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NeilBrown 079fa166a2 md/raid1,10: Remove use-after-free bug in make_request.
A single request to RAID1 or RAID10 might result in multiple
requests if there are known bad blocks that need to be avoided.

To detect if we need to submit another write request we test:
 	if (sectors_handled < (bio->bi_size >> 9)) {

However this is after we call **_write_done() so the 'bio' no longer
belongs to us - the writes could have completed and the bio freed.

So move the **_write_done call until after the test against
bio->bi_size.

This addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41862

Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Tested-by: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-09-10 17:21:23 +10:00
NeilBrown 19d5f834d6 md/raid10: unify handling of write completion.
A write can complete at two different places:
1/ when the last member-device write completes, through
   raid10_end_write_request
2/ in make_request() when we remove the initial bias from ->remaining.

These two should do exactly the same thing and the comment says they
do, but they don't.

So factor the correct code out into a function and call it in both
places.  This makes the code much more similar to RAID1.

The difference is only significant if there is an error, and they
usually take a while, so it is unlikely that there will be an error
already when make_request is completing, so this is unlikely to cause
real problems.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-09-10 17:21:17 +10:00
NeilBrown 58c54fcca3 md/raid10: handle further errors during fix_read_error better.
If we find more read/write errors we should record a bad block before
failing the device.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:25 +10:00
NeilBrown 5e5702898e md/raid10: Handle read errors during recovery better.
Currently when we get a read error during recovery, we simply abort
the recovery.

Instead, repeat the read in page-sized blocks.
On successful reads, write to the target.
On read errors, record a bad block on the destination,
and only if that fails do we abort the recovery.

As we now retry reads we need to know where we read from.  This was in
bi_sector but that can be changed during a read attempt.
So store the correct from_addr and to_addr in the r10_bio for later
access.


Signed-off-by: NeilBrown<neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:25 +10:00
NeilBrown e684e41db3 md/raid10: simplify read error handling during recovery.
If a read error is detected during recovery the code currently
fails the read device.
This isn't really necessary.  recovery_request_write will signal
a write error to end_sync_write and it will record a write
error on the destination device which will record a bad block
there or kick it from the array.

So just remove this call to do md_error.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:25 +10:00
NeilBrown 1a0b7cd826 md/raid10: record bad blocks due to write errors during resync/recovery.
If we get a write error during resync/recovery don't fail the device
but instead record a bad block.  If that fails we can then fail the
device.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:25 +10:00
NeilBrown f84ee364dd md/raid10: attempt to fix read errors during resync/check
We already attempt to fix read errors found during normal IO
and a 'repair' process.
It is best to try to repair them at any time they are found,
so move a test so that during sync and check a read error will
be corrected by over-writing with good data.

If both (all) devices have known bad blocks in the sync section we
won't try to fix even though the bad blocks might not overlap.  That
should be considered later.

Also if we hit a read error during recovery we don't try to fix it.
It would only be possible to fix if there were at least three copies
of data, which is not very common with RAID10.  But it should still
be considered later.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:25 +10:00
NeilBrown bd870a16c5 md/raid10: Handle write errors by updating badblock log.
When we get a write error (in the data area, not in metadata),
update the badblock log rather than failing the whole device.

As the write may well be many blocks, we trying writing each
block individually and only log the ones which fail.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:24 +10:00
NeilBrown 749c55e942 md/raid10: clear bad-block record when write succeeds.
If we succeed in writing to a block that was recorded as
being bad, we clear the bad-block record.

This requires some delayed handling as the bad-block-list update has
to happen in process-context.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:24 +10:00
NeilBrown d4432c23be md/raid10: avoid writing to known bad blocks on known bad drives.
Writing to known bad blocks on drives that have seen a write error
is asking for trouble.  So try to avoid these blocks.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:24 +10:00
NeilBrown e875ecea26 md/raid10 record bad blocks as needed during recovery.
When recovering one or more devices, if all the good devices have
bad blocks we should record a bad block on the device being rebuilt.

If this fails, we need to abort the recovery.

To ensure we don't think that we aborted later than we actually did,
we need to move the check for MD_RECOVERY_INTR earlier in md_do_sync,
in particular before mddev->curr_resync is updated.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:24 +10:00
NeilBrown 40c356ce5a md/raid10: avoid reading known bad blocks during resync/recovery.
During resync/recovery limit the size of the request to avoid
reading into a bad block that does not start at-or-before the current
read address.

Similarly if there is a bad block at this address, don't allow the
current request to extend beyond the end of that bad block.

Now that we don't ever read from known bad blocks, it is safe to allow
devices with those blocks into the array.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:24 +10:00
NeilBrown 8dbed5cebd md/raid10 - avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 3
When attempting to repair a read error, don't read from
devices with a known bad block.

As we are only reading PAGE_SIZE blocks, we don't try to
narrow down to smaller regions in the hope that only part of this
page is bad - it isn't worth the effort.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:24 +10:00
NeilBrown 7399c31bc9 md/raid10: avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 2
When redirecting a read error to a different device, we must
again avoid bad blocks and possibly split the request.

Spin_lock typo fixed thanks to Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:23 +10:00
NeilBrown 856e08e237 md/raid10: avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 1
This patch just covers the basic read path:
 1/ read_balance needs to check for badblocks, and return not only
    the chosen slot, but also how many good blocks are available
    there.
 2/ read submission must be ready to issue multiple reads to
    different devices as different bad blocks on different devices
    could mean that a single large read cannot be served by any one
    device, but can still be served by the array.
    This requires keeping count of the number of outstanding requests
    per bio.  This count is stored in 'bi_phys_segments'

On read error we currently just fail the request if another target
cannot handle the whole request.  Next patch refines that a bit.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:23 +10:00
NeilBrown 560f8e5532 md/raid10: Split handle_read_error out from raid10d.
raid10d() is too big and is about to get bigger, so split
handle_read_error() out as a separate function.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:23 +10:00
NeilBrown 1294b9c973 md/raid10: simplify/reindent some loops.
When a loop ends with a large if, it can be neater to change the
if to invert the condition and just 'continue'.
Then the body of the if can be indented to a lower level.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:39:23 +10:00
NeilBrown de393cdea6 md: make it easier to wait for bad blocks to be acknowledged.
It is only safe to choose not to write to a bad block if that bad
block is safely recorded in metadata - i.e. if it has been
'acknowledged'.

If it hasn't we need to wait for the acknowledgement.

We support that using rdev->blocked wait and
md_wait_for_blocked_rdev by introducing a new device flag
'BlockedBadBlock'.

This flag is only advisory.
It is cleared whenever we acknowledge a bad block, so that a waiter
can re-check the particular bad blocks that it is interested it.

It should be set by a caller when they find they need to wait.
This (set after test) is inherently racy, but as
md_wait_for_blocked_rdev already has a timeout, losing the race will
have minimal impact.

When we clear "Blocked" was also clear "BlockedBadBlocks" incase it
was set incorrectly (see above race).

We also modify the way we manage 'Blocked' to fit better with the new
handling of 'BlockedBadBlocks' and to make it consistent between
externally managed and internally managed metadata.   This requires
that each raidXd loop checks if the metadata needs to be written and
triggers a write (md_check_recovery) if needed.  Otherwise a queued
write request might cause raidXd to wait for the metadata to write,
and only that thread can write it.

Before writing metadata, we set FaultRecorded for all devices that
are Faulty, then after writing the metadata we clear Blocked for any
device for which the Fault was certainly Recorded.

The 'faulty' device flag now appears in sysfs if the device is faulty
*or* it has unacknowledged bad blocks.  So user-space which does not
understand bad blocks can continue to function correctly.
User space which does, should not assume a device is faulty until it
sees the 'faulty' flag, and then sees the list of unacknowledged bad
blocks is empty.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-28 11:31:48 +10:00
NeilBrown 34b343cff4 md: don't allow arrays to contain devices with bad blocks.
As no personality understand bad block lists yet, we must
reject any device that is known to contain bad blocks.
As the personalities get taught, these tests can be removed.

This only applies to raid1/raid5/raid10.
For linear/raid0/multipath/faulty the whole concept of bad blocks
doesn't mean anything so there is no point adding the checks.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
2011-07-28 11:31:47 +10:00
Namhyung Kim cbea21703b md/raid10: move rdev->corrected_errors counting
Read errors are considered to corrected if write-back and re-read
cycle is finished without further problems. Thus moving the rdev->
corrected_errors counting after the re-reading looks more reasonable
IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-27 11:00:36 +10:00
NeilBrown 700c721389 md/raid10: Improve decision on whether to fail a device with a read error.
Normally we would fail a device with a READ error.  However if doing
so causes the array to fail, it is better to leave the device
in place and just return the read error to the caller.

The current test for decide if the array will fail is overly
simplistic.
We have a function 'enough' which can tell if the array is failed or
not, so use it to guide the decision.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-27 11:00:36 +10:00
NeilBrown 2bb77736ae md/raid10: Make use of new recovery_disabled handling
When we get a read error during recovery, RAID10 previously
arranged for the recovering device to appear to fail so that
the recovery stops and doesn't restart.  This is misleading and wrong.

Instead, make use of the new recovery_disabled handling and mark
the target device and having recovery disabled.

Add appropriate checks in add_disk and remove_disk so that devices
are removed and not re-added when recovery is disabled.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-27 11:00:36 +10:00
Christian Dietrich 8bda470e8e md/raid: use printk_ratelimited instead of printk_ratelimit
As per printk_ratelimit comment, it should not be used.

Signed-off-by: Christian Dietrich <christian.dietrich@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-27 11:00:36 +10:00
Namhyung Kim c65060ad42 md/raid10: share pages between read and write bio's during recovery
When performing a recovery, only first 2 slots in r10_bio are in use,
for read and write respectively. However all of pages in the write bio
are never used and just replaced to read bio's when the read completes.

Get rid of those unused pages and share read pages properly.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-18 17:38:49 +10:00
Namhyung Kim 778ca01852 md/raid10: factor out common bio handling code
When normal-write and sync-read/write bio completes, we should
find out the disk number the bio belongs to. Factor those common
code out to a separate function.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-18 17:38:47 +10:00
Namhyung Kim 2c4193df37 md/raid10: get rid of duplicated conditional expression
Variable 'first' is initialized to zero and updated to @rdev->raid_disk
only if it is greater than 0. Thus condition '>= first' always implies
'>= 0' so the latter is not needed.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-07-18 17:38:43 +10:00
NeilBrown ab9d47e990 md/raid10: reformat some loops with less indenting.
When a loop ends with an 'if' with a large body, it is neater
to make the if 'continue' on the inverse condition, and then
the body is indented less.

Apply this pattern 3 times, and wrap some other long lines.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:54:41 +10:00
NeilBrown f17ed07c85 md/raid10: remove unused variable.
This variable 'disk' is never used - how odd.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:54:32 +10:00
NeilBrown a8830bcaf3 md/raid10: make more use of 'slot' in raid10d.
Now that we have a 'slot' variable, make better use of it to simplify
some code a little.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:54:19 +10:00
NeilBrown 7c4e06ff2b md/raid10: some tidying up in fix_read_error
Currently the rdev on which a read error happened could be removed
before we perform the fix_error handling.  This requires extra tests
for NULL.

So delay the rdev_dec_pending call until after the call to
fix_read_error so that we can be sure that the rdev still exists.

This allows an 'if' clause to be removed so the body gets re-indented
back one level.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:53:17 +10:00
NeilBrown 56d9912106 md: simplify raid10 read_balance
raid10 read balance has two different loop for looking through
possible devices to chose the best.
Collapse those into one loop and generally make the code more
readable.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-05-11 14:27:03 +10:00
NeilBrown c3b328ac84 md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
We just need to make sure that an unplug event wakes up the md
thread, which is exactly what mddev_check_plugged does.

Also remove some plug-related code that is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:43 +10:00
NeilBrown e1dfa0a297 md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
md/raid submits a lot of IO from the various raid threads.
So adding start/finish plug calls to those so that some
plugging happens.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:41 +10:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Martin K. Petersen a91a2785b2 block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an
integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is
capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory.

Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at
metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not.

Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from
bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the
fs_bio_set.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snizer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-17 11:11:05 +01:00
Jens Axboe 4c63f5646e Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/stack-plug' into for-2.6.39/core
Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
	block/blk-flush.c
	drivers/md/raid1.c
	drivers/md/raid10.c
	drivers/md/raid5.c
	fs/nilfs2/btnode.c
	fs/nilfs2/mdt.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:58:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
NeilBrown da9cf5050a md: avoid spinlock problem in blk_throtl_exit
blk_throtl_exit assumes that ->queue_lock still exists,
so make sure that it does.
To do this, we stop redirecting ->queue_lock to conf->device_lock
and leave it pointing where it is initialised - __queue_lock.

As the blk_plug functions check the ->queue_lock is held, we now
take that spin_lock explicitly around the plug functions.  We don't
need the locking, just the warning removal.

This is needed for any kernel with the blk_throtl code, which is
which is 2.6.37 and later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-02-21 18:25:57 +11:00
Krzysztof Wojcik 02214dc546 FIX: md: process hangs at wait_barrier after 0->10 takeover
Following symptoms were observed:
1. After raid0->raid10 takeover operation we have array with 2
missing disks.
When we add disk for rebuild, recovery process starts as expected
but it does not finish- it stops at about 90%, md126_resync process
hangs in "D" state.
2. Similar behavior is when we have mounted raid0 array and we
execute takeover to raid10. After this when we try to unmount array-
it causes process umount hangs in "D"

In scenarios above processes hang at the same function- wait_barrier
in raid10.c.
Process waits in macro "wait_event_lock_irq" until the
"!conf->barrier" condition will be true.
In scenarios above it never happens.

Reason was that at the end of level_store, after calling pers->run,
we call mddev_resume. This calls pers->quiesce(mddev, 0) with
RAID10, that calls lower_barrier.
However raise_barrier hadn't been called on that 'conf' yet,
so conf->barrier becomes negative, which is bad.

This patch introduces setting conf->barrier=1 after takeover
operation. It prevents to become barrier negative after call
lower_barrier().

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-02-08 11:49:02 +11:00
Jonathan Brassow ccebd4c415 md-new-param-to_sync_page_io
Add new parameter to 'sync_page_io'.

The new parameter allows us to distinguish between metadata and data
operations.  This becomes important later when we add the ability to
use separate devices for data and metadata.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
2011-01-14 09:14:33 +11:00
Joe Perches 067032bc62 md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s
Noticed-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-01-14 09:14:33 +11:00
NeilBrown 589a594be1 md: protect against NULL reference when waiting to start a raid10.
When we fail to start a raid10 for some reason, we call
md_unregister_thread to kill the thread that was created.

Unfortunately md_thread() will then make one call into the handler
(raid10d) even though md_wakeup_thread has not been called.  This is
not safe and as md_unregister_thread is called after mddev->private
has been set to NULL, it will definitely cause a NULL dereference.

So fix this at both ends:
 - md_thread should only call the handler if THREAD_WAKEUP has been
   set.
 - raid10 should call md_unregister_thread before setting things
   to NULL just like all the other raid modules do.

This is applicable to 2.6.35 and later.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: "Citizen" <citizen_lee@thecus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-12-09 17:02:14 +11:00
NeilBrown a167f66324 md: use separate bio pool for each md device.
bio_clone and bio_alloc allocate from a common bio pool.
If an md device is stacked with other devices that use this pool, or under
something like swap which uses the pool, then the multiple calls on
the pool can cause deadlocks.

So allocate a local bio pool for each md array and use that rather
than the common pool.

This pool is used both for regular IO and metadata updates.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:15 +11:00
NeilBrown 2b193363ef md: change type of first arg to sync_page_io.
Currently sync_page_io takes a 'bdev'.
Every caller passes 'rdev->bdev'.
We will soon want another field out of the rdev in sync_page_io,
So just pass the rdev instead of the bdev out of it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:11 +11:00
NeilBrown 6746557f03 md: use bio_kmalloc rather than bio_alloc when failure is acceptable.
bio_alloc can never fail (as it uses a mempool) but an block
indefinitely, especially if the caller is holding a reference to a
previously allocated bio.

So these to places which both handle failure and hold multiple bios
should not use bio_alloc, they should use bio_kmalloc.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:36:06 +11:00
NeilBrown 4e78064f42 md: Fix possible deadlock with multiple mempool allocations.
It is not safe to allocate from a mempool while holding an item
previously allocated from that mempool as that can deadlock when the
mempool is close to exhaustion.

So don't use a bio list to collect the bios to write to multiple
devices in raid1 and raid10.
Instead queue each bio as it becomes available so an unplug will
activate all previously allocated bios and so a new bio has a chance
of being allocated.

This means we must set the 'remaining' count to '1' before submitting
any requests, then when all are submitted, decrement 'remaining' and
possible handle the write completion at that point.

Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:34:07 +11:00
NeilBrown 57dab0bdf6 md: use sector_t in bitmap_get_counter
bitmap_get_counter returns the number of sectors covered
by the counter in a pass-by-reference variable.
In some cases this can be very large, so make it a sector_t
for safety.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-10-28 17:32:26 +11:00
Tejun Heo e9c7469bb4 md: implment REQ_FLUSH/FUA support
This patch converts md to support REQ_FLUSH/FUA instead of now
deprecated REQ_HARDBARRIER.  In the core part (md.c), the following
changes are notable.

* Unlike REQ_HARDBARRIER, REQ_FLUSH/FUA don't interfere with
  processing of other requests and thus there is no reason to mark the
  queue congested while FLUSH/FUA is in progress.

* REQ_FLUSH/FUA failures are final and its users don't need retry
  logic.  Retry logic is removed.

* Preflush needs to be issued to all member devices but FUA writes can
  be handled the same way as other writes - their processing can be
  deferred to request_queue of member devices.  md_barrier_request()
  is renamed to md_flush_request() and simplified accordingly.

For linear, raid0 and multipath, the core changes are enough.  raid1,
5 and 10 need the following conversions.

* raid1: Handling of FLUSH/FUA bio's can simply be deferred to
  request_queues of member devices.  Barrier related logic removed.

* raid5: Queue draining logic dropped.  FUA bit is propagated through
  biodrain and stripe resconstruction such that all the updated parts
  of the stripe are written out with FUA writes if any of the dirtying
  writes was FUA.  preread_active_stripes handling in make_request()
  is updated as suggested by Neil Brown.

* raid10: FUA bit needs to be propagated to write clones.

linear, raid0, 1, 5 and 10 tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:38 +02:00
NeilBrown 2c7d46ec19 md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again
commit 7b6d91daee changed the behaviour
of a few variables in raid1 and raid10 from flags to bit-sets, but
left them as type 'bool' so they did not work.

Change them (back) to unsigned long.
(historical note: see 1ef04fefe2)

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> and many others
2010-08-18 16:16:05 +10:00
NeilBrown 6b96562054 md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions.
md_check_recovery expects ->spare_active to return 'true' if any
spares were activated, but none of them do, so the consequent change
in 'degraded' is not notified through sysfs.

So count the number of spares activated, subtract it from 'degraded'
just once, and return it.

Reported-by: Adrian Drzewiecki <adriand@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2010-08-18 12:04:32 +10:00