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Linus Torvalds a5e0d73163 Merge tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 "Mostly little bugfixes.

  Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
  number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
  loss."

* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: expedite metadata update when switching  read-auto -> active
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
  md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
  md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
  md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
  md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
  DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
  MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
  md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
  md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
2013-03-05 17:22:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ee89f81252 Merge branch 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block IO core bits from Jens Axboe:
 "Below are the core block IO bits for 3.9.  It was delayed a few days
  since my workstation kept crashing every 2-8h after pulling it into
  current -git, but turns out it is a bug in the new pstate code (divide
  by zero, will report separately).  In any case, it contains:

   - The big cfq/blkcg update from Tejun and and Vivek.

   - Additional block and writeback tracepoints from Tejun.

   - Improvement of the should sort (based on queues) logic in the plug
     flushing.

   - _io() variants of the wait_for_completion() interface, using
     io_schedule() instead of schedule() to contribute to io wait
     properly.

   - Various little fixes.

  You'll get two trivial merge conflicts, which should be easy enough to
  fix up"

Fix up the trivial conflicts due to hlist traversal cleanups (commit
b67bfe0d42: "hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators").

* 'for-3.9/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (39 commits)
  block: remove redundant check to bd_openers()
  block: use i_size_write() in bd_set_size()
  cfq: fix lock imbalance with failed allocations
  drivers/block/swim3.c: fix null pointer dereference
  block: don't select PERCPU_RWSEM
  block: account iowait time when waiting for completion of IO request
  sched: add wait_for_completion_io[_timeout]
  writeback: add more tracepoints
  block: add block_{touch|dirty}_buffer tracepoint
  buffer: make touch_buffer() an exported function
  block: add @req to bio_{front|back}_merge tracepoints
  block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
  block: Remove should_sort judgement when flush blk_plug
  block,elevator: use new hashtable implementation
  cfq-iosched: add hierarchical cfq_group statistics
  cfq-iosched: collect stats from dead cfqgs
  cfq-iosched: separate out cfqg_stats_reset() from cfq_pd_reset_stats()
  blkcg: make blkcg_print_blkgs() grab q locks instead of blkcg lock
  block: RCU free request_queue
  blkcg: implement blkg_[rw]stat_recursive_sum() and blkg_[rw]stat_merge()
  ...
2013-02-28 12:52:24 -08:00
Sasha Levin b67bfe0d42 hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    <+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
NeilBrown 51acbcec6c md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
This doesn't seem to actually help and we have an alternate
multi-threading approach waiting in the wings, so just get
rid of this config option and associated code.

As a bonus, we remove one use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2013-02-28 09:08:34 +11:00
Tejun Heo 3a366e614d block: add missing block_bio_complete() tracepoint
bio completion didn't kick block_bio_complete TP.  Only dm was
explicitly triggering the TP on IO completion.  This makes
block_bio_complete TP useless for tracers which want to know about
bios, and all other bio based drivers skip generating blktrace
completion events.

This patch makes all bio completions via bio_endio() generate
block_bio_complete TP.

* Explicit trace_block_bio_complete() invocation removed from dm and
  the trace point is unexported.

* @rq dropped from trace_block_bio_complete().  bios may fly around
  w/o queue associated.  Verifying and accessing the assocaited queue
  belongs to TP probes.

* blktrace now gets both request and bio completions.  Make it ignore
  bio completions if request completion path is happening.

This makes all bio based drivers generate blktrace completion events
properly and makes the block_bio_complete TP actually useful.

v2: With this change, block_bio_complete TP could be invoked on sg
    commands which have bio's with %NULL bi_bdev.  Update TP
    assignment code to check whether bio->bi_bdev is %NULL before
    dereferencing.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Original-patch-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2013-01-14 15:00:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds ea88eeac0c Merge tag 'md-3.8' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md update from Neil Brown:
 "Mostly just little fixes.  Probably biggest part is AVX accelerated
  RAID6 calculations."

* tag 'md-3.8' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: add blktrace calls
  md/raid5: use async_tx_quiesce() instead of open-coding it.
  md: Use ->curr_resync as last completed request when cleanly aborting resync.
  lib/raid6: build proper files on corresponding arch
  lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions
  lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions
  md: Update checkpoint of resync/recovery based on time.
  md:Add place to update ->recovery_cp.
  md.c: re-indent various 'switch' statements.
  md: close race between removing and adding a device.
  md: removed unused variable in calc_sb_1_csm.
2012-12-18 09:32:44 -08:00
NeilBrown a9add5d92b md/raid5: add blktrace calls
This makes it easier to trace what raid5 is doing.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-12-18 10:22:21 +11:00
Linus Torvalds 9228ff9038 Merge branch 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver update from Jens Axboe:
 "Now that the core bits are in, here are the driver bits for 3.8.  The
  branch contains:

   - A huge pile of drbd bits that were dumped from the 3.7 merge
     window.  Following that, it was both made perfectly clear that
     there is going to be no more over-the-wall pulls and how the
     situation on individual pulls can be improved.

   - A few cleanups from Akinobu Mita for drbd and cciss.

   - Queue improvement for loop from Lukas.  This grew into adding a
     generic interface for waiting/checking an even with a specific
     lock, allowing this to be pulled out of md and now loop and drbd is
     also using it.

   - A few fixes for xen back/front block driver from Roger Pau Monne.

   - Partition improvements from Stephen Warren, allowing partiion UUID
     to be used as an identifier."

* 'for-3.8/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (609 commits)
  drbd: update Kconfig to match current dependencies
  drbd: Fix drbdsetup wait-connect, wait-sync etc... commands
  drbd: close race between drbd_set_role and drbd_connect
  drbd: respect no-md-barriers setting also when changed online via disk-options
  drbd: Remove obsolete check
  drbd: fixup after wait_even_lock_irq() addition to generic code
  loop: Limit the number of requests in the bio list
  wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
  xen-blkfront: free allocated page
  xen-blkback: move free persistent grants code
  block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
  init: reduce PARTUUID min length to 1 from 36
  block: store partition_meta_info.uuid as a string
  cciss: use check_signature()
  cciss: cleanup bitops usage
  drbd: use copy_highpage
  drbd: if the replication link breaks during handshake, keep retrying
  drbd: check return of kmalloc in receive_uuids
  drbd: Broadcast sync progress no more often than once per second
  drbd: don't try to clear bits once the disk has failed
  ...
2012-12-17 13:39:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
NeilBrown 749586b7d3 md/raid5: use async_tx_quiesce() instead of open-coding it.
handle_stripe_expansion contains:

        if (tx) {
                async_tx_ack(tx);
                dma_wait_for_async_tx(tx);
        }

which is very similar to the body of async_tx_quiesce(),
except that the later handles an error from dma_wait_for_async_tx()
(admittedly by panicing, but that decision belongs in the dma
code, not the md code).

So just us async_tx_quiesce().

Acked-by: Dan Williams <djbw@fb.com>
Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-12-13 19:52:32 +11:00
Lukas Czerner eed8c02e68 wait: add wait_event_lock_irq() interface
New wait_event{_interruptible}_lock_irq{_cmd} macros added. This commit
moves the private wait_event_lock_irq() macro from MD to regular wait
includes, introduces new macro wait_event_lock_irq_cmd() instead of using
the old method with omitting cmd parameter which is ugly and makes a use
of new macros in the MD. It also introduces the _interruptible_ variant.

The use of new interface is when one have a special lock to protect data
structures used in the condition, or one also needs to invoke "cmd"
before putting it to sleep.

All new macros are expected to be called with the lock taken. The lock
is released before sleep and is reacquired afterwards. We will leave the
macro with the lock held.

Note to DM: IMO this should also fix theoretical race on waitqueue while
using simultaneously wait_event_lock_irq() and wait_event() because of
lack of locking around current state setting and wait queue removal.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-11-30 11:47:57 +01:00
NeilBrown ca64cae960 md/raid5: Make sure we clear R5_Discard when discard is finished.
commit 9e44476851
    MD: raid5 avoid unnecessary zero page for trim

change raid5 to clear R5_Discard when the complete request is
handled rather than when submitting the per-device discard request.
However it did not clear R5_Discard for the parity device.

This means that if the stripe_head was reused before it expired from
the cache, the setting would be wrong and a hang would result.

Also if the R5_Uptodate bit happens to be set, R5_Discard again
won't be cleared.  But R5_Uptodate really should be clear at this point.

So make sure R5_Discard is cleared in all cases, and clear
R5_Uptodate when a 'discard' completes.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-11-22 09:14:13 +11:00
NeilBrown ef5b7c69b7 md/raid5: move resolving of reconstruct_state earlier in
stripe_handle.

The chunk of code in stripe_handle which responds to a
*_result value in reconstruct_state is really the completion
of some processing that happened outside of handle_stripe
(possibly asynchronously) and so should be one of the first
things done in handle_stripe().

After the next patch it will be important that it happens before
handle_stripe_clean_event(), as that will clear some dev->flags
bit that this code tests.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-11-22 09:14:09 +11:00
NeilBrown 4ac6875eeb md/raid5: round discard alignment up to power of 2.
blkdev_issue_discard currently assumes that the granularity
is a power of 2.  So in raid5, round the chosen number up to
avoid embarrassment.

Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-11-20 19:42:56 +11:00
Masanari Iida 83f0d77a7f md: Fix typo in drivers/md
Correct spelling typo in drivers/md.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-10-29 22:57:50 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 9db908806b Merge tag 'md-3.7' of git://neil.brown.name/md
Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 - "discard" support, some dm-raid improvements and other assorted bits
   and pieces.

* tag 'md-3.7' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (29 commits)
  md: refine reporting of resync/reshape delays.
  md/raid5: be careful not to resize_stripes too big.
  md: make sure manual changes to recovery checkpoint are saved.
  md/raid10: use correct limit variable
  md: writing to sync_action should clear the read-auto state.
  Subject: [PATCH] md:change resync_mismatches to atomic64_t to avoid races
  md/raid5: make sure to_read and to_write never go negative.
  md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.
  md/raid5: protect debug message against NULL derefernce.
  md/raid5: add some missing locking in handle_failed_stripe.
  MD: raid5 avoid unnecessary zero page for trim
  MD: raid5 trim support
  md/bitmap:Don't use IS_ERR to judge alloc_page().
  md/raid1: Don't release reference to device while handling read error.
  raid: replace list_for_each_continue_rcu with new interface
  add further __init annotations to crypto/xor.c
  DM RAID: Fix for "sync" directive ineffectiveness
  DM RAID: Fix comparison of index and quantity for "rebuild" parameter
  DM RAID: Add rebuild capability for RAID10
  DM RAID: Move 'rebuild' checking code to its own function
  ...
2012-10-13 13:22:01 -07:00
NeilBrown e56108d65f md/raid5: be careful not to resize_stripes too big.
When a RAID5 is reshaping, conf->raid_disks is increased
before mddev->delta_disks becomes zero.
This can result in check_reshape calling resize_stripes with a
number that is too large.  This particularly happens
when md_check_recovery calls ->check_reshape().

If we use ->previous_raid_disks, we don't risk this.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 14:24:13 +11:00
Jianpeng Ma 7f7583d420 Subject: [PATCH] md:change resync_mismatches to atomic64_t to avoid races
Now that multiple threads can handle stripes, it is safer to
use an atomic64_t for resync_mismatches, to avoid update races.

Signed-off-by: Jianpeng Ma <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 14:17:59 +11:00
NeilBrown 1ed850f356 md/raid5: make sure to_read and to_write never go negative.
to_read and to_write are part of the result of analysing
a stripe before handling it.
Their use is to avoid some loops and tests if the values are
known to be zero.  Thus it is not a problem if they are a
little bit larger than they should be.

So decrementing them in handle_failed_stripe serves little value, and
due to races it could cause some loops to be skipped incorrectly.

So remove those decrements.

Reported-by: "Jianpeng Ma" <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:50:13 +11:00
Alexander Lyakas a7854487cd md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.
Signed-off-by: Alex Lyakas <alex@zadarastorage.com>
Suggested-by: Yair Hershko <yair@zadarastorage.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:50:12 +11:00
NeilBrown b97390aec4 md/raid5: protect debug message against NULL derefernce.
The pr_debug in add_stripe_bio could race with something
changing *bip, so it is best to hold the lock until
after the pr_debug.

Reported-by: "Jianpeng Ma" <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:50:12 +11:00
NeilBrown 143c4d0573 md/raid5: add some missing locking in handle_failed_stripe.
We really should hold the stripe_lock while accessing
'toread' else we could race with add_stripe_bio and corrupt
a list.

Reported-by: "Jianpeng Ma" <majianpeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:50:12 +11:00
Shaohua Li 9e44476851 MD: raid5 avoid unnecessary zero page for trim
We want to avoid zero discarded dev page, because it's useless for discard.
But if we don't zero it, another read/write hit such page in the cache and will
get inconsistent data.

To avoid zero the page, we don't set R5_UPTODATE flag after construction is
done. In this way, discard write request is still issued and finished, but read
will not hit the page. If the stripe gets accessed soon, we need reread the
stripe, but since the chance is low, the reread isn't a big deal.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:49:49 +11:00
Shaohua Li 620125f2bf MD: raid5 trim support
Discard for raid4/5/6 has limitation. If discard request size is
small, we do discard for one disk, but we need calculate parity and
write parity disk.  To correctly calculate parity, zero_after_discard
must be guaranteed. Even it's true, we need do discard for one disk
but write another disks, which makes the parity disks wear out
fast. This doesn't make sense. So an efficient discard for raid4/5/6
should discard all data disks and parity disks, which requires the
write pattern to be (A, A+chunk_size, A+chunk_size*2...). If A's size
is smaller than chunk_size, such pattern is almost impossible in
practice. So in this patch, I only handle the case that A's size
equals to chunk_size. That is discard request should be aligned to
stripe size and its size is multiple of stripe size.

Since we can only handle request with specific alignment and size (or
part of the request fitting stripes), we can't guarantee
zero_after_discard even zero_after_discard is true in low level
drives.

The block layer doesn't send down correctly aligned requests even
correct discard alignment is set, so I must filter out.

For raid4/5/6 parity calculation, if data is 0, parity is 0. So if
zero_after_discard is true for all disks, data is consistent after
discard.  Otherwise, data might be lost. Let's consider a scenario:
discard a stripe, write data to one disk and write parity disk. The
stripe could be still inconsistent till then depending on using data
from other data disks or parity disks to calculate new parity. If the
disk is broken, we can't restore it. So in this patch, we only enable
discard support if all disks have zero_after_discard.

If discard fails in one disk, we face the similar inconsistent issue
above. The patch will make discard follow the same path as normal
write request. If discard fails, a resync will be scheduled to make
the data consistent. This isn't good to have extra writes, but data
consistency is important.

If a subsequent read/write request hits raid5 cache of a discarded
stripe, the discarded dev page should have zero filled, so the data is
consistent. This patch will always zero dev page for discarded request
stripe. This isn't optimal because discard request doesn't need such
payload. Next patch will avoid it.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:49:05 +11:00
Shaohua Li 4ed8731d8e MD: change the parameter of md thread
Change the thread parameter, so the thread can carry extra info. Next patch
will use it.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2012-10-11 13:34:00 +11:00