The patch titled md: do not compute parity unless it is on a failed drive has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was md-do-not-compute-parity-unless-it-is-on-a-failed-drive.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: md: do not compute parity unless it is on a failed drive From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> If a block is computed (rather than read) then a check/repair operation may be lead to believe that the data on disk is correct, when infact it isn't. So only compute blocks for failed devices. This issue has been around since at least 2.6.12, but has become harder to hit in recent kernels since most reads bypass the cache. echo repair > /sys/block/mdN/md/sync_action will set the parity blocks to the correct state. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/md/raid5.c~md-do-not-compute-parity-unless-it-is-on-a-failed-drive drivers/md/raid5.c --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c~md-do-not-compute-parity-unless-it-is-on-a-failed-drive +++ a/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -2002,6 +2002,7 @@ static int __handle_issuing_new_read_req * have quiesced. */ if ((s->uptodate == disks - 1) && + (s->failed && disk_idx == s->failed_num) && !test_bit(STRIPE_OP_CHECK, &sh->ops.pending)) { set_bit(STRIPE_OP_COMPUTE_BLK, &sh->ops.pending); set_bit(R5_Wantcompute, &dev->flags); @@ -2087,7 +2088,9 @@ static void handle_issuing_new_read_requ /* we would like to get this block, possibly * by computing it, but we might not be able to */ - if (s->uptodate == disks-1) { + if ((s->uptodate == disks - 1) && + (s->failed && (i == r6s->failed_num[0] || + i == r6s->failed_num[1]))) { pr_debug("Computing stripe %llu block %d\n", (unsigned long long)sh->sector, i); compute_block_1(sh, i, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch arm-fix-header-guards.patch fsldma-the-mpc8377mds-board-device-tree-node-for-fsldma-driver.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html