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Tejun Heo
e09b457bdb block: simplify holder symlink handling
Code to manage symlinks in /sys/block/*/{holders|slaves} are overly
complex with multiple holder considerations, redundant extra
references to all involved kobjects, unused generic kobject holder
support and unnecessary mixup with bd_claim/release functionalities.

Strip it down to what's necessary (single gendisk holder) and make it
use a separate interface.  This is a step for cleaning up
bd_claim/release.  This patch makes dm-table slightly more complex but
it will be simplified again with further changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
2010-11-13 11:55:17 +01:00
NeilBrown
a167f66324 md: use separate bio pool for each md device.
bio_clone and bio_alloc allocate from a common bio pool.
If an md device is stacked with other devices that use this pool, or under
something like swap which uses the pool, then the multiple calls on
the pool can cause deadlocks.

So allocate a local bio pool for each md array and use that rather
than the common pool.

This pool is used both for regular IO and metadata updates.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:15 +11:00
NeilBrown
2b193363ef md: change type of first arg to sync_page_io.
Currently sync_page_io takes a 'bdev'.
Every caller passes 'rdev->bdev'.
We will soon want another field out of the rdev in sync_page_io,
So just pass the rdev instead of the bdev out of it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:11 +11:00
Tejun Heo
e804ac780e md: fix and update workqueue usage
Workqueue usage in md has two problems.

* Flush can be used during or depended upon by memory reclaim, but md
  uses the system workqueue for flush_work which may lead to deadlock.

* md depends on flush_scheduled_work() to achieve exclusion against
  completion of removal of previous instances.  flush_scheduled_work()
  may incur unexpected amount of delay and is scheduled to be removed.

This patch adds two workqueues to md - md_wq and md_misc_wq.  The
former is guaranteed to make forward progress under memory pressure
and serves flush_work.  The latter serves as the flush domain for
other works.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:32:29 +11:00
NeilBrown
4b532c9b8c md: remove md_mutex locking.
lock_kernel calls were recently pushed down into open/release
functions.
md doesn't need that protection.
Then the BKL calls were change to md_mutex.  We don't need those
either.
So remove it all.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:30:21 +11:00
NeilBrown
d97a41dc9c md: Fix regression with raid1 arrays without persistent metadata.
A RAID1 which has no persistent metadata, whether internal or
external, will hang on the first write.
This is caused by commit  070dc6dd71
In that case, MD_CHANGE_PENDING never gets cleared.

So during md_update_sb, is neither persistent or external,
clear MD_CHANGE_PENDING.

This is suitable for 2.6.36-stable.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-10-28 17:30:20 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
a2887097f2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.37/barrier' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (46 commits)
  xen-blkfront: disable barrier/flush write support
  Added blk-lib.c and blk-barrier.c was renamed to blk-flush.c
  block: remove BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT
  aic7xxx_old: removed unused 'req' variable
  block: remove the BH_Eopnotsupp flag
  block: remove the BLKDEV_IFL_BARRIER flag
  block: remove the WRITE_BARRIER flag
  swap: do not send discards as barriers
  fat: do not send discards as barriers
  ext4: do not send discards as barriers
  jbd2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  jbd2: Modify ASYNC_COMMIT code to not rely on queue draining on barrier
  jbd: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  nilfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  reiserfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  gfs2: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  btrfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  xfs: replace barriers with explicit flush / FUA usage
  block: pass gfp_mask and flags to sb_issue_discard
  dm: convey that all flushes are processed as empty
  ...
2010-10-22 17:07:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c37927d435 Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl
* 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
  drivers: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
  ipmi: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
  mac: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
  mtd: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
  scsi: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex

Fix up trivial conflicts (due to addition of private mutex right next to
deletion of a version string) in drivers/char/pcmcia/cm40[04]0_cs.c
2010-10-22 10:49:54 -07:00
Jens Axboe
fa251f8990 Merge branch 'v2.6.36-rc8' into for-2.6.37/barrier
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	drivers/block/loop.c
	mm/swapfile.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-10-19 09:13:04 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
2a48fc0ab2 block: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
The block device drivers have all gained new lock_kernel
calls from a recent pushdown, and some of the drivers
were already using the BKL before.

This turns the BKL into a set of per-driver mutexes.
Still need to check whether this is safe to do.

file=$1
name=$2
if grep -q lock_kernel ${file} ; then
    if grep -q 'include.*linux.mutex.h' ${file} ; then
            sed -i '/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>/d' ${file}
    else
            sed -i 's/include.*<linux\/smp_lock.h>.*$/include <linux\/mutex.h>/g' ${file}
    fi
    sed -i ${file} \
        -e "/^#include.*linux.mutex.h/,$ {
                1,/^\(static\|int\|long\)/ {
                     /^\(static\|int\|long\)/istatic DEFINE_MUTEX(${name}_mutex);

} }"  \
    -e "s/\(un\)*lock_kernel\>[ ]*()/mutex_\1lock(\&${name}_mutex)/g" \
    -e '/[      ]*cycle_kernel_lock();/d'
else
    sed -i -e '/include.*\<smp_lock.h\>/d' ${file}  \
                -e '/cycle_kernel_lock()/d'
fi

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2010-10-05 15:01:10 +02:00
NeilBrown
ddcf3522cf md: fix v1.x metadata update when a disk is missing.
If an array with 1.x metadata is assembled with the last disk missing,
md doesn't properly record the fact that the disk was missing.

This is unlikely to cause a real problem as the event count will be
different to the count on the missing disk so it won't be included in
the array.  However it could still cause confusion.

So make sure we clear all the relevant slots, not just the early ones.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-09-17 13:53:28 +10:00
NeilBrown
126925c090 md: call md_update_sb even for 'external' metadata arrays.
Now that we depend on md_update_sb to clear variable bits in
mddev->flags (rather than trying not to set them) it is important to
always call md_update_sb when appropriate.

md_check_recovery has this job but explicitly avoids it for ->external
metadata arrays.  This is not longer appropraite, or needed.

However we do want to avoid taking the mddev lock if only
MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set as that is not cleared by md_update_sb for
external-metadata arrays.

Reported-by:  "Kwolek, Adam" <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-09-17 13:53:13 +10:00
Tejun Heo
e9c7469bb4 md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support
This patch converts md to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now
deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER.  In the core part (md.c), the following
changes are notable.

* Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA don't interfere with
  processing of other requests and thus there is no reason to mark the
  queue congested while FLUSH/FUA is in progress.

* REQ_FLUSH/FUA failures are final and its users don't need retry
  logic.  Retry logic is removed.

* Preflush needs to be issued to all member devices but FUA writes can
  be handled the same way as other writes - their processing can be
  deferred to request_queue of member devices.  md_barrier_request()
  is renamed to md_flush_request() and simplified accordingly.

For linear, raid0 and multipath, the core changes are enough.  raid1,
5 and 10 need the following conversions.

* raid1: Handling of FLUSH/FUA bio's can simply be deferred to
  request_queues of member devices.  Barrier related logic removed.

* raid5: Queue draining logic dropped.  FUA bit is propagated through
  biodrain and stripe resconstruction such that all the updated parts
  of the stripe are written out with FUA writes if any of the dirtying
  writes was FUA.  preread_active_stripes handling in make_request()
  is updated as suggested by Neil Brown.

* raid10: FUA bit needs to be propagated to write clones.

linear, raid0, 1, 5 and 10 tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
NeilBrown
070dc6dd71 md: resolve confusion of MD_CHANGE_CLEAN
MD_CHANGE_CLEAN is used for two different purposes and this leads to
confusion.
One of the purposes is largely mirrored by MD_CHANGE_PENDING which is
not used for anything else, so have MD_CHANGE_PENDING take over that
purpose fully.

The two purposes are:
 1/ tell md_update_sb that an update is needed and that it is just a
   clean/dirty transition.
 2/ tell user-space that an transition from clean to dirty is pending
    (something wants to write), and tell te kernel (by clearin the
    flag) that the transition is OK.

The first purpose remains wit MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, the second is moved
fully to MD_CHANGE_PENDING.

This means that various places which conditionally set or cleared
MD_CHANGE_CLEAN no longer need to be conditional.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-30 18:06:21 +10:00
Dan Williams
bd52b74626 md: don't clear MD_CHANGE_CLEAN in md_update_sb() for external arrays
If this bit is cleared in md_update_sb() the kernel will allow writes to the
array if userspace triggers md_allow_write(), e.g. through stripe_cache_size,
when mdmon is not active.  When mdmon is active the array transitions to
active-idle bypassing write-pending, setting up a race for mdmon to set the
array clean before a write arrives.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-30 18:06:20 +10:00
NeilBrown
3a3a5ddb7a Update recovery_offset even when external metadata is used.
The update of ->recovery_offset in sync_sbs is appropriate even then external
metadata is in use.  However sync_sbs is only called when native
metadata is used.

So move that update in to the top of md_update_sb (which is the only
caller of sync_sbs) before the test on ->external.

This moves the update out of ->write_lock protection, but those fields
only need ->reconfig_mutex protection which they still have.

Also move the test on ->persistent up to where ->external is set as
for metadata update purposes they are the same.

Clear MD_CHANGE_DEVS and MD_CHANGE_CLEAN as they can only be confusing
if ->external is set or ->persistent isn't.

Finally move the update of ->utime down as it is only relevent (like
the ->events update) for native metadata.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: "Kwolek, Adam" <adam.kwolek@intel.com>
2010-08-18 11:39:38 +10:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
NeilBrown
75a73a29e5 md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.
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
2010-05-18 15:28:00 +10:00
Dan Williams
f2859af671 md: allow integers to be passed to md/level
e.g. allow md to interpret 'echo 4 > md/level' as a request for raid4.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2010-05-18 15:27:58 +10:00
Dan Williams
bb7f8d2217 md: notify mdstat waiters of level change
Level modifications change the output of mdstat.  The mdmon manager
thread is interested in these events for external metadata management.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2010-05-18 15:27:57 +10:00
NeilBrown
9e35b99c7e md: don't unregister the thread in mddev_suspend
This is
 - unnecessary because mddev_suspend is always followed by a call to
   ->stop, and each ->stop unregisters the thread, and
 - a problem as it makes it awkwards to suspend and then resume a
   device as we will want later.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:56 +10:00
NeilBrown
fafd7fb052 md: factor out init code for an mddev
This is a simple factorisation that makes mddev_find easier to read.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:55 +10:00
NeilBrown
21a52c6d05 md: pass mddev to make_request functions rather than request_queue
We used to pass the personality make_request function direct
to the block layer so the first argument had to be a queue.
But now we have the intermediary md_make_request so it makes
at lot more sense to pass a struct mddev_s.
It makes it possible to have an mddev without its own queue too.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:55 +10:00
NeilBrown
cca9cf90c5 md: call md_stop_writes from md_stop
This moves the call to the other side of set_readonly, but that should
not be an issue.
This encapsulates in 'md_stop' all of the functionality for internally
stopping the array, leaving all the interactions with externalities
(sysfs, request_queue, gendisk) in do_md_stop.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:54 +10:00
NeilBrown
a4bd82d0d0 md: split md_set_readonly out of do_md_stop
Using do_md_stop to set an array to read-only is a little confusing.
Now most of the common code has been factored out, split
md_set_readonly off in to a separate function.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:54 +10:00
NeilBrown
a047e12540 md: factor md_stop_writes out of do_md_stop.
Further refactoring of do_md_stop.
This one requires some explanation as it takes code from different
places in do_md_stop, so some re-ordering happens.

We only get into this part of do_md_stop if there are no active opens
of the device, so no writes can be happening and the device must have
been flushed.  In md_stop_writes we want to stop any internal sources
of writes - i.e. resync - and flush out the metadata.

The only code that was previously before some of this code is
code to clean up the queue, the mddev, the gendisk, or sysfs, all
of which is probably better after code that makes active changes (i.e.
triggers writes).

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:54 +10:00
NeilBrown
6177b472ab md: start to refactor do_md_stop
do_md_stop is large and clunky, so hard to understand.

This is a first step of refactoring, pulling two simple
sub-functions out.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:53 +10:00
NeilBrown
fe60b01428 md: factor do_md_run to separate accesses to ->gendisk
As part of relaxing the binding between an mddev and gendisk,
we separate do_md_run into two functions.
  md_run does all the work internal to md
  do_md_run calls md_run and makes and changes to gendisk
     that are required.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:53 +10:00
NeilBrown
b821eaa572 md: remove ->changed and related code.
We set ->changed to 1 and call check_disk_change at the end
of md_open so that bd_invalidated would be set and thus
partition rescan would happen appropriately.

Now that we call revalidate_disk directly, which sets bd_invalidates,
that indirection is no longer needed and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-05-18 15:27:53 +10:00