... being careful that mutex_trylock is inverted wrt down_trylock
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When retrying a write due to barrier failure, we don't reset 'remaining', so
it goes negative and never hits 0 again.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
An md array can be asked to change the amount of each device that it is using,
and in particular can be asked to use the maximum available space. This
currently only works if the first device is not larger than the rest. As
'size' gets changed and so 'fit' becomes wrong. So check if a 'fit' is
required early and don't corrupt it.
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
raid5 overloads bi_phys_segments to count the number of blocks that the
request was broken in to so that it knows when the bio is completely handled.
Accessing this must always be done under a spinlock. In one case we also call
bi_end_io under that spinlock, which probably isn't ideal as bi_end_io could
be expensive (even though it isn't allowed to sleep).
So we reducde the range of the spinlock to just accessing bi_phys_segments.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
wait_event_lock_irq puts a ';' after its usage of the 4th arg, so we don't
need to.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
This allows reshape to be triggerred via sysfs (which is the only way to start
it happening).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
check_reshape checks validity and does things that can be done instantly -
like adding devices to raid1. start_reshape initiates a restriping process to
convert the whole array.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Instead of checkpointing at each stripe, only checkpoint when a new write
would overwrite uncheckpointed data. Block any write to the uncheckpointed
area. Arbitrarily checkpoint at least every 3Meg.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We allow the superblock to record an 'old' and a 'new' geometry, and a
position where any conversion is up to. The geometry allows for changing
chunksize, layout and level as well as number of devices.
When using verion-0.90 superblock, we convert the version to 0.91 while the
conversion is happening so that an old kernel will refuse the assemble the
array. For version-1, we use a feature bit for the same effect.
When starting an array we check for an incomplete reshape and restart the
reshape process if needed. If the reshape stopped at an awkward time (like
when updating the first stripe) we refuse to assemble the array, and let
user-space worry about it.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds raid5_reshape and end_reshape which will start and finish the
reshape processes.
raid5_reshape is only enabled in CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE is set, to discourage
accidental use.
Read the 'help' for the CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE entry.
and Make sure that you have backups, just in case.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
We need to allow that different stripes are of different effective sizes, and
use the appropriate size. Also, when a stripe is being expanded, we must
block any IO attempts until the stripe is stable again.
Key elements in this change are:
- each stripe_head gets a 'disk' field which is part of the key,
thus there can sometimes be two stripe heads of the same area of
the array, but covering different numbers of devices. One of these
will be marked STRIPE_EXPANDING and so won't accept new requests.
- conf->expand_progress tracks how the expansion is progressing and
is used to determine whether the target part of the array has been
expanded yet or not.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Before a RAID-5 can be expanded, we need to be able to expand the stripe-cache
data structure.
This requires allocating new stripes in a new kmem_cache. If this succeeds,
we copy cache pages over and release the old stripes and kmem_cache.
We then allocate new pages. If that fails, we leave the stripe cache at it's
new size. It isn't worth the effort to shrink it back again.
Unfortuanately this means we need two kmem_cache names as we, for a short
period of time, we have two kmem_caches. So they are raid5/%s and
raid5/%s-alt
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The remainder of this batch implements raid5 reshaping. Currently the only
shape change that is supported is added a device, but it is envisioned that
changing the chunksize and layout will also be supported, as well as changing
the level (e.g. 1->5, 5->6).
The reshape process naturally has to move all of the data in the array, and so
should be used with caution. It is believed to work, and some testing does
support this, but wider testing would be great for increasing my confidence.
You will need a version of mdadm newer than 2.3.1 to make use of raid5 growth.
This is because mdadm need to take a copy of a 'critical section' at the
start of the array incase there is a crash at an awkward moment. On restart,
mdadm will restore the critical section and allow reshape to continue.
I hope to release a 2.4-pre by early next week - it still needs a little more
polishing.
This patch:
Previously the array of disk information was included in the raid5 'conf'
structure which was allocated to an appropriate size. This makes it awkward
to change the size of that array. So we split it off into a separate
kmalloced array which will require a little extra indexing, but is much easier
to grow.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
status_resync - used by /proc/mdstat to report the status of a resync, assumes
that device sizes will always fit into an 'unsigned long' This is no longer
the case...
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We are counting failed devices twice, once of the device that is failed, and
once for the hole that has been left in the array. Remove the former so
'failed' matches 'missing'. Storing these counts in the superblock is a bit
silly anyway....
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I really should make this a function of the personality....
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This flag should be set for a virtual device iff it is set for all underlying
devices.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use bd_claim_by_disk.
Following symlinks are created if dm-0 maps to sda:
/sys/block/dm-0/slaves/sda --> /sys/block/sda
/sys/block/sda/holders/dm-0 --> /sys/block/dm-0
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use bd_claim_by_disk.
Following symlinks are created if md0 is built from sda and sdb
/sys/block/md0/slaves/sda --> /sys/block/sda
/sys/block/md0/slaves/sdb --> /sys/block/sdb
/sys/block/sda/holders/md0 --> /sys/block/md0
/sys/block/sdb/holders/md0 --> /sys/block/md0
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Allow drive geometry to be stored with a new DM_DEV_SET_GEOMETRY ioctl.
Device-mapper will now respond to HDIO_GETGEO. If the geometry information is
not available, zero will be returned for all of the parameters.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Store an up-pointer to the owning struct mapped_device in every table when it
is created.
Access it with:
struct mapped_device *dm_table_get_md(struct dm_table *t)
Tables linked to md must be destroyed before the md itself.
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change dm_get_mdptr() to take a struct mapped_device instead of dev_t.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The patch stores a printable device number in struct mapped_device for use in
warning messages and with a proposed netlink interface.
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If dm_suspend() is cancelled, bios already added to the deferred list need to
be submitted. Otherwise they remain 'in limbo' until there's a dm_resume().
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Before removing a snapshot, wait for the completion of any kcopyd jobs using
it.
Do this by maintaining a count (nr_jobs) of how many outstanding jobs each
kcopyd_client has.
The snapshot destructor first unregisters the snapshot so that no new kcopyd
jobs (created by writes to the origin) will reference that particular
snapshot. kcopyd_client_destroy() is now run next to wait for the completion
of any outstanding jobs before the snapshot exception structures (that those
jobs reference) are freed.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This flag should be set for a virtual device iff it is set for all
underlying devices.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We don't know what type sector_t has. Sometimes it's unsigned long, sometimes
it's unsigned long long. For example on ppc64 it's unsigned long with
CONFIG_LBD=n and on x86_64 it's unsigned long long with CONFIG_LBD=n.
The way to handle all of this is to always use unsigned long long and to
always typecast the sector_t when printing it.
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
dm-mirror has potential data corruption problem: while on-disk log shows
that all disk contents are in-sync, actual contents of the disks are not
synchronized. This problem occurs if initial recovery (synching) is
interrupted and resumed.
Attached patch fixes this problem.
Background:
rh_dec() changes the region state from RH_NOSYNC (out-of-sync) to RH_CLEAN
(in-sync), which results in the corresponding bit of clean_bits being set.
This is harmful if on-disk log is used and the map is removed/suspended
before the initial sync is completed. The clean_bits is written down to
the on-disk log at the map removal, and, upon resume, it's read and copied
to sync_bits. Since the recovery process refers to the sync_bits to find a
region to be recovered, the region whose state was changed from RH_NOSYNC
to RH_CLEAN is no longer recovered.
If you haven't applied dm-raid1-read-balancing.patch proposed in dm-devel
sometimes ago, the contents of the mirrored disk just corrupt silently. If
you have, balanced read may get bogus data from out-of-sync disks.
The patch keeps RH_NOSYNC state unchanged. It will be changed to
RH_RECOVERING when recovery starts and get reclaimed when the recovery
completes. So it doesn't leak the region hash entry.
Description:
Keep RH_NOSYNC state unchanged when I/O on the region completes.
rh_dec() changes the region state from RH_NOSYNC (out-of-sync) to RH_CLEAN
(in-sync), which results in the corresponding bit of clean_bits being set.
This is harmful if on-disk log is used and the map is removed/suspended
before the initial sync is completed. The clean_bits is written down to
the on-disk log at the map removal, and, upon resume, it's read and copied
to sync_bits. Since the recovery process refers to the sync_bits to find a
region to be recovered, the region whose state was changed from RH_NOSYNC
to RH_CLEAN is no longer recovered.
If you haven't applied dm-raid1-read-balancing.patch proposed in dm-devel
sometimes ago, the contents of the mirrored disk just corrupt silently. If
you have, balanced read may get bogus data from out-of-sync disks.
The RH_NOSYNC region will be changed to RH_RECOVERING when recovery starts
on the region and get reclaimed when the recovery completes. So it doesn't
leak the region hash entry.
Alasdair said:
I've analysed the relevant part of the state machine and I believe that
the patch is correct.
(Further work on this code is still needed - this patch has the
side-effect of holding onto memory unnecessarily for long periods of time
under certain workloads - but better that than corrupting data.)
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When a snapshot becomes invalid, s->valid is set to 0. In this state, a
snapshot can no longer be accessed.
When s->lock is acquired, before doing anything else, s->valid must be checked
to ensure the snapshot remains valid.
This patch eliminates some races (that may cause panics) by adding some
missing checks. At the same time, some unnecessary levels of indentation are
removed and snapshot invalidation is moved into a single function that always
generates a device-mapper event.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The siblings "list" is used unsafely at the moment.
Firstly, only the element on the list being changed gets locked (via the
snapshot lock), not the next and previous elements which have pointers that
are also being changed.
Secondly, if you have two or more snapshots and write to the same chunk a
second time before every snapshot has finished making its private copy of the
data, if you're unlucky, _origin_write() could attempt its list_merge() and
dereference a 'last' pointer to a pending_exception structure that has just
been freed.
Analysis reveals that the list is actually only there for reference counting.
If 5 pending_exceptions are needed in origin_write, then the 5 are joined
together into a 5-element list - without a separate list head because there's
nowhere suitable to store it. As the pending_exceptions complete, they are
removed from the list one-by-one and any contents of origin_bios get moved
across to one of the remaining pending_exceptions on the list. Whichever one
is last is detected because list_empty() is then true and the origin_bios get
submitted.
The fix proposed here uses an alternative reference counting mechanism by
choosing one of the pending_exceptions as primary and maintaining an atomic
counter there.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Say you have several snapshots of the same origin and then you issue a write
to some place in the origin for the first time.
Before the device-mapper snapshot target lets the write go through to the
underlying device, it needs to make a copy of the data that is about to be
overwritten. Each snapshot is independent, so it makes one copy for each
snapshot.
__origin_write() loops through each snapshot and checks to see whether a copy
is needed for that snapshot. (A copy is only needed the first time that data
changes.)
If a copy is needed, the code allocates a 'pending_exception' structure
holding the details. It links these together for all the snapshots, then
works its way through this list and submits the copying requests to the kcopyd
thread by calling start_copy(). When each request is completed, the original
pending_exception structure gets freed in pending_complete().
If you're very unlucky, this structure can get freed *before* the submission
process has finished walking the list.
This patch:
1) Creates a new temporary list pe_queue to hold the pending exception
structures;
2) Does all the bookkeeping up-front, then walks through the new list
safely and calls start_copy() for each pending_exception that needed it;
3) Avoids attempting to add pe->siblings to the list if it's already
connected.
[NB This does not fix all the races in this code. More patches will follow.]
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch changes a mempool user, which is basically just a wrapper around
kzalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather than its own
wrapper function, removing duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Convert two mempool users that currently use their own mempool-backed page
allocators to use the generic mempool page allocator.
Also included are 2 trivial whitespace fixes.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
We dereference bitmap both one line above and one line below this check
rendering this check quite useless.
Spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
The code that handles bios that span table target boundaries by breaking
them up into smaller bios will not split an individual struct bio_vec into
more than two pieces. Sometimes more than that are required.
This patch adds a loop to break the second piece up into as many pieces as
are necessary.
Cc: "Abhishek Gupta" <abhishekgupt@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The dm-stripe target currently does not enforce that the size of a stripe
device be a multiple of the chunk-size. Under certain conditions, this can
lead to I/O requests going off the end of an underlying device. This
test-case shows one example.
echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 0" | dmsetup create linear0
echo "0 100 linear /dev/hdb1 100" | dmsetup create linear1
echo "0 200 striped 2 32 /dev/mapper/linear0 0 /dev/mapper/linear1 0" | \
dmsetup create stripe0
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/stripe0 bs=1k
This will produce the output:
dd: writing '/dev/mapper/stripe0': Input/output error
97+0 records in
96+0 records out
And in the kernel log will be:
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-0: rw=0, want=104, limit=100
The patch will check that the table size is a multiple of the stripe
chunk-size when the table is created, which will prevent the above striped
device from being created.
This should not affect tools like LVM or EVMS, since in all the cases I can
think of, striped devices are always created with the sizes being a
multiple of the chunk-size.
The size of a stripe device must be a multiple of its chunk-size.
(akpm: that typecast is quite gratuitous)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown