kernel_optimize_test/drivers/md
NeilBrown 8e0e99ba64 md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns.
It has come to my attention (thanks Martin) that 'discard_zeroes_data'
is only a hint.  Some devices in some cases don't do what it
says on the label.

The use of DISCARD in RAID5 depends on reads from discarded regions
being predictably zero.  If a write to a previously discarded region
performs a read-modify-write cycle it assumes that the parity block
was consistent with the data blocks.  If all were zero, this would
be the case.  If some are and some aren't this would not be the case.
This could lead to data corruption after a device failure when
data needs to be reconstructed from the parity.

As we cannot trust 'discard_zeroes_data', ignore it by default
and so disallow DISCARD on all raid4/5/6 arrays.

As many devices are trustworthy, and as there are benefits to using
DISCARD, add a module parameter to over-ride this caution and cause
DISCARD to work if discard_zeroes_data is set.

If a site want to enable DISCARD on some arrays but not on others they
should select DISCARD support at the filesystem level, and set the
raid456 module parameter.
    raid456.devices_handle_discard_safely=Y

As this is a data-safety issue, I believe this patch is suitable for
-stable.
DISCARD support for RAID456 was added in 3.7

Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (3.7+)
Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Fixes: 620125f2bf
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2014-10-02 13:45:00 +10:00
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bcache bcache: Drop unneeded blk_sync_queue() calls 2014-08-04 15:23:04 -07:00
persistent-data
bitmap.c
bitmap.h
dm-bio-prison.c
dm-bio-prison.h
dm-bio-record.h
dm-bufio.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-04 16:23:30 -07:00
dm-bufio.h
dm-builtin.c
dm-cache-block-types.h
dm-cache-metadata.c
dm-cache-metadata.h
dm-cache-policy-cleaner.c
dm-cache-policy-internal.h
dm-cache-policy-mq.c
dm-cache-policy.c
dm-cache-policy.h
dm-cache-target.c dm cache: fix race causing dirty blocks to be marked as clean 2014-09-10 11:20:47 -04:00
dm-crypt.c dm crypt: fix access beyond the end of allocated space 2014-08-28 14:24:09 -04:00
dm-delay.c
dm-era-target.c
dm-exception-store.c
dm-exception-store.h
dm-flakey.c
dm-io.c
dm-ioctl.c
dm-kcopyd.c
dm-linear.c
dm-log-userspace-base.c
dm-log-userspace-transfer.c
dm-log-userspace-transfer.h
dm-log.c
dm-mpath.c
dm-mpath.h
dm-path-selector.c
dm-path-selector.h
dm-queue-length.c
dm-raid.c
dm-raid1.c
dm-region-hash.c
dm-round-robin.c
dm-service-time.c
dm-snap-persistent.c
dm-snap-transient.c
dm-snap.c
dm-stats.c
dm-stats.h
dm-stripe.c
dm-switch.c
dm-sysfs.c
dm-table.c dm table: propagate QUEUE_FLAG_NO_SG_MERGE 2014-08-10 20:54:49 -04:00
dm-target.c
dm-thin-metadata.c
dm-thin-metadata.h
dm-thin.c
dm-uevent.c
dm-uevent.h
dm-verity.c
dm-zero.c
dm.c
dm.h
faulty.c
Kconfig
linear.c
linear.h
Makefile
md.c md: don't allow bitmap file to be added to raid0/linear. 2014-08-08 15:43:20 +10:00
md.h
multipath.c
multipath.h
raid1.c md/raid1: fix_read_error should act on all non-faulty devices. 2014-09-22 11:26:01 +10:00
raid1.h
raid5.c md/raid5: disable 'DISCARD' by default due to safety concerns. 2014-10-02 13:45:00 +10:00
raid5.h
raid10.c md/raid10: always initialise ->state on newly allocated r10_bio 2014-08-19 17:20:27 +10:00
raid10.h
raid0.c md/raid0: check for bitmap compatability when changing raid levels. 2014-08-08 15:33:17 +10:00
raid0.h