If the superblock of a component device indicates the presence of a
bitmap but the corresponding raid personality does not support bitmaps
(raid0, linear, multipath, faulty), then something is seriously wrong
and we'd better refuse to run such an array.
Currently, this check is performed while the superblocks are examined,
i.e. before entering personality code. Therefore the generic md layer
must know which raid levels support bitmaps and which do not.
This patch avoids this layer violation without adding identical code
to various personalities. This is accomplished by introducing a new
public function to md.c, md_check_no_bitmap(), which replaces the
hard-coded checks in the superblock loading functions.
A call to md_check_no_bitmap() is added to the ->run method of each
personality which does not support bitmaps and assembly is aborted
if at least one component device contains a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
It is easiest to round sizes to multiples of chunk size in
the personality code for those personalities which care.
Those personalities now do the rounding, so we can
remove that function from common code.
Also remove the upper bound on the size of a chunk, and the lower
bound on the size of a device (1 chunk), neither of which really buy
us anything.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently the assignment to utime gets skipped for 'external'
metadata. So move it to the top of the function so that it
always gets effected.
This is of largely cosmetic interest. Nothing actually depends
on ->utime being right for external arrays.
"mdadm --monitor" does use it for 0.90 and 1.x arrays, but with
mdadm-3.0, this is not important for external metadata.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently, the md layer checks in analyze_sbs() if the raid level
supports reconstruction (mddev->level >= 1) and if reconstruction is
in progress (mddev->recovery_cp != MaxSector).
Move that printk into the personality code of those raid levels that
care (levels 1, 4, 5, 6, 10).
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The difference between these two methods is artificial.
Both check that a pending reshape is valid, and perform any
aspect of it that can be done immediately.
'reconfig' handles chunk size and layout.
'check_reshape' handles raid_disks.
So make them just one method.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Passing the new layout and chunksize as args is not necessary as
the mddev has fields for new_check and new_layout.
This is preparation for combining the check_reshape and reconfig
methods
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
A straight-forward conversion which gets rid of some
multiplications/divisions/shifts. The patch also introduces a couple
of new ones, most of which are due to conf->chunk_size still being
represented in bytes. This will be cleaned up in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch renames the chunk_size field to chunk_sectors with the
implied change of semantics. Since
is_power_of_2(chunk_size) = is_power_of_2(chunk_sectors << 9)
= is_power_of_2(chunk_sectors)
these bits don't need an adjustment for the shift.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Remove chunk size check from md as this is now performed in the run
function in each personality.
Replace chunk size power 2 code calculations by a regular division.
Signed-off-by: raziebe@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...
Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
In order for the metadata to always be consistent, we mustn't updated
curr_resync_completed without also updating reshape_position.
The reshape code updates both at the same time. However since
commit 97e4f42d62
the common md_do_sync will sometimes update curr_resync_completed
but is not in a position to update reshape_position.
So if MD_RECOVERY_RESHAPE is set (indicating that a reshape is
happening, so reshape_position might change), don't update
curr_resync_completed in md_do_sync, leave it to the per-personality
reshape code.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The md resync engine has a 'frozen' state which ensures that
no resync/recovery. This is used to avoid races.
Export this state through the 'sync_action' sysfs attribute
so that user-space can benefit and also avoid some races.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Instead of always returns EINVAL if anything goes wrong
when setting the array size, add the option of
E2BIG
if the size requested is too large. This makes it easier
for user-space to be sure what went wrong.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We previously didn't update these fields when writing the metadata
because they could never change. They can now, so we better write
them.
v0.90 metadata always updated these fields.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.
This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
md maintains link in sys/mdXX/md/ to identify which device has
which role in the array. e.g.
rd2 -> dev-sda
indicates that the device with role '2' in the array is sda.
These links are only present when the array is active. They are
created immediately after ->run is called, and so should be removed
immediately after ->stop is called.
However they are currently removed a little bit later, and it is
possible for ->run to be called again, thus adding these links, before
they are removed.
So move the removal earlier so they are consistently only present when
the array is active.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Being able to write 'clean' to an 'array_state' of an inactive array
to activate it in 'clean' mode is both unnecessary and inconvenient.
It is unnecessary because the same can be achieved by writing
'active'. This activates and array, but it still remains 'clean'
until the first write.
It is inconvenient because writing 'clean' is more often used to
cause an 'active' array to revert to 'clean' mode (thus blocking
any writes until a 'write-pending' is promoted to 'active').
Allowing 'clean' to both activate an array and mark an active array as
clean can lead to races: One program writes 'clean' to mark the
active array as clean at the same time as another program writes
'inactive' to deactivate (stop) and active array. Depending on which
writes first, the array could be deactivated and immediately
reactivated which isn't what was desired.
So just disable the use of 'clean' to activate an array.
This avoids a race that can be triggered with mdadm-3.0 and external
metadata, so it suitable for -stable.
Reported-by: Rafal Marszewski <rafal.marszewski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Two problems in status_resync.
1/ It still used Kilobytes as the basic block unit, while most code
now uses sectors uniformly.
2/ It doesn't allow for the possibility that max_sectors exceeds
the range of "unsigned long".
So
- change "max_blocks" to "max_sectors", and store sector numbers
in there and in 'resync'
- Make 'rt' a 'sector_t' so it can temporarily hold the number of
remaining sectors.
- use sector_div rather than normal division.
- change the magic '100' used to preserve precision to '32'.
+ making it a power of 2 makes division easier
+ it doesn't need to be as large as it was chosen when we averaged
speed over the entire run. Now we average speed over the last 30
seconds or so.
Reported-by: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There are circumstances when a user-space process might need to
"oversee" a resync/reshape process. For example when doing an
in-place reshape of a raid5, it is prudent to take a backup of each
section before reshaping it as this is the only way to provide
safety against an unplanned shutdown (i.e. crash/power failure).
The sync_max sysfs value can be used to stop the resync from
advancing beyond a particular point.
So user-space can:
suspend IO to the first section and back it up
set 'sync_max' to the end of the section
wait for 'sync_completed' to reach that point
resume IO on the first section and move on to the next section.
However this process requires the kernel and user-space to run in
lock-step which could introduce unnecessary delays.
It would be better if a 'double buffered' approach could be used with
userspace and kernel space working on different sections with the
'next' section always ready when the 'current' section is finished.
One problem with implementing this is that sync_completed is only
guaranteed to be updated when the sync process reaches sync_max.
(it is updated on a time basis at other times, but it is hard to rely
on that). This defeats some of the double buffering.
With this patch, sync_completed (and reshape_position) get updated as
the current position approaches sync_max, so there is room for
userspace to advance sync_max early without losing updates.
To be precise, sync_completed is updated when the current sync
position reaches half way between the current value of sync_completed
and the value of sync_max. This will usually be a good time for user
space to update sync_max.
If sync_max does not get updated, the updates to sync_completed
(together with associated metadata updates) will occur at an
exponentially increasing frequency which will get unreasonably fast
(one update every page) immediately before the process hits sync_max
and stops. So the update rate will be unreasonably fast only for an
insignificant period of time.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The sync_completed file reports how much of a resync (or recovery or
reshape) has been completed.
However due to the possibility of out-of-order completion of writes,
it is not certain to be accurate.
We have an internal value - mddev->curr_resync_completed - which is an
accurate value (though it might not always be quite so uptodate).
So:
- make curr_resync_completed be uptodate a little more often,
particularly when raid5 reshape updates status in the metadata
- report curr_resync_completed in the sysfs file
- allow poll/select to report all updates to md/sync_completed.
This makes sync_completed completed usable by any external metadata
handler that wants to record this status information in its metadata.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When adding devices to an active array via sysfs, there is currently
no way to mark a device as 'in-sync' which is useful when
incrementally assembling an array.
So add that option.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (53 commits)
md/raid5 revise rules for when to update metadata during reshape
md/raid5: minor code cleanups in make_request.
md: remove CONFIG_MD_RAID_RESHAPE config option.
md/raid5: be more careful about write ordering when reshaping.
md: don't display meaningless values in sysfs files resync_start and sync_speed
md/raid5: allow layout and chunksize to be changed on active array.
md/raid5: reshape using largest of old and new chunk size
md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change layout
md/raid5: prepare for allowing reshape to change chunksize.
md/raid5: clearly differentiate 'before' and 'after' stripes during reshape.
Documentation/md.txt update
md: allow number of drives in raid5 to be reduced
md/raid5: change reshape-progress measurement to cope with reshaping backwards.
md: add explicit method to signal the end of a reshape.
md/raid5: enhance raid5_size to work correctly with negative delta_disks
md/raid5: drop qd_idx from r6_state
md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko
md: raid5 run(): Fix max_degraded for raid level 4.
md: 'array_size' sysfs attribute
md: centralize ->array_sectors modifications
...
When no resync if happening, both of these files currently have
meaningless values (is slightly different ways).
Change them to "none" in that case.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently raid5 (the only module that supports restriping)
notices that the reshape has finished be sync_request being
given a large value, and handles any cleanup them.
This patch changes it so md_check_recovery calls into an
explicit finish_reshape method as well.
The clean-up from sync_request can do things that need to be
done promptly, typically things local to the raid5_conf_t
structure.
The "finish_reshape" method is called under the mddev_lock
so it can do things involving reconfiguring the device.
This allows us to get rid of md_set_array_sectors_locked, which
would have caused a deadlock if you tried to stop and array
while a reshape was happening.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Allow userspace to set the size of the array according to the following
semantics:
1/ size must be <= to the size returned by mddev->pers->size(mddev, 0, 0)
a) If size is set before the array is running, do_md_run will fail
if size is greater than the default size
b) A reshape attempt that reduces the default size to less than the set
array size should be blocked
2/ once userspace sets the size the kernel will not change it
3/ writing 'default' to this attribute returns control of the size to the
kernel and reverts to the size reported by the personality
Also, convert locations that need to know the default size from directly
reading ->array_sectors to <pers>_size. Resync/reshape operations
always follow the default size.
Finally, fixup other locations that read a number of 1k-blocks from
userspace to use strict_blocks_to_sectors() which checks for unsigned
long long to sector_t overflow and blocks to sectors overflow.
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Get personalities out of the business of directly modifying
->array_sectors. Lays groundwork to introduce policy on when
->array_sectors can be modified.
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2-drive raid5's aren't very interesting. But if you are converting
a raid1 into a raid5, you will at least temporarily have one. And
that it a good time to set the layout/chunksize for the new RAID5
if you aren't happy with the defaults.
layout and chunksize don't actually affect the placement of data
on a 2-drive raid5, so we just do some internal book-keeping.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Implement this for RAID6 to be able to 'takeover' a RAID5 array. The
new RAID6 will use a layout which places Q on the last device, and
that device will be missing.
If there are any available spares, one will immediately have Q
recovered onto it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To be able to change the 'level' of an md/raid array, we need to
suspend the device so that no requests are active - then move some
pointers around etc.
The code already keeps counts of active requests and the ->quiesce
function can be used to wait until those counts hit zero.
However the quiesce function blocks new requests once they are all
ready 'inside' the personality module, and that is too late if we want
to replace the personality modules.
So make all md requests come in through a common md_make_request
function that keeps track of how many requests have entered the
modules but may not yet be on the internal reference counts.
Allow md_make_request to be blocked when we want to suspend the
device, and make it possible to wait for all those in-transit requests
to be added to internal lists so that ->quiesce can wait for them.
There is still a problem that when a request completes, we drop the
ref count inside the personality code so there is a short time between
when the refcount hits zero, and when the personality code is no
longer being used.
The personality code never blocks (schedule or spinlock) between
dropping the refcount and exiting the routine, so this should be safe
(as put_module calls synchronize_sched() before unmapping the module
code).
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Mostly md_unregister_thread is only called when we know that the
thread is NULL, but sometimes we need to check first. It is safer
to put the check inside md_unregister_thread itself.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When an md array is undergoing a change, we have new_* fields that
show the new values.
When no change is happening, it is least confusing if these have
the same value as the normal fields.
This is true in most cases, but not when the values are set via sysfs.
So fix this up.
A subsequent patch will BUG_ON if these things aren't consistent.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mdk_rdev_s to
"sectors" and changes this field to store sectors instead of
blocks.
All users of this field, linear.c, raid0.c and md.c, are fixed up
accordingly which gets rid of many multiplications and divisions.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This patch renames the "size" field of struct mddev_s to "dev_sectors"
and stores the number of 512-byte sectors instead of the number of
1K-blocks in it.
All users of that field, including raid levels 1,4-6,10, are adjusted
accordingly. This simplifies the code a bit because it allows to get
rid of a couple of divisions/multiplications by two.
In order to make checkpatch happy, some minor coding style issues
have also been addressed. In particular, size_store() now uses
strict_strtoull() instead of simple_strtoull().
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When a drive is added to an array using ADD_NEW_DISK, there are two
places we can get certain flags from: the metadata on the disk or the
flags passed through the IOCTL.
For the WriteMostly flag (aka MD_DISK_WRITEMOSTLY) we take the value
from either of those sources depending on if it is set (i.e. we
effectively 'or' the two sources together).
This makes it awkward to clear, and is at best inconsistent.
As documented code (in mdadm) requires that setting
MD_DISK_WRITEMOSTLY in the ioctl will be effective, we resolve the
inconsistency by always using the value for this flag from the ioctl,
and ignoring the value on disk.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Version 1.x metadata has the ability to record the status of a
partially completed drive recovery.
However we only update that record on a clean shutdown.
It would be nice to update it on unclean shutdowns too, particularly
when using a bitmap that removes much to the 'sync' effort after an
unclean shutdown.
One complication with checkpointing recovery is that we only know
where we are up to in terms of IO requests started, not which ones
have completed. And we need to know what has completed to record
how much is recovered. So occasionally pause the recovery until all
submitted requests are completed, then update the record of where
we are up to.
When we have a bitmap, we already do that pause occasionally to keep
the bitmap up-to-date. So enhance that code to record the recovery
offset and schedule a superblock update.
And when there is no bitmap, just pause 16 times during the resync to
do a checkpoint.
'16' is a fairly arbitrary number. But we don't really have any good
way to judge how often is acceptable, and it seems like a reasonable
number for now.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This makes the includes more explicit, and is preparation for moving
md_k.h to drivers/md/md.h
Remove include/raid/md.h as its only remaining use was to #include
other files.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
.. as they are part of the user-space interface.
Also move MdpMinorShift into there so we can remove duplication.
Lastly move mdp_major in. It is less obviously part of the user-space
interface, but do_mounts_md.c uses it, and it is acting a bit like
user-space.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Move the headers with the local structures for the disciplines and
bitmap.h into drivers/md/ so that they are more easily grepable for
hacking and not far away. md.h is left where it is for now as there
are some uses from the outside.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
MAJOR_NR was only required for magic in linux/blk.h in 2.4 or earlier
kernels, so no need to keep it around.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
md: Add support for data integrity to MD
If all subdevices support the same protection format the MD device is
flagged as integrity capable.
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
There are two problems with is_mddev_idle.
1/ sync_io is 'atomic_t' and hence 'int'. curr_events and all the
rest are 'long'.
So if sync_io were to wrap on a 64bit host, the value of
curr_events would go very negative suddenly, and take a very
long time to return to positive.
So do all calculations as 'int'. That gives us plenty of precision
for what we need.
2/ To initialise rdev->last_events we simply call is_mddev_idle, on
the assumption that it will make sure that last_events is in a
suitable range. It used to do this, but now it does not.
So now we need to be more explicit about initialisation.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO
and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before
213d9417fe.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Each different metadata format supported by md supports a
different maximum number of devices.
We really should be enforcing this maximum in the kernel, but
we aren't quite doing that properly.
We currently only enforce it at the 'hot_add' point, which is an
older interface which is not used by current userspace.
We need to also enforce it at 'add_new_disk' time for active arrays
and at 'do_md_run' time when starting a new array.
So move the test from 'hot_add' into 'bind_rdev_to_array' which is
called from both 'hot_add' and 'add_new_disk, and add a new
test in 'analyse_sbs' which is called from 'do_md_run'.
This bug (or missing feature) has been around "forever" and so
the patch is suitable for any -stable that is currently maintained.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
If a raid1 has only one working drive and it has a sector which
gives an error on read, then an attempt to recover onto a spare will
fail, but as the single remaining drive is not removed from the
array, the recovery will be immediately re-attempted, resulting
in an infinite recovery loop.
So detect this situation and don't retry recovery once an error
on the lone remaining drive is detected.
Allow recovery to be retried once every time a spare is added
in case the problem wasn't actually a media error.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Using sequential numbers to identify md devices is somewhat artificial.
Using names can be a lot more user-friendly.
Also, creating md devices by opening the device special file is a bit
awkward.
So this patch provides a new option for creating and naming devices.
Writing a name such as "md_home" to
/sys/modules/md_mod/parameters/new_array
will cause an array with that name to be created. It will appear in
/sys/block/ /proc/partitions and /proc/mdstat as 'md_home'.
It will have an arbitrary minor number allocated.
md devices that a created by an open are destroyed on the last
close when the device is inactive.
For named md devices, they will not be destroyed until the array
is explicitly stopped, either with the STOP_ARRAY ioctl or by
writing 'clear' to /sys/block/md_XXXX/md/array_state.
The name of the array must start 'md_' to avoid conflict with
other devices.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Currently md devices, once created, never disappear until the module
is unloaded. This is essentially because the gendisk holds a
reference to the mddev, and the mddev holds a reference to the
gendisk, this a circular reference.
If we drop the reference from mddev to gendisk, then we need to ensure
that the mddev is destroyed when the gendisk is destroyed. However it
is not possible to hook into the gendisk destruction process to enable
this.
So we drop the reference from the gendisk to the mddev and destroy the
gendisk when the mddev gets destroyed. However this has a
complication.
Between the call
__blkdev_get->get_gendisk->kobj_lookup->md_probe
and the call
__blkdev_get->md_open
there is no obvious way to hold a reference on the mddev any more, so
unless something is done, it will disappear and gendisk will be
destroyed prematurely.
Also, once we decide to destroy the mddev, there will be an unlockable
moment before the gendisk is unlinked (blk_unregister_region) during
which a new reference to the gendisk can be created. We need to
ensure that this reference can not be used. i.e. the ->open must
fail.
So:
1/ in md_probe we set a flag in the mddev (hold_active) which
indicates that the array should be treated as active, even
though there are no references, and no appearance of activity.
This is cleared by md_release when the device is closed if it
is no longer needed.
This ensures that the gendisk will survive between md_probe and
md_open.
2/ In md_open we check if the mddev we expect to open matches
the gendisk that we did open.
If there is a mismatch we return -ERESTARTSYS and modify
__blkdev_get to retry from the top in that case.
In the -ERESTARTSYS sys case we make sure to wait until
the old gendisk (that we succeeded in opening) is really gone so
we loop at most once.
Some udev configurations will always open an md device when it first
appears. If we allow an md device that was just created by an open
to disappear on an immediate close, then this can race with such udev
configurations and result in an infinite loop the device being opened
and closed, then re-open due to the 'ADD' even from the first open,
and then close and so on.
So we make sure an md device, once created by an open, remains active
at least until some md 'ioctl' has been made on it. This means that
all normal usage of md devices will allow them to disappear promptly
when not needed, but the worst that an incorrect usage will do it
cause an inactive md device to be left in existence (it can easily be
removed).
As an array can be stopped by writing to a sysfs attribute
echo clear > /sys/block/mdXXX/md/array_state
we need to use scheduled work for deleting the gendisk and other
kobjects. This allows us to wait for any pending gendisk deletion to
complete by simply calling flush_scheduled_work().
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
