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2009-03-31md: move headers out of include/linux/raid/Christoph Hellwig
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>
2008-10-13md: Convert remaining 1k representations in linear.c to sectors.Andre Noll
This patch renames hash_spacing and preshift to spacing and sector_shift respectively with the following change of semantics: Case 1: (sizeof(sector_t) <= sizeof(u32)). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In this case, we have sector_shift = preshift = 0 and spacing = 2 * hash_spacing. Hence, the index for the hash table which is computed by the new code in which_dev() as sector / spacing equals the old value which was (sector/2) / hash_spacing. Note also that the value of nb_zone stays the same because both sz and base double. Case 2: (sizeof(sector_t) > sizeof(u32)). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (aka the shifting dance case). Here we have sector_shift = preshift + 1 and spacing = 2 * hash_spacing during the computation of nb_zone and curr_sector, but spacing = hash_spacing in which_dev() because in the last hunk of the patch for linear.c we shift down conf->spacing (= 2 * hash_spacing) by one more bit than in the old code. Hence in the computation of nb_zone, sz and base have the same value as before, so nb_zone is not affected. Also curr_sector in the next hunk stays the same. In which_dev() the hash table index is computed as (sector >> sector_shift) / spacing In view of sector_shift = preshift + 1 and spacing = hash_spacing, this equals ((sector/2) >> preshift) / hash_spacing which is the value computed by the old code. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-10-13md: linear: Represent dev_info->size and dev_info->offset in sectors.Andre Noll
Rename them to num_sectors and start_sector which is more descriptive. Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-21md: linear: Make array_size sector-based and rename it to array_sectors.Andre Noll
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] md: allow a linear array to have drives added while activeNeilBrown
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09[PATCH] md: support md/linear array with components greater than 2 terabytes.NeilBrown
linear currently uses division by the size of the smallest componenet device to find which device a request goes to. If that smallest device is larger than 2 terabytes, then the division will not work on some systems. So we introduce a pre-shift, and take care not to make the hash table too large, much like the code in raid0. Also get rid of conf->nr_zones, which is not needed. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-01-07[PATCH] md: improve 'hash' code in linear.cNeil Brown
The hashtable that linear uses to find the right device stores two pointers for every entry. The second is always one of: The first plus 1 NULL When NULL, it is never accessed, so any value can be stored. Thus it could always be "first plus 1", and so we don't need to store it as it is trivial to calculate. This patch halves the size of this table, which results in some simpler code as well. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2004-11-10[PATCH] md: fix problem with md/linear for devices larger than 2 terabytesNeil Brown
Some size fields were "int" instead of "sector_t". Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2003-05-26[PATCH] md: Remove dependance on MD_SB_DISKS in linear personalityNeil Brown
Linear uses one array sized by MD_SB_DISKS inside a structure. We move it to the end of the structure, declare it as size 0, and arrange for approprate extra space to be allocated on structure allocation.
2002-08-22[PATCH] md: Store rdev instead of bdev in per-personality status arraysNeil Brown
Holding the rdev instead of the bdev does cause an extra de-reference, but it is conceptually cleaner and will allow lots more tidying up.
2002-07-04[PATCH] raid kdev_t cleanups - part 3Alexander Viro
* ->dev killed for md/linear.c (same as previous parts)
2002-04-24[PATCH] (10/15) big struct block_device * push (first series)Alexander Viro
- md/linear.c - bring struct block_device * into private data.
2002-02-04Import changesetLinus Torvalds