linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers/md
NeilBrown d3374825ce md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed.
Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module
is unloaded.  This is essentially because the gendisk holds a
reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the
gendisk, this a circular reference.

If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure
that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed.  However it
is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable
this.

So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the
gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed.  However this has a
complication.
Between the call
   __blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe
and the call
   __blkdev_get->md_open

there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so
unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be
destroyed prematurely.

Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable
moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during
which a new reference to the gendisk can be created.  We need to
ensure that this reference can not be used.  i.e. the ->open must
fail.

So:
 1/  in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which
     indicates that the array should be treated as active, even
     though there are no references, and no appearance of activity.
     This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it
     is no longer needed.
     This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and
     md_open.

 2/  In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches
     the gendisk that we did open.
     If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify
     __blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case.
     In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until
     the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so
     we loop at most once.

Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first
appears.   If we allow an md device that was just created by an open
to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev
configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened
and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open,
and then close and so on.
So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active
at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it.  This means that
all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly
when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it
cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be
removed).

As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute
  echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state
we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other
kobjects.  This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to
complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work().



Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2009-01-09 08:31:10 +11:00
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raid6test md: raid6: clean up the style of raid6test/test.c 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: misc files 2006-01-01 22:21:50 +01:00
bitmap.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
dm-bio-list.h dm: bio_list macro renaming 2007-10-20 02:01:11 +01:00
dm-bio-record.h
dm-crypt.c dm: consolidate target deregistration error handling 2009-01-06 03:04:58 +00:00
dm-delay.c dm: consolidate target deregistration error handling 2009-01-06 03:04:58 +00:00
dm-exception-store.c dm snapshot: extend exception store functions 2009-01-06 03:05:19 +00:00
dm-exception-store.h dm snapshot: extend exception store functions 2009-01-06 03:05:19 +00:00
dm-io.c bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set 2008-12-29 08:29:23 +01:00
dm-ioctl.c dm table: rework reference counting 2009-01-06 03:05:10 +00:00
dm-kcopyd.c dm: remove dm header from targets 2008-10-21 17:44:59 +01:00
dm-linear.c dm: support barriers on simple devices 2009-01-06 03:05:09 +00:00
dm-log.c dm log: ensure log bitmap fits on log device 2009-01-06 03:05:02 +00:00
dm-mpath.c dm mpath: move trigger_event to system workqueue 2009-01-06 03:05:13 +00:00
dm-mpath.h dm mpath: remove is_active from struct dm_path 2008-10-10 13:36:58 +01:00
dm-path-selector.c dm: remove dm header from targets 2008-10-21 17:44:59 +01:00
dm-path-selector.h [PATCH] struct path: rename DM's struct path 2006-12-08 08:28:40 -08:00
dm-raid1.c dm log: move region_size validation 2009-01-06 03:05:01 +00:00
dm-region-hash.c dm raid1: separate region_hash interface part1 2008-10-21 17:45:06 +01:00
dm-round-robin.c dm: remove dm header from targets 2008-10-21 17:44:59 +01:00
dm-snap-persistent.c dm snapshot: extend exception store functions 2009-01-06 03:05:19 +00:00
dm-snap-transient.c dm snapshot: extend exception store functions 2009-01-06 03:05:19 +00:00
dm-snap.c dm snapshot: extend exception store functions 2009-01-06 03:05:19 +00:00
dm-snap.h dm snapshot: extend exception store functions 2009-01-06 03:05:19 +00:00
dm-stripe.c dm: consolidate target deregistration error handling 2009-01-06 03:04:58 +00:00
dm-sysfs.c dm: add name and uuid to sysfs 2009-01-06 03:05:12 +00:00
dm-table.c dm table: rework reference counting 2009-01-06 03:05:10 +00:00
dm-target.c dm: consolidate target deregistration error handling 2009-01-06 03:04:58 +00:00
dm-uevent.c md: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-04-28 08:58:42 -07:00
dm-uevent.h dm: uevent generate events 2007-10-20 02:01:26 +01:00
dm-zero.c dm: consolidate target deregistration error handling 2009-01-06 03:04:58 +00:00
dm.c dm: add name and uuid to sysfs 2009-01-06 03:05:12 +00:00
dm.h dm: add name and uuid to sysfs 2009-01-06 03:05:12 +00:00
faulty.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
Kconfig raid, fastboot: hide RAID autodetect option if MD is compiled as a module 2008-10-12 08:25:14 -07:00
linear.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
Makefile dm snapshot: split out exception store implementations 2009-01-06 03:05:17 +00:00
md.c md: make devices disappear when they are no longer needed. 2009-01-09 08:31:10 +11:00
mktables.c md: raid6: Fix mktable.c 2008-02-06 10:41:18 -08:00
multipath.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
raid0.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
raid1.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
raid5.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
raid6.h md: Remove unnecessary #includes, #defines, and function declarations. 2008-10-13 11:55:12 +11:00
raid6algos.c drivers/md: use time_before, time_before_eq, etc 2008-04-28 08:58:42 -07:00
raid6altivec.uc [PATCH] RAID6 Altivec fix 2005-09-17 11:49:58 -07:00
raid6int.uc
raid6mmx.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6recov.c
raid6sse1.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6sse2.c x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid6x86.h x86 merge fallout: uml 2007-10-29 07:41:32 -07:00
raid10.c md: use list_for_each_entry macro directly 2009-01-09 08:31:08 +11:00
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