bitmap_daemon_work clears bits in the bitmap for blocks that haven't been written to for a while. It needs to be called regularly to make sure the bitmap doesn't endup full of ones .... but it wasn't. So call it from the increasingly-inaptly-named md_check_recovery Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2005-03-22 17:11:00.000000000 +1100 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2005-03-22 17:20:16.000000000 +1100 @@ -3682,7 +3682,8 @@ void md_check_recovery(mddev_t *mddev) struct list_head *rtmp; - dprintk(KERN_INFO "md: recovery thread got woken up ...\n"); + if (mddev->bitmap) + bitmap_daemon_work(mddev->bitmap); if (mddev->ro) return; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
