linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/raid5.c, branch v2.6.34

md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state

2010-05-07T11:10:35+00:00

Fix: Raid-6 was not trying to correct a read-error when in
singly-degraded state and was instead dropping one more device, going to
doubly-degraded state. This patch fixes this behaviour.

Tested-by: Janos Haar 
Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti 
Reported-by: Janos Haar 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Cc: stable@kernel.org

md/raid5: fix previous patch.

2010-04-22T21:08:28+00:00

Previous patch changes stripe and chunk_number to sector_t but
mistakenly did not update all of the divisions to use sector_dev().

This patch changes all the those divisions (actually the '%' operator)
to sector_div.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31 chunks.

2010-04-20T04:13:34+00:00

With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible
to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks.  Make sure this
works.

Reported-by: Brett King 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Cc: stable@kernel.org

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

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 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2010-03-03T15:34:18+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems
  local_t: Remove leftover local.h
  this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier
  this_cpu: Page allocator conversion
  percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions
  local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c
  module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters
  local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros
  percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()
  percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr()
  percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse
  percpu: add __percpu for sparse.
  percpu: make access macros universal
  percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.

block: Consolidate phys_segment and hw_segment limits

2010-02-26T12:58:08+00:00

Except for SCSI no device drivers distinguish between physical and
hardware segment limits.  Consolidate the two into a single segment
limit.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left

2010-02-17T02:17:38+00:00

Add __percpu sparse annotations to places which didn't make it in one
of the previous patches.  All converions are trivial.

These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be
in a different address space and warn if accessed without going
through percpu accessors.  This patch doesn't affect normal builds.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Len Brown 
Cc: Neil Brown

md: fix some lockdep issues between md and sysfs.

2010-02-10T00:26:09+00:00

======
This fix is related to
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15142
but does not address that exact issue.
======

sysfs does like attributes being removed while they are being accessed
(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

md: fix 'degraded' calculation when starting a reshape.

2010-02-09T05:34:29+00:00

This code was written long ago when it was not possible to
reshape a degraded array.  Now it is so the current level of
degraded-ness needs to be taken in to account.  Also newly addded
devices should only reduce degradedness if they are deemed to be
in-sync.

In particular, if you convert a RAID5 to a RAID6, and increase the
number of devices at the same time, then the 5->6 conversion will
make the array degraded so the current code will produce a wrong
value for 'degraded' - "-1" to be precise.

If the reshape runs to completion end_reshape will calculate a correct
new value for 'degraded', but if a device fails during the reshape an
incorrect decision might be made based on the incorrect value of
"degraded".

This patch is suitable for 2.6.32-stable and if they are still open,
2.6.31-stable and 2.6.30-stable as well.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Michael Evans 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION for all md related modules.

2009-12-14T01:51:41+00:00

Suggested by  Oren Held 

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown