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Linus Torvalds
3d30701b58 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (24 commits)
  md: clean up do_md_stop
  md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes.
  md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutex
  md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync
  md/bitmap:  separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures.
  md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log.
  md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps.
  md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls.
  md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs.
  md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar.
  md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.
  md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.
  md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.
  md/raid5: export is_congested test
  raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue
  md: add support for raising dm events.
  md: export various start/stop interfaces
  md: split out md_rdev_init
  md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEAN
  md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk
  ...
2010-08-10 15:38:19 -07:00
NeilBrown
fd8aa2c181 Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/libraid-2.6 into for-linus 2010-08-10 10:02:33 +10:00
David Woodhouse
2144381da4 Merge branch 'async' of macbook:git/btrfs-unstable
Conflicts:
	drivers/md/Makefile
	lib/raid6/unroll.pl
2010-08-09 10:36:44 +01:00
NeilBrown
6e17b02764 md: clean up do_md_stop
There is only one error exit from do_md_stop, so make that more
explicit and discard the 'err' variable.
Also drop the 'revalidate' variable by moving the unlock calls around.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-08 21:22:45 +10:00
NeilBrown
bb4f1e9d0e md: fix another deadlock with removing sysfs attributes.
Move the deletion of sysfs attributes from reconfig_mutex to
open_mutex didn't really help as a process can try to take
open_mutex while holding reconfig_mutex, so the same deadlock can
happen, just requiring one more process to be involved in the chain.

I looks like I cannot easily use locking to wait for the sysfs
deletion to complete, so don't.

The only things that we cannot do while the deletions are still
pending is other things which can change the sysfs namespace: run,
takeover, stop.  Each of these can fail with -EBUSY.
So set a flag while doing a sysfs deletion, and fail run, takeover,
stop if that flag is set.

This is suitable for 2.6.35.x

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-08 21:21:27 +10:00
Dan Williams
147e0b6a63 md: move revalidate_disk() back outside open_mutex
Commit b821eaa5 "md: remove ->changed and related code" moved
revalidate_disk() under open_mutex, and lockdep noticed.

[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.32-mdadm-locking #1
-------------------------------------------------------
mdadm/3640 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811acecb>] revalidate_disk+0x5b/0x90

but task is already holding lock:
 (&mddev->open_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa055e07a>] do_md_stop+0x4a/0x4d0 [md_mod]

which lock already depends on the new lock.

It is suitable for 2.6.35.x

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Przemyslaw Czarnowski <przemyslaw.hawrylewicz.czarnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-08 21:20:17 +10:00
Arnd Bergmann
6e9624b8ca block: push down BKL into .open and .release
The open and release block_device_operations are currently
called with the BKL held. In order to change that, we must
first make sure that all drivers that currently rely
on this have no regressions.

This blindly pushes the BKL into all .open and .release
operations for all block drivers to prepare for the
next step. The drivers can subsequently replace the BKL
with their own locks or remove it completely when it can
be shown that it is not needed.

The functions blkdev_get and blkdev_put are the only
remaining users of the big kernel lock in the block
layer, besides a few uses in the ioctl code, none
of which need to serialize with blkdev_{get,put}.

Most of these two functions is also under the protection
of bdev->bd_mutex, including the actual calls to
->open and ->release, and the common code does not
access any global data structures that need the BKL.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:25:34 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
00fff26539 block: remove q->prepare_flush_fn completely
This removes q->prepare_flush_fn completely (changes the
blk_queue_ordered API).

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:24:15 +02:00
FUJITA Tomonori
144d6ed551 dm: stop using q->prepare_flush_fn
use REQ_FLUSH flag instead.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:24:14 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
7b6d91daee block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request
Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the bio, too.
This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem
down to the block driver.  There were two flags in the bio that were
missing in the requests:  BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD.  Also I've
renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them.

Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as
blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig
33659ebbae block: remove wrappers for request type/flags
Remove all the trivial wrappers for the cmd_type and cmd_flags fields in
struct requests.  This allows much easier grepping for different request
types instead of unwinding through macros.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-07 18:17:56 +02:00
NeilBrown
51e9ac7703 md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync
If the 'bio_split' path in raid10-read is used while
resync/recovery is happening it is possible to deadlock.
Fix this be elevating ->nr_waiting for the duration of both
parts of the split request.

This fixes a bug that has been present since 2.6.22
but has only started manifesting recently for unknown reasons.
It is suitable for and -stable since then.

Reported-by:  Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>
Tested-by:  Justin Bronder <jsbronder@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-08-07 21:17:00 +10:00
NeilBrown
69e51b449d md/bitmap: separate out loading a bitmap from initialising the structures.
dm makes this distinction between ->ctr and ->resume, so we need to
too.

Also get the new bitmap_load to clear out the bitmap first, as this is
most consistent with the dm suspend/resume approach

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 13:21:34 +10:00
NeilBrown
e384e58549 md/bitmap: prepare for storing write-intent-bitmap via dm-dirty-log.
This allows md/raid5 to fully work as a dm target.

Normally md uses a 'filemap' which contains a list of pages of bits
each of which may be written separately.
dm-log uses and all-or-nothing approach to writing the log, so
when using a dm-log, ->filemap is NULL and the flags normally stored
in filemap_attr are stored in ->logattrs instead.



Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 13:21:34 +10:00
NeilBrown
ef42567335 md/bitmap: optimise scanning of empty bitmaps.
A bitmap is stored as one page per 2048 bits.
If none of the bits are set, the page is not allocated.

When bitmap_get_counter finds that a page isn't allocate,
it just reports that one bit work of space isn't flagged,
rather than reporting that 2048 bits worth of space are
unflagged.
This can cause searches for flagged bits (e.g. bitmap_close_sync)
to do more work than is really necessary.

So change bitmap_get_counter (when creating) to report a number of
blocks that more accurately reports the range of the device for which
no counter currently exists.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 13:21:32 +10:00
NeilBrown
b63d7c2e29 md/bitmap: clean up plugging calls.
1/ use md_unplug in bitmap.c as we will soon be using bitmaps under
  arrays with no queue attached.

2/ Don't bother plugging the queue when we set a bit in the bitmap.
   The reason for this was to encourage as many bits as possible to
   get set before we unplug and write stuff out.
   However every personality already plugs the queue after
   bitmap_startwrite either directly (raid1/raid10) or be setting
   STRIPE_BIT_DELAY which causes the queue to be plugged later
   (raid5).

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 13:21:32 +10:00
NeilBrown
5ff5afffe6 md/bitmap: reduce dependence on sysfs.
For dm-raid45 we will want to use bitmaps in dm-targets which don't
have entries in sysfs, so cope with the mddev not living in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 13:21:31 +10:00
NeilBrown
ac2f40be46 md/bitmap: white space clean up and similar.
Fixes some whitespace problems
Fixed some checkpatch.pl complaints.
Replaced kmalloc ... memset(0), with kzalloc
Fixed an unlikely memory leak on an error path.
Reformatted a number of 'if/else' sets, sometimes
replacing goto with an else clause.
Removed some old comments and commented-out code.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 13:07:22 +10:00
NeilBrown
9f7c222001 md/raid5: export raid5 unplugging interface.
Also remove remaining accesses to ->queue and ->gendisk when ->queue
is NULL (As it is in a DM target).

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:53:10 +10:00
NeilBrown
252ac5221a md/plug: optionally use plugger to unplug an array during resync/recovery.
If an array doesn't have a 'queue' then md_do_sync cannot
unplug it.
In that case it will have a 'plugger', so make that available
to the mddev, and use it to unplug the array if needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:53:08 +10:00
NeilBrown
2ac8740151 md/raid5: add simple plugging infrastructure.
md/raid5 uses the plugging infrastructure provided by the block layer
and 'struct request_queue'.  However when we plug raid5 under dm there
is no request queue so we cannot use that.

So create a similar infrastructure that is much lighter weight and use
it for raid5.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:53:08 +10:00
NeilBrown
11d8a6e371 md/raid5: export is_congested test
the dm module will need this for dm-raid45.

Also only access ->queue->backing_dev_info->congested_fn
if ->queue actually exists.  It won't in a dm target.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:29 +10:00
NeilBrown
4a5add4995 raid5: Don't set read-ahead when there is no queue
dm-raid456 does not provide a 'queue' for raid5 to use,
so we must make raid5 stop depending on the queue.

First: read_ahead
dm handles read-ahead adjustment fully in userspace, so
simply don't do any readahead adjustments if there is
no queue.

Also re-arrange code slightly so all the accesses to ->queue are
together.

Finally, move the blk_queue_merge_bvec function into the 'if' as
the ->split_io setting in dm-raid456 has the same effect.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
768a418db1 md: add support for raising dm events.
dm uses scheduled work to raise events to user-space.
So allow md device to have work_structs and schedule them on an error.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
390ee602a1 md: export various start/stop interfaces
export entry points for starting and stopping md arrays.
This will be used by a module to make md/raid5 work under
dm.
Also stop calling md_stop_writes from md_stop, as that won't
work well with dm - it will want to call the two separately.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
e8bb9a839a md: split out md_rdev_init
This functionality will be needed separately in a subsequent patch, so
split it into it's own exported function.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
676e42d896 md: be more careful setting MD_CHANGE_CLEAN
When MD_CHANGE_CLEAN is set we might block in md_write_start.
So we should only set it when fairly sure that something will clear
it.

There are two places where it is set so as to encourage a metadata
update to record the progress of resync/recovery.  This should only
be done if the internal metadata update mechanisms are in use, which
can be tested by by inspecting '->persistent'.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
f4be6b43f1 md/raid5: ensure we create a unique name for kmem_cache when mddev has no gendisk
We will shortly allow md devices with no gendisk (they are attached to
a dm-target instead).  That will cause mdname() to return 'mdX'.
There is one place where mdname really needs to be unique: when
creating the name for a slab cache.
So in that case, if there is no gendisk, you the address of the mddev
formatted in HEX to provide a unique name.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-26 12:52:26 +10:00
NeilBrown
c41d4ac40d md/raid5: factor out code for changing size of stripe cache.
Separate the actual 'change' code from the sysfs interface
so that it can eventually be called internally.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21 13:28:15 +10:00
NeilBrown
00bcb4ac7e md: reduce dependence on sysfs.
We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not
visible.  So allow md to not connect to sysfs.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-07-21 13:27:53 +10:00
NeilBrown
3424bf6a77 md/raid5: don't include 'spare' drives when reshaping to fewer devices.
There are few situations where it would make any sense to add a spare
when reducing the number of devices in an array, but it is
conceivable:  A 6 drive RAID6 with two missing devices could be
reshaped to a 5 drive RAID6, and a spare could become available
just in time for the reshape, but not early enough to have been
recovered first.  'freezing' recovery can make this easy to
do without any races.

However doing such a thing is a bad idea.  md will not record the
partially-recovered state of the 'spare' and when the reshape
finished it will think that the spare is still spare.
Easiest way to avoid this confusion is to simply disallow it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:36:04 +10:00
NeilBrown
2f11588249 md/raid5: add a missing 'continue' in a loop.
As the comment says, the tail of this loop only applies to devices
that are not fully in sync, so if In_sync was set, we should avoid
the rest of the loop.

This bug will hardly ever cause an actual problem.  The worst it
can do is allow an array to be assembled that is dirty and degraded,
which is not generally a good idea (without warning the sysadmin
first).

This will only happen if the array is RAID4 or a RAID5/6 in an
intermediate state during a reshape and so has one drive that is
all 'parity' - no data - while some other device has failed.

This is certainly possible, but not at all common.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:49 +10:00
NeilBrown
415e72d034 md/raid5: Allow recovered part of partially recovered devices to be in-sync
During a recovery of reshape the early part of some devices might be
in-sync while the later parts are not.
We we know we are looking at an early part it is good to treat that
part as in-sync for stripe calculations.

This is particularly important for a reshape which suffers device
failure.  Treating the data as in-sync can mean the difference between
data-safety and data-loss.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:39 +10:00
NeilBrown
674806d62f md/raid5: More careful check for "has array failed".
When we are reshaping an array, the device failure combinations
that cause us to decide that the array as failed are more subtle.

In particular, any 'spare' will be fully in-sync in the section
of the array that has already been reshaped, thus failures that
affect only that section are less critical.

So encode this subtlety in a new function and call it as appropriate.

The case that showed this problem was a 4 drive RAID5 to 8 drive RAID6
conversion where the last two devices failed.
This resulted in:

  good good good good incomplete good good failed failed

while converting a 5-drive RAID6 to 8 drive RAID5
The incomplete device causes the whole array to look bad,
bad as it was actually good for the section that had been
converted to 8-drives, all the data was actually safe.

Reported-by: Terry Morris <tbmorris@tbmorris.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:27 +10:00
NeilBrown
70fffd0bfa md: Don't update ->recovery_offset when reshaping an array to fewer devices.
When an array is reshaped to have fewer devices, the reshape proceeds
from the end of the devices to the beginning.

If a device happens to be non-In_sync (which is possible but rare)
we would normally update the ->recovery_offset as the reshape
progresses. However that would be wrong as the recover_offset records
that the early part of the device is in_sync, while in fact it would
only be the later part that is in_sync, and in any case the offset
number would be measured from the wrong end of the device.

Relatedly, if after a reshape a spare is discovered to not be
recoverred all the way to the end, not allow spare_active
to incorporate it in the array.

This becomes relevant in the following sample scenario:

A 4 drive RAID5 is converted to a 6 drive RAID6 in a combined
operation.
The RAID5->RAID6 conversion will cause a 5 drive to be included as a
spare, then the 5drive -> 6drive reshape will effectively rebuild that
spare as it progresses.  The 6th drive is treated as in_sync the whole
time as there is never any case that we might consider reading from
it, but must not because there is no valid data.

If we interrupt this reshape part-way through and reverse it to return
to a 5-drive RAID6 (or event a 4-drive RAID5), we don't want to update
the recovery_offset - as that would be wrong - and we don't want to
include that spare as active in the 5-drive RAID6 when the reversed
reshape completed and it will be mostly out-of-sync still.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:18 +10:00
NeilBrown
e4e11e385d md/raid5: avoid oops when number of devices is reduced then increased.
The entries in the stripe_cache maintained by raid5 are enlarged
when we increased the number of devices in the array, but not
shrunk when we reduce the number of devices.
So if entries are added after reducing the number of devices, we
much ensure to initialise the whole entry, not just the part that
is currently relevant.  Otherwise if we enlarge the array again,
we will reference uninitialised values.

As grow_buffers/shrink_buffer now want to use a count that is stored
explicity in the raid_conf, they should get it from there rather than
being passed it as a parameter.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:35:02 +10:00
Maciej Trela
049d6c1ef9 md: enable raid4->raid0 takeover
Only level 5 with layout=PARITY_N can be taken over to raid0 now.
Lets allow level 4 either.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:34:57 +10:00
Maciej Trela
001048a318 md: clear layout after ->raid0 takeover
After takeover from raid5/10 -> raid0 mddev->layout is not cleared.

Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:34:45 +10:00
Maciej Trela
f73ea87375 md: fix raid10 takeover: use new_layout for setup_conf
Use mddev->new_layout in setup_conf.
Also use new_chunk, and don't set ->degraded in takeover().  That
gets set in run()

Signed-off-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:33:51 +10:00
NeilBrown
e93f68a1fc md: fix handling of array level takeover that re-arranges devices.
Most array level changes leave the list of devices largely unchanged,
possibly causing one at the end to become redundant.
However conversions between RAID0 and RAID10 need to renumber
all devices (except 0).

This renumbering is currently being done in the ->run method when the
new personality takes over.  However this is too late as the common
code in md.c might already have invalidated some of the devices if
they had a ->raid_disk number that appeared to high.

Moving it into the ->takeover method is too early as the array is
still active at that time and wrong ->raid_disk numbers could cause
confusion.

So add a ->new_raid_disk field to mdk_rdev_s and use it to communicate
the new raid_disk number.
Now the common code knows exactly which devices need to be renumbered,
and which can be invalidated, and can do it all at a convenient time
when the array is suspend.
It can also update some symlinks in sysfs which previously were not be
updated correctly.

Reported-by: Maciej Trela <maciej.trela@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:33:24 +10:00
Prasanna S. Panchamukhi
0544a21db0 md: raid10: Fix null pointer dereference in fix_read_error()
Such NULL pointer dereference can occur when the driver was fixing the
read errors/bad blocks and the disk was physically removed
causing a system crash. This patch check if the
rcu_dereference() returns valid rdev before accessing it in fix_read_error().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S. Panchamukhi <prasanna.panchamukhi@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Becker <rbecker@riverbed.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:31:03 +10:00
NeilBrown
f3b99be19d Restore partition detection of newly created md arrays.
Commit  b821eaa572 broke partition
detection for md arrays.

The logic was almost right.  However if revalidate_disk is called
when the device is not yet open, bdev->bd_disk won't be set, so the
flush_disk() Call will not set bd_invalidated.

So when md_open is called we still need to ensure that
->bd_invalidated gets set.  This is easily done with a call to
check_disk_size_change in the place where the offending commit removed
check_disk_change.  At the important times, the size will have changed
from 0 to non-zero, so check_disk_size_change will set bd_invalidated.

Tested-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Reported-by: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-06-24 13:31:03 +10:00
Akinobu Mita
55af6bb509 md: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value
By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate
errno value.  This converts the cpu notifiers for raid5.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e8bebe2f71 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (69 commits)
  fix handling of offsets in cris eeprom.c, get rid of fake on-stack files
  get rid of home-grown mutex in cris eeprom.c
  switch ecryptfs_write() to struct inode *, kill on-stack fake files
  switch ecryptfs_get_locked_page() to struct inode *
  simplify access to ecryptfs inodes in ->readpage() and friends
  AFS: Don't put struct file on the stack
  Ban ecryptfs over ecryptfs
  logfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ufs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  udf: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ubifs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  sysv: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  reiserfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ramfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  omfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  bfs: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  ocfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  nilfs2: replace inode uid,gid,mode initialization with helper function
  minix: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ext4: replace inode uid,gid,mode init with helper
  ...

Trivial conflict in fs/fs-writeback.c (mark bitfields unsigned)
2010-05-21 19:37:45 -07:00
NeilBrown
19fdb9eefb Merge commit '3ff195b011d7decf501a4d55aeed312731094796' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	drivers/md/md.c

- Resolved conflict in md_update_sb
- Added extra 'NULL' arg to new instance of sysfs_get_dirent.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-22 08:31:36 +10:00
Christoph Hellwig
8018ab0574 sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions
Now that the last user passing a NULL file pointer is gone we can remove
the redundant dentry argument and associated hacks inside vfs_fsynmc_range.

The next step will be removig the dentry argument from ->fsync, but given
the luck with the last round of method prototype changes I'd rather
defer this until after the main merge window.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
3ff195b011 sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support.
The problem.  When implementing a network namespace I need to be able
to have multiple network devices with the same name.  Currently this
is a problem for /sys/class/net/*, /sys/devices/virtual/net/*, and
potentially a few other directories of the form /sys/ ... /net/*.

What this patch does is to add an additional tag field to the
sysfs dirent structure.  For directories that should show different
contents depending on the context such as /sys/class/net/, and
/sys/devices/virtual/net/ this tag field is used to specify the
context in which those directories should be visible.  Effectively
this is the same as creating multiple distinct directories with
the same name but internally to sysfs the result is nicer.

I am calling the concept of a single directory that looks like multiple
directories all at the same path in the filesystem tagged directories.

For the networking namespace the set of directories whose contents I need
to filter with tags can depend on the presence or absence of hotplug
hardware or which modules are currently loaded.  Which means I need
a simple race free way to setup those directories as tagged.

To achieve a reace free design all tagged directories are created
and managed by sysfs itself.

Users of this interface:
- define a type in the sysfs_tag_type enumeration.
- call sysfs_register_ns_types with the type and it's operations
- sysfs_exit_ns when an individual tag is no longer valid

- Implement mount_ns() which returns the ns of the calling process
  so we can attach it to a sysfs superblock.
- Implement ktype.namespace() which returns the ns of a syfs kobject.

Everything else is left up to sysfs and the driver layer.

For the network namespace mount_ns and namespace() are essentially
one line functions, and look to remain that.

Tags are currently represented a const void * pointers as that is
both generic, prevides enough information for equality comparisons,
and is trivial to create for current users, as it is just the
existing namespace pointer.

The work needed in sysfs is more extensive.  At each directory
or symlink creating I need to check if the directory it is being
created in is a tagged directory and if so generate the appropriate
tag to place on the sysfs_dirent.  Likewise at each symlink or
directory removal I need to check if the sysfs directory it is
being removed from is a tagged directory and if so figure out
which tag goes along with the name I am deleting.

Currently only directories which hold kobjects, and
symlinks are supported.  There is not enough information
in the current file attribute interfaces to give us anything
to discriminate on which makes it useless, and there are
no potential users which makes it an uninteresting problem
to solve.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
NeilBrown
be6800a73a md: don't insist on valid event count for spare devices.
Devices which know that they are spares do not really need to have
an event count that matches the rest of the array, so there are no
data-in-sync issues. It is enough that the uuid matches.
So remove the requirement that the event count is up-to-date.

We currently still write out and event count on spares, but this
allows us in a year or 3 to stop doing that completely.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:28:01 +10:00
NeilBrown
a8707c08f4 md: simplify updating of event count to sometimes avoid updating spares.
When updating the event count for a simple clean <-> dirty transition,
we try to avoid updating the spares so they can safely spin-down.
As the event_counts across an array must be +/- 1, this means
decrementing the event_count on a dirty->clean transition.
This is not always safe and we have to avoid the unsafe time.
We current do this with a misguided idea about it being safe or
not depending on whether the event_count is odd or even.  This
approach only works reliably in a few common instances, but easily
falls down.

So instead, simply keep internal state concerning whether it is safe
or not, and always assume it is not safe when an array is first
assembled.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:28:01 +10:00
Gabriele A. Trombetti
7b0bb5368a md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state
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 <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>
Signed-off-by: Gabriele A. Trombetti <g.trombetti.lkrnl1213@logicschema.com>
Reported-by: Janos Haar <janos.haar@netcenter.hu>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-05-18 15:28:00 +10:00