md/raid1: Allocate spare to store replacement devices and their bios.

In RAID1, a replacement is much like a normal device, so we just
double the size of the relevant arrays and look at all possible
devices for reads and writes.

This means that the array looks like it is now double the size in some
way - we need to be careful about that.
In particular, we checking if the array is still degraded while
creating a recovery request we need to only consider the first 'half'
- i.e. the real (non-replacement) devices.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.h b/drivers/md/raid1.h
index c732b6cce935..80ded139314c 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.h
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.h
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ struct mirror_info {
  * pool was allocated for, so they know how much to allocate and free.
  * mddev->raid_disks cannot be used, as it can change while a pool is active
  * These two datums are stored in a kmalloced struct.
+ * The 'raid_disks' here is twice the raid_disks in r1conf.
+ * This allows space for each 'real' device can have a replacement in the
+ * second half of the array.
  */
 
 struct pool_info {
@@ -21,7 +24,9 @@ struct pool_info {
 
 struct r1conf {
 	struct mddev		*mddev;
-	struct mirror_info		*mirrors;
+	struct mirror_info	*mirrors;	/* twice 'raid_disks' to
+						 * allow for replacements.
+						 */
 	int			raid_disks;
 
 	/* When choose the best device for a read (read_balance())