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-rw-r--r--Documentation/md.txt9
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c54
2 files changed, 61 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 03a13c4..b19978e 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ All md devices contain:
available. It will then appear at md/dev-XXX (depending on the
name of the device) and further configuration is then possible.
+ safe_mode_delay
+ When an md array has seen no write requests for a certain period
+ of time, it will be marked as 'clean'. When another write
+ request arrive, the array is marked as 'dirty' before the write
+ commenses. This is known as 'safe_mode'.
+ The 'certain period' is controlled by this file which stores the
+ period as a number of seconds. The default is 200msec (0.200).
+ Writing a value of 0 disables safemode.
+
sync_speed_min
sync_speed_max
This are similar to /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_{min,max}
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 30a93d6..ad576ad 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
@@ -1978,6 +1979,54 @@ static void analyze_sbs(mddev_t * mddev)
}
static ssize_t
+safe_delay_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+ int msec = (mddev->safemode_delay*1000)/HZ;
+ return sprintf(page, "%d.%03d\n", msec/1000, msec%1000);
+}
+static ssize_t
+safe_delay_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *cbuf, size_t len)
+{
+ int scale=1;
+ int dot=0;
+ int i;
+ unsigned long msec;
+ char buf[30];
+ char *e;
+ /* remove a period, and count digits after it */
+ if (len >= sizeof(buf))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ strlcpy(buf, cbuf, len);
+ buf[len] = 0;
+ for (i=0; i<len; i++) {
+ if (dot) {
+ if (isdigit(buf[i])) {
+ buf[i-1] = buf[i];
+ scale *= 10;
+ }
+ buf[i] = 0;
+ } else if (buf[i] == '.') {
+ dot=1;
+ buf[i] = 0;
+ }
+ }
+ msec = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+ if (e == buf || (*e && *e != '\n'))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ msec = (msec * 1000) / scale;
+ if (msec == 0)
+ mddev->safemode_delay = 0;
+ else {
+ mddev->safemode_delay = (msec*HZ)/1000;
+ if (mddev->safemode_delay == 0)
+ mddev->safemode_delay = 1;
+ }
+ return len;
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_safe_delay =
+__ATTR(safe_mode_delay, 0644,safe_delay_show, safe_delay_store);
+
+static ssize_t
level_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
{
struct mdk_personality *p = mddev->pers;
@@ -2433,6 +2482,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
&md_size.attr,
&md_metadata.attr,
&md_new_device.attr,
+ &md_safe_delay.attr,
NULL,
};
@@ -2708,7 +2758,7 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev)
mddev->safemode = 0;
mddev->safemode_timer.function = md_safemode_timeout;
mddev->safemode_timer.data = (unsigned long) mddev;
- mddev->safemode_delay = (20 * HZ)/1000 +1; /* 20 msec delay */
+ mddev->safemode_delay = (200 * HZ)/1000 +1; /* 200 msec delay */
mddev->in_sync = 1;
ITERATE_RDEV(mddev,rdev,tmp)
@@ -4594,7 +4644,7 @@ void md_write_end(mddev_t *mddev)
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mddev->writes_pending)) {
if (mddev->safemode == 2)
md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
- else
+ else if (mddev->safemode_delay)
mod_timer(&mddev->safemode_timer, jiffies + mddev->safemode_delay);
}
}
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