Re: [PATCH] md/raid456: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

From: NeilBrown
Date: Mon Mar 11 2013 - 21:36:53 EST


On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:27:44 +0100 Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Following will be in -next shortly.
> >
> > NeilBrown
> >
> >
> > From 51acbcec6c42b24482bac18e42befc822524535d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:08:34 +1100
> > Subject: [PATCH] md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
> >
> > This doesn't seem to actually help and we have an alternate
> > multi-threading approach waiting in the wings, so just get
> > rid of this config option and associated code.
> >
> > As a bonus, we remove one use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
> >
> > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@xxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
>
> That commit entered mainline in v3.9-rc2 (still as commit
> 51acbcec6c42b24482bac18e42befc822524535d). It missed one instance of
> CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456, so this additional patch is needed (which also
> cleans that macro from two defconfig files). Compile tested, by the way.
>
>
> Paul Bolle

Thanks Paul.

I'll send this off to Linus some time in the next week or so.


Thanks,
NeilBrown


>
> >From ab10e19eeca5ae271ae965418ff736db0230aab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:16:25 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456 entirely
>
> Once instance of this Kconfig macro remained after commit
> 51acbcec6c42b24482bac18e42befc822524535d ("md: remove
> CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456"). Remove that one too. And, while we're at it,
> also remove it from the defconfig files that carry it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/tile/configs/tilegx_defconfig | 1 -
> arch/tile/configs/tilepro_defconfig | 1 -
> drivers/md/raid5.h | 4 ----
> 3 files changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/tile/configs/tilegx_defconfig b/arch/tile/configs/tilegx_defconfig
> index 8c5eff6..4768481 100644
> --- a/arch/tile/configs/tilegx_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/tile/configs/tilegx_defconfig
> @@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID1=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID10=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID456=m
> -CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456=y
> CONFIG_MD_FAULTY=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=m
> CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y
> diff --git a/arch/tile/configs/tilepro_defconfig b/arch/tile/configs/tilepro_defconfig
> index e7a3dfc..dd2b8f0 100644
> --- a/arch/tile/configs/tilepro_defconfig
> +++ b/arch/tile/configs/tilepro_defconfig
> @@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID1=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID10=m
> CONFIG_MD_RAID456=m
> -CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456=y
> CONFIG_MD_FAULTY=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=m
> CONFIG_DM_DEBUG=y
> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.h b/drivers/md/raid5.h
> index 18b2c4a..31e2ec1 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/raid5.h
> +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.h
> @@ -221,10 +221,6 @@ struct stripe_head {
> struct stripe_operations {
> int target, target2;
> enum sum_check_flags zero_sum_result;
> - #ifdef CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
> - unsigned long request;
> - wait_queue_head_t wait_for_ops;
> - #endif
> } ops;
> struct r5dev {
> /* rreq and rvec are used for the replacement device when

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