Now that we use O_DIRECT for all device IO, BLKFLSBUF is not needed to
ensure we get current data, and it can impose a cost if any flush-out
is needed. So remove it.
To be safe, add O_DIRECT to one place where it isn't currently used:
when reading a bitmap.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
malloc should never fail, and if it does it is unlikely
that anything else useful can be done. Best approach is to
abort and let some super-daemon restart.
So define xmalloc, xcalloc, xrealloc, xstrdup which don't
fail but just print a message and exit. Then use those
removing all the tests for failure.
Also replace all "malloc;memset" sequences with 'xcalloc'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
This is needed on 4K block devices such as DASD as we do O_DIRECT
reads.
Do the same alignment for gpt just to be safe.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
When chunk size is not set from command line we need to guess it
depending on metadata given on command line or found on listed devices.
Validate_geometry sets the default for it's metadata if chunk is not set.
For external metadata chunk is set only when creating in a container.
For imsm validate_geometry_imsm_orom is responsible for finding default
chunk depending on container metadata loaded. Container will already know
which controller it is attached to, and have this controllers orom
available.
do_default_chunk indicates that we need to find default chunk and
if validate_geometry fails for some metadata it tells us to reset chunk
that may have been set.
Current solution would set default chunk correctly for imsm only if
container device was given on command line. With the list of devices
chunk was always set to 512.
Signed-off-by: Anna Czarnowska <anna.czarnowska@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To accurately detect when an array has been split and is now being
recombined, we need to track which other devices each thinks is
working.
We should never include a device in an array if it thinks that the
primary device has failed.
This patch just allows get_info_super to return a list of devices
and whether they are thought to be working or not.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>