[PATCH] md: Core of raid5 resize process

This patch provides the core of the resize/expand process.

sync_request notices if a 'reshape' is happening and acts accordingly.

It allocated new stripe_heads for the next chunk-wide-stripe in the target
geometry, marking them STRIPE_EXPANDING.

Then it finds which stripe heads in the old geometry can provide data needed
by these and marks them STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE.  This causes stripe_handle to
read all blocks on those stripes.

Once all blocks on a STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE stripe_head are read, any that are
needed are copied into the corresponding STRIPE_EXPANDING stripe_head.  Once a
STRIPE_EXPANDING stripe_head is full, it is marks STRIPE_EXPAND_READY and then
is written out and released.

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, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/raid/md_k.h b/include/linux/raid/md_k.h
index 617b9506c760..4e26ef2cacca 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/md_k.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/md_k.h
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ struct mddev_s
          * DONE:     thread is done and is waiting to be reaped
          * REQUEST:  user-space has requested a sync (used with SYNC)
          * CHECK:    user-space request for for check-only, no repair
+         * RESHAPE:  A reshape is happening
+         *
+         * If neither SYNC or RESHAPE are set, then it is a recovery.
          */
 #define MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING     0
 #define MD_RECOVERY_SYNC        1
@@ -166,6 +169,7 @@ struct mddev_s
 #define MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED      5
 #define MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED   6
 #define MD_RECOVERY_CHECK       7
+#define MD_RECOVERY_RESHAPE     8
         unsigned long                   recovery;
 
         int                             in_sync;        /* know to not need resync */