3.13.11-ckt18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: =?UTF-8?q?Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1=20Hodek?= <tomas.hodek@xxxxxxxx> commit d1901ef099c38afd11add4cfb3312c02ef21ec4a upstream. When a drive is marked write-mostly it should only be the target of reads if there is no other option. This behaviour was broken by commit 9dedf60313fa4dddfd5b9b226a0ef12a512bf9dc md/raid1: read balance chooses idlest disk for SSD which causes a write-mostly device to be *preferred* is some cases. Restore correct behaviour by checking and setting best_dist_disk and best_pending_disk rather than best_disk. We only need to test one of these as they are both changed from -1 or >=0 at the same time. As we leave min_pending and best_dist unchanged, any non-write-mostly device will appear better than the write-mostly device. Reported-by: Tomáš Hodek <tomas.hodek@xxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dark Penguin <darkpenguin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=135982797322422 Fixes: 9dedf60313fa4dddfd5b9b226a0ef12a512bf9dc Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid1.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c index e4885c0..53457ee 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect if (test_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags)) { /* Don't balance among write-mostly, just * use the first as a last resort */ - if (best_disk < 0) { + if (best_dist_disk < 0) { if (is_badblock(rdev, this_sector, sectors, &first_bad, &bad_sectors)) { if (first_bad < this_sector) @@ -572,7 +572,8 @@ static int read_balance(struct r1conf *conf, struct r1bio *r1_bio, int *max_sect best_good_sectors = first_bad - this_sector; } else best_good_sectors = sectors; - best_disk = disk; + best_dist_disk = disk; + best_pending_disk = disk; } continue; } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html