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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-01-06 00:20:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-06 08:34:03 -0800
commitb15c2e57f0f5bf596a19e9c5571e5b07cdfc7363 (patch)
treeda68e3ed72e59212936daf7dd4c86f1f9a7ab386 /drivers/md/md.c
parent6ff8d8ec06690f4011a6c3ad9e0759b9094f0601 (diff)
downloadlinux-b15c2e57f0f5bf596a19e9c5571e5b07cdfc7363.tar.gz
[PATCH] md: move bitmap_create to after md array has been initialised
This is important because bitmap_create uses
  mddev->resync_max_sectors
and that doesn't have a valid value until after the array
has been initialised (with pers->run()).
[It doesn't make a difference for current personalities that
 support bitmaps, but will make a difference for raid10]

This has the added advantage of meaning with can move the thread->timeout
manipulation inside the bitmap.c code instead of sprinkling identical code
throughout all personalities.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c16
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index b4fb7247b3ed..ee199d462520 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -2054,13 +2054,15 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev)
 	if (start_readonly)
 		mddev->ro = 2; /* read-only, but switch on first write */
 
-	/* before we start the array running, initialise the bitmap */
-	err = bitmap_create(mddev);
-	if (err)
-		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create bitmap (%d)\n",
-			mdname(mddev), err);
-	else
-		err = mddev->pers->run(mddev);
+	err = mddev->pers->run(mddev);
+	if (!err && mddev->pers->sync_request) {
+		err = bitmap_create(mddev);
+		if (err) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to create bitmap (%d)\n",
+			       mdname(mddev), err);
+			mddev->pers->stop(mddev);
+		}
+	}
 	if (err) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "md: pers->run() failed ...\n");
 		module_put(mddev->pers->owner);