We should allocate memory for the storage-bitmap at create-time, not load time. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c index 0819ec2..79dafff 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c +++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c @@ -1030,11 +1030,6 @@ static int bitmap_init_from_disk(struct bitmap *bitmap, sector_t start) goto err; } - ret = bitmap_storage_alloc(&bitmap->storage, bitmap->chunks, - !bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.external); - if (ret) - goto err; - oldindex = ~0L; offset = 0; if (!bitmap->mddev->bitmap_info.external) @@ -1781,6 +1776,12 @@ int bitmap_create(struct mddev *mddev) if (!bitmap->bp) goto error; + if (file || mddev->bitmap_info.offset) { + err = bitmap_storage_alloc(&bitmap->storage, bitmap->chunks, + !mddev->bitmap_info.external); + if (err) + goto error; + } printk(KERN_INFO "created bitmap (%lu pages) for device %s\n", pages, bmname(bitmap)); -- 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