This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
md: Don't truncate size at 4TB for RAID0 and Linear
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
md-don-t-truncate-size-at-4tb-for-raid0-and-linear.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 667a5313ecd7308d79629c0738b0db588b0b0a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:46:12 +1000
Subject: md: Don't truncate size at 4TB for RAID0 and Linear
From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
commit 667a5313ecd7308d79629c0738b0db588b0b0a4e upstream.
commit 27a7b260f71439c40546b43588448faac01adb93
md: Fix handling for devices from 2TB to 4TB in 0.90 metadata.
changed 0.90 metadata handling to truncated size to 4TB as that is
all that 0.90 can record.
However for RAID0 and Linear, 0.90 doesn't need to record the size, so
this truncation is not needed and causes working arrays to become too small.
So avoid the truncation for RAID0 and Linear
This bug was introduced in 3.1 and is suitable for any stable kernels
from then onwards.
As the offending commit was tagged for 'stable', any stable kernel
that it was applied to should also get this patch. That includes
at least 2.6.32, 2.6.33 and 3.0. (Thanks to Ben Hutchings for
providing that list).
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1096,8 +1096,11 @@ static int super_90_load(mdk_rdev_t *rde
ret = 0;
}
rdev->sectors = rdev->sb_start;
- /* Limit to 4TB as metadata cannot record more than that */
- if (rdev->sectors >= (2ULL << 32))
+ /* Limit to 4TB as metadata cannot record more than that.
+ * (not needed for Linear and RAID0 as metadata doesn't
+ * record this size)
+ */
+ if (rdev->sectors >= (2ULL << 32) && sb->level >= 1)
rdev->sectors = (2ULL << 32) - 2;
if (rdev->sectors < ((sector_t)sb->size) * 2 && sb->level >= 1)
@@ -1379,7 +1382,7 @@ super_90_rdev_size_change(mdk_rdev_t *rd
/* Limit to 4TB as metadata cannot record more than that.
* 4TB == 2^32 KB, or 2*2^32 sectors.
*/
- if (num_sectors >= (2ULL << 32))
+ if (num_sectors >= (2ULL << 32) && rdev->mddev->level >= 1)
num_sectors = (2ULL << 32) - 2;
md_super_write(rdev->mddev, rdev, rdev->sb_start, rdev->sb_size,
rdev->sb_page);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/md-make-sure-metadata-is-updated-when-spares-are-activated-or-removed.patch
queue-3.0/md-don-t-truncate-size-at-4tb-for-raid0-and-linear.patch
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