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[PATCH] md: fix some small races in bitmap plugging in raid5

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The comment gives more details, but I didn't quite have the sequencing write,
so there was room for races to leave bits unset in the on-disk bitmap for
short periods of time.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown 2006-07-10 04:44:17 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7c785b7a18
commit ae3c20ccf8
1 changed files with 27 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/md/raid5.c
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@ -18,6 +18,30 @@
* Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
/*
* BITMAP UNPLUGGING:
*
* The sequencing for updating the bitmap reliably is a little
* subtle (and I got it wrong the first time) so it deserves some
* explanation.
*
* We group bitmap updates into batches. Each batch has a number.
* We may write out several batches at once, but that isn't very important.
* conf->bm_write is the number of the last batch successfully written.
* conf->bm_flush is the number of the last batch that was closed to
* new additions.
* When we discover that we will need to write to any block in a stripe
* (in add_stripe_bio) we update the in-memory bitmap and record in sh->bm_seq
* the number of the batch it will be in. This is bm_flush+1.
* When we are ready to do a write, if that batch hasn't been written yet,
* we plug the array and queue the stripe for later.
* When an unplug happens, we increment bm_flush, thus closing the current
* batch.
* When we notice that bm_flush > bm_write, we write out all pending updates
* to the bitmap, and advance bm_write to where bm_flush was.
* This may occasionally write a bit out twice, but is sure never to
* miss any bits.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@ -92,7 +116,7 @@ static void __release_stripe(raid5_conf_t *conf, struct stripe_head *sh)
list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->delayed_list);
blk_plug_device(conf->mddev->queue);
} else if (test_bit(STRIPE_BIT_DELAY, &sh->state) &&
conf->seq_write == sh->bm_seq) {
sh->bm_seq - conf->seq_write > 0) {
list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->bitmap_list);
blk_plug_device(conf->mddev->queue);
} else {
@ -1273,9 +1297,9 @@ static int add_stripe_bio(struct stripe_head *sh, struct bio *bi, int dd_idx, in
(unsigned long long)sh->sector, dd_idx);
if (conf->mddev->bitmap && firstwrite) {
sh->bm_seq = conf->seq_write;
bitmap_startwrite(conf->mddev->bitmap, sh->sector,
STRIPE_SECTORS, 0);
sh->bm_seq = conf->seq_flush+1;
set_bit(STRIPE_BIT_DELAY, &sh->state);
}
@ -2918,7 +2942,7 @@ static void raid5d (mddev_t *mddev)
while (1) {
struct list_head *first;
if (conf->seq_flush - conf->seq_write > 0) {
if (conf->seq_flush != conf->seq_write) {
int seq = conf->seq_flush;
spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
bitmap_unplug(mddev->bitmap);