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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2005-10-20 00:23:47 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-20 02:04:30 -0400
commit6985c43f39b3d799999c390099c56ebbee27d4f4 (patch)
tree7db2cc566d9257afca01deb135e2e0f0347333e8 /drivers/md
parent4a9949d7ac9e2bc51939f27b184be6e1bd99004e (diff)
[PATCH] Three one-liners in md.c
The main problem fixes is that in certain situations stopping md arrays may take longer than you expect, or may require multiple attempts. This would only happen when resync/recovery is happening. This patch fixes three vaguely related bugs. 1/ The recent change to use kthreads got the setting of the process name wrong. This fixes it. 2/ The recent change to use kthreads lost the ability for md threads to be signalled with SIG_KILL. This restores that. 3/ There is a long standing bug in that if: - An array needs recovery (onto a hot-spare) and - The recovery is being blocked because some other array being recovered shares a physical device and - The recovery thread is killed with SIG_KILL Then the recovery will appear to have completed with no IO being done, which can cause data corruption. This patch makes sure that incomplete recovery will be treated as incomplete. Note that any kernel affected by bug 2 will not suffer the problem of bug 3, as the signal can never be delivered. Thus the current 2.6.14-rc kernels are not susceptible to data corruption. Note also that if arrays are shutdown (with "mdadm -S" or "raidstop") then the problem doesn't occur. It only happens if a SIGKILL is independently delivered as done by 'init' when shutting down. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 2897df90df44..e9476075aa13 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3063,6 +3063,7 @@ static int md_thread(void * arg)
3063 * many dirty RAID5 blocks. 3063 * many dirty RAID5 blocks.
3064 */ 3064 */
3065 3065
3066 allow_signal(SIGKILL);
3066 complete(thread->event); 3067 complete(thread->event);
3067 while (!kthread_should_stop()) { 3068 while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
3068 void (*run)(mddev_t *); 3069 void (*run)(mddev_t *);
@@ -3111,7 +3112,7 @@ mdk_thread_t *md_register_thread(void (*run) (mddev_t *), mddev_t *mddev,
3111 thread->mddev = mddev; 3112 thread->mddev = mddev;
3112 thread->name = name; 3113 thread->name = name;
3113 thread->timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT; 3114 thread->timeout = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
3114 thread->tsk = kthread_run(md_thread, thread, mdname(thread->mddev)); 3115 thread->tsk = kthread_run(md_thread, thread, name, mdname(thread->mddev));
3115 if (IS_ERR(thread->tsk)) { 3116 if (IS_ERR(thread->tsk)) {
3116 kfree(thread); 3117 kfree(thread);
3117 return NULL; 3118 return NULL;
@@ -3569,6 +3570,7 @@ static void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
3569 try_again: 3570 try_again:
3570 if (signal_pending(current)) { 3571 if (signal_pending(current)) {
3571 flush_signals(current); 3572 flush_signals(current);
3573 set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
3572 goto skip; 3574 goto skip;
3573 } 3575 }
3574 ITERATE_MDDEV(mddev2,tmp) { 3576 ITERATE_MDDEV(mddev2,tmp) {