-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Dan Williams upstream commit: e0a115e5aa554b93150a8dc1c3fe15467708abb2 During the initial array synchronization process there is a window between when a prexor operation is scheduled to a specific stripe and when it completes for a sync_request to be scheduled to the same stripe. When this happens the prexor completes and the stripe is unconditionally marked "insync", effectively canceling the sync_request for the stripe. Prior to 2.6.23 this was not a problem because the prexor operation was done under sh->lock. The effect in older kernels being that the prexor would still erroneously mark the stripe "insync", but sync_request would be held off and re-mark the stripe as "!in_sync". Change the write completion logic to not mark the stripe "in_sync" if a prexor was performed. The effect of the change is to sometimes not set STRIPE_INSYNC. The worst this can do is cause the resync to stall waiting for STRIPE_INSYNC to be set. If this were happening, then STRIPE_SYNCING would be set and handle_issuing_new_read_requests would cause all available blocks to eventually be read, at which point prexor would never be used on that stripe any more and STRIPE_INSYNC would eventually be set. echo repair > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action will correct arrays that may have lost this race. Cc: Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [chrisw: backport to 2.6.25.5] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -2621,6 +2621,7 @@ static void handle_stripe5(struct stripe struct stripe_head_state s; struct r5dev *dev; unsigned long pending = 0; + int prexor; memset(&s, 0, sizeof(s)); pr_debug("handling stripe %llu, state=%#lx cnt=%d, pd_idx=%d " @@ -2740,9 +2741,11 @@ static void handle_stripe5(struct stripe /* leave prexor set until postxor is done, allows us to distinguish * a rmw from a rcw during biodrain */ + prexor = 0; if (test_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &sh->ops.complete) && test_bit(STRIPE_OP_POSTXOR, &sh->ops.complete)) { + prexor = 1; clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &sh->ops.complete); clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &sh->ops.ack); clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, &sh->ops.pending); @@ -2776,6 +2779,8 @@ static void handle_stripe5(struct stripe if (!test_and_set_bit( STRIPE_OP_IO, &sh->ops.pending)) sh->ops.count++; + if (prexor) + continue; if (!test_bit(R5_Insync, &dev->flags) || (i == sh->pd_idx && s.failed == 0)) set_bit(STRIPE_INSYNC, &sh->state); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/