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NeilBrown 16d997b78b md/raid5: simplfy delaying of writes while metadata is updated.
If a device fails during a write, we must ensure the failure is
recorded in the metadata before the completion of the write is
acknowleged.

Commit c3cce6cda1 ("md/raid5: ensure device failure recorded before
write request returns.")  added code for this, but it was
unnecessarily complicated.  We already had similar functionality for
handling updates to the bad-block-list, thanks to Commit de393cdea6
("md: make it easier to wait for bad blocks to be acknowledged.")

So revert most of the former commit, and instead avoid collecting
completed writes if MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set.  raid5d() will then flush
the metadata and retry the stripe_head.
As this change can leave a stripe_head ready for handling immediately
after handle_active_stripes() returns, we change raid5_do_work() to
pause when MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set, so that it doesn't spin.

We check MD_CHANGE_PENDING *after* analyse_stripe() as it could be set
asynchronously.  After analyse_stripe(), we have collected stable data
about the state of devices, which will be used to make decisions.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-03-22 19:15:57 -07:00
arch arm64 fixes/cleanups: 2017-03-16 11:47:28 -07:00
block blk-mq-sched: don't run the queue async from blk_mq_try_issue_directly() 2017-03-14 11:51:59 -06:00
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crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation md: add sysfs entries for PPL 2017-03-16 16:55:55 -07:00
drivers md/raid5: simplfy delaying of writes while metadata is updated. 2017-03-22 19:15:57 -07:00
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fs Changes since last time: 2017-03-16 12:30:43 -07:00
include raid5-ppl: Partial Parity Log write logging implementation 2017-03-16 16:55:54 -07:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
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security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
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tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-03-14 21:31:23 -07:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
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Makefile Linux 4.11-rc2 2017-03-12 14:47:08 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.