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SubjectRe: [PATCH 005 of 13] md: Allow stripes to be expanded in preparation for expanding an array.
NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> +static int resize_stripes(raid5_conf_t *conf, int newsize)
> +{
> + /* make all the stripes able to hold 'newsize' devices.
> + * New slots in each stripe get 'page' set to a new page.
> + * We allocate all the new stripes first, then if that succeeds,
> + * copy everything across.
> + * Finally we add new pages. This could fail, but we leave
> + * the stripe cache at it's new size, just with some pages empty.
> + *
> + * We use GFP_NOIO allocations as IO to the raid5 is blocked
> + * at some points in this operation.
> + */
> + struct stripe_head *osh, *nsh;
> + struct list_head newstripes, oldstripes;

You can use LIST_HEAD() here, avoid the separate INIT_LIST_HEAD().


> + struct disk_info *ndisks;
> + int err = 0;
> + kmem_cache_t *sc;
> + int i;
> +
> + if (newsize <= conf->pool_size)
> + return 0; /* never bother to shrink */
> +
> + sc = kmem_cache_create(conf->cache_name[1-conf->active_name],
> + sizeof(struct stripe_head)+(newsize-1)*sizeof(struct r5dev),
> + 0, 0, NULL, NULL);

kmem_cache_create() internally does a GFP_KERNEL allocation.

> + if (!sc)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&newstripes);
> + for (i = conf->max_nr_stripes; i; i--) {
> + nsh = kmem_cache_alloc(sc, GFP_NOIO);

So either this can use GFP_KERNEL, or we have a problem.
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