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Dan Williams
cb3c82992f async_tx: raid6 recovery self test
Port drivers/md/raid6test/test.c to use the async raid6 recovery
routines.  This is meant as a unit test for raid6 acceleration drivers.  In
addition to the 16-drive test case this implements tests for the 4-disk and
5-disk special cases (dma devices can not generically handle less than 2
sources), and adds a test for the D+Q case.

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29 19:09:28 -07:00
Dan Williams
ad283ea4a3 async_tx: add sum check flags
Replace the flat zero_sum_result with a collection of flags to contain
the P (xor) zero-sum result, and the soon to be utilized Q (raid6 reed
solomon syndrome) zero-sum result.  Use the SUM_CHECK_ namespace instead
of DMA_ since these flags will be used on non-dma-zero-sum enabled
platforms.

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29 19:09:26 -07:00
Dan Williams
d6f38f31f3 md/raid5,6: add percpu scribble region for buffer lists
Use percpu memory rather than stack for storing the buffer lists used in
parity calculations.  Include space for dma address conversions and pass
that to async_tx via the async_submit_ctl.scribble pointer.

[ Impact: move memory pressure from stack to heap ]

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29 19:09:26 -07:00
Dan Williams
36d1c6476b md/raid6: move the spare page to a percpu allocation
In preparation for asynchronous handling of raid6 operations move the
spare page to a percpu allocation to allow multiple simultaneous
synchronous raid6 recovery operations.

Make this allocation cpu hotplug aware to maximize allocation
efficiency.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-08-29 19:09:26 -07:00
Dan Williams
a11034b428 md/raid6: release spare page at ->stop()
Add missing call to safe_put_page from stop() by unifying open coded
raid5_conf_t de-allocation under free_conf().

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-07-14 11:48:16 -07:00
Dan Williams
a08abd8ca8 async_tx: structify submission arguments, add scribble
Prepare the api for the arrival of a new parameter, 'scribble'.  This
will allow callers to identify scratchpad memory for dma address or page
address conversions.  As this adds yet another parameter, take this
opportunity to convert the common submission parameters (flags,
dependency, callback, and callback argument) into an object that is
passed by reference.

Also, take this opportunity to fix up the kerneldoc and add notes about
the relevant ASYNC_TX_* flags for each routine.

[ Impact: moves api pass-by-value parameters to a pass-by-reference struct ]

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-06-03 14:07:35 -07:00
Dan Williams
88ba2aa586 async_tx: kill ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag
In support of inter-channel chaining async_tx utilizes an ack flag to
gate whether a dependent operation can be chained to another.  While the
flag is not set the chain can be considered open for appending.  Setting
the ack flag closes the chain and flags the descriptor for garbage
collection.  The ASYNC_TX_DEP_ACK flag essentially means "close the
chain after adding this dependency".  Since each operation can only have
one child the api now implicitly sets the ack flag at dependency
submission time.  This removes an unnecessary management burden from
clients of the api.

[ Impact: clean up and enforce one dependency per operation ]

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-06-03 14:07:34 -07:00
Dan Williams
099f53cb50 async_tx: rename zero_sum to val
'zero_sum' does not properly describe the operation of generating parity
and checking that it validates against an existing buffer.  Change the
name of the operation to 'val' (for 'validate').  This is in
anticipation of the p+q case where it is a requirement to identify the
target parity buffers separately from the source buffers, because the
target parity buffers will not have corresponding pq coefficients.

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-04-08 14:28:37 -07:00
Dan Williams
fd74ea6588 Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-raid6 2009-04-08 14:28:13 -07:00
NeilBrown
c8f517c444 md/raid5 revise rules for when to update metadata during reshape
We currently update the metadata :
 1/ every 3Megabytes
 2/ When the place we will write new-layout data to is recorded in
    the metadata as still containing old-layout data.

Rule one exists to avoid having to re-do too much reshaping in the
face of a crash/restart.  So it should really be time based rather
than size based.  So change it to "every 10 seconds".

Rule two turns out to be too harsh when restriping an array
'in-place', as in that case the metadata much be updates for every
stripe.
For the in-place update, it can only possibly be safe from a crash if
some user-space program data a backup of every e.g. few hundred
stripes before allowing them to be reshaped.  In that case, the
constant metadata update is pointless.
So only update the metadata if the new metadata will report that the
end of the 'old-layout' data is beyond where we are currently
writing 'new-layout' data.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:28:40 +11:00
NeilBrown
b0f9ec047b md/raid5: minor code cleanups in make_request.
... and to be certain the that make_request doesn't wait forever,
add a 'wake_up' when ->reshape_progress has been set to MaxSector

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:27:18 +11:00
NeilBrown
2cffc4a01d md: remove CONFIG_MD_RAID_RESHAPE config option.
This was only needed when the code was experimental.  Most of it
is well tested now, so the option is no longer useful.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:27:05 +11:00
NeilBrown
ab69ae12ce md/raid5: be more careful about write ordering when reshaping.
When we are reshaping an array, it is very important that we read
the data from a particular sector offset before writing new data
at that offset.

In most cases when growing or shrinking an array we read long before
we even consider writing.  But when restriping an array without
changing it size, there is a small possibility that we might have
some data to available write before the read has happened at the same
location.  This would require some stripes to be in cache already.

To guard against this small possibility, we check, before writing,
that the 'old' stripe at the same location is not in the process of
being read.  And we ensure that we mark all 'source' stripes as such
before allowing new 'destination' stripes to proceed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:26:47 +11:00
NeilBrown
d1a7c50369 md: don't display meaningless values in sysfs files resync_start and sync_speed
When no resync if happening, both of these files currently have
meaningless values (is slightly different ways).
Change them to "none" in that case.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:24:32 +11:00
NeilBrown
88ce4930e2 md/raid5: allow layout and chunksize to be changed on active array.
If an array has 3 or more devices, we allow the chunksize or layout
to be changed and when a reshape starts, we use these as the 'new'
values.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:24:23 +11:00
NeilBrown
7a66138107 md/raid5: reshape using largest of old and new chunk size
This ensures that even when old and new stripes are overlapping,
we will try to read all of the old before having to write any
of the new.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:21:40 +11:00
NeilBrown
e183eaedd5 md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change layout
Add prev_algo to raid5_conf_t along the same lines as prev_chunk
and previous_raid_disks.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:20:22 +11:00
NeilBrown
784052ecc6 md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change chunksize.
Add "prev_chunk" to raid5_conf_t, similar to "previous_raid_disks", to
remember what the chunk size was before the reshape that is currently
underway.

This seems like duplication with "chunk_size" and "new_chunk" in
mddev_t, and to some extent it is, but there are differences.
The values in mddev_t are always defined and often the same.
The prev* values are only defined if a reshape is underway.

Also (and more significantly) the raid5_conf_t values will be changed
at the same time (inside an appropriate lock) that the reshape is
started by setting reshape_position.  In contrast, the new_chunk value
is set when the sysfs file is written which could be well before the
reshape starts.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:19:07 +11:00
NeilBrown
86b42c713b md/raid5: clearly differentiate 'before' and 'after' stripes during reshape.
During a raid5 reshape, we have some stripes in the cache that are
'before' the reshape (and are still to be processed) and some that are
'after'.  They are currently differentiated by having different
->disks values as the only reshape current supported involves changing
the number of disks.

However we will soon support reshapes that do not change the number
of disks (chunk parity or chunk size).  So make the difference more
explicit with a 'generation' number.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:19:03 +11:00
NeilBrown
ec32a2bd35 md: allow number of drives in raid5 to be reduced
When reshaping a raid5 to have fewer devices, we work from the end of
the array to the beginning.
md_do_sync gives addresses to sync_request that go from the beginning
to the end.  So largely ignore them use the internal state variable
"reshape_progress" to keep track of what to do next.

Never allow the size to be reduced below the minimum (4 for raid6,
3 otherwise).

We require that the size of the array has already been reduced before
the array is reshaped to a smaller size.  This is because simply
reducing the size is an easily reversible operation, while the reshape
is immediately destructive and so is not reversible for the blocks at
the ends of the devices.
Thus to reshape an array to have fewer devices, you must first write
an appropriately small size to md/array_size.

When reshape finished, we remove any drives that are no longer
needed and fix up ->degraded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:17:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
fef9c61fdf md/raid5: change reshape-progress measurement to cope with reshaping backwards.
When reducing the number of devices in a raid4/5/6, the reshape
process has to start at the end of the array and work down to the
beginning.  So we need to handle expand_progress and expand_lo
differently.

This patch renames "expand_progress" and "expand_lo" to avoid the
implication that anything is getting bigger (expand->reshape) and
every place they are used, we make sure that they are used the right
way depending on whether delta_disks is positive or negative.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:16:46 +11:00
NeilBrown
cea9c22800 md: add explicit method to signal the end of a reshape.
Currently raid5 (the only module that supports restriping)
notices that the reshape has finished be sync_request being
given a large value, and handles any cleanup them.

This patch changes it so md_check_recovery calls into an
explicit finish_reshape method as well.

The clean-up from sync_request can do things that need to be
done promptly, typically things local to the raid5_conf_t
structure.

The "finish_reshape" method is called under the mddev_lock
so it can do things involving reconfiguring the device.

This allows us to get rid of md_set_array_sectors_locked, which
would have caused a deadlock if you tried to stop and array
while a reshape was happening.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:15:05 +11:00
NeilBrown
7ec0547838 md/raid5: enhance raid5_size to work correctly with negative delta_disks
This is the first of four patches which combine to allow md/raid5 to
reduce the number of devices in the array by restriping the data over
a subset of the devices.

If the number of disks in a raid4/5/6 is being reduced, then the
default size must be based on the new number, not the old number
of devices.
In general, it should be based on the smaller of new and old.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:10:36 +11:00
NeilBrown
34e04e87fb md/raid5: drop qd_idx from r6_state
We now have this value in stripe_head so we don't need to duplicate
it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:10:16 +11:00
Dan Williams
f701d589aa md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko
Move the raid6 data processing routines into a standalone module
(raid6_pq) to prepare them to be called from async_tx wrappers and other
non-md drivers/modules.  This precludes a circular dependency of raid456
needing the async modules for data processing while those modules in
turn depend on raid456 for the base level synchronous raid6 routines.

To support this move:
1/ The exportable definitions in raid6.h move to include/linux/raid/pq.h
2/ The raid6_call, recovery calls, and table symbols are exported
3/ Extra #ifdef __KERNEL__ statements to enable the userspace raid6test to
   compile

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:09:39 +11:00
Andre Noll
18b0033491 md: raid5 run(): Fix max_degraded for raid level 4.
raid4 allows only one failed disk.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 15:00:56 +11:00
Dan Williams
b522adcde9 md: 'array_size' sysfs attribute
Allow userspace to set the size of the array according to the following
semantics:

1/ size must be <= to the size returned by mddev->pers->size(mddev, 0, 0)
   a) If size is set before the array is running, do_md_run will fail
      if size is greater than the default size
   b) A reshape attempt that reduces the default size to less than the set
      array size should be blocked
2/ once userspace sets the size the kernel will not change it
3/ writing 'default' to this attribute returns control of the size to the
   kernel and reverts to the size reported by the personality

Also, convert locations that need to know the default size from directly
reading ->array_sectors to <pers>_size.  Resync/reshape operations
always follow the default size.

Finally, fixup other locations that read a number of 1k-blocks from
userspace to use strict_blocks_to_sectors() which checks for unsigned
long long to sector_t overflow and blocks to sectors overflow.

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-03-31 15:00:31 +11:00
Dan Williams
1f403624bd md: centralize ->array_sectors modifications
Get personalities out of the business of directly modifying
->array_sectors.  Lays groundwork to introduce policy on when
->array_sectors can be modified.

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-03-31 14:59:03 +11:00
Dan Williams
80c3a6ce4b md: add 'size' as a personality method
In preparation for giving userspace control over ->array_sectors we need
to be able to retrieve the 'default' size, and the 'anticipated' size
when a reshape is requested.  For personalities that do not reshape emit
a warning if anything but the default size is requested.

In the raid5 case we need to update ->previous_raid_disks to make the
new 'default' size available.

Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2009-03-31 14:57:49 +11:00
Atsushi SAKAI
93ed05e2a5 md: fix typo in FSF address
Hello,

 I found a typo Bosto"m" in FSF address.
And I am checking around linux source code.
Here is the only place which uses Bosto"m" (not Boston).

Signed-off-by: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:57:37 +11:00
NeilBrown
fc9739c6d6 md: add takeover support for converting raid6 back into raid5
If a raid6 is still in the layout that comes from converting raid5
into a raid6. this will allow us to convert it back again.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:57:20 +11:00
NeilBrown
e9d4758f6e md: add takeover support for raid4 -> raid5 conversion.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:57:09 +11:00
NeilBrown
b354603527 md/raid5: allow layout/chunksize to be changed on an active 2-drive raid5.
2-drive raid5's aren't very interesting.  But if you are converting
a raid1 into a raid5, you will at least temporarily have one.  And
that it a good time to set the layout/chunksize for the new RAID5
if you aren't happy with the defaults.

layout and chunksize don't actually affect the placement of data
on a 2-drive raid5, so we just do some internal book-keeping.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:56:41 +11:00
NeilBrown
d562b0c431 md: add ->takeover method for raid5 to be able to take over raid1
The RAID1 must have two drives and be a suitable size to
be a multiple of a chunksize that isn't too small.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:39 +11:00
NeilBrown
245f46c2c2 md: add ->takeover method to support changing the personality managing an array
Implement this for RAID6 to be able to 'takeover' a RAID5 array.  The
new RAID6 will use a layout which places Q on the last device, and
that device will be missing.
If there are any available spares, one will immediately have Q
recovered onto it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:39 +11:00
NeilBrown
409c57f380 md: enable suspend/resume of md devices.
To be able to change the 'level' of an md/raid array, we need to
suspend the device so that no requests are active - then move some
pointers around etc.

The code already keeps counts of active requests and the ->quiesce
function can be used to wait until those counts hit zero.
However the quiesce function blocks new requests once they are all
ready 'inside' the personality module, and that is too late if we want
to replace the personality modules.

So make all md requests come in through a common md_make_request
function that keeps track of how many requests have entered the
modules but may not yet be on the internal reference counts.
Allow md_make_request to be blocked when we want to suspend the
device, and make it possible to wait for all those in-transit requests
to be added to internal lists so that ->quiesce can wait for them.

There is still a problem that when a request completes, we drop the
ref count inside the personality code so there is a short time between
when the refcount hits zero, and when the personality code is no
longer being used.
The personality code never blocks (schedule or spinlock) between
dropping the refcount and exiting the routine, so this should be safe
(as put_module calls synchronize_sched() before unmapping the module
code).

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:39 +11:00
NeilBrown
e0cf8f045b md: md_unregister_thread should cope with being passed NULL
Mostly md_unregister_thread is only called when we know that the
thread is NULL, but sometimes we need to check first.  It is safer
to put the check inside md_unregister_thread itself.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:39 +11:00
NeilBrown
91adb56473 md/raid5: refactor raid5 "run"
.. so that the code to create the private data structures is separate.
This will help with future code to change the level of an active
array.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:39 +11:00
NeilBrown
34817e8c39 md: make sure new_level, new_chunksize, new_layout always have sensible values.
When an md array is undergoing a change, we have new_* fields that
show the new values.
When no change is happening, it is least confusing if these have
the same value as the normal fields.
This is true in most cases, but not when the values are set via sysfs.

So fix this up.

A subsequent patch will BUG_ON if these things aren't consistent.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
67cc2b8165 md/raid5: finish support for DDF/raid6
DDF requires RAID6 calculations over different devices in a different
order.
For md/raid6, we calculate over just the data devices, starting
immediately after the 'Q' block.
For ddf/raid6 we calculate over all devices, using zeros in place of
the P and Q blocks.

This requires unfortunately complex loops...

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
99c0fb5f92 md/raid5: Add support for new layouts for raid5 and raid6.
DDF uses different layouts for P and Q blocks than current md/raid6
so add those that are missing.
Also add support for RAID6 layouts that are identical to various
raid5 layouts with the simple addition of one device to hold all of
the 'Q' blocks.
Finally add 'raid5' layouts to match raid4.
These last to will allow online level conversion.

Note that this does not provide correct support for DDF/raid6 yet
as the order in which data blocks are summed to produce the Q block
is significant and different between current md code and DDF
requirements.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
911d4ee853 md/raid5: simplify raid5_compute_sector interface
Rather than passing 'pd_idx' and 'qd_idx' to be filled in, pass
a 'struct stripe_head *' and fill in the relevant fields.  This is
more extensible.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
d0dabf7e57 md/raid6: remove expectation that Q device is immediately after P device.
Code currently assumes that the devices in a raid6 stripe are
  0 1 ... N-1 P Q
in some rotated order.  We will shortly add new layouts in which
this strict pattern is broken.
So remove this expectation.  We still assume that the data disks
are roughly in-order.  However P and Q can be inserted anywhere within
that order.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
112bf8970d md/raid5: change raid5_compute_sector and stripe_to_pdidx to take a 'previous' argument
This similar to the recent change to get_active_stripe.
There is no functional change, just come rearrangement to make
future patches cleaner.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
NeilBrown
b5663ba405 md/raid5: simplify interface for init_stripe and get_active_stripe
Rather than passing 'pd_idx' and 'disks' to these functions, just pass
'previous' which tells whether to use the 'previous' or 'current'
geometry during a reshape, and let init_stripe calculate
disks and pd_idx and anything else it might need.

This is not a substantial simplification and even adds a division.
However we will shortly be adding more complexity to init_stripe
to handle more interesting 'reshape' activities, and without this
change, the interface to these functions would get very complex.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:39:38 +11:00
Andre Noll
dd8ac336c1 md: Represent raid device size in sectors.
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mdk_rdev_s to
"sectors" and changes this field to store sectors instead of
blocks.

All users of this field, linear.c, raid0.c and md.c, are fixed up
accordingly which gets rid of many multiplications and divisions.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
Andre Noll
58c0fed400 md: Make mddev->size sector-based.
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mddev_s to "dev_sectors"
and stores the number of 512-byte sectors instead of the number of
1K-blocks in it.

All users of that field, including raid levels 1,4-6,10, are adjusted
accordingly. This simplifies the code a bit because it allows to get
rid of a couple of divisions/multiplications by two.

In order to make checkpatch happy, some minor coding style issues
have also been addressed. In particular, size_store() now uses
strict_strtoull() instead of simple_strtoull().

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
NeilBrown
575a80fa4f md: be more consistent about setting WriteMostly flag when adding a drive to an array
When a drive is added to an array using ADD_NEW_DISK, there are two
places we can get certain flags from:  the metadata on the disk or the
flags passed through the IOCTL.

For the WriteMostly flag (aka MD_DISK_WRITEMOSTLY) we take the value
from either of those sources depending on if it is set (i.e. we
effectively 'or' the two sources together).

This makes it awkward to clear, and is at best inconsistent.

As documented code (in mdadm) requires that setting
MD_DISK_WRITEMOSTLY in the ioctl will be effective, we resolve the
inconsistency by always using the value for this flag from the ioctl,
and ignoring the value on disk.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
NeilBrown
97e4f42d62 md: occasionally checkpoint drive recovery to reduce duplicate effort after a crash
Version 1.x metadata has the ability to record the status of a
partially completed drive recovery.
However we only update that record on a clean shutdown.
It would be nice to update it on unclean shutdowns too, particularly
when using a bitmap that removes much to the 'sync' effort after an
unclean shutdown.

One complication with checkpointing recovery is that we only know
where we are up to in terms of IO requests started, not which ones
have completed.  And we need to know what has completed to record
how much is recovered.  So occasionally pause the recovery until all
submitted requests are completed, then update the record of where
we are up to.

When we have a bitmap, we already do that pause occasionally to keep
the bitmap up-to-date.  So enhance that code to record the recovery
offset and schedule a superblock update.
And when there is no bitmap, just pause 16 times during the resync to
do a checkpoint.
'16' is a fairly arbitrary number.  But we don't really have any good
way to judge how often is acceptable, and it seems like a reasonable
number for now.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00
NeilBrown
43b2e5d86d md: move md_k.h from include/linux/raid/ to drivers/md/
It really is nicer to keep related code together..

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-03-31 14:33:13 +11:00