When an md device adds a request to a queue, it can call
mddev_check_plugged.
If this succeeds then we know that the md thread will be woken up
shortly, and ->plug_cnt will be non-zero until then, so some
processing can be delayed.
If it fails, then no unplug callback is expected and the make_request
function needs to do whatever is required to make the request happen.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the
normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when
called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available.
This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more.
So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5. Subsequent patches
with restore the plugging functionality.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Now that unplugging is done differently, the unplug_fn callback is
never called, so it can be completely discarded.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md/raid submits a lot of IO from the various raid threads.
So adding start/finish plug calls to those so that some
plugging happens.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The current block integrity (DIF/DIX) support in DM is verifying that
all devices' integrity profiles match during DM device resume (which
is past the point of no return). To some degree that is unavoidable
(stacked DM devices force this late checking). But for most DM
devices (which aren't stacking on other DM devices) the ideal time to
verify all integrity profiles match is during table load.
Introduce the notion of an "initialized" integrity profile: a profile
that was blk_integrity_register()'d with a non-NULL 'blk_integrity'
template. Add blk_integrity_is_initialized() to allow checking if a
profile was initialized.
Update DM integrity support to:
- check all devices with _initialized_ integrity profiles match
during table load; uninitialized profiles (e.g. for underlying DM
device(s) of a stacked DM device) are ignored.
- disallow a table load that would result in an integrity profile that
conflicts with a DM device's existing (in-use) integrity profile
- avoid clearing an existing integrity profile
- validate all integrity profiles match during resume; but if they
don't all we can do is report the mismatch (during resume we're past
the point of no return)
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
We incorrectly returned -EINVAL when none of the devices in the array
had an integrity profile. This in turn prevented mdadm from starting
the metadevice. Fix this so we only return errors on mismatched
profiles and memory allocation failures.
Reported-by: Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
dm stripe: implement merge method
dm mpath: allow table load with no priority groups
dm mpath: fail message ioctl if specified path is not valid
dm ioctl: add flag to wipe buffers for secure data
dm ioctl: prepare for crypt key wiping
dm crypt: wipe keys string immediately after key is set
dm: add flakey target
dm: fix opening log and cow devices for read only tables
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...
Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
Implement a merge function in the striped target.
When the striped target's underlying devices provide a merge_bvec_fn
(like all DM devices do via dm_merge_bvec) it is important to call down
to them when building a biovec that doesn't span a stripe boundary.
Without the merge method, a striped DM device stacked on DM devices
causes bios with a single page to be submitted which results
in unnecessary overhead that hurts performance.
This change really helps filesystems (e.g. XFS and now ext4) which take
care to assemble larger bios. By implementing stripe_merge(), DM and the
stripe target no longer undermine the filesystem's work by only allowing
a single page per bio. Buffered IO sees the biggest improvement
(particularly uncached reads, buffered writes to a lesser degree). This
is especially so for more capable "enterprise" storage LUNs.
The performance improvement has been measured to be ~12-35% -- when a
reasonable chunk_size is used (e.g. 64K) in conjunction with a stripe
count that is a power of 2.
In contrast, the performance penalty is ~5-7% for the pathological worst
case stripe configuration (small chunk_size with a stripe count that is
not a power of 2). The reason for this is that stripe_map_sector() is
now called once for every call to dm_merge_bvec(). stripe_map_sector()
will use slower division if stripe count isn't a power of 2.
Signed-off-by: Mustafa Mesanovic <mume@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This patch adjusts the multipath target to allow a table with both 0
priority groups and 0 for the initial priority group number.
If any mpath device is held open when all paths in the last priority
group have failed, userspace multipathd will attempt to reload the
associated DM table to reflect the fact that the device no longer has
any priority groups. But the reload attempt always failed because the
multipath target did not allow 0 priority groups.
All multipath target messages related to priority group (enable_group,
disable_group, switch_group) will handle a priority group of 0 (will
cause error).
When reloading a multipath table with 0 priority groups, userspace
multipathd must be updated to specify an initial priority group number
of 0 (rather than 1).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@lsi.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Fail the reinstate_path and fail_path message ioctl if the specified
path is not valid.
The message ioctl would succeed for the 'reinistate_path' and
'fail_path' messages even if action was not taken because the
specified device was not a valid path of the multipath device.
Before, when /dev/vdb is not a path of mpathb:
$ dmsetup message mpathb 0 reinstate_path /dev/vdb
$ echo $?
0
After:
$ dmsetup message mpathb 0 reinstate_path /dev/vdb
device-mapper: message ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Command failed
$ echo $?
1
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Add DM_SECURE_DATA_FLAG which userspace can use to ensure
that all buffers allocated for dm-ioctl are wiped
immediately after use.
The user buffer is wiped as well (we do not want to keep
and return sensitive data back to userspace if the flag is set).
Wiping is useful for cryptsetup to ensure that the key
is present in memory only in defined places and only
for the time needed.
(For crypt, key can be present in table during load or table
status, wait and message commands).
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Prepare code for implementing buffer wipe flag.
No functional change in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Always wipe the original copy of the key after processing it
in crypt_set_key().
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
This target is the same as the linear target except that it returns I/O
errors periodically. It's been found useful in simulating failing
devices for testing purposes.
I needed a dm target to do some failure testing on btrfs's raid code, and
Mike pointed me at this.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
If a table is read-only, also open any log and cow devices it uses read-only.
Previously, even read-only devices were opened read-write internally.
After patch 75f1dc0d07
block: check bdev_read_only() from blkdev_get()
was applied, loading such tables began to fail. The patch
was reverted by e51900f7d3
block: revert block_dev read-only check
but this patch fixes this part of the code to work with the original patch.
Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h. This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As a preparation for removing ext2 non-atomic bit operations from
asm/bitops.h. This converts ext2 non-atomic bit operations to
little-endian bit operations.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
After the stack plugging introduction, these are called lockless.
Ensure that the counters are updated atomically.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (170 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Add MD36xxf into device list
[SCSI] scsi_debug: add consecutive medium errors
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata list corruption issue
[SCSI] hpsa: export resettable host attribute
[SCSI] hpsa: move device attributes to avoid forward declarations
[SCSI] scsi_debug: Logical Block Provisioning (SBC3r26)
[SCSI] sd: Logical Block Provisioning update
[SCSI] Include protection operation in SCSI command trace
[SCSI] hpsa: fix incorrect PCI IDs and add two new ones (2nd try)
[SCSI] target: Fix volume size misreporting for volumes > 2TB
[SCSI] bnx2fc: Broadcom FCoE offload driver
[SCSI] fcoe: fix broken fcoe interface reset
[SCSI] fcoe: precedence bug in fcoe_filter_frames()
[SCSI] libfcoe: Remove stale fcoe-netdev entries
[SCSI] libfcoe: Move FCOE_MTU definition from fcoe.h to libfcoe.h
[SCSI] libfc: introduce __fc_fill_fc_hdr that accepts fc_hdr as an argument
[SCSI] fcoe, libfc: initialize EM anchors list and then update npiv EMs
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libfc: fix exchange being deleted when the abort itself is timed out"
[SCSI] libfc: Fixing a memory leak when destroying an interface
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update
...
Fix up trivial conflicts due to whitespace differences in
drivers/scsi/libsas/{sas_ata.c,sas_scsi_host.c}
MD and DM create a new bio_set for every metadevice. Each bio_set has an
integrity mempool attached regardless of whether the metadevice is
capable of passing integrity metadata. This is a waste of memory.
Instead we defer the allocation decision to MD and DM since we know at
metadevice creation time whether integrity passthrough is needed or not.
Automatic integrity mempool allocation can then be removed from
bioset_create() and we make an explicit integrity allocation for the
fs_bio_set.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snizer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1480 commits)
bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status
xfrm: Refcount destination entry on xfrm_lookup
net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around that
bonding: get rid of IFF_SLAVE_INACTIVE netdev->priv_flag
bonding: wrap slave state work
net: get rid of multiple bond-related netdevice->priv_flags
bonding: register slave pointer for rx_handler
be2net: Bump up the version number
be2net: Copyright notice change. Update to Emulex instead of ServerEngines
e1000e: fix kconfig for crc32 dependency
netfilter ebtables: fix xt_AUDIT to work with ebtables
xen network backend driver
bonding: Improve syslog message at device creation time
bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice
bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
net_sched: fix ip_tos2prio
xfrm: fix __xfrm_route_forward()
be2net: Fix UDP packet detected status in RX compl
Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve
netxen: support for GbE port settings
...
Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
with the staging updates.
* 'for-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: fix build failure introduced by s/freezeable/freezable/
workqueue: add system_freezeable_wq
rds/ib: use system_wq instead of rds_ib_fmr_wq
net/9p: replace p9_poll_task with a work
net/9p: use system_wq instead of p9_mux_wq
xfs: convert to alloc_workqueue()
reiserfs: make commit_wq use the default concurrency level
ocfs2: use system_wq instead of ocfs2_quota_wq
ext4: convert to alloc_workqueue()
scsi/scsi_tgt_lib: scsi_tgtd isn't used in memory reclaim path
scsi/be2iscsi,qla2xxx: convert to alloc_workqueue()
misc/iwmc3200top: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
i2o: use alloc_workqueue() instead of create_workqueue()
acpi: kacpi*_wq don't need WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
fs/aio: aio_wq isn't used in memory reclaim path
input/tps6507x-ts: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueue
cpufreq: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
wireless/ipw2x00: use system_wq instead of dedicated workqueues
arm/omap: use system_wq in mailbox
workqueue: use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead of WQ_RESCUER
With the plugging now being explicitly controlled by the
submitter, callers need not pass down unplugging hints
to the block layer. If they want to unplug, it's because they
manually plugged on their own - in which case, they should just
unplug at will.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days,
capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from
the current process.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
[chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Revert
b821eaa572
and
f3b99be19d
When I wrote the first of these I had a wrong idea about the
lifetime of 'struct block_device'. It can disappear at any time that
the block device is not open if it falls out of the inode cache.
So relying on the 'size' recorded with it to detect when the
device size has changed and so we need to revalidate, is wrong.
Rather, we really do need the 'changed' attribute stored directly in
the mddev and set/tested as appropriate.
Without this patch, a sequence of:
mknod / open / close / unlink
(which can cause a block_device to be created and then destroyed)
will result in a rescan of the partition table and consequence removal
and addition of partitions.
Several of these in a row can get udev racing to create and unlink and
other code can get confused.
With the patch, the rescan is only performed when needed and so there
are no races.
This is suitable for any stable kernel from 2.6.35.
Reported-by: "Wojcik, Krzysztof" <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
blk_throtl_exit assumes that ->queue_lock still exists,
so make sure that it does.
To do this, we stop redirecting ->queue_lock to conf->device_lock
and leave it pointing where it is initialised - __queue_lock.
As the blk_plug functions check the ->queue_lock is held, we now
take that spin_lock explicitly around the plug functions. We don't
need the locking, just the warning removal.
This is needed for any kernel with the blk_throtl code, which is
which is 2.6.37 and later.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
'mdp' devices are md devices with preallocated device numbers
for partitions. As such it is possible to mknod and open a partition
before opening the whole device.
this causes md_probe() to be called with a device number of a
partition, which in-turn calls mddev_find with such a number.
However mddev_find expects the number of a 'whole device' and
does the wrong thing with partition numbers.
So add code to mddev_find to remove the 'partition' part of
a device number and just work with the 'whole device'.
This patch addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28652
Reported-by: hkmaly@bigfoot.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
If the desired size of an array is set (via sysfs) before the array is
active (which is the normal sequence), we currrently call set_capacity
immediately.
This means that a subsequent 'open' (as can be caused by some
udev-triggers program) will notice the new size and try to probe for
partitions. However as the array isn't quite ready yet the read will
fail. Then when the array is read, as the size doesn't change again
we don't try to re-probe.
So when setting array size via sysfs, only call set_capacity if the
array is already active.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Takeover raid1->raid0 not succeded. Kernel message is shown:
"md/raid0:md126: too few disks (1 of 2) - aborting!"
Problem was that we weren't updating ->raid_disks for that
takeover, unlike all the others.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
DM now has more information about the nature of the underlying storage
failure. Path failure is avoided if a request failed due to a target
error. Instead the target error is immediately passed up the stack.
Discard requests that fail due to non-target errors may now be retried.
Errors restricted to the path will be retried or returned if no
paths are available, irregarding the no_path_retry setting.
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Following symptoms were observed:
1. After raid0->raid10 takeover operation we have array with 2
missing disks.
When we add disk for rebuild, recovery process starts as expected
but it does not finish- it stops at about 90%, md126_resync process
hangs in "D" state.
2. Similar behavior is when we have mounted raid0 array and we
execute takeover to raid10. After this when we try to unmount array-
it causes process umount hangs in "D"
In scenarios above processes hang at the same function- wait_barrier
in raid10.c.
Process waits in macro "wait_event_lock_irq" until the
"!conf->barrier" condition will be true.
In scenarios above it never happens.
Reason was that at the end of level_store, after calling pers->run,
we call mddev_resume. This calls pers->quiesce(mddev, 0) with
RAID10, that calls lower_barrier.
However raise_barrier hadn't been called on that 'conf' yet,
so conf->barrier becomes negative, which is bad.
This patch introduces setting conf->barrier=1 after takeover
operation. It prevents to become barrier negative after call
lower_barrier().
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md_make_request was calling bio_sectors() for part_stat_add
after it was calling the make_request function. This is
bad because the make_request function can free the bio and
because the bi_size field can change around.
The fix here was suggested by Jens Axboe. It saves the
sector count before the make_request call. I hit this
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC turned on while trying to break
his pretty fusionio card.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Activating a spare in an array while resync/recovery is already
happening can lead the that spare being marked in-sync when it isn't
really.
So don't allow the 'slot' to be set (this activating the device)
while resync/recovery is happening.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There is no need to set this to zero at this point. It will be
set to zero by remove_and_add_spares or at the start of
md_do_sync at the latest.
And setting it to zero before MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING is cleared can
make a 'zero' appear briefly in the 'sync_completed' sysfs attribute
just as resync is finishing.
So simply remove this setting to zero.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
remove_and_add_spares is called in two places where the needs really
are very different.
remove_and_add_spares should not be called on an array which is about
to be reshaped as some extra devices might have been manually added
and that would remove them. However if the array is 'read-auto',
that will currently happen, which is bad.
So in the 'ro != 0' case don't call remove_and_add_spares but simply
remove the failed devices as the comment suggests is needed.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch introduces raid 1 to raid0 takeover operation
in kernel space.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@nbeee.brown>
This flag is not needed and is used badly.
Devices that are included in a native-metadata array are reserved
exclusively for that array - and currently have AllReserved set.
They all are bd_claimed for the rdev and so cannot be shared.
Devices that are included in external-metadata arrays can be shared
among multiple arrays - providing there is no overlap.
These are bd_claimed for md in general - not for a particular rdev.
When changing the amount of a device that is used in an array we need
to check for overlap. This currently includes a check on AllReserved
So even without overlap, sharing with an AllReserved device is not
allowed.
However the bd_claim usage already precludes sharing with these
devices, so the test on AllReserved is not needed. And in fact it is
wrong.
As this is the only use of AllReserved, simply remove all usage and
definition of AllReserved.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
As spares can be added manually before a reshape starts, we need to
find them all to mark some of them as in_sync.
Previously we would abort looking for spares when we found an
unallocated spare what could not be added to the array (implying there
was no room for new spares). However already-added spares could be
later in the list, so we need to keep searching.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
As spares can be added to the array before the reshape is started,
we need to find and count them when checking there are enough.
The array could have been degraded, so we need to check all devices,
no just those out side of the range of devices in the array before
the reshape.
So instead of checking the index, check the In_sync flag as that
reliably tells if the device is a spare or this purpose.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There are two consecutive 'if' statements.
if (mddev->delta_disks >= 0)
....
if (mddev->delta_disks > 0)
The code in the second is equally valid if delta_disks == 0, and these
two statements are the only place that 'added_devices' is used.
So make them a single if statement, make added_devices a local
variable, and re-indent it all.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If we try to update_raid_disks and it fails, we should put
'delta_disks' back to zero. This is important because some code,
such as slot_store, assumes that delta_disks has been validated.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
WQ_RESCUER is now an internal flag and should only be used in the
workqueue implementation proper. Use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM instead.
This doesn't introduce any functional difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Commit e09b457b (block: simplify holder symlink handling) incorrectly
assumed that there is only one link at maximum. dm may use multiple
links and expects block layer to track reference count for each link,
which is different from and unrelated to the exclusive device holder
identified by @holder when the device is opened.
Remove the single holder assumption and automatic removal of the link
and revive the per-link reference count tracking. The code
essentially behaves the same as before commit e09b457b sans the
unnecessary kobject reference count dancing.
While at it, note that this facility should not be used by anyone else
than the current ones. Sysfs symlinks shouldn't be abused like this
and the whole thing doesn't belong in the block layer at all.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
