Due to the use of write-behind, it is possible for md to write a page to
the bitmap file that is still completing writeback. This is not allowed.
With this patch, we detect those cases and either force a sync write, or
back off and try later, as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This provides an alternate to storing the bitmap in a separate file. The
bitmap can be stored at a given offset from the superblock. Obviously the
creator of the array must make sure this doesn't intersect with data....
After is good for version-0.90 superblocks.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When looking for pages that need cleaning we skip pages that don't have
BITMAP_PAGE_CLEAN set. But if it is the 'current' page we will have cleared
that bit ourselves, so skipping it is wrong. So: move the 'skip this page'
inside 'if page != lastpage'.
Also fold call of file_page_offset into the one place where the value (bit) is
used.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently we don't wait for updates to the bitmap to be flushed to disk
properly. The infrastructure all there, but it isn't being used....
A separate kernel thread (bitmap_writeback_daemon) is needed to wait for each
page as we cannot get callbacks when a page write completes.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- report sync_size properly - need /2 to convert sectors to KB
- move everything over 2 spaces to allow proper spelling of
"events cleared".
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A u64 is not an unsigned long long. On power4 it is `long', and printk warns.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As the array-wide clean bit (in the superblock) is set more agressively than
the bits in the bitmap are cleared, it is possible to have an array which is
clean despite there being bits set in the bitmap.
These bits will currently never get cleared, as they can only be cleared by a
resync pass, which never happens.
No, when reading bits from disk, be aware of whether the whole array is known
to be in sync, and act accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The debugging message printed the wrong pid, which didn't help remove bugs....
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
1/ When init from disk, it is a BUG if there is nowhere
to init from,
2/ use seq_path to print path in /proc/mdstat
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With this patch, the intent to write to some block in the array can be logged
to a bitmap file. Each bit represents some number of sectors and is set
before any update happens, and only cleared when all writes relating to all
sectors are complete.
After an unclean shutdown, information in this bitmap can be used to optimise
resync - only sectors which could be out-of-sync need to be updated.
Also if a drive is removed and then added back into an array, the recovery can
make use of the bitmap to optimise reconstruction. This is not implemented in
this patch.
Currently the bitmap is stored in a file which must (obviously) be stored on a
separate device.
The patch only provided infrastructure. It does not update any personalities
to bitmap intent logging.
Md arrays can still be used with no bitmap file. This patch has minimal
impact on such arrays.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
