Re: [PATCH 1/2] mdadm: Fix array size mismatch after grow

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> 2022年6月3日 22:30,Lukasz Florczak <lukasz.florczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 写道:
> 
> On Mon, 30 May 2022 18:01:05 +0800, Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Coly,
>> Hi Lukasz,
>> 
>> 
>>> 2022年4月7日 22:27,Lukasz Florczak
>>> <lukasz.florczak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 写道:
>>> 
>>> imsm_fix_size_mismatch() is invoked to fix the problem, but it
>>> couldn't proceed due to migration check. This patch allows for
>>> intended behavior.
>> 
>> 
>> Could you please explain a bit more about why “it couldn’t proceed
>> due to migration”, and what is the “intended behavior”? It may help
>> me to understand your change and response faster.
> 
> The intended behavior here is to fix the array size after grow that is
> displayed in mdadm detail, since there can be a mismatch if the raid
> was created in EFI [1]. That is the array size is not consistent with
> the formula: 
> Array_size * block_size = Num_stripes * Chunk_size * Num_of_data_drives 
> 
> That fix couldn't happen as the metadata update part was efficiently
> omitted with continue statement after the migration type condition was
> met. 
> 
> About migration I didn't go that much into detail, but it was an issue
> that dev->vol.migr_type was still in MIGR_GEN_MIGR state even though
> imsm_fix_size_mismatch() was called after migration has been finished,
> at least from the mdadm's point of view. That happens because this
> value is changed later, afaik, by mdmon. The initial idea here must've
> been not to change the array size during migration, but that is not
> valid since its state is just not updated yet.
> 
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/commit/?id=895ffd992954069e4ea67efb8a85bb0fd72c3707

Copied, thanks for the hint.

BTW, now I do the imsm related test with IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1 and IMSM_DEVNAME_AS_SERIAL=1. To test situation as the above text mentioned, do I have to find a real hardware with VROC supported?

Coly Li





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