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md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.

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Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates
from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that
it could spin down and say spun down.  Device failure/removal
etc are still recorded on spares.

However commit 51d5668cb2 broke this 50% of the time,
depending on whether the event count is even or odd.
The change log entry said:

   This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
    'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain,

how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it
could take arbitrarily long.

So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even,
force a second metadata-update immediately.  There are already cases
where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a
device fails during the metadata update).  We just piggy-back on that.

Reported-by: Joe Bryant <tenminjoe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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NeilBrown 2010-05-07 19:44:26 +10:00
parent 87aa63000c
commit 1176568de7
1 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -2109,12 +2109,18 @@ repeat:
if (!mddev->in_sync || mddev->recovery_cp != MaxSector) { /* not clean */
/* .. if the array isn't clean, an 'even' event must also go
* to spares. */
if ((mddev->events&1)==0)
if ((mddev->events&1)==0) {
nospares = 0;
sync_req = 2; /* force a second update to get the
* even/odd in sync */
}
} else {
/* otherwise an 'odd' event must go to spares */
if ((mddev->events&1))
if ((mddev->events&1)) {
nospares = 0;
sync_req = 2; /* force a second update to get the
* even/odd in sync */
}
}
}