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<title>linux.git/drivers/md/md.c, branch v3.15-rc8</title>
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<title>md: avoid possible spinning md thread at shutdown.</title>
<updated>2014-05-05T23:49:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-05T23:36:08+00:00</published>
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If an md array with externally managed metadata (e.g. DDF or IMSM)
is in use, then we should not set safemode==2 at shutdown because:

1/ this is ineffective: user-space need to be involved in any 'safemode' handling,
2/ The safemode management code doesn't cope with safemode==2 on external metadata
   and md_check_recover enters an infinite loop.

Even at shutdown, an infinite-looping process can be problematic, so this
could cause shutdown to hang.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (any kernel)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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If an md array with externally managed metadata (e.g. DDF or IMSM)
is in use, then we should not set safemode==2 at shutdown because:

1/ this is ineffective: user-space need to be involved in any 'safemode' handling,
2/ The safemode management code doesn't cope with safemode==2 on external metadata
   and md_check_recover enters an infinite loop.

Even at shutdown, an infinite-looping process can be problematic, so this
could cause shutdown to hang.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (any kernel)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: avoid oops on unload if some process is in poll or select.</title>
<updated>2014-04-09T04:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-09T04:33:51+00:00</published>
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If md-mod is unloaded while some process is in poll() or select(),
then that process maintains a pointer to md_event_waiters, and when
the try to unlink from that list, they will oops.

The procfs infrastructure ensures that -&gt;poll won't be called after
remove_proc_entry, but doesn't provide a wait_queue_head for us to
use, and the waitqueue code doesn't provide a way to remove all
listeners from a waitqueue.

So we need to:
 1/ make sure no further references to md_event_waiters are taken (by
    setting md_unloading)
 2/ wake up all processes currently waiting, and
 3/ wait until all those processes have disconnected from our
    wait_queue_head.

Reported-by: "majianpeng" &lt;majianpeng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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If md-mod is unloaded while some process is in poll() or select(),
then that process maintains a pointer to md_event_waiters, and when
the try to unlink from that list, they will oops.

The procfs infrastructure ensures that -&gt;poll won't be called after
remove_proc_entry, but doesn't provide a wait_queue_head for us to
use, and the waitqueue code doesn't provide a way to remove all
listeners from a waitqueue.

So we need to:
 1/ make sure no further references to md_event_waiters are taken (by
    setting md_unloading)
 2/ wake up all processes currently waiting, and
 3/ wait until all those processes have disconnected from our
    wait_queue_head.

Reported-by: "majianpeng" &lt;majianpeng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md/bitmap: don't abuse i_writecount for bitmap files.</title>
<updated>2014-04-09T02:26:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-09T02:25:40+00:00</published>
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md bitmap code currently tries to use i_writecount to stop any other
process from writing to out bitmap file.  But that is really an abuse
and has bit-rotted so locking is all wrong.

So discard that - root should be allowed to shoot self in foot.

Still use it in a much less intrusive way to stop the same file being
used as bitmap on two different array, and apply other checks to
ensure the file is at least vaguely usable for bitmap storage
(is regular, is open for write.  Support for -&gt;bmap is already checked
elsewhere).

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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md bitmap code currently tries to use i_writecount to stop any other
process from writing to out bitmap file.  But that is really an abuse
and has bit-rotted so locking is all wrong.

So discard that - root should be allowed to shoot self in foot.

Still use it in a much less intrusive way to stop the same file being
used as bitmap on two different array, and apply other checks to
ensure the file is at least vaguely usable for bitmap storage
(is regular, is open for write.  Support for -&gt;bmap is already checked
elsewhere).

Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</published>
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md/3.14' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2014-01-25T01:41:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-25T01:41:50+00:00</published>
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "All bug fixes, two tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md/3.14' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: close recently introduced race in stripe_head management.
  md/raid5: fix long-standing problem with bitmap handling on write failure.
  md: check command validity early in md_ioctl().
  md: ensure metadata is writen after raid level change.
  md/raid10: avoid fullsync when not necessary.
  md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.
  md: Change handling of save_raid_disk and metadata update during recovery.
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Pull md updates from Neil Brown:
 "All bug fixes, two tagged for -stable"

* tag 'md/3.14' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/raid5: close recently introduced race in stripe_head management.
  md/raid5: fix long-standing problem with bitmap handling on write failure.
  md: check command validity early in md_ioctl().
  md: ensure metadata is writen after raid level change.
  md/raid10: avoid fullsync when not necessary.
  md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.
  md: Change handling of save_raid_disk and metadata update during recovery.
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<entry>
<title>md: check command validity early in md_ioctl().</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T21:55:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Schichan</name>
<email>nschichan@freebox.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-15T15:58:52+00:00</published>
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Verify that the cmd parameter passed to md_ioctl() is valid before
doing anything.

This fixes mddev-&gt;hold_active being set to 0 when an invalid ioctl
command is passed to md_ioctl() before the array has been configured.

Clearing mddev-&gt;hold_active in that case can lead to a livelock
situation when an invalid ioctl number is given to md_ioctl() by a
process when the mddev is currently being opened by another process:

Process 1				Process 2
---------				---------

md_alloc()
  mddev_find()
  -&gt; returns a new mddev with
     hold_active == UNTIL_IOCTL
  add_disk()
  -&gt; sends KOBJ_ADD uevent

					(sees KOBJ_ADD uevent for device)
                    			md_open()
                    			md_ioctl(INVALID_IOCTL)
                    			-&gt; returns ENODEV and clears
                       			   mddev-&gt;hold_active
                    			md_release()
                      			md_put()
                      			-&gt; deletes the mddev as
                         		   hold_active is 0

md_open()
  mddev_find()
  -&gt; returns a newly
    allocated mddev with
    mddev-&gt;gendisk == NULL
-&gt; returns with ERESTARTSYS
   (kernel restarts the open syscall)

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan &lt;nschichan@freebox.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Verify that the cmd parameter passed to md_ioctl() is valid before
doing anything.

This fixes mddev-&gt;hold_active being set to 0 when an invalid ioctl
command is passed to md_ioctl() before the array has been configured.

Clearing mddev-&gt;hold_active in that case can lead to a livelock
situation when an invalid ioctl number is given to md_ioctl() by a
process when the mddev is currently being opened by another process:

Process 1				Process 2
---------				---------

md_alloc()
  mddev_find()
  -&gt; returns a new mddev with
     hold_active == UNTIL_IOCTL
  add_disk()
  -&gt; sends KOBJ_ADD uevent

					(sees KOBJ_ADD uevent for device)
                    			md_open()
                    			md_ioctl(INVALID_IOCTL)
                    			-&gt; returns ENODEV and clears
                       			   mddev-&gt;hold_active
                    			md_release()
                      			md_put()
                      			-&gt; deletes the mddev as
                         		   hold_active is 0

md_open()
  mddev_find()
  -&gt; returns a newly
    allocated mddev with
    mddev-&gt;gendisk == NULL
-&gt; returns with ERESTARTSYS
   (kernel restarts the open syscall)

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan &lt;nschichan@freebox.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md/3.13-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2014-01-15T08:07:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-15T08:07:36+00:00</published>
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Pull late md fixes from Neil Brown:
 "Half a dozen md bug fixes.

  All of these fix real bugs the people have hit, and are tagged for
  -stable.  Sorry they are late ....  Christmas holidays and all that.
  Hopefully they can still squeak into 3.13"

* tag 'md/3.13-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: fix problem when adding device to read-only array with bitmap.
  md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block.
  md/raid5: fix a recently broken BUG_ON().
  md/raid1: fix request counting bug in new 'barrier' code.
  md/raid10: fix two bugs in handling of known-bad-blocks.
  md/raid5: Fix possible confusion when multiple write errors occur.
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Pull late md fixes from Neil Brown:
 "Half a dozen md bug fixes.

  All of these fix real bugs the people have hit, and are tagged for
  -stable.  Sorry they are late ....  Christmas holidays and all that.
  Hopefully they can still squeak into 3.13"

* tag 'md/3.13-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: fix problem when adding device to read-only array with bitmap.
  md/raid10: fix bug when raid10 recovery fails to recover a block.
  md/raid5: fix a recently broken BUG_ON().
  md/raid1: fix request counting bug in new 'barrier' code.
  md/raid10: fix two bugs in handling of known-bad-blocks.
  md/raid5: Fix possible confusion when multiple write errors occur.
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<entry>
<title>md: ensure metadata is writen after raid level change.</title>
<updated>2014-01-14T05:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-14T04:17:03+00:00</published>
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level_store() currently does not make sure the metadata is
updates to reflect the new raid level.  It simply sets MD_CHANGE_DEVS.

Any level with a -&gt;thread will quickly notice this and update the
metadata.  However RAID0 and Linear do not have a thread so no
metadata update happens until the array is stopped.  At that point the
metadata is written.

This is later that we would like.  While the delay doesn't risk any
data it can cause confusion.  So if there is no md thread, immediately
update the metadata after a level change.

Reported-by: Richard Michael &lt;rmichael@edgeofthenet.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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level_store() currently does not make sure the metadata is
updates to reflect the new raid level.  It simply sets MD_CHANGE_DEVS.

Any level with a -&gt;thread will quickly notice this and update the
metadata.  However RAID0 and Linear do not have a thread so no
metadata update happens until the array is stopped.  At that point the
metadata is written.

This is later that we would like.  While the delay doesn't risk any
data it can cause confusion.  So if there is no md thread, immediately
update the metadata after a level change.

Reported-by: Richard Michael &lt;rmichael@edgeofthenet.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.</title>
<updated>2014-01-14T05:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-14T04:55:14+00:00</published>
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When adding a new device into an array it is normally important to
clear any stale data from -&gt;recovery_offset else the new device may
not be recovered properly.

However when re-adding a device which is known to be nearly in-sync,
this is not needed and can be detrimental.  The (bitmap-based)
resync will still happen, and further recovery is only needed from
where-ever it was already up to.

So if save_raid_disk is set, signifying a re-add, don't clear
-&gt;recovery_offset.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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When adding a new device into an array it is normally important to
clear any stale data from -&gt;recovery_offset else the new device may
not be recovered properly.

However when re-adding a device which is known to be nearly in-sync,
this is not needed and can be detrimental.  The (bitmap-based)
resync will still happen, and further recovery is only needed from
where-ever it was already up to.

So if save_raid_disk is set, signifying a re-add, don't clear
-&gt;recovery_offset.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>md: Change handling of save_raid_disk and metadata update during recovery.</title>
<updated>2014-01-14T05:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-09T01:04:56+00:00</published>
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Since commit d70ed2e4fafdbef0800e739
   MD: Allow restarting an interrupted incremental recovery.

we don't write out the metadata to devices while they are recovering.
This had a good reason, but has unfortunate consequences.  This patch
changes things to make them work better.

At issue is what happens if the array is shut down while a recovery is
happening, particularly a bitmap-guided recovery.
Ideally the recovery should pick up where it left off.
However the metadata cannot represent the state "A recovery is in
process which is guided by the bitmap".

Before the above mentioned commit, we wrote metadata to the device
which said "this is being recovered and it is up to &lt;here&gt;".  So after
a restart, a full recovery (not bitmap-guided) would happen from
where-ever it was up to.

After the commit the metadata wasn't updated so it still said "This
device is fully in sync with &lt;this&gt; event count".  That leads to a
bitmap-based recovery following the whole bitmap, which should be a
lot less work than a full recovery from some starting point.  So this
was an improvement.

However updates some metadata but not all leads to other problems.
In particular, the metadata written to the fully-up-to-date device
record that the array has all devices present (even though some are
recovering).  So on restart, mdadm wants to find all devices and
expects them to have current event counts.
Obviously it doesn't (some have old event counts) so (when assembling
with --incremental) it waits indefinitely for the rest of the expected
devices.

It really is wrong to not update all the metadata together.  Do that
is bound to cause confusion.
Instead, we should make it possible to record the truth in the
metadata.  i.e. we need to be able to record that a device is being
recovered based on the bitmap.
We already have a Feature flag to say that recovery is happening.  We
now add another one to say that it is a bitmap-based recovery.

With this we can remove the code that disables the write-out of
metadata on some devices.

So this patch:
 - moves the setting of 'saved_raid_disk' from add_new_disk to
   the validate_super methods.  This makes sure it is always set
   properly, both when adding a new device to an array, and when
   assembling an array from a collection of devices.
 - Adds a metadata flag MD_FEATURE_RECOVERY_BITMAP which is only
   used if MD_FEATURE_RECOVERY_OFFSET is set, and record that a
   bitmap-based recovery is allowed.
   This is only present in v1.x metadata. v0.90 doesn't support
   devices which are in the middle of recovery at all.
 - Only skips writing metadata to Faulty devices.

 - Also allows rdev state to be set to "-insync" via sysfs.
   This can be used for external-metadata arrays.  When the
   'role' is set the device is assumed to be in-sync.  If, after
   setting the role, we set the state to "-insync", the role is
   moved to saved_raid_disk which effectively says the device is
   partly in-sync with that slot and needs a bitmap recovery.

Cc: Andrei Warkentin &lt;andreiw@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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Since commit d70ed2e4fafdbef0800e739
   MD: Allow restarting an interrupted incremental recovery.

we don't write out the metadata to devices while they are recovering.
This had a good reason, but has unfortunate consequences.  This patch
changes things to make them work better.

At issue is what happens if the array is shut down while a recovery is
happening, particularly a bitmap-guided recovery.
Ideally the recovery should pick up where it left off.
However the metadata cannot represent the state "A recovery is in
process which is guided by the bitmap".

Before the above mentioned commit, we wrote metadata to the device
which said "this is being recovered and it is up to &lt;here&gt;".  So after
a restart, a full recovery (not bitmap-guided) would happen from
where-ever it was up to.

After the commit the metadata wasn't updated so it still said "This
device is fully in sync with &lt;this&gt; event count".  That leads to a
bitmap-based recovery following the whole bitmap, which should be a
lot less work than a full recovery from some starting point.  So this
was an improvement.

However updates some metadata but not all leads to other problems.
In particular, the metadata written to the fully-up-to-date device
record that the array has all devices present (even though some are
recovering).  So on restart, mdadm wants to find all devices and
expects them to have current event counts.
Obviously it doesn't (some have old event counts) so (when assembling
with --incremental) it waits indefinitely for the rest of the expected
devices.

It really is wrong to not update all the metadata together.  Do that
is bound to cause confusion.
Instead, we should make it possible to record the truth in the
metadata.  i.e. we need to be able to record that a device is being
recovered based on the bitmap.
We already have a Feature flag to say that recovery is happening.  We
now add another one to say that it is a bitmap-based recovery.

With this we can remove the code that disables the write-out of
metadata on some devices.

So this patch:
 - moves the setting of 'saved_raid_disk' from add_new_disk to
   the validate_super methods.  This makes sure it is always set
   properly, both when adding a new device to an array, and when
   assembling an array from a collection of devices.
 - Adds a metadata flag MD_FEATURE_RECOVERY_BITMAP which is only
   used if MD_FEATURE_RECOVERY_OFFSET is set, and record that a
   bitmap-based recovery is allowed.
   This is only present in v1.x metadata. v0.90 doesn't support
   devices which are in the middle of recovery at all.
 - Only skips writing metadata to Faulty devices.

 - Also allows rdev state to be set to "-insync" via sysfs.
   This can be used for external-metadata arrays.  When the
   'role' is set the device is assumed to be in-sync.  If, after
   setting the role, we set the state to "-insync", the role is
   moved to saved_raid_disk which effectively says the device is
   partly in-sync with that slot and needs a bitmap recovery.

Cc: Andrei Warkentin &lt;andreiw@vmware.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
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