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Andre Noll
58c0fed400 md: Make mddev->size sector-based.
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mddev_s to "dev_sectors"
and stores the number of 512-byte sectors instead of the number of
1K-blocks in it.

All users of that field, including raid levels 1,4-6,10, are adjusted
accordingly. This simplifies the code a bit because it allows to get
rid of a couple of divisions/multiplications by two.

In order to make checkpatch happy, some minor coding style issues
have also been addressed. In particular, size_store() now uses
strict_strtoull() instead of simple_strtoull().

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
NeilBrown
97e4f42d62 md: occasionally checkpoint drive recovery to reduce duplicate effort after a crash
Version 1.x metadata has the ability to record the status of a
partially completed drive recovery.
However we only update that record on a clean shutdown.
It would be nice to update it on unclean shutdowns too, particularly
when using a bitmap that removes much to the 'sync' effort after an
unclean shutdown.

One complication with checkpointing recovery is that we only know
where we are up to in terms of IO requests started, not which ones
have completed.  And we need to know what has completed to record
how much is recovered.  So occasionally pause the recovery until all
submitted requests are completed, then update the record of where
we are up to.

When we have a bitmap, we already do that pause occasionally to keep
the bitmap up-to-date.  So enhance that code to record the recovery
offset and schedule a superblock update.
And when there is no bitmap, just pause 16 times during the resync to
do a checkpoint.
'16' is a fairly arbitrary number.  But we don't really have any good
way to judge how often is acceptable, and it seems like a reasonable
number for now.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
NeilBrown
43b2e5d86d md: move md_k.h from include/linux/raid/ to drivers/md/
It really is nicer to keep related code together..

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
NeilBrown
bff61975b3 md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c
This makes the includes more explicit, and is preparation for moving
md_k.h to drivers/md/md.h

Remove include/raid/md.h as its only remaining use was to #include
other files.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
ef740c372d md: move headers out of include/linux/raid/
Move the headers with the local structures for the disciplines and
bitmap.h into drivers/md/ so that they are more easily grepable for
hacking and not far away.  md.h is left where it is for now as there
are some uses from the outside.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:27:03 +11:00
NeilBrown
355a43e641 md: write bitmap information to devices that are undergoing recovery.
When we add some spares to an array and start recovery, and we have
a bitmap which is stored 'internally' on all devices, we call
bitmap_write_all to make sure the bitmap is correct on the new
device(s).
However that doesn't work as write_sb_page only writes to
'In_sync' devices, and devices undergoing recovery are not
'In_sync' until recovery finishes.

So extend write_sb_page (actually next_active_rdev) to include devices
that are under recovery.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:27:02 +11:00
NeilBrown
d0a4bb4927 md: never clear bit from the write-intent bitmap when the array is degraded.
It is safe to clear a bit from the write-intent bitmap for a raid1
if we know the data has been written to all devices, which is
what the current test does.

But it is not always safe to update the 'events_cleared' counter in
that case.  This is because one request could complete successfully
after some other request has partially failed.

So simply disable the clearing and updating of events_cleared whenever
the array is degraded.  This might end up not clearing some bits that
could safely be cleared, but it is safest approach.

Note that the bug fixed here did not risk corrupting data by letting
the array get out-of-sync.  Rather it meant that when a device is
removed and re-added to the array, it might incorrectly require a full
recovery rather than just recovering based on the bitmap.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:27:02 +11:00
NeilBrown
1187cf0a3c md: Allow write-intent bitmaps to have chunksize < PAGE_SIZE
md currently insists that the chunk size used for write-intent
bitmaps (the amount of data that corresponds to one chunk)
be at least one page.

The reason for this restriction is lost in the mists of time,
but a review of the code (and a vague memory) suggests that the only
problem would be related to resync.  Resync tries very hard to
work in multiples of a page, but also needs to sync with units
of a bitmap_chunk too.

This connection comes out in the bitmap_start_sync call.

So change bitmap_start_sync to always work in multiples of a page.
If the bitmap chunk size is less that one page, we flag multiple
chunks as 'syncing' and generally make them all appear to the
resync routines like one chunk.

All other code either already works with data ranges that could
span multiple chunks, or explicitly only cares about a single chunk.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:27:02 +11:00
Cheng Renquan
159ec1fc06 md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly
The rdev_for_each macro defined in <linux/raid/md_k.h> is identical to
list_for_each_entry_safe, from <linux/list.h>, it should be defined to
use list_for_each_entry_safe, instead of reinventing the wheel.

But some calls to each_entry_safe don't really need a safe version,
just a direct list_for_each_entry is enough, this could save a temp
variable (tmp) in every function that used rdev_for_each.

In this patch, most rdev_for_each loops are replaced by list_for_each_entry,
totally save many tmp vars; and only in the other situations that will call
list_del to delete an entry, the safe version is used.

Signed-off-by: Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
NeilBrown
538452700d md: fix bitmap-on-external-file bug.
commit a2ed9615e3
fixed a bug with 'internal' bitmaps, but in the process broke
'in a file' bitmaps.  So they are broken in 2.6.28

This fixes it, and needs to go in 2.6.28-stable.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-01-09 08:31:05 +11:00
NeilBrown
a2ed9615e3 md: Don't read past end of bitmap when reading bitmap.
When we read the write-intent-bitmap off the device, we currently
read a whole number of pages.
When PAGE_SIZE is 4K, this works due to the alignment we enforce
on the superblock and bitmap.
When PAGE_SIZE is 64K, this case read past the end-of-device
which causes an error.

When we write the superblock, we ensure to clip the last page
to just be the required size.  Copy that code into the read path
to just read the required number of sectors.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2008-12-19 16:25:01 +11:00
NeilBrown
b2d2c4cead Fix problem with waiting while holding rcu read lock in md/bitmap.c
A recent patch to protect the rdev list with rcu locking leaves us
with a problem because we can sleep on memalloc while holding the
rcu lock.

The rcu lock is only needed while walking the linked list as
uninteresting devices (failed or spares) can be removed at any time.

So only take the rcu lock while actually walking the linked list.
Take a refcount on the rdev during the time when we drop the lock
and do the memalloc to start IO.
When we return to the locked code, all the interesting devices
on the list will not have moved, so we can simply use
list_for_each_continue_rcu to pick up where we left off.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-09-01 12:48:13 +10:00
Jens Axboe
93769f5807 md: the bitmap code needs to use blk_plug_device_unlocked()
It doesn't hold the queue lock, so it's both racey on the queue flags
and thus spews a warning.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-08-01 20:32:31 +02:00
NeilBrown
4b80991c6c md: Protect access to mddev->disks list using RCU
All modifications and most access to the mddev->disks list are made
under the reconfig_mutex lock.  However there are three places where
the list is walked without any locking.  If a reconfig happens at this
time, havoc (and oops) can ensue.

So use RCU to protect these accesses:
  - wrap them in rcu_read_{,un}lock()
  - use list_for_each_entry_rcu
  - add to the list with list_add_rcu
  - delete from the list with list_del_rcu
  - delay the 'free' with call_rcu rather than schedule_work

Note that export_rdev did a list_del_init on this list.  In almost all
cases the entry was not in the list anymore so it was a no-op and so
safe.  It is no longer safe as after list_del_rcu we may not touch
the list_head.
An audit shows that export_rdev is called:
  - after unbind_rdev_from_array, in which case the delete has
     already been done,
  - after bind_rdev_to_array fails, in which case the delete isn't needed.
  - before the device has been put on a list at all (e.g. in
      add_new_disk where reading the superblock fails).
  - and in autorun devices after a failure when the device is on a
      different list.

So remove the list_del_init call from export_rdev, and add it back
immediately before the called to export_rdev for that last case.

Note also that ->same_set is sometimes used for lists other than
mddev->list (e.g. candidates).  In these cases rcu is not needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21 17:05:25 +10:00
Andre Noll
0f420358e3 md: Turn rdev->sb_offset into a sector-based quantity.
Rename it to sb_start to make sure all users have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:23 +10:00
Neil Brown
a0da84f35b Improve setting of "events_cleared" for write-intent bitmaps.
When an array is degraded, bits in the write-intent bitmap are not
cleared, so that if the missing device is re-added, it can be synced
by only updated those parts of the device that have changed since
it was removed.

The enable this a 'events_cleared' value is stored. It is the event
counter for the array the last time that any bits were cleared.

Sometimes - if a device disappears from an array while it is 'clean' -
the events_cleared value gets updated incorrectly (there are subtle
ordering issues between updateing events in the main metadata and the
bitmap metadata) resulting in the missing device appearing to require
a full resync when it is re-added.

With this patch, we update events_cleared precisely when we are about
to clear a bit in the bitmap.  We record events_cleared when we clear
the bit internally, and copy that to the superblock which is written
out before the bit on storage.  This makes it more "obviously correct".

We also need to update events_cleared when the event_count is going
backwards (as happens on a dirty->clean transition of a non-degraded
array).

Thanks to Mike Snitzer for identifying this problem and testing early
"fixes".

Cc:  "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-06-28 08:31:22 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
6bcfd60186 md: kill file_path wrapper
Kill the trivial and rather pointless file_path wrapper around d_path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-24 09:56:09 -07:00
NeilBrown
7be3dfec47 md: reduce CPU wastage on idle md array with a write-intent bitmap
Recent patch titled
  Reduce CPU wastage on idle md array with a write-intent bitmap.

would sometimes leave the array with dirty bitmap bits that stay dirty.  A
subsequent write would sort things out so it isn't a big problem, but should
be fixed nonetheless.

We need to make sure that when the bitmap becomes not "allclean", the
daemon_sleep really does get set to a sensible value.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10 18:01:19 -07:00
NeilBrown
8311c29d40 md: reduce CPU wastage on idle md array with a write-intent bitmap
On an md array with a write-intent bitmap, a thread wakes up every few seconds
and scans the bitmap looking for work to do.  If the array is idle, there will
be no work to do, but a lot of scanning is done to discover this.

So cache the fact that the bitmap is completely clean, and avoid scanning the
whole bitmap when the cache is known to be clean.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04 16:35:17 -08:00
Jan Blunck
cf28b4863f d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path
d_path() is used on a <dentry,vfsmount> pair.  Lets use a struct path to
reflect this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build in mm/memory.c]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-14 21:17:09 -08:00
NeilBrown
d089c6af10 md: change ITERATE_RDEV to rdev_for_each
As this is more in line with common practice in the kernel.  Also swap the
args around to be more like list_for_each.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:19 -08:00
NeilBrown
b47490c9bc md: Update md bitmap during resync.
Currently an md array with a write-intent bitmap does not updated that bitmap
to reflect successful partial resync.  Rather the entire bitmap is updated
when the resync completes.

This is because there is no guarentee that resync requests will complete in
order, and tracking each request individually is unnecessarily burdensome.

However there is value in regularly updating the bitmap, so add code to
periodically pause while all pending sync requests complete, then update the
bitmap.  Doing this only every few seconds (the same as the bitmap update
time) does not notciably affect resync performance.

[snitzer@gmail.com: export bitmap_cond_end_sync]
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
Alan D. Brunelle
2ad8b1ef11 Add UNPLUG traces to all appropriate places
Added blk_unplug interface, allowing all invocations of unplugs to result
in a generated blktrace UNPLUG.

Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-11-09 13:41:32 +01:00
NeilBrown
85bfb4da8c md: fix an unsigned compare to allow creation of bitmaps with v1.0 metadata
As page->index is unsigned, this all becomes an unsigned comparison,
which almost always returns an error.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-23 08:32:06 -07:00
NeilBrown
4ad1366376 md: change bitmap_unplug and others to void functions
bitmap_unplug only ever returns 0, so it may as well be void.  Two callers try
to print a message if it returns non-zero, but that message is already printed
by bitmap_file_kick.

write_page returns an error which is not consistently checked.  It always
causes BITMAP_WRITE_ERROR to be set on an error, and that can more
conveniently be checked.

When the return of write_page is checked, an error causes bitmap_file_kick to
be called - so move that call into write_page - and protect against recursive
calls into bitmap_file_kick.

bitmap_update_sb returns an error that is never checked.

So make these 'void' and be consistent about checking the bit.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:15 -07:00
NeilBrown
f0d76d70bc md: check that internal bitmap does not overlap other data
We current completely trust user-space to set up metadata describing an
consistant array.  In particlar, that the metadata, data, and bitmap do not
overlap.

But userspace can be buggy, and it is better to report an error than corrupt
data.  So put in some appropriate checks.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:15 -07:00
NeilBrown
ab6085c795 md: don't write more than is required of the last page of a bitmap
It is possible that real data or metadata follows the bitmap without full page
alignment.

So limit the last write to be only the required number of bytes, rounded up to
the hard sector size of the device.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
ef51c97623 Remove do_sync_file_range()
Remove do_sync_file_range() and convert callers to just use
do_sync_mapping_range().

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
Neil Brown
505fa2c4a2 [PATCH] md: fix calculation for size of filemap_attr array in md/bitmap
If 'num_pages' were ever 1 more than a multiple of 8 (32bit platforms)
or of 16 (64 bit platforms).  filemap_attr would be allocated one
'unsigned long' shorter than required.  We need a round-up in there.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-12 15:31:42 -07:00
Andrew Morton
fc0ecff698 [PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()
Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to
invalidate_mapping_pages().

Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:31 -08:00
Neil Brown
da6e1a32fb [PATCH] md: avoid possible BUG_ON in md bitmap handling
md/bitmap tracks how many active write requests are pending on blocks
associated with each bit in the bitmap, so that it knows when it can clear
the bit (when count hits zero).

The counter has 14 bits of space, so if there are ever more than 16383, we
cannot cope.

Currently the code just calles BUG_ON as "all" drivers have request queue
limits much smaller than this.

However is seems that some don't.  Apparently some multipath configurations
can allow more than 16383 concurrent write requests.

So, in this unlikely situation, instead of calling BUG_ON we now wait
for the count to drop down a bit.  This requires a new wait_queue_head,
some waiting code, and a wakeup call.

Tested by limiting the counter to 20 instead of 16383 (writes go a lot slower
in that case...).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09 09:25:47 -08:00
NeilBrown
f49d5e62d9 [PATCH] md: avoid reading past the end of a bitmap file
In most cases we check the size of the bitmap file before reading data from
it.  However when reading the superblock, we always read the first PAGE_SIZE
bytes, which might not always be appropriate.  So limit that read to the size
of the file if appropriate.

Also, we get the count of available bytes wrong in one place, so that too can
read past the end of the file.

Cc: "yang yin" <yinyang801120@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26 13:50:59 -08:00
Josef Sipek
c649bb9c55 [PATCH] struct path: convert md
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:47 -08:00
NeilBrown
4f2e639af4 [PATCH] md: endian annotations for the bitmap superblock
And a couple of bug fixes found by sparse.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-21 13:35:05 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
5f6e3c8365 [PATCH] md: use BUILD_BUG_ON
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:26 -07:00
Paul Clements
a638b2dc95 [PATCH] md: use ffz instead of find_first_set to convert multiplier to shift
find_first_set doesn't find the least-significant bit on bigendian machines,
so it is really wrong to use it.

ffs is closer, but takes an 'int' and we have a 'unsigned long'.  So use
ffz(~X) to convert a chunksize into a chunkshift.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:18 -07:00
Paul Clements
9b1d1dac18 [PATCH] md: new sysfs interface for setting bits in the write-intent-bitmap
Add a new sysfs interface that allows the bitmap of an array to be dirtied.
The interface is write-only, and is used as follows:

echo "1000" > /sys/block/md2/md/bitmap

(dirty the bit for chunk 1000 [offset 0] in the in-memory and on-disk
bitmaps of array md2)

echo "1000-2000" > /sys/block/md1/md/bitmap

(dirty the bits for chunks 1000-2000 in md1's bitmap)

This is useful, for example, in cluster environments where you may need to
combine two disjoint bitmaps into one (following a server failure, after a
secondary server has taken over the array).  By combining the bitmaps on
the two servers, a full resync can be avoided (This was discussed on the
list back on March 18, 2005, "[PATCH 1/2] md bitmap bug fixes" thread).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03 08:04:17 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
NeilBrown
ce25c31bdd [PATCH] md: Change md/bitmap file handling to use bmap to file blocks-fix
Fix problems with new bmap based access to bitmap files.

1/ When not using a file based bitmap, attach a NULL list of buffers
   to each page so the common free_buffer routine can cope.
2/ Use submit_bh to read as well as write, rather than vfs_read.
   This makes read and write more symetric.
3/ sync the file before reading, to ensure that the page cache has no
   dirty pages that might get written out later.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
d785a06a0b [PATCH] md/bitmap: change md/bitmap file handling to use bmap to file blocks
If md is asked to store a bitmap in a file, it tries to hold onto the page
cache pages for that file, manipulate them directly, and call a cocktail of
operations to write the file out.  I don't believe this is a supportable
approach.

This patch changes the approach to use the same approach as swap files.  i.e.
bmap is used to enumerate all the block address of parts of the file and we
write directly to those blocks of the device.

swapfile only uses parts of the file that provide a full pages at contiguous
addresses.  We don't have that luxury so we have to cope with pages that are
non-contiguous in storage.  To handle this we attach buffers to each page, and
store the addresses in those buffers.

With this approach the pagecache may contain data which is inconsistent with
what is on disk.  To alleviate the problems this can cause, md invalidates the
pagecache when releasing the file.  If the file is to be examined while the
array is active (a non-critical but occasionally useful function), O_DIRECT io
must be used.  And new version of mdadm will have support for this.

This approach simplifies a lot of code:
 - we no longer need to keep a list of pages which we need to wait for,
   as the b_endio function can keep track of how many outstanding
   writes there are.  This saves a mempool.
 - -EAGAIN returns from write_page are no longer possible (not sure if
    they ever were actually).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
acc55e2201 [PATCH] md/bitmap: tidy up i_writecount handling in md/bitmap
md/bitmap modifies i_writecount of a bitmap file to make sure that no-one else
writes to it.  The reverting of the change is sometimes done twice, and there
is one error path where it is omitted.

This patch tidies that up.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
0cdd02cabd [PATCH] md/bitmap: remove dead code from md/bitmap
bitmap_active is never called, and the BITMAP_ACTIVE flag is never users or
tested, so discard them both.

Also remove some out-of-date 'todo' comments.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
a647e4bc5c [PATCH] md/bitmap: remove unnecessary page reference manipulations from md/bitmap code
md/bitmap gets a collection of pages representing the bitmap when it
initialises the bitmap, and puts all the references when discarding the
bitmap.

It also occasionally takes extra references without any good reason, and
sometimes drops them ...  though it doesn't always drop them, which can result
in a memory leak.

This patch removes the unnecessary 'get_page' calls, and the corresponding
'put_page' calls.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
e16b68b6e4 [PATCH] md/bitmap: use set_bit etc for bitmap page attributes
In particular, this means that we use 4 bits per page instead of a whole
unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
ec7a3197f4 [PATCH] md/bitmap: cleaner separation of page attribute handlers in md/bitmap
md/bitmap has some attributes per-page.  Handling of these attributes in
largely abstracted in set_page_attr and clear_page_attr.  However
get_page_attr exposes the format used to store them.  So prior to changing
that format, introduce test_page_attr instead of get_page_attr, and make
appropriate usage changes.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
NeilBrown
0b79ccf0cd [PATCH] md/bitmap: remove bitmap writeback daemon
md/bitmap currently has a separate thread to wait for writes to the bitmap
file to complete (as we cannot get a callback on that action).

However this isn't needed as bitmap_unplug is called from process context and
waits for the writeback thread to do it's work.  The same result can be
achieved by doing the waiting directly in bitmap_unplug.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:38 -07:00
Matthew Dobson
0eaae62aba [PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1e8c573933 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
  The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
  rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
  fix typos "wich" -> "which"
  typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
  Fix simple typos
  tabify drivers/char/Makefile
  ...
2006-03-25 08:41:09 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
7e31765550 [PATCH] md/bitmap.c:bitmap_mask_state(): fix inconsequent NULL checking
We dereference bitmap both one line above and one line below this check
rendering this check quite useless.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:57 -08:00
Eric Sesterhenn
5daf2cf19a BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:35:26 +01:00