- update the kernel doc for async_syndrome to indicate what NULL in the
source list means
- whitespace fixups
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
async_syndrome_val check the P and Q blocks used for RAID6
calculations.
With DDF raid6, some of the data blocks might be NULL, so
this needs to be handled in the same way that async_gen_syndrome
handles it.
As async_syndrome_val calls async_xor, also enhance async_xor
to detect and skip NULL blocks in the list.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md/raid6 passes a list of 'struct page *' to the async_tx routines,
which then either DMA map them for offload, or take the page_address
for CPU based calculations.
For RAID6 we sometime leave 'blanks' in the list of pages.
For CPU based calcs, we want to treat theses as a page of zeros.
For offloaded calculations, we simply don't pass a page to the
hardware.
Currently the 'blanks' are encoded as a pointer to
raid6_empty_zero_page. This is a 4096 byte memory region, not a
'struct page'. This is mostly handled correctly but is rather ugly.
So change the code to pass and expect a NULL pointer for the blanks.
When taking page_address of a page, we need to check for a NULL and
in that case use raid6_empty_zero_page.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When a raid5 (or raid6) array is being reshaped to have fewer devices,
conf->raid_disks is the latter and hence smaller number of devices.
However sometimes we want to use a number which is the total number of
currently required devices - the larger of the 'old' and 'new' sizes.
Before we implemented reducing the number of devices, this was always
'new' i.e. ->raid_disks.
Now we need max(raid_disks, previous_raid_disks) in those places.
This particularly affects assembling an array that was shutdown while
in the middle of a reshape to fewer devices.
md.c needs a similar fix when interpreting the md metadata.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The percpu conversion allowed a straightforward handoff of stripe
processing to the async subsytem that initially showed some modest gains
(+4%). However, this model is too simplistic and leads to stripes
bouncing between raid5d and the async thread pool for every invocation
of handle_stripe(). As reported by Holger this can fall into a
pathological situation severely impacting throughput (6x performance
loss).
By downleveling the parallelism to raid_run_ops the pathological
stripe_head bouncing is eliminated. This version still exhibits an
average 11% throughput loss for:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[b-q] -n 16 -l 6
echo 1024 > /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=1024k count=2048
...but the results are at least stable and can be used as a base for
further multicore experimentation.
Reported-by: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
drivers/md/unroll.pl replaced by awk script to drop build-time
dependency on perl
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
and replace with vfs_fsync which is much neater (but wasn't exported,
or even in existence at the time the code was written).
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Both raid1 and raid10 create a mempool during startup.
If the 'alloc' function for this mempool fails, unplug_slaves
is called.
If that happens when the pool is being initialised, unplug_slaves
will try to use the 'conf' structure that isn't filled in yet, and
badness will happen.
So ensure that unplug_slaves doesn't get called unless we know
that the conf structure if fully initialised.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Deallocating a raid5_conf_t structure requires taking 'device_lock'.
Ensure it is initialized before it is used, i.e. initialize the lock
before attempting any further initializations that might fail.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
During 'check' of a raid1 or raid10 it is possible for the management
thread to spend a lot of time running 'memcmp' on blocks from
different devices, so make sure the thread has a chance to schedule.
raid5d already has a cond_resched (in process_stripe).
Reported-By: Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This reverts commit df10cfbc4d.
This patch was based on a misunderstanding and risks introducing a busy-wait loop.
So revert it.
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits)
microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs
microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target
microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address
microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections
microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets
microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C
microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:"
microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing.
microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR
microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero
microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions
microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file
microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals
microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes
microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS
microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception
microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers
microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h.
microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction
microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (42 commits)
Btrfs: hash the btree inode during fill_super
Btrfs: relocate file extents in clusters
Btrfs: don't rename file into dummy directory
Btrfs: check size of inode backref before adding hardlink
Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't locked
Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extents
Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bit
Btrfs: fix early enospc during balancing
Btrfs: deal with NULL space info
Btrfs: account for space used by the super mirrors
Btrfs: fix extent entry threshold calculation
Btrfs: remove dead code
Btrfs: fix bitmap size tracking
Btrfs: don't keep retrying a block group if we fail to allocate a cluster
Btrfs: make balance code choose more wisely when relocating
Btrfs: fix arithmetic error in clone ioctl
Btrfs: add snapshot/subvolume destroy ioctl
Btrfs: change how subvolumes are organized
Btrfs: do not reuse objectid of deleted snapshot/subvol
Btrfs: speed up snapshot dropping
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
truncate: use new helpers
truncate: new helpers
fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
exofs: remove BKL from super operations
fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
libfs: return error code on failed attr set
seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
vfs: optimize touch_time() too
vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled
Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct
Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes
The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.
All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().
Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).
(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.
This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute,
section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Dan Williams
NeilBrown
Vladimir Dronnikov
Linus Torvalds
Rusty Russell
Johannes Berg
Peter Oberparleiter
Jan Beulich