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authorAlexander Lyakas <alex.bolshoy@gmail.com>2012-10-11 13:50:12 +1100
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2012-10-11 13:50:12 +1100
commita7854487cd7128a30a7f4f5259de9f67d5efb95f (patch)
tree8eaa70d6fec12a94c75ee023cbf4170789665d5f /drivers
parentb97390aec4756373168ad2976e1f117b610513ea (diff)
md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write.
Signed-off-by: Alex Lyakas <alex@zadarastorage.com> Suggested-by: Yair Hershko <yair@zadarastorage.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid5.c19
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index d11012604e28..9de8221f64ec 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -2806,12 +2806,25 @@ static void handle_stripe_dirtying(struct r5conf *conf,
int disks)
{
int rmw = 0, rcw = 0, i;
- if (conf->max_degraded == 2) {
- /* RAID6 requires 'rcw' in current implementation
- * Calculate the real rcw later - for now fake it
+ sector_t recovery_cp = conf->mddev->recovery_cp;
+
+ /* RAID6 requires 'rcw' in current implementation.
+ * Otherwise, check whether resync is now happening or should start.
+ * If yes, then the array is dirty (after unclean shutdown or
+ * initial creation), so parity in some stripes might be inconsistent.
+ * In this case, we need to always do reconstruct-write, to ensure
+ * that in case of drive failure or read-error correction, we
+ * generate correct data from the parity.
+ */
+ if (conf->max_degraded == 2 ||
+ (recovery_cp < MaxSector && sh->sector >= recovery_cp)) {
+ /* Calculate the real rcw later - for now make it
* look like rcw is cheaper
*/
rcw = 1; rmw = 2;
+ pr_debug("force RCW max_degraded=%u, recovery_cp=%llu sh->sector=%llu\n",
+ conf->max_degraded, (unsigned long long)recovery_cp,
+ (unsigned long long)sh->sector);
} else for (i = disks; i--; ) {
/* would I have to read this buffer for read_modify_write */
struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i];