linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/md.h, branch v3.7

Subject: [PATCH] md:change resync_mismatches to atomic64_t to avoid races

2012-10-11T03:17:59+00:00

Now that multiple threads can handle stripes, it is safer to
use an atomic64_t for resync_mismatches, to avoid update races.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

MD: change the parameter of md thread

2012-10-11T02:34:00+00:00

Change the thread parameter, so the thread can carry extra info. Next patch
will use it.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

blk: pass from_schedule to non-request unplug functions.

2012-07-31T07:08:15+00:00

This will allow md/raid to know why the unplug was called,
and will be able to act according - if !from_schedule it
is safe to perform tasks which could themselves schedule.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

blk: centralize non-request unplug handling.

2012-07-31T07:08:14+00:00

Both md and umem has similar code for getting notified on an
blk_finish_plug event.
Centralize this code in block/ and allow each driver to
provide its distinctive difference.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md: remove plug_cnt feature of plugging.

2012-07-31T07:08:14+00:00

This seemed like a good idea at the time, but after further thought I
cannot see it making a difference other than very occasionally and
testing to try to exercise the case it is most likely to help did not
show any performance difference by removing it.

So remove the counting of active plugs and allow 'pending writes' to
be activated at any time, not just when no plugs are active.

This is only relevant when there is a write-intent bitmap, and the
updating of the bitmap will likely introduce enough delay that
the single-threading of bitmap updates will be enough to collect large
numbers of updates together.

Removing this will make it easier to centralise the unplug code, and
will clear the other for other unplug enhancements which have a
measurable effect.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

md/bitmap: add new 'space' attribute for bitmaps.

2012-05-22T03:55:07+00:00

If we are to allow bitmaps to be resized when the array is resized,
we need to know how much space there is.

So create an attribute to store this information and set appropriate
defaults.

It can be set more precisely via sysfs, or future metadata extensions
may allow it to be recorded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: dm-raid should call helper function to clear rdev.

2012-05-22T03:54:30+00:00

dm-raid currently open-codes the freeing of some members of
and rdev.  It is more maintainable to have it call common code
from md.c which does this for all call-sites.

So remove free_disk_sb to md_rdev_clear, export it, and use it in
dm-raid.c

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: add possibility to change data-offset for devices.

2012-05-20T23:27:00+00:00

When reshaping we can avoid costly intermediate backup by
changing the 'start' address of the array on the device
(if there is enough room).

So as a first step, allow such a change to be requested
through sysfs, and recorded in v1.x metadata.

(As we didn't previous check that all 'pad' fields were zero,
 we need a new FEATURE flag for this.
 A (belatedly) check that all remaining 'pad' fields are
 zero to avoid a repeat of this)

The new data offset must be requested separately for each device.
This allows each to have a different change in the data offset.
This is not likely to be used often but as data_offset can be
set per-device, new_data_offset should be too.

This patch also removes the 'acknowledged' arg to rdev_set_badblocks as
it is never used and never will be.  At the same time we add a new
arg ('in_new') which is currently always zero but will be used more
soon.

When a reshape finishes we will need to update the data_offset
and rdev->sectors.  So provide an exported function to do that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: allow a reshape operation to be reversed.

2012-05-20T23:27:00+00:00

Currently a reshape operation always progresses from the start
of the array to the end unless the number of devices is being
reduced, in which case it progressed in the opposite direction.

To reverse a partial reshape which changes the number of devices
you can stop the array and re-assemble with the raid-disks numbers
reversed and it will undo.

However for a reshape that does not change the number of devices
it is not possible to reverse the reshape in the middle - you have to
wait until it completes.

So add a 'reshape_direction' attribute with is either 'forwards' or
'backwards' and can be explicitly set when delta_disks is zero.

This will become more important when we allow the data_offset to
change in a reshape.  Then the explicit statement of what direction is
being used will be more useful.

This can be enabled in raid5 trivially as it already supports
reverse reshape and just needs to use a different trigger to request it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid10: handle merge_bvec_fn in member devices.

2012-03-19T01:46:39+00:00

Currently we don't honour merge_bvec_fn in member devices so if there
is one, we force all requests to be single-page at most.
This is not ideal.

So enhance the raid10 merge_bvec_fn to check that function in children
as well.

This introduces a small problem.  There is no locking around calls
the ->merge_bvec_fn and subsequent calls to ->make_request.  So a
device added between these could end up getting a request which
violates its merge_bvec_fn.

Currently the best we can do is synchronize_sched().  This will work
providing no preemption happens.  If there is preemption, we just
have to hope that new devices are largely consistent with old devices.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown