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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Remove blkdev warning triggered by using md</title>
<updated>2008-05-15T02:11:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neil Brown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-14T23:05:54+00:00</published>
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As setting and clearing queue flags now requires that we hold a spinlock
on the queue, and as blk_queue_stack_limits is called without that lock,
get the lock inside blk_queue_stack_limits.

For blk_queue_stack_limits to be able to find the right lock, each md
personality needs to set q-&gt;queue_lock to point to the appropriate lock.
Those personalities which didn't previously use a spin_lock, us
q-&gt;__queue_lock.  So always initialise that lock when allocated.

With this in place, setting/clearing of the QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED bit will no
longer cause warnings as it will be clear that the proper lock is held.

Thanks to Dan Williams for review and fixing the silly bugs.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair John Strachan &lt;alistair@devzero.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Jacek Luczak &lt;difrost.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prakash Punnoor &lt;prakash@punnoor.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As setting and clearing queue flags now requires that we hold a spinlock
on the queue, and as blk_queue_stack_limits is called without that lock,
get the lock inside blk_queue_stack_limits.

For blk_queue_stack_limits to be able to find the right lock, each md
personality needs to set q-&gt;queue_lock to point to the appropriate lock.
Those personalities which didn't previously use a spin_lock, us
q-&gt;__queue_lock.  So always initialise that lock when allocated.

With this in place, setting/clearing of the QUEUE_FLAG_PLUGGED bit will no
longer cause warnings as it will be clear that the proper lock is held.

Thanks to Dan Williams for review and fixing the silly bugs.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair John Strachan &lt;alistair@devzero.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Jacek Luczak &lt;difrost.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prakash Punnoor &lt;prakash@punnoor.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: fix raid5 'repair' operations</title>
<updated>2008-05-13T15:02:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-12T21:02:12+00:00</published>
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commit bd2ab67030e9116f1e4aae1289220255412b37fd "md: close a livelock window
in handle_parity_checks5" introduced a bug in handling 'repair' operations.
After a repair operation completes we clear the state bits tracking this
operation.  However, they are cleared too early and this results in the code
deciding to re-run the parity check operation.  Since we have done the repair
in memory the second check does not find a mismatch and thus does not do a
writeback.

Test results:
$ echo repair &gt; /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action
$ cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt
51072
$ echo repair &gt; /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action
$ cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt
0

(also fix incorrect indentation)

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: George Spelvin &lt;linux@horizon.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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commit bd2ab67030e9116f1e4aae1289220255412b37fd "md: close a livelock window
in handle_parity_checks5" introduced a bug in handling 'repair' operations.
After a repair operation completes we clear the state bits tracking this
operation.  However, they are cleared too early and this results in the code
deciding to re-run the parity check operation.  Since we have done the repair
in memory the second check does not find a mismatch and thus does not do a
writeback.

Test results:
$ echo repair &gt; /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action
$ cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt
51072
$ echo repair &gt; /sys/block/md0/md/sync_action
$ cat /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt
0

(also fix incorrect indentation)

Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: George Spelvin &lt;linux@horizon.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>misc: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings</title>
<updated>2008-05-08T17:46:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-07T03:42:32+00:00</published>
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drivers/md/raid10.c:889:17: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c:616:12: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
sound/oss/kahlua.c:70:12: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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drivers/md/raid10.c:889:17: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
drivers/media/video/cx18/cx18-driver.c:616:12: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
sound/oss/kahlua.c:70:12: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: support blocking writes to an array on device failure</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:32+00:00</published>
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Allows a userspace metadata handler to take action upon detecting a device
failure.

Based on an original patch by Neil Brown.

Changes:
-added blocked_wait waitqueue to rdev
-don't qualify Blocked with Faulty always let userspace block writes
-added md_wait_for_blocked_rdev to wait for the block device to be clear, if
 userspace misses the notification another one is sent every 5 seconds
-set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED after clearing "blocked"
-kill DoBlock flag, just test mddev-&gt;external

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Allows a userspace metadata handler to take action upon detecting a device
failure.

Based on an original patch by Neil Brown.

Changes:
-added blocked_wait waitqueue to rdev
-don't qualify Blocked with Faulty always let userspace block writes
-added md_wait_for_blocked_rdev to wait for the block device to be clear, if
 userspace misses the notification another one is sent every 5 seconds
-set MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED after clearing "blocked"
-kill DoBlock flag, just test mddev-&gt;external

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: prevent duplicates in bind_rdev_to_array</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:32+00:00</published>
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Found when trying to reassemble an active externally managed array.  Without
this check we hit the more noisy "sysfs duplicate" warning in the later call
to kobject_add.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Found when trying to reassemble an active externally managed array.  Without
this check we hit the more noisy "sysfs duplicate" warning in the later call
to kobject_add.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: remove a stray command from a copy and paste error in resync_start_store</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:31+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: fix up switching md arrays between read-only and read-write</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:30+00:00</published>
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When setting an array to 'readonly' or to 'active' via sysfs, we must make the
appropriate set_disk_ro call too.

Also when switching to "read_auto" (which is like readonly, but blocks on the
first write so that metadata can be marked 'dirty') we need to be more careful
about what state we are changing from.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When setting an array to 'readonly' or to 'active' via sysfs, we must make the
appropriate set_disk_ro call too.

Also when switching to "read_auto" (which is like readonly, but blocks on the
first write so that metadata can be marked 'dirty') we need to be more careful
about what state we are changing from.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: fix 'safemode' handling for external metadata.</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:30+00:00</published>
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'safemode' relates to marking an array as 'clean' if there has been no write
traffic for a while (a couple of seconds), to reduce the chance of the array
being found dirty on reboot.

-&gt;safemode is set to '1' when there have been no write for a while, and it
gets set to '0' when the superblock is updates with the 'clean' flag set.

This requires a few fixes for 'external' metadata:
 - When an array is set to 'clean' via sysfs, 'safemode' must be cleared.
 - when we write to an array that has 'safemode' set (there must have been
        some delay in updating the metadata), we need to clear safemode.
 - Don't try to update external metadata in md_check_recovery for safemode
        transitions - it won't work.

Also, don't try to support "immediate safe mode" (safemode==2) for external
metadata, it cannot really work (the safemode timeout can be set very low if
this is really needed).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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'safemode' relates to marking an array as 'clean' if there has been no write
traffic for a while (a couple of seconds), to reduce the chance of the array
being found dirty on reboot.

-&gt;safemode is set to '1' when there have been no write for a while, and it
gets set to '0' when the superblock is updates with the 'clean' flag set.

This requires a few fixes for 'external' metadata:
 - When an array is set to 'clean' via sysfs, 'safemode' must be cleared.
 - when we write to an array that has 'safemode' set (there must have been
        some delay in updating the metadata), we need to clear safemode.
 - Don't try to update external metadata in md_check_recovery for safemode
        transitions - it won't work.

Also, don't try to support "immediate safe mode" (safemode==2) for external
metadata, it cannot really work (the safemode timeout can be set very low if
this is really needed).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: reinitialise more mddev fields in do_md_stop.</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:29+00:00</published>
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I keep finding problems where an mddev gets reused and some fields has a value
from a previous usage that confuses the new usage.  So clear all fields that
could possible need clearing when calling do_md_stop.

Also initialise the 'level' of a new array to LEVEL_NONE (which isn't 0).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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I keep finding problems where an mddev gets reused and some fields has a value
from a previous usage that confuses the new usage.  So clear all fields that
could possible need clearing when calling do_md_stop.

Also initialise the 'level' of a new array to LEVEL_NONE (which isn't 0).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata.</title>
<updated>2008-04-30T15:29:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-30T07:52:28+00:00</published>
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All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space
or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space
or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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