linux-toradex.git/drivers/md, branch v2.6.37.2

dm mpath: disable blk_abort_queue

2011-02-17T23:15:10+00:00

commit 09c9d4c9b6a2b5909ae3c6265e4cd3820b636863 upstream.

Revert commit 224cb3e981f1b2f9f93dbd49eaef505d17d894c2
  dm: Call blk_abort_queue on failed paths

Multipath began to use blk_abort_queue() to allow for
lower latency path deactivation.  This was found to
cause list corruption:

   the cmd gets blk_abort_queued/timedout run on it and the scsi eh
   somehow is able to complete and run scsi_queue_insert while
   scsi_request_fn is still trying to process the request.

   https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2010-November/msg00085.html

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Cc: Mike Anderson 
Cc: Mike Christie 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm: dont take i_mutex to change device size

2011-02-17T23:15:09+00:00

commit c217649bf2d60ac119afd71d938278cffd55962b upstream.

No longer needlessly hold md->bdev->bd_inode->i_mutex when changing the
size of a DM device.  This additional locking is unnecessary because
i_size_write() is already protected by the existing critical section in
dm_swap_table().  DM already has a reference on md->bdev so the
associated bd_inode may be changed without lifetime concerns.

A negative side-effect of having held md->bdev->bd_inode->i_mutex was
that a concurrent DM device resize and flush (via fsync) would deadlock.
Dropping md->bdev->bd_inode->i_mutex eliminates this potential for
deadlock.  The following reproducer no longer deadlocks:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2009-July/msg00284.html

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka 
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md_make_request: don't touch the bio after calling make_request

2011-02-17T23:14:55+00:00

commit e91ece5590b3c728624ab57043fc7a05069c604a upstream.

md_make_request was calling bio_sectors() for part_stat_add
after it was calling the make_request function.  This is
bad because the make_request function can free the bio and
because the bi_size field can change around.

The fix here was suggested by Jens Axboe.  It saves the
sector count before the make_request call.  I hit this
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on while trying to break
his pretty fusionio card.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: Fix removal of extra drives when converting RAID6 to RAID5

2011-02-17T23:14:54+00:00

commit bf2cb0dab8c97f00a71875d9b13dbac17a2f47ca upstream.

When a RAID6 is converted to a RAID5, the extra drive should
be discarded.  However it isn't due to a typo in a comparison.

This bug was introduced in commit e93f68a1fc6 in 2.6.35-rc4
and is suitable for any -stable since than.

As the extra drive is not removed, the 'degraded' counter is wrong and
so the RAID5 will not respond correctly to a subsequent failure.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: Ensure no IO request to get md device before it is properly initialised.

2011-02-17T23:14:54+00:00

commit 0ca69886a8273ac1350143d562280bfcbe4760dc upstream.

When an md device is in the process of coming on line it is possible
for an IO request (typically a partition table probe) to get through
before the array is fully initialised, which can cause unexpected
behaviour (e.g. a crash).

So explicitly record when the array is ready for IO and don't allow IO
through until then.

There is no possibility for a similar problem when the array is going
off-line as there must only be one 'open' at that time, and it is busy
off-lining the array and so cannot send IO requests.  So no memory
barrier is needed in md_stop()

This has been a bug since commit 409c57f3801 in 2.6.30 which
introduced md_make_request.  Before then, each personality would
register its own make_request_fn when it was ready.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.30.y onwards.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Reported-by:  "Hawrylewicz Czarnowski, Przemyslaw" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: fix regression resulting in delays in clearing bits in a bitmap

2011-02-17T23:14:53+00:00

commit 6c9879101442b08581e8a0e3ae6b7f643a78fd63 upstream.

commit 589a594be1fb (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem were md_thread would
sometimes call the ->run function at a bad time.

If an error is detected during array start up after the md_thread has
been started, the md_thread is killed.  This resulted in the ->run
function being called once.  However the array may not be in a state
that it is safe to call ->run.

However the fix imposed meant that  ->run was not called on a timeout.
This means that when an array goes idle, bitmap bits do not get
cleared promptly.  While the array is busy the bits will still be
cleared when appropriate so this is not very serious.  There is no
risk to data.

Change the test so that we only avoid calling ->run when the thread
is being stopped.  This more explicitly addresses the problem situation.

This is suitable for 2.6.37-stable and any -stable kernel to which
589a594be1fb was applied.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

md: fix regression with re-adding devices to arrays with no metadata

2011-02-17T23:14:52+00:00

commit bf572541ab44240163eaa2d486b06f306a31d45a upstream.

Commit 1a855a0606 (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem where devices were
re-added when they shouldn't be but caused a regression in a less
common case that means sometimes devices cannot be re-added when they
should be.

In particular, when re-adding a device to an array without metadata
we should always access the device, but after the above commit we
didn't.

This patch sets the In_sync flag in that case so that the re-add
succeeds.

This patch is suitable for any -stable kernel to which 1a855a0606 was
applied.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block

2010-12-20T17:19:46+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
  block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
  block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
  blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
  blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
  block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
  drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length

block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper

2010-12-17T07:36:01+00:00

Implement blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() and make
blk_queue_max_hw_sectors() a wrapper around it.

DM needs this to avoid setting queue_limits' max_hw_sectors and
max_sectors directly.  dm_set_device_limits() now leverages
blk_limits_max_hw_sectors() logic to establish the appropriate
max_hw_sectors minimum (PAGE_SIZE).  Fixes issue where DM was
incorrectly setting max_sectors rather than max_hw_sectors (which
caused dm_merge_bvec()'s max_hw_sectors check to be ineffective).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead

2010-12-17T07:35:53+00:00

When stacking devices, a request_queue is not always available. This
forced us to have a no_cluster flag in the queue_limits that could be
used as a carrier until the request_queue had been set up for a
metadevice.

There were several problems with that approach. First of all it was up
to the stacking device to remember to set queue flag after stacking had
completed. Also, the queue flag and the queue limits had to be kept in
sync at all times. We got that wrong, which could lead to us issuing
commands that went beyond the max scatterlist limit set by the driver.

The proper fix is to avoid having two flags for tracking the same thing.
We deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use the queue limit directly in the
block layer merging functions. The queue_limit 'no_cluster' is turned
into 'cluster' to avoid double negatives and to ease stacking.
Clustering defaults to being enabled as before. The queue flag logic is
removed from the stacking function, and explicitly setting the cluster
flag is no longer necessary in DM and MD.

Reported-by: Ed Lin 
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe