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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [md PATCH 02/13] md: fix regression resulting in delays in clearing bits in a bitmap
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:12:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110111221246.12732.33418.stgit@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110111221050.12732.31647.stgit@notabene.brown>

commit 589a594be1fb (2.6.37-rc4) fixed a problem were md_thread would
sometimes call the ->run function at a bad time.

If an error is detected during array start up after the md_thread has
been started, the md_thread is killed.  This resulted in the ->run
function being called once.  However the array may not be in a state
that it is safe to call ->run.

However the fix imposed meant that  ->run was not called on a timeout.
This means that when an array goes idle, bitmap bits do not get
cleared promptly.  While the array is busy the bits will still be
cleared when appropriate so this is not very serious.  There is no
risk to data.

Change the test so that we only avoid calling ->run when the thread
is being stopped.  This more explicitly address the problem situation.

This is suitable for any -stable kernel to which 589a594be1fb was
applied.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---

 drivers/md/md.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 0da25da..a301912 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -6042,7 +6042,8 @@ static int md_thread(void * arg)
 			 || kthread_should_stop(),
 			 thread->timeout);
 
-		if (test_and_clear_bit(THREAD_WAKEUP, &thread->flags))
+		clear_bit(THREAD_WAKEUP, &thread->flags);
+		if (!kthread_should_stop())
 			thread->run(thread->mddev);
 	}
 



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-11 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-11 22:12 [md PATCH 00/13] md patches for the current merge window NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 07/13] md: Be more careful about clearing flags bit in ->recovery NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 05/13] md/raid5: use sysfs_notify_dirent_safe to avoid NULL pointer NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 01/13] md: fix regression with re-adding devices to arrays with no metadata NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 04/13] md: Ensure no IO request to get md device before it is properly initialised NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 03/13] md: Fix single printks with multiple KERN_<level>s NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 06/13] md: md_stop_writes requires mddev_lock NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 12/13] md: allow suspend_lo and suspend_hi to decrease as well as increase NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 09/13] md-new-param-to_sync_page_io NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 13/13] md: fix sync_completed reporting for very large drives (>2TB) NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 11/13] md: Don't let implementation detail of curr_resync leak out through sysfs NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 08/13] md-new-param-to-calc_dev_sboffset NeilBrown
2011-01-11 22:12 ` [md PATCH 10/13] md: separate meta and data devs NeilBrown

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