From 06d91a5fe0b50c9060e70bdf7786f8a3c66249db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:17:12 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] md: improve locking on 'safemode' and move superblock writes When md marks the superblock dirty before a write, it calls generic_make_request (to write the superblock) from within generic_make_request (to write the first dirty block), which could cause problems later. With this patch, the superblock write is always done by the helper thread, and write request are delayed until that write completes. Also, the locking around marking the array dirty and writing the superblock is improved to avoid possible races. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/md/raid10.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/md/raid10.c') diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c index 9ae2150..bfc9f52 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -700,6 +700,9 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio * bio) return 0; } + if (md_write_start(mddev, bio) == 0) + return 0; + /* * Register the new request and wait if the reconstruction * thread has put up a bar for new requests. @@ -774,7 +777,7 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio * bio) rcu_read_unlock(); atomic_set(&r10_bio->remaining, 1); - md_write_start(mddev); + for (i = 0; i < conf->copies; i++) { struct bio *mbio; int d = r10_bio->devs[i].devnum; -- cgit v1.1