Reported-by: Tim Burgess <ozburgess@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:56 +10:00
NeilBrown 21a52c6d05 md: pass mddev to make_request functions rather than request_queue
We used to pass the personality make_request function direct
to the block layer so the first argument had to be a queue.
But now we have the intermediary md_make_request so it makes
at lot more sense to pass a struct mddev_s.
It makes it possible to have an mddev without its own queue too.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:55 +10:00
NeilBrown b821eaa572 md: remove ->changed and related code.
We set ->changed to 1 and call check_disk_change at the end
of md_open so that bd_invalidated would be set and thus
partition rescan would happen appropriately.

Now that we call revalidate_disk directly, which sets bd_invalidates,
that indirection is no longer needed and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:53 +10:00
NeilBrown 490773268c md: move io accounting out of personalities into md_make_request
While I generally prefer letting personalities do as much as possible,
given that we have a central md_make_request anyway we may as well use
it to simplify code.
Also this centralises knowledge of ->gendisk which will help later.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:52 +10:00
H Hartley Sweeten 7b92813c3c drivers/md: Remove unnecessary casts of void *
void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:46 +10:00
NeilBrown 964147d5c8 md/raid1: fix counting of write targets.
There is a very small race window when writing to a
RAID1 such that if a device is marked faulty at exactly the wrong
time, the write-in-progress will not be sent to the device,
but the bitmap (if present) will be updated to say that
the write was sent.

Then if the device turned out to still be usable as was re-added
to the array, the bitmap-based-resync would skip resyncing that
block, possibly leading to corruption.  This would only be a problem
if no further writes were issued to that area of the device (i.e.
that bitmap chunk).

Suitable for any pending -stable kernel.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:13 +10:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
NeilBrown 627a2d3c29 md: deal with merge_bvec_fn in component devices better.
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 <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-03-16 17:04:24 +11:00
Martin K. Petersen 086fa5ff08 block: Rename blk_queue_max_sectors to blk_queue_max_hw_sectors
The block layer calling convention is blk_queue_<limit name>.
blk_queue_max_sectors predates this practice, leading to some confusion.
Rename the function to appropriately reflect that its intended use is to
set max_hw_sectors.

Also introduce a temporary wrapper for backwards compability.  This can
be removed after the merge window is closed.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-02-26 13:58:08 +01:00
NeilBrown 0efb9e6191 md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules.
Suggested by  Oren Held <orenhe@il.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:41 +11:00
NeilBrown 42a04b5078 md: move offset, daemon_sleep and chunksize out of bitmap structure
... and into bitmap_info.  These are all configuration parameters
that need to be set before the bitmap is created.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:41 +11:00
NeilBrown 709ae4879a md/raid1: add takeover support for raid5->raid1
A 2-device raid5 array can now be converted to raid1.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:41 +11:00
NeilBrown 6eef4b21ff md: add honouring of suspend_{lo,hi} to raid1.
This will allow us to stop writeout to portions of the array
while  they are resynced by someone else - e.g. another node in
a cluster.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-12-14 12:51:40 +11:00
NeilBrown d0e260782c md: revert incorrect fix for read error handling in raid1.
commit 4706b349f was a forward port of a fix that was needed
for SLES10.  But in fact it is not needed in mainline because
the earlier commit dd00a99e7a fixes the same problem in a
better way.
Further, this commit introduces a bug in the way it interacts with
the automatic read-error-correction.  If, after a read error is
successfully corrected, the same disk is chosen to re-read - the
re-read won't be attempted but an error will be returned instead.

After reverting that commit, there is the possibility that a
read error on a read-only array (where read errors cannot
be corrected as that requires a write) will repeatedly read the same
device and continue to get an error.
So in the "Array is readonly" case, fail the drive immediately on
a read error.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-12-01 17:30:59 +11:00