In do_md_run(), md threads should not wake up until the array is fully
initialized in md_run(). However, in raid5_run(), raid5-cache may wake
up mddev->thread to flush stripes that need to be written back. This
design doesn't break badly right now. But it could lead to bad bug in
the future.
This patch tries to resolve this problem by splitting start up work
into two personality functions, run() and start(). Tasks that do not
require the md threads should go into run(), while task that require
the md threads go into start().
r5l_load_log() is moved to raid5_start(), so it is not called until
the md threads are started in do_md_run().
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
There is a small window near the end of md_do_sync where mddev->curr_resync
can be equal to MaxSector.
If status_resync is called during this window, the resulting /proc/mdstat
output contains a HUGE number of = signs due to the very large curr_resync:
Personalities : [raid1]
md123 : active raid1 sdd3[2] sdb3[0]
204736 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_]
[=====================================================================
... (82 MB more) ...
================>] recovery =429496729.3% (9223372036854775807/204736)
finish=0.2min speed=12796K/sec
bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
Modify status_resync to ensure the resync variable doesn't exceed
the array's max_sectors.
Signed-off-by: Nate Dailey <nate.dailey@stratus.com>
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Pull more block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"A followup pull request, with some parts that either needed a bit more
testing before going in, merge sync, or just later arriving fixes.
This contains:
- Timer related updates from Kees. These were purposefully delayed
since I didn't want to pull in a later v4.14-rc tag to my block
tree.
- ide-cd prep sense buffer fix from Bart. Also delayed, as not to
clash with the late fix we put into 4.14-rc.
- Small BFQ updates series from Luca and Paolo.
- Single nvmet fix from James, fixing a non-functional case there.
- Bio fast clone fix from Michael, which made bcache return the wrong
data for some cases.
- Legacy IO path regression hang fix from Ming"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
bio: ensure __bio_clone_fast copies bi_partno
nvmet_fc: fix better length checking
block: wake up all tasks blocked in get_request()
block, bfq: move debug blkio stats behind CONFIG_DEBUG_BLK_CGROUP
block, bfq: update blkio stats outside the scheduler lock
block, bfq: add missing invocations of bfqg_stats_update_io_add/remove
doc, block, bfq: update max IOPS sustainable with BFQ
ide: Make ide_cdrom_prep_fs() initialize the sense buffer pointer
md: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
block: swim3: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
block/aoe: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
amifloppy: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
block/floppy: Convert callback to pass timer_list
Summary of modules changes for the 4.15 merge window:
- Treewide module_param_call() cleanup, fix up set/get function
prototype mismatches, from Kees Cook
- Minor code cleanups
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'modules-for-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux
Pull module updates from Jessica Yu:
"Summary of modules changes for the 4.15 merge window:
- treewide module_param_call() cleanup, fix up set/get function
prototype mismatches, from Kees Cook
- minor code cleanups"
* tag 'modules-for-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: Do not paper over type mismatches in module_param_call()
treewide: Fix function prototypes for module_param_call()
module: Prepare to convert all module_param_call() prototypes
kernel/module: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in add_module_usage()
In preparation for unconditionally passing the struct timer_list pointer to
all timer callbacks, switch to using the new timer_setup() and from_timer()
to pass the timer pointer explicitly.
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull MD update from Shaohua Li:
"This update mostly includes bug fixes:
- md-cluster now supports raid10 from Guoqing
- raid5 PPL fixes from Artur
- badblock regression fix from Bo
- suspend hang related fixes from Neil
- raid5 reshape fixes from Neil
- raid1 freeze deadlock fix from Nate
- memleak fixes from Zdenek
- bitmap related fixes from Me and Tao
- other fixes and cleanups"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md: (33 commits)
md: free unused memory after bitmap resize
md: release allocated bitset sync_set
md/bitmap: clear BITMAP_WRITE_ERROR bit before writing it to sb
md: be cautious about using ->curr_resync_completed for ->recovery_offset
badblocks: fix wrong return value in badblocks_set if badblocks are disabled
md: don't check MD_SB_CHANGE_CLEAN in md_allow_write
md-cluster: update document for raid10
md: remove redundant variable q
raid1: remove obsolete code in raid1_write_request
md-cluster: Use a small window for raid10 resync
md-cluster: Suspend writes in RAID10 if within range
md-cluster/raid10: set "do_balance = 0" if area is resyncing
md: use lockdep_assert_held
raid1: prevent freeze_array/wait_all_barriers deadlock
md: use TASK_IDLE instead of blocking signals
md: remove special meaning of ->quiesce(.., 2)
md: allow metadata update while suspending.
md: use mddev_suspend/resume instead of ->quiesce()
md: move suspend_hi/lo handling into core md code
md: don't call bitmap_create() while array is quiesced.
...
Patch fixes kmemleak on md_stop() path used likely only by dm-raid wrapper.
Code of md is using mddev_put() where both bitsets are released however this
freeing is not shared.
Also set NULL to bio_set and sync_set pointers just like mddev_put is
doing.
Signed-off-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The ->recovery_offset shows how much of a non-InSync device is actually
in sync - how much has been recoveryed.
When performing a recovery, ->curr_resync and ->curr_resync_completed
follow the device address being recovered and so can be used to update
->recovery_offset.
When performing a reshape, ->curr_resync* might follow the device
addresses (raid5) or might follow array addresses (raid10), so cannot
in general be used to set ->recovery_offset. When reshaping backwards,
->curre_resync* measures from the *end* of the array-or-device, so is
particularly unhelpful.
So change the common code in md.c to only use ->curr_resync_complete
for the simple recovery case, and add code to raid5.c to update
->recovery_offset during a forwards reshape.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Only MD_SB_CHANGE_PENDING should be used to wait for transition from
clean to dirty. Checking also MD_SB_CHANGE_CLEAN is unnecessary and can
race with e.g. md_do_sync(). This sporadically causes a hang when
changing consistency policy during resync:
INFO: task mdadm:6183 blocked for more than 30 seconds.
Not tainted 4.14.0-rc3+ #391
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
mdadm D12752 6183 6022 0x00000000
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x93f/0x990
schedule+0x6b/0x90
md_allow_write+0x100/0x130 [md_mod]
? do_wait_intr_irq+0x90/0x90
resize_stripes+0x3a/0x5b0 [raid456]
? kernfs_fop_write+0xbe/0x180
raid5_change_consistency_policy+0xa6/0x200 [raid456]
consistency_policy_store+0x2e/0x70 [md_mod]
md_attr_store+0x90/0xc0 [md_mod]
sysfs_kf_write+0x42/0x50
kernfs_fop_write+0x119/0x180
__vfs_write+0x28/0x110
? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x12/0x60
? __sb_start_write+0x15a/0x1c0
? vfs_write+0xa3/0x1a0
vfs_write+0xb4/0x1a0
SyS_write+0x49/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad
Fixes: 2214c260c7 ("md: don't return -EAGAIN in md_allow_write for external metadata arrays")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The '2' argument means "wake up anything that is waiting".
This is an inelegant part of the design and was added
to help support management of suspend_lo/suspend_hi setting.
Now that suspend_lo/hi is managed in mddev_suspend/resume,
that need is gone.
These is still a couple of places where we call 'quiesce'
with an argument of '2', but they can safely be changed to
call ->quiesce(.., 1); ->quiesce(.., 0) which
achieve the same result at the small cost of pausing IO
briefly.
This removes a small "optimization" from suspend_{hi,lo}_store,
but it isn't clear that optimization served a useful purpose.
The code now is a lot clearer.
Suggested-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
There are various deadlocks that can occur
when a thread holds reconfig_mutex and calls
->quiesce(mddev, 1).
As some write request block waiting for
metadata to be updated (e.g. to record device
failure), and as the md thread updates the metadata
while the reconfig mutex is held, holding the mutex
can stop write requests completing, and this prevents
->quiesce(mddev, 1) from completing.
->quiesce() is now usually called from mddev_suspend(),
and it is always called with reconfig_mutex held. So
at this time it is safe for the thread to update metadata
without explicitly taking the lock.
So add 2 new flags, one which says the unlocked updates is
allowed, and one which ways it is happening. Then allow it
while the quiesce completes, and then wait for it to finish.
Reported-and-tested-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
mddev_suspend() is a more general interface than
calling ->quiesce() and is so more extensible. A
future patch will make use of this.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
responding to ->suspend_lo and ->suspend_hi is similar
to responding to ->suspended. It is best to wait in
the common core code without incrementing ->active_io.
This allows mddev_suspend()/mddev_resume() to work while
requests are waiting for suspend_lo/hi to change.
This is will be important after a subsequent patch
which uses mddev_suspend() to synchronize updating for
suspend_lo/hi.
So move the code for testing suspend_lo/hi out of raid1.c
and raid5.c, and place it in md.c
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
bitmap_create() allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL and
so can wait for IO.
If called while the array is quiesced, it could wait indefinitely
for write out to the array - deadlock.
So call bitmap_create() before quiescing the array.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Most often mddev_suspend() is called with
reconfig_mutex held. Make this a requirement in
preparation a subsequent patch. Also require
reconfig_mutex to be held for mddev_resume(),
partly for symmetry and partly to guarantee
no races with incr/decr of mddev->suspend.
Taking the mutex in r5c_disable_writeback_async() is
a little tricky as this is called from a work queue
via log->disable_writeback_work, and flush_work()
is called on that while holding ->reconfig_mutex.
If the work item hasn't run before flush_work()
is called, the work function will not be able to
get the mutex.
So we use mddev_trylock() inside the wait_event() call, and have that
abort when conf->log is set to NULL, which happens before
flush_work() is called.
We wait in mddev->sb_wait and ensure this is woken
when any of the conditions change. This requires
waking mddev->sb_wait in mddev_unlock(). This is only
like to trigger extra wake_ups of threads that needn't
be woken when metadata is being written, and that
doesn't happen often enough that the cost would be
noticeable.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Having both a bitmap and a journal is pointless.
Attempting to do so can corrupt the bitmap if the journal
replay happens before the bitmap is initialized.
Rather than try to avoid this corruption, simply
refuse to allow arrays with both a bitmap and a journal.
So:
- if raid5_run sees both are present, fail.
- if adding a bitmap finds a journal is present, fail
- if adding a journal finds a bitmap is present, fail.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.10+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Tested-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Several function prototypes for the set/get functions defined by
module_param_call() have a slightly wrong argument types. This fixes
those in an effort to clean up the calls when running under type-enforced
compiler instrumentation for CFI. This is the result of running the
following semantic patch:
@match_module_param_call_function@
declarer name module_param_call;
identifier _name, _set_func, _get_func;
expression _arg, _mode;
@@
module_param_call(_name, _set_func, _get_func, _arg, _mode);
@fix_set_prototype
depends on match_module_param_call_function@
identifier match_module_param_call_function._set_func;
identifier _val, _param;
type _val_type, _param_type;
@@
int _set_func(
-_val_type _val
+const char * _val
,
-_param_type _param
+const struct kernel_param * _param
) { ... }
@fix_get_prototype
depends on match_module_param_call_function@
identifier match_module_param_call_function._get_func;
identifier _val, _param;
type _val_type, _param_type;
@@
int _get_func(
-_val_type _val
+char * _val
,
-_param_type _param
+const struct kernel_param * _param
) { ... }
Two additional by-hand changes are included for places where the above
Coccinelle script didn't notice them:
drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
fs/lockd/svc.c
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.
For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.
However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:
----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()
// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch
virtual patch
@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)
@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Motivated by the desire to illiminate the imprecise nature of
DM-specific patches being unnecessarily sent to both the MD maintainer
and mailing-list. Which is born out of the fact that DM files also
reside in drivers/md/
Now all MD-specific files in drivers/md/ start with either "raid" or
"md-" and the MAINTAINERS file has been updated accordingly.
Shaohua: don't change module name
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Since commit 4ad23a9764 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending"),
the wait_queue is only got invoked if THREAD_WAKEUP is not set previously.
With above change, I can see process_metadata_update could always hang on
the wait queue, because mddev->thread could stay on 'D' status and the
THREAD_WAKEUP flag is not cleared since there are lots of place to wake up
mddev->thread. Then deadlock happened as follows:
linux175:~ # ps aux|grep md|grep D
root 20117 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 03:45 0:00 [md0_raid1]
root 20125 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D 03:45 0:00 [md0_cluster_rec]
linux175:~ # cat /proc/20117/stack
[<ffffffffa0635604>] dlm_lock_sync+0x94/0xd0 [md_cluster]
[<ffffffffa0635674>] lock_token+0x34/0xd0 [md_cluster]
[<ffffffffa0635804>] metadata_update_start+0x64/0x110 [md_cluster]
[<ffffffffa04d985b>] md_update_sb.part.58+0x9b/0x860 [md_mod]
[<ffffffffa04da035>] md_update_sb+0x15/0x30 [md_mod]
[<ffffffffa04dc066>] md_check_recovery+0x266/0x490 [md_mod]
[<ffffffffa06450e2>] raid1d+0x42/0x810 [raid1]
[<ffffffffa04d2252>] md_thread+0x122/0x150 [md_mod]
[<ffffffff81091741>] kthread+0x101/0x140
linux175:~ # cat /proc/20125/stack
[<ffffffffa0636679>] recv_daemon+0x3f9/0x5c0 [md_cluster]
[<ffffffffa04d2252>] md_thread+0x122/0x150 [md_mod]
[<ffffffff81091741>] kthread+0x101/0x140
So let's revert the part of code in the commit to resovle the problem since
we can't get lots of benefits of previous change.
Fixes: 4ad23a9764 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending")
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
A recent patch aimed to cause md_write_start() to fail (rather than
block) when the mddev was suspending, so as to avoid deadlocks.
Unfortunately the test in wait_event() was wrong, and it didn't change
behaviour at all.
We wait_event() must wait until the metadata is written OR the array is
suspending.
Fixes: cc27b0c78c ("md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
md_submit_flush_data calls pers->make_request, which missed the suspend check.
Fix it with the new md_handle_request API.
Reported-by: Nate Dailey <nate.dailey@stratus.com>
Tested-by: Nate Dailey <nate.dailey@stratus.com>
Fix: cc27b0c78c79(md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start())
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
With commit cc27b0c78c, pers->make_request could bail out without handling
the bio. If that happens, we should retry. The commit fixes md_make_request
but not other call sites. Separate the request handling part, so other call
sites can use it.
Reported-by: Nate Dailey <nate.dailey@stratus.com>
Fix: cc27b0c78c79(md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start())
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Pull MD updates from Shaohua Li:
"This update mainly fixes bugs:
- Make raid5 ppl support several ppl from Pawel
- Several raid5-cache bug fixes from Song
- Bitmap fixes from Neil and Me
- One raid1/10 regression fix since 4.12 from Me
- Other small fixes and cleanup"
* tag 'md/4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md:
md/bitmap: disable bitmap_resize for file-backed bitmaps.
raid5-ppl: Recovery support for multiple partial parity logs
md: Runtime support for multiple ppls
md/raid0: attach correct cgroup info in bio
lib/raid6: align AVX512 constants to 512 bits, not bytes
raid5: remove raid5_build_block
md/r5cache: call mddev_lock/unlock() in r5c_journal_mode_show
md: replace seq_release_private with seq_release
md: notify about new spare disk in the container
md/raid1/10: reset bio allocated from mempool
md/raid5: release/flush io in raid5_do_work()
md/bitmap: copy correct data for bitmap super
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the first pull request for 4.14, containing most of the code
changes. It's a quiet series this round, which I think we needed after
the churn of the last few series. This contains:
- Fix for a registration race in loop, from Anton Volkov.
- Overflow complaint fix from Arnd for DAC960.
- Series of drbd changes from the usual suspects.
- Conversion of the stec/skd driver to blk-mq. From Bart.
- A few BFQ improvements/fixes from Paolo.
- CFQ improvement from Ritesh, allowing idling for group idle.
- A few fixes found by Dan's smatch, courtesy of Dan.
- A warning fixup for a race between changing the IO scheduler and
device remova. From David Jeffery.
- A few nbd fixes from Josef.
- Support for cgroup info in blktrace, from Shaohua.
- Also from Shaohua, new features in the null_blk driver to allow it
to actually hold data, among other things.
- Various corner cases and error handling fixes from Weiping Zhang.
- Improvements to the IO stats tracking for blk-mq from me. Can
drastically improve performance for fast devices and/or big
machines.
- Series from Christoph removing bi_bdev as being needed for IO
submission, in preparation for nvme multipathing code.
- Series from Bart, including various cleanups and fixes for switch
fall through case complaints"
* 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (162 commits)
kernfs: checking for IS_ERR() instead of NULL
drbd: remove BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER flag from drbd_{md_,}io_bio_set
drbd: Fix allyesconfig build, fix recent commit
drbd: switch from kmalloc() to kmalloc_array()
drbd: abort drbd_start_resync if there is no connection
drbd: move global variables to drbd namespace and make some static
drbd: rename "usermode_helper" to "drbd_usermode_helper"
drbd: fix race between handshake and admin disconnect/down
drbd: fix potential deadlock when trying to detach during handshake
drbd: A single dot should be put into a sequence.
drbd: fix rmmod cleanup, remove _all_ debugfs entries
drbd: Use setup_timer() instead of init_timer() to simplify the code.
drbd: fix potential get_ldev/put_ldev refcount imbalance during attach
drbd: new disk-option disable-write-same
drbd: Fix resource role for newly created resources in events2
drbd: mark symbols static where possible
drbd: Send P_NEG_ACK upon write error in protocol != C
drbd: add explicit plugging when submitting batches
drbd: change list_for_each_safe to while(list_first_entry_or_null)
drbd: introduce drbd_recv_header_maybe_unplug
...
Increase PPL area to 1MB and use it as circular buffer to store PPL. The
entry with highest generation number is the latest one. If PPL to be
written is larger then space left in a buffer, rewind the buffer to the
start (don't wrap it).
Signed-off-by: Pawel Baldysiak <pawel.baldysiak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Since commit f15146380d ("fs: seq_file - add event counter to simplify
poll() support"), md.c code has been no longer used the private field of
the struct seq_file, but seq_release_private() has been continued to be
used to release the allocated seq_file. This seems to have been
forgotten. So convert it to use seq_release() instead of
seq_release_private().
Signed-off-by: Cihangir Akturk <cakturk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
In case of external metadata arrays spare disks are added to containers
first. mdadm keeps monitoring /proc/mdstat output and when spare disk is
available, it moves it from the container to the array. The problem is
there is no notification of new spare disk in the container and mdadm
waits a long time (until timeout) before it takes the action.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Obitotskiy <aleksey.obitotskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
This way we don't need a block_device structure to submit I/O. The
block_device has different life time rules from the gendisk and
request_queue and is usually only available when the block device node
is open. Other callers need to explicitly create one (e.g. the lightnvm
passthrough code, or the new nvme multipathing code).
For the actual I/O path all that we need is the gendisk, which exists
once per block device. But given that the block layer also does
partition remapping we additionally need a partition index, which is
used for said remapping in generic_make_request.
Note that all the block drivers generally want request_queue or
sometimes the gendisk, so this removes a layer of indirection all
over the stack.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
->safemode should be triggered by mdadm for external metadaa array, otherwise
array's state confuses mdadm.
Fixes: 33182d15c6bf(md: always clear ->safemode when md_check_recovery gets the mddev lock.)
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
md_write_start() needs to clear the in_sync flag is it is set, or if
there might be a race with set_in_sync() such that the later will
set it very soon. In the later case it is sufficient to take the
spinlock to synchronize with set_in_sync(), and then set the flag
if needed.
The current test is incorrect.
It should be:
if "flag is set" or "race is possible"
"flag is set" is trivially "mddev->in_sync".
"race is possible" should be tested by "mddev->sync_checkers".
If sync_checkers is 0, then there can be no race. set_in_sync() will
wait in percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_sync() for an RCU grace period,
and as md_write_start() holds the rcu_read_lock(), set_in_sync() will
be sure ot see the update to writes_pending.
If sync_checkers is > 0, there could be race. If md_write_start()
happened entirely between
if (!mddev->in_sync &&
percpu_ref_is_zero(&mddev->writes_pending)) {
and
mddev->in_sync = 1;
in set_in_sync(), then it would not see that is_sync had been set,
and set_in_sync() would not see that writes_pending had been
incremented.
This bug means that in_sync is sometimes not set when it should be.
Consequently there is a small chance that the array will be marked as
"clean" when in fact it is inconsistent.
Fixes: 4ad23a9764 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending")
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.12+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If ->safemode == 1, md_check_recovery() will try to get the mddev lock
and perform various other checks.
If mddev->in_sync is zero, it will call set_in_sync, and clear
->safemode. However if mddev->in_sync is not zero, ->safemode will not
be cleared.
When md_check_recovery() drops the mddev lock, the thread is woken
up again. Normally it would just check if there was anything else to
do, find nothing, and go to sleep. However as ->safemode was not
cleared, it will take the mddev lock again, then wake itself up
when unlocking.
This results in an infinite loop, repeatedly calling
md_check_recovery(), which RCU or the soft-lockup detector
will eventually complain about.
Prior to commit 4ad23a9764 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for
writes_pending"), safemode would only be set to one when the
writes_pending counter reached zero, and would be cleared again
when writes_pending is incremented. Since that patch, safemode
is set more freely, but is not reliably cleared.
So in md_check_recovery() clear ->safemode before checking ->in_sync.
Fixes: 4ad23a9764 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (4.12+)
Reported-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reported-by: David R <david@unsolicited.net>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Pull MD update from Shaohua Li:
- fixed deadlock in MD suspend and a potential bug in bio allocation
(Neil Brown)
- fixed signal issue (Mikulas Patocka)
- fixed typo in FailFast test (Guoqing Jiang)
- other trival fixes
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md:
MD: fix sleep in atomic
MD: fix a null dereference
md: use a separate bio_set for synchronous IO.
md: change the initialization value for a spare device spot to MD_DISK_ROLE_SPARE
md/raid1: remove unused bio in sync_request_write
md/raid10: fix FailFast test for wrong device
md: don't use flush_signals in userspace processes
md: fix deadlock between mddev_suspend() and md_write_start()
bioset_free() will take a mutex, so can't get called with spinlock hold.
Fix: 5a85071c2cbc(md: use a separate bio_set for synchronous IO.)
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
rdev->mddev could be null in start time.
Reported-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Fix: 5a85071c2cbc(md: use a separate bio_set for synchronous IO.)
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
md devices allocate a bio_set and use it for two
distinct purposes.
mddev->bio_set is used to clone bios as part of sending
upper level requests down to lower level devices,
and it is also use for synchronous IO such as superblock
and bitmap updates, and for correcting read errors.
This multiple usage can lead to deadlocks. It is likely
that cloned bios might be queued for write and to be
waiting for a metadata update before the write can be permitted.
If the cloning exhausted mddev->bio_set, the metadata update
may not be able to proceed.
This scenario has been seen during heavy testing, with lots of IO and
lots of memory pressure.
Address this by adding a new bio_set specifically for synchronous IO.
All synchronous IO goes directly to the underlying device and is not
queued at the md level, so request using entries from the new
mddev->sync_set will complete in a timely fashion.
Requests that use mddev->bio_set will sometimes need to wait
for synchronous IO, but will no longer risk deadlocking that iO.
Also: small simplification in mddev_put(): there is no need to
wait until the spinlock is released before calling bioset_free().
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
bio_clone() is no longer used.
Only bio_clone_bioset() or bio_clone_fast().
This is for the best, as bio_clone() used fs_bio_set,
and filesystems are unlikely to want to use bio_clone().
So remove bio_clone() and all references.
This includes a fix to some incorrect documentation.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
"flags" arguments are often seen as good API design as they allow
easy extensibility.
bioset_create_nobvec() is implemented internally as a variation in
flags passed to __bioset_create().
To support future extension, make the internal structure part of the
API.
i.e. add a 'flags' argument to bioset_create() and discard
bioset_create_nobvec().
Note that the bio_split allocations in drivers/md/raid* do not need
the bvec mempool - they should have used bioset_create_nobvec().
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_queue_split() is always called with the last arg being q->bio_split,
where 'q' is the first arg.
Also blk_queue_split() sometimes uses the passed-in 'bs' and sometimes uses
q->bio_split.
This is inconsistent and unnecessary. Remove the last arg and always use
q->bio_split inside blk_queue_split()
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Credit-to: Javier González <jg@lightnvm.io> (Noticed that lightnvm was missed)
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Tested-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The value for spare spot of sb->dev_roles is changed from
MD_DISK_ROLE_FAULTY to MD_DISK_ROLE_SPARE to keep align
with the value when the superblock is firstly created in
userspace.
Signed-off-by: Lidong Zhong <lzhong@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If mddev_suspend() races with md_write_start() we can deadlock
with mddev_suspend() waiting for the request that is currently
in md_write_start() to complete the ->make_request() call,
and md_write_start() waiting for the metadata to be updated
to mark the array as 'dirty'.
As metadata updates done by md_check_recovery() only happen then
the mddev_lock() can be claimed, and as mddev_suspend() is often
called with the lock held, these threads wait indefinitely for each
other.
We fix this by having md_write_start() abort if mddev_suspend()
is happening, and ->make_request() aborts if md_write_start()
aborted.
md_make_request() can detect this abort, decrease the ->active_io
count, and wait for mddev_suspend().
Reported-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Fix: 68866e425be2(MD: no sync IO while suspended)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
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Merge tag 'v4.12-rc5' into for-4.13/block
We've already got a few conflicts and upcoming work depends on some of the
changes that have gone into mainline as regression fixes for this series.
Pull in 4.12-rc5 to resolve these conflicts and make it easier on down stream
trees to continue working on 4.13 changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Replace bi_error with a new bi_status to allow for a clear conversion.
Note that device mapper overloaded bi_error with a private value, which
we'll have to keep arround at least for now and thus propagate to a
proper blk_status_t value.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
The new per-cpu counter for writes_pending is initialised in
md_alloc(), which is not called by dm-raid.
So dm-raid fails when md_write_start() is called.
Move the initialization to the personality modules
that need it. This way it is always initialised when needed,
but isn't unnecessarily initialized (requiring memory allocation)
when the personality doesn't use writes_pending.
Reported-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Fixes: 4ad23a9764 ("MD: use per-cpu counter for writes_pending")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The md private helper uuid_equal() collides with a generic helper
of the same name.
Rename the md private helper to md_uuid_equal() and do the same for
md_sb_equal().
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Commit b685d3d65a "block: treat REQ_FUA and REQ_PREFLUSH as
synchronous" removed REQ_SYNC flag from WRITE_{FUA|PREFLUSH|...}
definitions. generic_make_request_checks() however strips REQ_FUA and
REQ_PREFLUSH flags from a bio when the storage doesn't report volatile
write cache and thus write effectively becomes asynchronous which can
lead to performance regressions
Fix the problem by making sure all bios which are synchronous are
properly marked with REQ_SYNC.
CC: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
CC: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Fixes: b685d3d65a
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
This essentially reverts commit b5470dc5fc ("md: resolve external
metadata handling deadlock in md_allow_write") with some adjustments.
Since commit 6791875e2e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes
to md sysfs files.") changing array_state to 'active' does not use
mddev_lock() and will not cause a deadlock with md_allow_write(). This
revert simplifies userspace tools that write to sysfs attributes like
"stripe_cache_size" or "consistency_policy" because it removes the need
for special handling for external metadata arrays, checking for EAGAIN
and retrying the write.
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
1/ If an array has any read-only devices when it is started,
the array itself must be read-only
2/ A read-only device cannot be added to an array after it is
started.
3/ Setting an array to read-write should not succeed
if any member devices are read-only
Reported-and-Tested-by: Nanda Kishore Chinnaram <Nanda_Kishore_Chinna@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
md allows a new array device to be created by simply
opening a device file. This make it difficult to
remove the device and udev is likely to open the device file
as part of processing the REMOVE event.
There is an alternate mechanism for creating arrays
by writing to the new_array module parameter.
When using tools that work with this parameter, it is
best to disable the old semantics.
This new module parameter allows that.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acted-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The intention when creating the "new_array" parameter and the
possibility of having array names line "md_HOME" was to transition
away from the old way of creating arrays and to eventually only use
this new way.
The "old" way of creating array is to create a device node in /dev
and then open it. The act of opening creates the array.
This is problematic because sometimes the device node can be opened
when we don't want to create an array. This can easily happen
when some rule triggered by udev looks at a device as it is being
destroyed. The node in /dev continues to exist for a short period
after an array is stopped, and opening it during this time recreates
the array (as an inactive array).
Unfortunately no clear plan for the transition was created. It is now
time to fix that.
This patch allows devices with numeric names, like "md999" to be
created by writing to "new_array". This will only work if the minor
number given is not already in use. This will allow mdadm to
support the creation of arrays with numbers > 511 (currently not
possible) by writing to new_array.
mdadm can, at some point, use this approach to create *all* arrays,
which will allow the transition to only using the new-way.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acted-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
md.c: it needs to release the mddev lock before
the array_size_store() returns.
Fixes: ab5a98b132 ("md-cluster: change array_sectors and update size are not supported")
Signed-off-by: Zhilong Liu <zlliu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
if called md_set_readonly and set MD_CLOSING bit, the mddev cannot
be opened any more due to the MD_CLOING bit wasn't cleared. Thus it
needs to be cleared in md_ioctl after any call to md_set_readonly()
or do_md_stop().
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Fixes: af8d8e6f03 ("md: changes for MD_STILL_CLOSED flag")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v4.9+)
Signed-off-by: Zhilong Liu <zlliu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The 'writes_pending' counter is used to determine when the
array is stable so that it can be marked in the superblock
as "Clean". Consequently it needs to be updated frequently
but only checked for zero occasionally. Recent changes to
raid5 cause the count to be updated even more often - once
per 4K rather than once per bio. This provided
justification for making the updates more efficient.
So we replace the atomic counter a percpu-refcount.
This can be incremented and decremented cheaply most of the
time, and can be switched to "atomic" mode when more
precise counting is needed. As it is possible for multiple
threads to want a precise count, we introduce a
"sync_checker" counter to count the number of threads
in "set_in_sync()", and only switch the refcount back
to percpu mode when that is zero.
We need to be careful about races between set_in_sync()
setting ->in_sync to 1, and md_write_start() setting it
to zero. md_write_start() holds the rcu_read_lock()
while checking if the refcount is in percpu mode. If
it is, then we know a switch to 'atomic' will not happen until
after we call rcu_read_unlock(), in which case set_in_sync()
will see the elevated count, and not set in_sync to 1.
If it is not in percpu mode, we take the mddev->lock to
ensure proper synchronization.
It is no longer possible to quickly check if the count is zero, which
we previously did to update a timer or to schedule the md_thread.
So now we do these every time we decrement that counter, but make
sure they are fast.
mod_timer() already optimizes the case where the timeout value doesn't
actually change. We leverage that further by always rounding off the
jiffies to the timeout value. This may delay the marking of 'clean'
slightly, but ensure we only perform atomic operation here when absolutely
needed.
md_wakeup_thread() current always calls wake_up(), even if
THREAD_WAKEUP is already set. That too can be optimised to avoid
calls to wake_up().
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If ->in_sync is being set just as md_write_start() is being called,
it is possible that set_in_sync() won't see the elevated
->writes_pending, and md_write_start() won't see the set ->in_sync.
To close this race, re-test ->writes_pending after setting ->in_sync,
and add memory barriers to ensure the increment of ->writes_pending
will be seen by the time of this second test, or the new ->in_sync
will be seen by md_write_start().
Add a spinlock to array_state_show() to ensure this temporary
instability is never visible from userspace.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Three separate places in md.c check if the number of active
writes is zero and, if so, sets mddev->in_sync.
There are a few differences, but there shouldn't be:
- it is always appropriate to notify the change in
sysfs_state, and there is no need to do this outside a
spin-locked region.
- we never need to check ->recovery_cp. The state of resync
is not relevant for whether there are any pending writes
or not (which is what ->in_sync reports).
So create set_in_sync() which does the correct tests and
makes the correct changes, and call this in all three
places.
Any behaviour changes here a minor and cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We use md_write_start() to increase the count of pending writes, and
md_write_end() to decrement the count. We currently count bios
submitted to md/raid5. Change it count stripe_heads that a WRITE bio
has been attached to.
So now, raid5_make_request() calls md_write_start() and then
md_write_end() to keep the count elevated during the setup of the
request.
add_stripe_bio() calls md_write_start() for each stripe_head, and the
completion routines always call md_write_end(), instead of only
calling it when raid5_dec_bi_active_stripes() returns 0.
make_discard_request also calls md_write_start/end().
The parallel between md_write_{start,end} and use of bi_phys_segments
can be seen in that:
Whenever we set bi_phys_segments to 1, we now call md_write_start.
Whenever we increment it on non-read requests with
raid5_inc_bi_active_stripes(), we now call md_write_start().
Whenever we decrement bi_phys_segments on non-read requsts with
raid5_dec_bi_active_stripes(), we now call md_write_end().
This reduces our dependence on keeping a per-bio count of active
stripes in bi_phys_segments.
md_write_inc() is added which parallels md_write_start(), but requires
that a write has already been started, and is certain never to sleep.
This can be used inside a spinlocked region when adding to a write
request.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Since we have switched to sync way to handle METADATA_UPDATED
msg for md-cluster, then process_metadata_update is depended
on mddev->thread->wqueue.
With the new change, clustered raid could possible hang if
array received a METADATA_UPDATED msg after array unregistered
mddev->thread, so we need to stop clustered raid (bitmap_destroy
-> bitmap_free -> md_cluster_stop) earlier than unregister
thread (mddev_detach -> md_unregister_thread).
And this change should be safe for non-clustered raid since
all writes are stopped before the destroy. Also in md_run,
we activate the personality (pers->run()) before activating
the bitmap (bitmap_create()). So it is pleasingly symmetric
to stop the bitmap (bitmap_destroy()) before stopping the
personality (__md_stop() calls pers->free()), we achieve this
by move bitmap_destroy to the beginning of __md_stop.
But we don't want to break the codes for waiting behind IO as
Shaohua mentioned, so introduce bitmap_wait_behind_writes to
call the codes, and call the new fun in both mddev_detach and
bitmap_destroy, then we will not break original behind IO code
and also fit the new condition well.
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Allow writing to 'consistency_policy' attribute when the array is
active. Add a new function 'change_consistency_policy' to the
md_personality operations structure to handle the change in the
personality code. Values "ppl" and "resync" are accepted and
turn PPL on and off respectively.
When enabling PPL its location and size should first be set using
'ppl_sector' and 'ppl_size' attributes and a valid PPL header should be
written at this location on each member device.
Enabling or disabling PPL is performed under a suspended array. The
raid5_reset_stripe_cache function frees the stripe cache and allocates
it again in order to allocate or free the ppl_pages for the stripes in
the stripe cache.
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Add 'consistency_policy' attribute for array. It indicates how the array
maintains consistency in case of unexpected shutdown.
Add 'ppl_sector' and 'ppl_size' for rdev, which describe the location
and size of the PPL space on the device. They can't be changed for
active members if the array is started and PPL is enabled, so in the
setter functions only basic checks are performed. More checks are done
in ppl_validate_rdev() when starting the log.
These attributes are writable to allow enabling PPL for external
metadata arrays and (later) to enable/disable PPL for a running array.
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Include information about PPL location and size into mdp_superblock_1
and copy it to/from rdev. Because PPL is mutually exclusive with bitmap,
put it in place of 'bitmap_offset'. Add a new flag MD_FEATURE_PPL for
'feature_map', analogically to MD_FEATURE_BITMAP_OFFSET. Add MD_HAS_PPL
to mddev->flags to indicate that PPL is enabled on an array.
Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
To update size for cluster raid, we need to make
sure all nodes can perform the change successfully.
However, it is possible that some of them can't do
it due to failure (bitmap_resize could fail). So
we need to consider the issue before we set the
capacity unconditionally, and we use below steps
to perform sanity check.
1. A change the size, then broadcast METADATA_UPDATED
msg.
2. B and C receive METADATA_UPDATED change the size
excepts call set_capacity, sync_size is not update
if the change failed. Also call bitmap_update_sb
to sync sb to disk.
3. A checks other node's sync_size, if sync_size has
been updated in all nodes, then send CHANGE_CAPACITY
msg otherwise send msg to revert previous change.
4. B and C call set_capacity if receive CHANGE_CAPACITY
msg, otherwise pers->resize will be called to restore
the old value.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Previously, when node received METADATA_UPDATED msg, it just
need to wakeup mddev->thread, then md_reload_sb will be called
eventually.
We taken the asynchronous way to avoid a deadlock issue, the
deadlock issue could happen when one node is receiving the
METADATA_UPDATED msg (wants reconfig_mutex) and trying to run
the path:
md_check_recovery -> mddev_trylock(hold reconfig_mutex)
-> md_update_sb-metadata_update_start
(want EX on token however token is
got by the sending node)
Since we will support resizing for clustered raid, and we
need the metadata update handling to be synchronous so that
the initiating node can detect failure, so we need to change
the way for handling METADATA_UPDATED msg.
But, we obviously need to avoid above deadlock with the
sync way. To make this happen, we considered to not hold
reconfig_mutex to call md_reload_sb, if some other thread
has already taken reconfig_mutex and waiting for the 'token',
then process_recvd_msg() can safely call md_reload_sb()
without taking the mutex. This is because we can be certain
that no other thread will take the mutex, and we also certain
that the actions performed by md_reload_sb() won't interfere
with anything that the other thread is in the middle of.
To make this more concrete, we added a new cinfo->state bit
MD_CLUSTER_HOLDING_MUTEX_FOR_RECVD
Which is set in lock_token() just before dlm_lock_sync() is
called, and cleared just after. As lock_token() is always
called with reconfig_mutex() held (the specific case is the
resync_info_update which is distinguished well in previous
patch), if process_recvd_msg() finds that the new bit is set,
then the mutex must be held by some other thread, and it will
keep waiting.
So process_metadata_update() can call md_reload_sb() if either
mddev_trylock() succeeds, or if MD_CLUSTER_HOLDING_MUTEX_FOR_RECVD
is set. The tricky bit is what to do if neither of these apply.
We need to wait. Fortunately mddev_unlock() always calls wake_up()
on mddev->thread->wqueue. So we can get lock_token() to call
wake_up() on that when it sets the bit.
There are also some related changes inside this commit:
1. remove RELOAD_SB related codes since there are not valid anymore.
2. mddev is added into md_cluster_info then we can get mddev inside
lock_token.
3. add new parameter for lock_token to distinguish reconfig_mutex
is held or not.
And, we need to set MD_CLUSTER_HOLDING_MUTEX_FOR_RECVD in below:
1. set it before unregister thread, otherwise a deadlock could
appear if stop a resyncing array.
This is because md_unregister_thread(&cinfo->recv_thread) is
blocked by recv_daemon -> process_recvd_msg
-> process_metadata_update.
To resolve the issue, MD_CLUSTER_HOLDING_MUTEX_FOR_RECVD is
also need to be set before unregister thread.
2. set it in metadata_update_start to fix another deadlock.
a. Node A sends METADATA_UPDATED msg (held Token lock).
b. Node B wants to do resync, and is blocked since it can't
get Token lock, but MD_CLUSTER_HOLDING_MUTEX_FOR_RECVD is
not set since the callchain
(md_do_sync -> sync_request
-> resync_info_update
-> sendmsg
-> lock_comm -> lock_token)
doesn't hold reconfig_mutex.
c. Node B trys to update sb (held reconfig_mutex), but stopped
at wait_event() in metadata_update_start since we have set
MD_CLUSTER_SEND_LOCK flag in lock_comm (step 2).
d. Then Node B receives METADATA_UPDATED msg from A, of course
recv_daemon is blocked forever.
Since metadata_update_start always calls lock_token with reconfig_mutex,
we need to set MD_CLUSTER_HOLDING_MUTEX_FOR_RECVD here as well, and
lock_token don't need to set it twice unless lock_token is invoked from
lock_comm.
Finally, thanks to Neil for his great idea and help!
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The sb->super_offset should be big-endian, but the rdev->sb_start is in
host byte order, so fix this by adding cpu_to_le64.
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
These arrays, created with "mdadm --build" don't benefit from a limit.
The default will be used, which is '0' and is interpreted as "don't
impose a limit".
Reported-by: ian_bruce@mail.ru
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
raid1_resize and raid5_resize should also check the
mddev->queue if run underneath dm-raid.
And both set_capacity and revalidate_disk are used in
pers->resize such as raid1, raid10 and raid5. So
move them from personality file to common code.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull md updates from Shaohua Li:
"Mainly fixes bugs and improves performance:
- Improve scalability for raid1 from Coly
- Improve raid5-cache read performance, disk efficiency and IO
pattern from Song and me
- Fix a race condition of disk hotplug for linear from Coly
- A few cleanup patches from Ming and Byungchul
- Fix a memory leak from Neil
- Fix WRITE SAME IO failure from me
- Add doc for raid5-cache from me"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md: (23 commits)
md/raid1: fix write behind issues introduced by bio_clone_bioset_partial
md/raid1: handle flush request correctly
md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning
md/raid1: fix a use-after-free bug
RAID1: avoid unnecessary spin locks in I/O barrier code
RAID1: a new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window
md/raid5: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API
md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev()
md: remove unnecessary check on mddev
md/raid1: use bio_clone_bioset_partial() in case of write behind
md: fail if mddev->bio_set can't be created
block: introduce bio_clone_bioset_partial()
md: disable WRITE SAME if it fails in underlayer disks
md/raid5-cache: exclude reclaiming stripes in reclaim check
md/raid5-cache: stripe reclaim only counts valid stripes
MD: add doc for raid5-cache
Documentation: move MD related doc into a separate dir
md: ensure md devices are freed before module is unloaded.
md/r5cache: improve journal device efficiency
md/r5cache: enable chunk_aligned_read with write back cache
...
Firstly bio_clone_mddev() is used in raid normal I/O and isn't
in resync I/O path.
Secondly all the direct access to bvec table in raid happens on
resync I/O except for write behind of raid1, in which we still
use bio_clone() for allocating new bvec table.
So this patch replaces bio_clone() with bio_clone_fast()
in bio_clone_mddev().
Also kill bio_clone_mddev() and call bio_clone_fast() directly, as
suggested by Christoph Hellwig.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
mddev is never NULL and neither is ->bio_set, so
remove the check.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
The current behaviour is to fall back to allocate
bio from 'fs_bio_set', that isn't a correct way
because it might cause deadlock.
So this patch simply return failure if mddev->bio_set
can't be created.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Commit: cbd1998377 ("md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evms")
change mddev_put() so that it would not destroy an md device while
->ctime was non-zero.
Unfortunately, we didn't make sure to clear ->ctime when unloading
the module, so it is possible for an md device to remain after
module unload. An attempt to open such a device will trigger
an invalid memory reference in:
get_gendisk -> kobj_lookup -> exact_lock -> get_disk
when tring to access disk->fops, which was in the module that has
been removed.
So ensure we clear ->ctime in md_exit(), and explain how that is useful,
as it isn't immediately obvious when looking at the code.
Fixes: cbd1998377 ("md: Fix unfortunate interaction with evms")
Tested-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
We will want to have struct backing_dev_info allocated separately from
struct request_queue. As the first step add pointer to backing_dev_info
to request_queue and convert all users touching it. No functional
changes in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
For safer operation, all arrays start in write-through mode, which has been
better tested and is more mature. And actually the write-through/write-mode
isn't persistent after array restarted, so we always start array in
write-through mode. However, if recovery found data-only stripes before the
shutdown (from previous write-back mode), it is not safe to start the array in
write-through mode, as write-through mode can not handle stripes with data in
write-back cache. To solve this problem, we flush all data-only stripes in
r5l_recovery_log(). When r5l_recovery_log() returns, the array starts with
empty cache in write-through mode.
This logic is implemented in r5c_recovery_flush_data_only_stripes():
1. enable write back cache
2. flush all stripes
3. wake up conf->mddev->thread
4. wait for all stripes get flushed (reuse wait_for_quiescent)
5. disable write back cache
The wait in 4 will be waked up in release_inactive_stripe_list()
when conf->active_stripes reaches 0.
It is safe to wake up mddev->thread here because all the resource
required for the thread has been initialized.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Pull block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the main block pull request this series. Contrary to previous
release, I've kept the core and driver changes in the same branch. We
always ended up having dependencies between the two for obvious
reasons, so makes more sense to keep them together. That said, I'll
probably try and keep more topical branches going forward, especially
for cycles that end up being as busy as this one.
The major parts of this pull request is:
- Improved support for O_DIRECT on block devices, with a small
private implementation instead of using the pig that is
fs/direct-io.c. From Christoph.
- Request completion tracking in a scalable fashion. This is utilized
by two components in this pull, the new hybrid polling and the
writeback queue throttling code.
- Improved support for polling with O_DIRECT, adding a hybrid mode
that combines pure polling with an initial sleep. From me.
- Support for automatic throttling of writeback queues on the block
side. This uses feedback from the device completion latencies to
scale the queue on the block side up or down. From me.
- Support from SMR drives in the block layer and for SD. From Hannes
and Shaun.
- Multi-connection support for nbd. From Josef.
- Cleanup of request and bio flags, so we have a clear split between
which are bio (or rq) private, and which ones are shared. From
Christoph.
- A set of patches from Bart, that improve how we handle queue
stopping and starting in blk-mq.
- Support for WRITE_ZEROES from Chaitanya.
- Lightnvm updates from Javier/Matias.
- Supoort for FC for the nvme-over-fabrics code. From James Smart.
- A bunch of fixes from a whole slew of people, too many to name
here"
* 'for-4.10/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (182 commits)
blk-stat: fix a few cases of missing batch flushing
blk-flush: run the queue when inserting blk-mq flush
elevator: make the rqhash helpers exported
blk-mq: abstract out blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() helper
blk-mq: add blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queue()
block: improve handling of the magic discard payload
blk-wbt: don't throttle discard or write zeroes
nbd: use dev_err_ratelimited in io path
nbd: reset the setup task for NBD_CLEAR_SOCK
nvme-fabrics: Add FC LLDD loopback driver to test FC-NVME
nvme-fabrics: Add target support for FC transport
nvme-fabrics: Add host support for FC transport
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport LLDD api definitions
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport FC-NVME definitions
nvme-fabrics: Add FC transport error codes to nvme.h
Add type 0x28 NVME type code to scsi fc headers
nvme-fabrics: patch target code in prep for FC transport support
nvme-fabrics: set sqe.command_id in core not transports
parser: add u64 number parser
nvme-rdma: align to generic ib_event logging helper
...
The mddev->flags are used for different purposes. There are a lot of
places we check/change the flags without masking unrelated flags, we
could check/change unrelated flags. These usage are most for superblock
write, so spearate superblock related flags. This should make the code
clearer and also fix real bugs.
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
md_open() gets a counted reference on an mddev using mddev_find().
If it ends up returning an error, it must drop this reference.
There are two error paths where the reference is not dropped.
One only happens if the process is signalled and an awkward time,
which is quite unlikely.
The other was introduced recently in commit af8d8e6f0.
Change the code to ensure the drop the reference when returning an error,
and make it harded to re-introduce this sort of bug in the future.
Reported-by: Marc Smith <marc.smith@mcc.edu>
Fixes: af8d8e6f03 ("md: changes for MD_STILL_CLOSED flag")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
__md_stop_writes currently doesn't stop raid5-cache reclaim thread. It's
possible the reclaim thread is still running and doing write, which
doesn't match what __md_stop_writes should do. The extra ->quiesce()
call should not harm any raid types. For raid5-cache, this will
guarantee we reclaim all caches before we update superblock.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
There is mechanism to suspend a kernel thread. Use it instead of playing
create/destroy game.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
This can only be supported on personalities which ensure
that md_error() never causes an array to enter the 'failed'
state. i.e. if marking a device Faulty would cause some
data to be inaccessible, the device is status is left as
non-Faulty. This is true for RAID1 and RAID10.
If we get a failure writing metadata but the device doesn't
fail, it must be the last device so we re-write without
FAILFAST to improve chance of success. We also flag the
device as LastDev so that future metadata updates don't
waste time on failfast writes.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
This patch just adds a 'failfast' per-device flag which can be stored
in v0.90 or v1.x metadata.
The flag is not used yet but the intent is that it can be used for
mirrored (raid1/raid10) arrays where low latency is more important
than keeping all devices on-line.
Setting the flag for a device effectively gives permission for that
device to be marked as Faulty and excluded from the array on the first
error. The underlying driver will be directed not to retry requests
that result in failures. There is a proviso that the device must not
be marked faulty if that would cause the array as a whole to fail, it
may only be marked Faulty if the array remains functional, but is
degraded.
Failures on read requests will cause the device to be marked
as Faulty immediately so that further reads will avoid that
device. No attempt will be made to correct read errors by
over-writing with the correct data.
It is expected that if transient errors, such as cable unplug, are
possible, then something in user-space will revalidate failed
devices and re-add them when they appear to be working again.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
superblock write is an expensive operation. With raid5-cache, it can be called
regularly. Tracing to help performance debug.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
bitmap_flush() finishes with bitmap_update_sb(), and that finishes
with write_page(..., 1), so write_page() will wait for all writes
to complete. So there is no point calling md_super_wait()
immediately afterwards.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
When adding devices to, or removing device from, an array we need to
update the metadata. However we don't need to do it synchronously as
data integrity doesn't depend on these changes being recorded
instantly. So avoid the synchronous call to md_update_sb and just set
a flag so that the thread will do it.
This can reduce the number of updates performed when lots of devices
are being added or removed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
1/ using pr_debug() for a number of messages reduces the noise of
md, but still allows them to be enabled when needed.
2/ try to be consistent in the usage of pr_err() and pr_warn(), and
document the intention
3/ When strings have been split onto multiple lines, rejoin into
a single string.
The cost of having lines > 80 chars is less than the cost of not
being able to easily search for a particular message.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
1/ don't print a warning if allocation fails.
page_alloc() does that already.
2/ always check return status for error.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
When raid1/raid10 array fails to write to one of the drives, the request
is added to bio_end_io_list and finished by personality thread. The
thread doesn't handle it as long as MD_CHANGE_PENDING flag is set. In
case of external metadata this flag is cleared, however the thread is
not woken up. It causes request to be blocked for few seconds (until
another action on the array wakes up the thread) or to get stuck
indefinitely.
Wake up personality thread once MD_CHANGE_PENDING has been cleared.
Moving 'restart_array' call after the flag is cleared it not a solution
because in read-write mode the call doesn't wake up the thread.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If external metadata handler supports bad blocks and unacknowledged bad
blocks are present, don't report disk via sysfs as faulty. Such
situation can be still handled so disk just has to be blocked for a
moment. It makes it consistent with kernel state as corresponding rdev
flag is also not set.
When the disk in being unblocked there are few cases:
1. Disk has been in blocked and faulty state, it is being unblocked but
it still remains in faulty state. Metadata handler will remove it from
array in the next call.
2. There is no bad block support in external metadata handler and bad
blocks are present - put the disk in blocked and faulty state (see
case 1).
3. There is bad block support in external metadata handler and all bad
blocks are acknowledged - clear all flags, continue.
4. There is bad block support in external metadata handler but there are
still unacknowledged bad blocks - clear all flags, continue. It is fine
to clear Blocked flag because it was probably not set anyway (if it was
it is case 1). BlockedBadBlocks flag can also be cleared because the
request waiting for it will set it again when it finds out that some bad
block is still not acknowledged. Recovery is not necessary but there are
no problems if the flag is set. Sysfs rdev state is still reported as
blocked (due to unacknowledged bad blocks) so metadata handler will
process remaining bad blocks and unblock disk again.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Add new rdev flag which external metadata handler can use to switch
on/off bad block support. If new bad block is encountered, notify it via
rdev 'unacknowledged_bad_blocks' sysfs file. If bad block has been
cleared, notify update to rdev 'bad_blocks' sysfs file.
When bad blocks support is being removed, just clear rdev flag. It is
not necessary to reset badblocks->shift field. If there are bad blocks
cleared or added at the same time, it is ok for those changes to be
applied to the structure. The array is in blocked state and the drive
which cannot handle bad blocks any more will be removed from the array
before it is unlocked.
Simplify state_show function by adding a separator at the end of each
string and overwrite last separator with new line.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Remove the WRITE_* and READ_SYNC wrappers, and just use the flags
directly. Where applicable this also drops usage of the
bio_set_op_attrs wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
mddev->curr_resync usually records where the current resync is up to,
but during the starting phase it has some "magic" values.
1 - means that the array is trying to start a resync, but has yielded
to another array which shares physical devices, and also needs to
start a resync
2 - means the array is trying to start resync, but has found another
array which shares physical devices and has already started resync.
3 - means that resync has commensed, but it is possible that nothing
has actually been resynced yet.
It is important that this value not be visible to user-space and
particularly that it doesn't get written to the metadata, as the
resync or recovery checkpoint. In part, this is because it may be
slightly higher than the correct value, though this is very rare.
In part, because it is not a multiple of 4K, and some devices only
support 4K aligned accesses.
There are two places where this value is propagates into either
->curr_resync_completed or ->recovery_cp or ->recovery_offset.
These currently avoid the propagation of values 1 and 3, but will
allow 3 to leak through.
Change them to only propagate the value if it is > 3.
As this can cause an array to fail, the patch is suitable for -stable.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+)
Reported-by: Viswesh <viswesh.vichu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
If there is a bad block on a disk and there is a recovery performed from
this disk, the same bad block is reported for a new disk. It involves
setting MD_CHANGE_PENDING flag in rdev_set_badblocks. For external
metadata this flag is not being cleared as array state is reported as
'clean'. The read request to bad block in RAID5 array gets stuck as it
is waiting for a flag to be cleared - as per commit c3cce6cda1
("md/raid5: ensure device failure recorded before write request
returns.").
The meaning of MD_CHANGE_PENDING and MD_CHANGE_CLEAN flags has been
clarified in commit 070dc6dd71 ("md: resolve confusion of
MD_CHANGE_CLEAN"), however MD_CHANGE_PENDING flag has been used in
personality error handlers since and it doesn't fully comply with
initial purpose. It was supposed to notify that write request is about
to start, however now it is also used to request metadata update.
Initially (in md_allow_write, md_write_start) MD_CHANGE_PENDING flag has
been set and in_sync has been set to 0 at the same time. Error handlers
just set the flag without modifying in_sync value. Sysfs array state is
a single value so now it reports 'clean' when MD_CHANGE_PENDING flag is
set and in_sync is set to 1. Userspace has no idea it is expected to
take some action.
Swap the order that array state is checked so 'write_pending' is
reported ahead of 'clean' ('write_pending' is a misleading name but it
is too late to rename it now).
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Song Liu