linux/drivers/md
NeilBrown 2604b703b6 [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md
md supports multiple different RAID level, each being implemented by a
'personality' (which is often in a separate module).

These personalities have fairly artificial 'numbers'.  The numbers
are use to:
 1- provide an index into an array where the various personalities
    are recorded
 2- identify the module (via an alias) which implements are particular
    personality.

Neither of these uses really justify the existence of personality numbers.
The array can be replaced by a linked list which is searched (array lookup
only happens very rarely).  Module identification can be done using an alias
based on level rather than 'personality' number.

The current 'raid5' modules support two level (4 and 5) but only one
personality.  This slight awkwardness (which was handled in the mapping from
level to personality) can be better handled by allowing raid5 to register 2
personalities.

With this change in place, the core md module does not need to have an
exhaustive list of all possible personalities, so other personalities can be
added independently.

This patch also moves the check for chunksize being non-zero into the ->run
routines for the personalities that need it, rather than having it in core-md.
 This has a side effect of allowing 'faulty' and 'linear' not to have a
chunk-size set.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
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raid6test [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
.gitignore gitignore: misc files 2006-01-01 22:21:50 +01:00
bitmap.c [PATCH] md: convert various kmap calls to kmap_atomic 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
dm-bio-list.h [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: bio_list fix 2005-11-22 09:14:31 -08:00
dm-bio-record.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-crypt.c [PATCH] dm-crypt: zero key before freeing it 2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
dm-emc.c [PATCH] device-mapper dm-emc: Fix a memset 2005-05-05 16:36:46 -07:00
dm-exception-store.c [PATCH] vfree and kfree cleanup in drivers/ 2005-09-10 10:06:30 -07:00
dm-hw-handler.c [PATCH] device-mapper: Some missing statics 2005-05-05 16:36:46 -07:00
dm-hw-handler.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-io.c [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
dm-io.h [PATCH] device-mapper: remove unused definition 2006-01-06 08:34:00 -08:00
dm-ioctl.c [PATCH] device-mapper ioctl: add skip lock_fs flag 2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
dm-linear.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-log.c [PATCH] make dm-mirror not issue invalid resync requests 2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
dm-log.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-mpath.c [PATCH] device-mapper dm-mpath: endio spinlock fix 2005-11-22 09:14:31 -08:00
dm-mpath.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-path-selector.c [PATCH] device-mapper: Some missing statics 2005-05-05 16:36:46 -07:00
dm-path-selector.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-raid1.c [PATCH] device-mapper raid1: add default mirror 2006-01-06 08:34:00 -08:00
dm-round-robin.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-snap.c [PATCH] device-mapper snapshot: metadata reading separation 2006-01-06 08:34:00 -08:00
dm-snap.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-stripe.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-table.c [SCSI] seperate max_sectors from max_hw_sectors 2005-12-15 15:11:40 -08:00
dm-target.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dm-zero.c [PATCH] device-mapper: Some missing statics 2005-05-05 16:36:46 -07:00
dm.c [PATCH] device-mapper: make lock_fs optional 2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
dm.h [PATCH] device-mapper: make lock_fs optional 2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
faulty.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
Kconfig Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
kcopyd.c [PATCH] drivers/md/kcopyd.c: #if 0 kcopyd_cancel() 2006-01-06 08:34:01 -08:00
kcopyd.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
linear.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
Makefile [PATCH] md: optimised resync using Bitmap based intent logging 2005-06-21 19:07:43 -07:00
md.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
mktables.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
multipath.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
raid0.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
raid1.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
raid5.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
raid6.h [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6algos.c [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6altivec.uc [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6int.uc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6main.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
raid6mmx.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6recov.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6sse1.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6sse2.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid6x86.h Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
raid10.c [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
unroll.pl Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
xor.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00