[PATCH] md: allow chunk_size to be settable through sysfs

... only before array is started of course.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index 1dd0fb6..9710138 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@ All md devices contain:
      will be empty.  If an array is being resized (not currently
      possible) this will contain the larger of the old and new sizes.
 
+  chunk_size
+     This is the size if bytes for 'chunks' and is only relevant to
+     raid levels that involve striping (1,4,5,6,10). The address space
+     of the array is conceptually divided into chunks and consecutive
+     chunks are striped onto neighbouring devices.
+     The size should be atleast PAGE_SIZE (4k) and should be a power
+     of 2.  This can only be set while assembling an array
+
 As component devices are added to an md array, they appear in the 'md'
 directory as new directories named
       dev-XXX

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 0b3081a..9e57e97 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1795,6 +1795,31 @@ raid_disks_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
 static struct md_sysfs_entry md_raid_disks = __ATTR_RO(raid_disks);
 
 static ssize_t
+chunk_size_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+       return sprintf(page, "%d\n", mddev->chunk_size);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+chunk_size_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+       /* can only set chunk_size if array is not yet active */
+       char *e;
+       unsigned long n = simple_strtoul(buf, &e, 10);
+
+       if (mddev->pers)
+               return -EBUSY;
+       if (!*buf || (*e && *e != '\n'))
+               return -EINVAL;
+
+       mddev->chunk_size = n;
+       return len;
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_chunk_size =
+__ATTR(chunk_size, 0644, chunk_size_show, chunk_size_store);
+
+
+static ssize_t
 action_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
 {
        char *type = "idle";
@@ -1861,6 +1886,7 @@ md_mismatches = __ATTR_RO(mismatch_cnt);
 static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
        &md_level.attr,
        &md_raid_disks.attr,
+       &md_chunk_size.attr,
        NULL,
 };