Sam Ravnborg [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:33:41 +0000 (20:33 +0100)]
kbuild: document howto build external modules using several directories
Update modules.txt with info how to build external modules
with files in several directories.
The question popped up on lkml often enough to warrant this,
let's see if people read this stuff - or google hits it.
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:43:16 +0000 (08:43 -0800)]
x86: remove bogus 'pci=usepirqmask' suggestion when no irq is defined
This was harmless, but for the case of a device that had no irq
pre-defined we would incorrectly suggest that "usepirqmask" might make a
difference. It never would, and the message was just confusing people.
Jens Axboe [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:28:07 +0000 (09:28 +0100)]
[PATCH] Suspend support for libata
This patch adds suspend patch to libata, and ata_piix in particular. For
most low level drivers, they should just need to add the 4 hooks to
work. As I can only test ata_piix, I didn't enable it for more
though.
Suspend support is the single most important feature on a notebook, and
most new notebooks have sata drives. It's quite embarrassing that we
_still_ do not support this. Right now, it's perfectly possible to
suspend the drive in mid-transfer.
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:55 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: keep better track of dev/array size when assembling md arrays
Move the checks - that dev size is never less than array size - into
bind_rdev_to_array to make sure it always happens properly (there is one place
where currently it doesn't).
Also reject any superblock which claims an array size smaller than the device
in question can hold.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:44 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/md/md.c: make md_new_event() static
Make the needlessly global function md_new_event() static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:39 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: remove inappropriate limits in md/bitmap configuration.
The kernel should not be imposing these policy limits: The time between
bitmap updates should certainly be allowed to be more than 15 seconds, and
if someone wants a bitmap chunk size in excess of 4MB, the kernel isn't the
place to stop them.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:37 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: fix possible problem in raid1/raid10 error overwriting
The code to overwrite/reread for addressing read errors in raid1/raid10
currently assumes that the read will not alter the buffer which could be used
to write to the next device. This is not a safe assumption to make.
So we split the loops into a overwrite loop and a separate re-read loop, so
that the writing is complete before reading is attempted.
Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:36 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[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>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:30 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: make /proc/mdstat pollable
With this patch it is possible to poll /proc/mdstat to detect arrays appearing
or disappearing, to detect failures, recovery starting, recovery completing,
and devices being added and removed.
It is similar to the poll-ability of /proc/mounts, though different in that:
We always report that the file is readable (because face it, it is, even if
only for EOF).
We report POLLPRI when there is a change so that select() can detect
it as an exceptional event. Not only are these exceptional events, but
that is the mechanism that the current 'mdadm' uses to watch for events
(It also polls after a timeout).
(We also report POLLERR like /proc/mounts).
Finally, we only reset the per-file event counter when the start of the file
is read, rather than when poll() returns an event. This is more robust as it
means that an fd will continue to report activity to poll/select until the
program clearly responds to that activity.
md_new_event takes an 'mddev' which isn't currently used, but it will be soon.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:29 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: raid10 read-error handling - resync and read-only
Add in correct read-error handling for resync and read-only situations.
When read-only, we don't over-write, so we need to mark the failed drive in
the r10_bio so we don't re-try it. During resync, we always read all blocks,
so if there is a read error, we simply over-write it with the good block that
we found (assuming we found one).
Note that the recovery case still isn't handled in an interesting way. There
is nothing useful to do for the 2-copies case. If there are 3 or more copies,
then we could try reading from one of the non-missing copies, but this is a
bit complicated and very rarely would be used, so I'm leaving it for now.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:27 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: make sure read error on last working drive of raid1 actually returns failure
We are inadvertently setting the R1BIO_Uptodate bit on read errors when we
decide not to try correcting (because there are no other working devices).
This means that the read error is reported to the client as success.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:26 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: allow raid1 to check consistency
Where performing a user-requested 'check' or 'repair', we read all readable
devices, and compare the contents. We only write to blocks which had read
errors, or blocks with content that differs from the first good device found.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:24 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: fix up some rdev rcu locking in raid5/6
There is this "FIXME" comment with a typo in it!! that been annoying me for
days, so I just had to remove it.
conf->disks[i].rdev should only be accessed if
- we know we hold a reference or
- the mddev->reconfig_sem is down or
- we have a rcu_readlock
handle_stripe was referencing rdev in three places without any of these. For
the first two, get an rcu_readlock. For the last, the same access
(md_sync_acct call) is made a little later after the rdev has been claimed
under and rcu_readlock, if R5_Syncio is set. So just use that access...
However R5_Syncio isn't really needed as the 'syncing' variable contains the
same information. So use that instead.
Issues, comment, and fix are identical in raid5 and raid6.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:22 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: better handling for read error in raid1 during resync
Handling of read errors during resync is separate from handling of read errors
during normal IO in raid1. A previous patch added support for read errors
during normal IO. This one adds support for read errors during resync or
recovery.
The key differences are that we don't need to freeze the array, because the
normal handling of resync means that this part of the array will be idle
except for resync, and the read/overwrite/re-read is needed in a separate
piece of code.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:19 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: attempt to auto-correct read errors in raid1
On a read-error we suspend the array, then synchronously read the block from
other arrays until we find one where we can read it. Then we try writing the
good data back everywhere and make sure it works. If any write or subsequent
read fails, only then do we fail the device out of the array.
To be able to suspend the array, we need to also keep track of how many
requests are queued for handling by raid1d.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:18 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: improve handing of read errors with raid6
This is a simple port of match functionality across from raid5. If we get a
read error, we don't kick the drive straight away, but try to over-write with
good data first.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:17 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: fix raid6 resync check/repair code
raid6 currently does not check the P/Q syndromes when doing a resync, it just
calculates the correct value and writes it. Doing the check can reduce writes
(often to 0) for a resync, and it is needed to properly implement the
echo check > sync_action
operation.
This patch implements the appropriate checks and tidies up some related code.
It also allows raid6 user-requested resync to bypass the intent bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:16 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: move bitmap_create to after md array has been initialised
This is important because bitmap_create uses
mddev->resync_max_sectors
and that doesn't have a valid value until after the array
has been initialised (with pers->run()).
[It doesn't make a difference for current personalities that
support bitmaps, but will make a difference for raid10]
This has the added advantage of meaning with can move the thread->timeout
manipulation inside the bitmap.c code instead of sprinkling identical code
throughout all personalities.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:14 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: small cleanups for raid5
Resync code:
A test that isn't needed,
a 'compute_block' that makes more sense
elsewhere (And then doesn't need a test),
a couple of BUG_ONs to confirm the change makes sense.
Printks:
A few were missing KERN_*
Also fix a typo in a comment..
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:13 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: improve raid10 "IO Barrier" concept
raid10 needs to put up a barrier to new requests while it does resync or other
background recovery. The code for this is currently open-coded, slighty
obscure by its use of two waitqueues, and not documented.
This patch gathers all the related code into 4 functions, and includes a
comment which (hopefully) explains what is happening.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:12 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] md: improve raid1 "IO Barrier" concept
raid1 needs to put up a barrier to new requests while it does resync or other
background recovery. The code for this is currently open-coded, slighty
obscure by its use of two waitqueues, and not documented.
This patch gathers all the related code into 4 functions, and includes a
comment which (hopefully) explains what is happening.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Darrick J. Wong [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:11 +0000 (00:20 -0800)]
[PATCH] make dm-mirror not issue invalid resync requests
I've been attempting to set up a (Host)RAID mirror with dm_mirror on
2.6.14.3, and I've been having a strange little problem. The configuration
in question is a set of 9GB SCSI disks that have 17942584 sectors. I set
up the dm_mirror table as such:
If I'm not mistaken, this sets up a 9GB RAID1 mriror with 1MB stripes
across both SCSI disks. The sector count of the dm device is less than the
size of the disks, so we shouldn't fall off the end. However, I always get
the messages like this in dmesg when I set up the dm table:
attempt to access beyond end of device
sdd: rw=0, want=17958656, limit=17942584
Clearly, something is trying to read sectors past the end of the drive. I
traced it down to the __rh_recovery_prepare function in dm-raid1.c, which
gets called when we're putting the mirror set together. This function
calls the dirty region log's get_resync_work function to see if there's any
resync that needs to be done, and queues up any areas that are out of sync.
The log's get_resync_work function is actually a pointer to the
core_get_resync_work function in dm-log.c.
The core_get_resync_work function queries a bitset lc->sync_bits to find
out if there are any regions that are out of date (i.e. the bit is 0),
which is where the problem occurs. If every bit in lc->sync_bits is 1
(which is the case when we've just configured a new RAID1 with the nosync
option), the find_next_zero_bit does NOT return the size parameter
(lc->region_count in this case), it returns the size parameter rounded up
to the nearest multiple of 32! I don't know if this is intentional, but
i386 and x86_64 both exhibit this behavior.
In any case, the statement "if (*region == lc->region_count)" looks like
it's supposed to catch the case where are no regions to resync and
return 0. Since find_next_zero_bit apparently has a habit of returning
a value that's larger than lc->region_count, the enclosed patch changes
the equality test to a greater-than test so that we don't try to resync
areas outside of the RAID1 region. Seeing as the HostRAID metadata
lives just past the end of the RAID1 data, mucking around in that area
is not a good idea.
I suppose another way to fix this would be to amend find_next_zero_bit so
that it doesn't return values larger than "size", but I don't know if
there's a reason for the current behavior.
Signed-Off-By: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Neil Brown [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:59 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: reduce stack consumption
A typical nfsd call trace is
nfsd -> svc_process -> nfsd_dispatch -> nfsd3_proc_write ->
nfsd_write ->nfsd_vfs_write -> vfs_writev
These add up to over 300 bytes on the stack.
Looking at each of these, I see that nfsd_write (which includes
nfsd_vfs_write) contributes 0x8c to stack usage itself!!
It turns out this is because it puts a 'struct iattr' on the stack so
it can kill suid if needed. The following patch saves about 50 bytes
off the stack in this call path.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Shaw [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:58 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] knfsd: check error status from vfs_getattr and i_op->fsync
Both vfs_getattr and i_op->fsync return error statuses which nfsd was
largely ignoring. This as noticed when exporting directories using fuse.
This patch cleans up most of the offences, which involves moving the call
to vfs_getattr out of the xdr encoding routines (where it is too late to
report an error) into the main NFS procedure handling routines.
There is still a called to vfs_gettattr (related to the ACL code) where the
status is ignored, and called to nfsd_sync_dir don't check return status
either.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Olaf Kirch [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:56 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] Keep nfsd from exiting when seeing recv() errors
I submitted this one previously - svc_tcp_recvfrom currently returns
any errors to the caller, including ECONNRESET and the like.
This is something svc_recv isn't able to deal with:
len = svsk->sk_recvfrom(rqstp);
[...]
if (len == 0 || len == -EAGAIN) {
[...]
return -EAGAIN;
}
[...]
return len;
The nfsd main loop will exit when it sees an error code other than
EAGAIN.
The following patch fixes this problem
svc_recv is not equipped to deal with error codes other than EAGAIN,
and will propagate anything else (such as ECONNRESET) up to nfsd,
causing it to exit.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Kara [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:55 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] jbd: split checkpoint lists
Split the checkpoint list of the transaction into two lists. In the first
list we keep the buffers that need to be submitted for IO. In the second
list are kept buffers that were already submitted and we just have to wait
for the IO to complete. This should simplify a handling of checkpoint
lists a bit and can eventually be also a performance gain.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix remaining list_for_each_safe_rcu in -mm (take 2)
I missed a use of list_for_each_rcu_safe() in -mm tree. Here is an updated
patch to fix it. This time tested on a machine that actually uses IPMI...
(Thanks to Serge Hallyn for spotting this.)
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marko Kohtala [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:44 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] parport: phase fixes
Did not move the parport interface properly into IEEE1284_PH_REV_IDLE phase at
end of data due to comparing bytes with nibbles. Internal phase
IEEE1284_PH_HBUSY_DNA became unused, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marko Kohtala [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:43 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] parport: buffer overflow fix
Fix potential buffer overflow in case the device ID did not end in semicolon.
Also might fail to negotiate back to IEEE1284_MODE_COMPAT in case of failure.
parport_device_id did not return what Documentation/parport-lowlevel.txt said,
so I changed it to match it.
Determining device ID length is overly complicated, but Tim Waugh recalled on
linux-parport seeing some buggy device that might need it.
Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Miklos Szeredi [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:43 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] fuse: check file type in lookup
Previously invalid types were quietly changed to regular files, but at
revalidation the inode was changed to bad. This was rather inconsistent
behavior.
Now check if the type is valid on initial lookup, and return -EIO if not.
Miklos Szeredi [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:42 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] fuse: ensure progress in read and write
In direct_io mode, send at least one page per reqest. Previously it was
possible that reqests with zero data were sent, and hence the read/write
didn't make any progress, resulting in an infinite (though interruptible)
loop.
Miklos Szeredi [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:41 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] fuse: make maximum write data configurable
Make the maximum size of write data configurable by the filesystem. The
previous fixed 4096 limit only worked on architectures where the page size is
less or equal to this. This change make writing work on other architectures
too, and also lets the filesystem receive bigger write requests in direct_io
mode.
Normal writes which go through the page cache are still limited to a page
sized chunk per request.
Miklos Szeredi [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:38 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] fuse: support caching negative dentries
Add support for caching negative dentries.
Up till now, ->d_revalidate() always forced a new lookup on these. Now let
the lookup method return a zero node ID (not used for anything else) meaning a
negative entry, but with a positive cache timeout. The old way of signaling
negative entry (replying ENOENT) still works.
Userspace should check the ABI minor version to see whether sending a zero ID
is allowed by the kernel or not.
Miklos Szeredi [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:37 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] fuse: add frsize to statfs reply
Add 'frsize' member to the statfs reply.
I'm not sure if sending f_fsid will ever be needed, but just in case leave
some space at the end of the structure, so less compatibility mess would be
required.