From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Nazar Subject: Endian issue assembling arrays Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:53:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4C5098DB.7040905@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------010804060105060906020307" Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------010804060105060906020307 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Came across this while testing some updates to GRUB's RAID support. Assembling a RAID1 array on a PPC box results in the following warning: mdadm: device 1 in /dev/md/0 has wrong state in superblock, but /dev/sdb2 seems ok mdadm: /dev/md/0 has been started with 2 Doug --------------010804060105060906020307 Content-Type: text/plain; name="mdadm-assemble-roles-endian-fix.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mdadm-assemble-roles-endian-fix.diff" --- mdadm-3.1.2/super1.c 2010-03-09 18:26:44.000000000 -0500 +++ mdadm-3.1.2.dev/super1.c 2010-07-28 16:41:41.000000000 -0400 @@ -673,10 +673,10 @@ int d = info->disk.number; int want; if (info->disk.state == 6) - want = __cpu_to_le32(info->disk.raid_disk); + want = info->disk.raid_disk; else want = 0xFFFF; - if (sb->dev_roles[d] != want) { + if (__le16_to_cpu(sb->dev_roles[d]) != want) { sb->dev_roles[d] = want; rv = 1; } --------------010804060105060906020307--