[PATCH] md: Support suspending of IO to regions of an md array

This allows user-space to access data safely.  This is needed for raid5
reshape as user-space needs to take a backup of the first few stripes before
allowing reshape to commence.

It will also be useful in cluster-aware raid1 configurations so that all
cluster members can leave a section of the array untouched while a
resync/recovery happens.

A 'start' and 'end' of the suspended range are written to 2 sysfs attributes.
Note that only one range can be suspended at a 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>

1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index a79dd33d343d..92fd0104fa04 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -2365,6 +2365,63 @@ sync_completed_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
 static struct md_sysfs_entry
 md_sync_completed = __ATTR_RO(sync_completed);
 
+static ssize_t
+suspend_lo_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+        return sprintf(page, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)mddev->suspend_lo);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+suspend_lo_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+        char *e;
+        unsigned long long new = simple_strtoull(buf, &e, 10);
+
+        if (mddev->pers->quiesce == NULL)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (buf == e || (*e && *e != '\n'))
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (new >= mddev->suspend_hi ||
+            (new > mddev->suspend_lo && new < mddev->suspend_hi)) {
+                mddev->suspend_lo = new;
+                mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 2);
+                return len;
+        } else
+                return -EINVAL;
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_suspend_lo =
+__ATTR(suspend_lo, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, suspend_lo_show, suspend_lo_store);
+
+
+static ssize_t
+suspend_hi_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+        return sprintf(page, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)mddev->suspend_hi);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+suspend_hi_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+        char *e;
+        unsigned long long new = simple_strtoull(buf, &e, 10);
+
+        if (mddev->pers->quiesce == NULL)
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if (buf == e || (*e && *e != '\n'))
+                return -EINVAL;
+        if ((new <= mddev->suspend_lo && mddev->suspend_lo >= mddev->suspend_hi) ||
+            (new > mddev->suspend_lo && new > mddev->suspend_hi)) {
+                mddev->suspend_hi = new;
+                mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 1);
+                mddev->pers->quiesce(mddev, 0);
+                return len;
+        } else
+                return -EINVAL;
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_suspend_hi =
+__ATTR(suspend_hi, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, suspend_hi_show, suspend_hi_store);
+
+
 static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
         &md_level.attr,
         &md_raid_disks.attr,
@@ -2382,6 +2439,8 @@ static struct attribute *md_redundancy_attrs[] = {
         &md_sync_max.attr,
         &md_sync_speed.attr,
         &md_sync_completed.attr,
+        &md_suspend_lo.attr,
+        &md_suspend_hi.attr,
         NULL,
 };
 static struct attribute_group md_redundancy_group = {