[PATCH] md: improve locking on 'safemode' and move superblock writes

When md marks the superblock dirty before a write, it calls
generic_make_request (to write the superblock) from within
generic_make_request (to write the first dirty block), which could cause
problems later.

With this patch, the superblock write is always done by the helper thread, and
write request are delayed until that write completes.

Also, the locking around marking the array dirty and writing the superblock is
improved to avoid possible races.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NeilBrown 2005-06-21 17:17:12 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent fca4d848f0
commit 06d91a5fe0
7 changed files with 82 additions and 21 deletions

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@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ extern mdk_thread_t * md_register_thread (void (*run) (mddev_t *mddev),
extern void md_unregister_thread (mdk_thread_t *thread);
extern void md_wakeup_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread);
extern void md_check_recovery(mddev_t *mddev);
extern void md_write_start(mddev_t *mddev);
extern int md_write_start(mddev_t *mddev, struct bio *bi);
extern void md_write_end(mddev_t *mddev);
extern void md_handle_safemode(mddev_t *mddev);
extern void md_done_sync(mddev_t *mddev, int blocks, int ok);

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@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
#ifndef _MD_K_H
#define _MD_K_H
/* and dm-bio-list.h is not under include/linux because.... ??? */
#include "../../../drivers/md/dm-bio-list.h"
#define MD_RESERVED 0UL
#define LINEAR 1UL
#define RAID0 2UL
@ -252,6 +255,10 @@ struct mddev_s
atomic_t recovery_active; /* blocks scheduled, but not written */
wait_queue_head_t recovery_wait;
sector_t recovery_cp;
spinlock_t write_lock;
struct bio_list write_list;
unsigned int safemode; /* if set, update "clean" superblock
* when no writes pending.
*/