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2005-06-21[PATCH] md: improve the interface to sync_requestNeilBrown
1/ change the return value (which is number-of-sectors synced) from 'int' to 'sector_t'. The number of sectors is usually easily small enough to fit in an int, but if resync needs to abort, it may want to return the total number of remaining sectors, which could be large. Also errors cannot be returned as negative numbers now, so use 0 instead 2/ Add a 'skipped' return parameter to allow the array to report that it skipped the sectors. This allows md to take this into account in the speed calculations. Currently there is no important skipping, but the bitmap-based-resync that is coming will use this. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] md: improve locking on 'safemode' and move superblock writesNeilBrown
When md marks the superblock dirty before a write, it calls generic_make_request (to write the superblock) from within generic_make_request (to write the first dirty block), which could cause problems later. With this patch, the superblock write is always done by the helper thread, and write request are delayed until that write completes. Also, the locking around marking the array dirty and writing the superblock is improved to avoid possible races. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] md: merge md_enter_safemode into md_check_recoveryNeilBrown
md_enter_safemode checks if it is time to mark the md superblock as 'clean'. i.e. if all writes have completed and a suitable delay has passed. This is currently called from md_handle_safemode which in-turn is called (almost) every time md_check_recovery is called, and from the end of md_do_sync which causes the mddev->thread to run, which will always call md_check_recovery as well. So it doesn't need to be a separate function and fits quite well into md_check_recovery. The "almost" is because multipathd calls md_check_recovery but not md_handle_safemode. This is OK because the code from md_enter_safemode is a no-op if mddev->safemode == 0, which it always is for a multipathd (providing we don't allow it to be set to 2 on a signal...) Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] md: make sure recovery happens when add_new_disk is used for hot_addNeilBrown
Currently if add_new_disk is used to hot-add a drive to a degraded array, recovery doesn't start ... because we didn't tell it to. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] md: cause md/raid1 to "repack" working devices when number of drives ↵NeilBrown
is changed i.e. missing or failed drives are moved to the end of the list. The means a 3 drive md array with the first drive missing can be shrunk to a two drive array. Currently that isn't possible. Also, the "last_used" device number might be out-of-range after the number of devices is reduced, so we set it to 0. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-08[PATCH] dm: Handle READA requests in dm-mpath.cLars Marowsky-Bree
READA errors failing with EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN do not constitute a valid reason for failing the path; this lead to erratic errors on DM multipath devices. This error can be safely propagated upwards without failing the path. Acked-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] md: set the unplug_fn and issue_flush_fn for md devices *after* ↵NeilBrown
committed to creation We we set the too early, they may still be in place and possibly get called even though the array didn't get set up properly. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] md: fix splitting of md/linear request that cross a device boundaryNeilBrown
When a request crosses a boundary between devices, it needs to be split. But where we should calculate the amount of the request before the boundary to find the split-point, we care currently calculating the amount that is *after* the boundary !!! Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] make some things staticAdrian Bunk
This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper: Some missing staticsAlasdair G Kergon
This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper dm-emc: Fix a memsetAlasdair G Kergon
The dm emc hardware handler code memset the hardware handler structure to zero AFTER it had initialized the structure's spinlock field. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> From: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper multipath: Use private workqueueAlasdair G Kergon
dm-mpath.c needs to use a private workqueue (like other dm targets already do) to avoid interfering with users of the default workqueue. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: <mikenc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper: tidy dm_suspendAlasdair G Kergon
Tidy dm_suspend. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper: handle __lock_fs errorAlasdair G Kergon
Handle error from __lock_fs() Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper: let freeze_bdev return errorAlasdair G Kergon
Allow freeze_bdev() to return an error. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper: __unlock_fs voidAlasdair G Kergon
Make __unlock_fs() void. From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] device-mapper: store bdev while frozenAlasdair G Kergon
Store the struct block_device while device is frozen, saving us one call to bdget_disk(). Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _schedPaul E. McKenney
This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier "Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] mm: use __GFP_NOMEMALLOCNick Piggin
Use the new __GFP_NOMEMALLOC to simplify the previous handling of PF_MEMALLOC. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] md: remove a number of misleading calls to MD_BUGNeilBrown
The conditions that cause these calls to MD_BUG are not kernel bugs, just oddities in what userspace is asking for. Also convert analyze_sbs to return void, and the value it returned was always 0. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] md: close a small race in md thread deregistrationNeilBrown
There is a tiny race when de-registering an MD thread, in that the thread could disappear before it is set a SIGKILL, causing send_sig to have problems. This is most easily closed by holding tasklist_lock between enabling the thread to exit (setting ->run to NULL) and telling it to exit. (akpm: ick. Needs to use kthread API and stop using signals) Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] Avoid deadlock in sync_page_io by using GFP_NOIONeil Brown
..as sync_page_io can be called on the write-out path. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!