linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/raid5.c, branch v3.11

md/raid5: fix interaction of 'replace' and 'recovery'.

2013-07-25T06:46:57+00:00

If a device in a RAID4/5/6 is being replaced while another is being
recovered, then the writes to the replacement device currently don't
happen, resulting in corruption when the replacement completes and the
new drive takes over.

This is because the replacement writes are only triggered when
's.replacing' is set and not when the similar 's.sync' is set (which
is the case during resync and recovery - it means all devices need to
be read).

So schedule those writes when s.replacing is set as well.

In this case we cannot use "STRIPE_INSYNC" to record that the
replacement has happened as that is needed for recording that any
parity calculation is complete.  So introduce STRIPE_REPLACED to
record if the replacement has happened.

For safety we should also check that STRIPE_COMPUTE_RUN is not set.
This has a similar effect to the "s.locked == 0" test.  The latter
ensure that now IO has been flagged but not started.  The former
checks if any parity calculation has been flagged by not started.
We must wait for both of these to complete before triggering the
'replace'.

Add a similar test to the subsequent check for "are we finished yet".
This possibly isn't needed (is subsumed in the STRIPE_INSYNC test),
but it makes it more obvious that the REPLACE will happen before we
think we are finished.

Finally if a NeedReplace device is not UPTODATE then that is an
error.  We really must trigger a warning.

This bug was introduced in commit 9a3e1101b827a59ac9036a672f5fa8d5279d0fe2
(md/raid5:  detect and handle replacements during recovery.)
which introduced replacement for raid5.
That was in 3.3-rc3, so any stable kernel since then would benefit
from this fix.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.3+)
Reported-by: qindehua <13691222965@163.com>
Tested-by: qindehua 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: allow 5-device RAID6 to be reshaped to 4-device.

2013-07-04T06:42:52+00:00

There is a bug in 'check_reshape' for raid5.c  To checks
that the new minimum number of devices is large enough (which is
good), but it does so also after the reshape has started (bad).

This is bad because
 - the calculation is now wrong as mddev->raid_disks has changed
   already, and
 - it is pointless because it is now too late to stop.

So only perform that test when reshape has not been committed to.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md: replace strict_strto() with kstrto()

2013-06-13T22:10:26+00:00

The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because
strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be
used.

Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

Merge tag 'md-3.10-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md

2013-06-13T17:13:29+00:00

Pull md bugfixes from Neil Brown:
 "A few bugfixes for md

  Some tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md-3.10-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid1,5,10: Disable WRITE SAME until a recovery strategy is in place
  md/raid1,raid10: use freeze_array in place of raise_barrier in various places.
  md/raid1: consider WRITE as successful only if at least one non-Faulty and non-rebuilding drive completed it.
  md: md_stop_writes() should always freeze recovery.

md/raid1,5,10: Disable WRITE SAME until a recovery strategy is in place

2013-06-13T04:49:54+00:00

There are cases where the kernel will believe that the WRITE SAME
command is supported by a block device which does not, in fact,
support WRITE SAME.  This currently happens for SATA drivers behind a
SAS controller, but there are probably a hundred other ways that can
happen, including drive firmware bugs.

After receiving an error for WRITE SAME the block layer will retry the
request as a plain write of zeroes, but mdraid will consider the
failure as fatal and consider the drive failed.  This has the effect
that all the mirrors containing a specific set of data are each
offlined in very rapid succession resulting in data loss.

However, just bouncing the request back up to the block layer isn't
ideal either, because the whole initial request-retry sequence should
be inside the write bitmap fence, which probably means that md needs
to do its own conversion of WRITE SAME to write zero.

Until the failure scenario has been sorted out, disable WRITE SAME for
raid1, raid5, and raid10.

[neilb: added raid5]

This patch is appropriate for any -stable since 3.7 when write_same
support was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

raid5: Initialize bi_vcnt

2013-05-30T06:44:39+00:00

The patch that converted raid5 to use bio_reset() forgot to initialize
bi_vcnt.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet 
Cc: NeilBrown 
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Ilia Mirkin 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2013-05-08T17:13:35+00:00

Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...

md/raid5: avoid an extra write when writing to a known-bad-block.

2013-04-24T01:42:42+00:00

If we write to a known-bad-block it will be flags as having
a ReadError by analyse_stripe, but the write will proceed anyway
(as it should).  Then the read-error handling will kick in an
write again, then re-read.

We don't need that 'write-again', so set R5_ReWrite so it looks like
it has already been done.  Then we will just get the re-read, which we
want.

Reported-by: majianpeng 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown

md/raid5: Change or of some order to improve efficiency.

2013-04-24T01:42:41+00:00

As the function call is the most expensive of these tests it should be
done later in the chain so that it can be avoided in some cases.

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

Revert "block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint"

2013-04-18T16:00:26+00:00

This reverts commit 3a366e614d0837d9fc23f78cdb1a1186ebc3387f.

Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.

Jens says:
 "It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
  the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).

  The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
  queueing up a revert and pull request."

Reported-by: Wanlong Gao 
Requested-by: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds