linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/23] md: replace the RAID_AUTORUN ioctl with a direct function call

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Message-ID: <87blkgxsjz.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:33:04 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/23] md: replace the RAID_AUTORUN ioctl with a direct function call

On Tue, Jul 14 2020, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Instead of using a spcial RAID_AUTORUN ioctl that only exists for
> non-modular builds and is only called from the early init code, just
> call the actual function directly.

I think there was a tool in the old 'mdutls' that would call this ioctl
from user-space, but I cannot find a copy of that online, so I cannot be
sure.... not that it really matters.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

Thanks,
NeilBrown


>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/md/md-autodetect.c | 10 ++--------
>  drivers/md/md.c            | 14 +-------------
>  drivers/md/md.h            |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
> index fe806f7b9759a1..0eb746211ed53c 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md-autodetect.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>  #include <linux/raid/detect.h>
>  #include <linux/raid/md_u.h>
>  #include <linux/raid/md_p.h>
> +#include "md.h"
>  
>  /*
>   * When md (and any require personalities) are compiled into the kernel
> @@ -285,8 +286,6 @@ __setup("md=", md_setup);
>  
>  static void __init autodetect_raid(void)
>  {
> -	int fd;
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Since we don't want to detect and use half a raid array, we need to
>  	 * wait for the known devices to complete their probing
> @@ -295,12 +294,7 @@ static void __init autodetect_raid(void)
>  	printk(KERN_INFO "md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect\n");
>  
>  	wait_for_device_probe();
> -
> -	fd = ksys_open("/dev/md0", 0, 0);
> -	if (fd >= 0) {
> -		ksys_ioctl(fd, RAID_AUTORUN, raid_autopart);
> -		ksys_close(fd);
> -	}
> +	md_autostart_arrays(raid_autopart);
>  }
>  
>  void __init md_run_setup(void)
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
> index f567f536b529bd..6e9a48da474848 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
> @@ -68,10 +68,6 @@
>  #include "md-bitmap.h"
>  #include "md-cluster.h"
>  
> -#ifndef MODULE
> -static void autostart_arrays(int part);
> -#endif
> -
>  /* pers_list is a list of registered personalities protected
>   * by pers_lock.
>   * pers_lock does extra service to protect accesses to
> @@ -7421,7 +7417,6 @@ static inline bool md_ioctl_valid(unsigned int cmd)
>  	case GET_DISK_INFO:
>  	case HOT_ADD_DISK:
>  	case HOT_REMOVE_DISK:
> -	case RAID_AUTORUN:
>  	case RAID_VERSION:
>  	case RESTART_ARRAY_RW:
>  	case RUN_ARRAY:
> @@ -7467,13 +7462,6 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
>  	case RAID_VERSION:
>  		err = get_version(argp);
>  		goto out;
> -
> -#ifndef MODULE
> -	case RAID_AUTORUN:
> -		err = 0;
> -		autostart_arrays(arg);
> -		goto out;
> -#endif
>  	default:;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -9721,7 +9709,7 @@ void md_autodetect_dev(dev_t dev)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -static void autostart_arrays(int part)
> +void md_autostart_arrays(int part)
>  {
>  	struct md_rdev *rdev;
>  	struct detected_devices_node *node_detected_dev;
> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
> index 612814d07d35ab..37315a3f28e97d 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/md.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/md.h
> @@ -800,4 +800,7 @@ static inline void mddev_check_write_zeroes(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio
>  	    !bio->bi_disk->queue->limits.max_write_zeroes_sectors)
>  		mddev->queue->limits.max_write_zeroes_sectors = 0;
>  }
> +
> +void md_autostart_arrays(int part);
> +
>  #endif /* _MD_MD_H */
> -- 
> 2.27.0

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