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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-05-01 12:15:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-05-01 18:17:42 -0700
commit62de608da0b0ab17d81a233b50d1e952b9816f69 (patch)
tree12647d87f70cddf29edeeee2d85358667aa24cd8
parentbea2771871ed1084c9a85ed0c86340f188505702 (diff)
downloadlinux-62de608da0b0ab17d81a233b50d1e952b9816f69.tar.gz
[PATCH] md: Improve detection of lack of barrier support in raid1
Move the test for 'do barrier work' down a bit so that if the first write to a
raid1 is a BIO_RW_BARRIER write, the checking done by superblock writes will
cause the right thing to happen.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid1.c16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 532d04077301..b8c13c897ccb 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -753,18 +753,24 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio * bio)
 	const int rw = bio_data_dir(bio);
 	int do_barriers;
 
-	if (unlikely(!mddev->barriers_work && bio_barrier(bio))) {
-		bio_endio(bio, bio->bi_size, -EOPNOTSUPP);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Register the new request and wait if the reconstruction
 	 * thread has put up a bar for new requests.
 	 * Continue immediately if no resync is active currently.
+	 * We test barriers_work *after* md_write_start as md_write_start
+	 * may cause the first superblock write, and that will check out
+	 * if barriers work.
 	 */
+
 	md_write_start(mddev, bio); /* wait on superblock update early */
 
+	if (unlikely(!mddev->barriers_work && bio_barrier(bio))) {
+		if (rw == WRITE)
+			md_write_end(mddev);
+		bio_endio(bio, bio->bi_size, -EOPNOTSUPP);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	wait_barrier(conf);
 
 	disk_stat_inc(mddev->gendisk, ios[rw]);