From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The conditions that cause these calls to MD_BUG are not kernel bugs, just oddities in what userspace is asking for.
Also convert analyze_sbs to return void, and the value it returned was always 0. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c | 30 ++++++++---------------------- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-remove-a-number-of-misleading-calls-to-md_bug drivers/md/md.c --- 25/drivers/md/md.c~md-remove-a-number-of-misleading-calls-to-md_bug 2005-04-12 03:21:50.447467720 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c 2005-04-12 03:21:50.453466808 -0700 @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ abort_free: */ -static int analyze_sbs(mddev_t * mddev) +static void analyze_sbs(mddev_t * mddev) { int i; struct list_head *tmp; @@ -1441,7 +1441,6 @@ static int analyze_sbs(mddev_t * mddev) " -- starting background reconstruction\n", mdname(mddev)); - return 0; } int mdp_major = 0; @@ -1508,10 +1507,9 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) struct gendisk *disk; char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; - if (list_empty(&mddev->disks)) { - MD_BUG(); + if (list_empty(&mddev->disks)) + /* cannot run an array with no devices.. */ return -EINVAL; - } if (mddev->pers) return -EBUSY; @@ -1519,10 +1517,8 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) /* * Analyze all RAID superblock(s) */ - if (!mddev->raid_disks && analyze_sbs(mddev)) { - MD_BUG(); - return -EINVAL; - } + if (!mddev->raid_disks) + analyze_sbs(mddev); chunk_size = mddev->chunk_size; pnum = level_to_pers(mddev->level); @@ -1548,7 +1544,7 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) * chunk-size has to be a power of 2 and multiples of PAGE_SIZE */ if ( (1 << ffz(~chunk_size)) != chunk_size) { - MD_BUG(); + printk(KERN_ERR "chunk_size of %d not valid\n", chunk_size); return -EINVAL; } if (chunk_size < PAGE_SIZE) { @@ -1573,11 +1569,6 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) } } - if (pnum >= MAX_PERSONALITY) { - MD_BUG(); - return -EINVAL; - } - #ifdef CONFIG_KMOD if (!pers[pnum]) { @@ -1762,10 +1753,8 @@ static void autorun_array(mddev_t *mddev struct list_head *tmp; int err; - if (list_empty(&mddev->disks)) { - MD_BUG(); + if (list_empty(&mddev->disks)) return; - } printk(KERN_INFO "md: running: "); @@ -3128,7 +3117,6 @@ int register_md_personality(int pnum, md spin_lock(&pers_lock); if (pers[pnum]) { spin_unlock(&pers_lock); - MD_BUG(); return -EBUSY; } @@ -3140,10 +3128,8 @@ int register_md_personality(int pnum, md int unregister_md_personality(int pnum) { - if (pnum >= MAX_PERSONALITY) { - MD_BUG(); + if (pnum >= MAX_PERSONALITY) return -EINVAL; - } printk(KERN_INFO "md: %s personality unregistered\n", pers[pnum]->name); spin_lock(&pers_lock); _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/