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Commit 5a6ac9ea authored by Miao Xie's avatar Miao Xie
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Btrfs, raid56: support parity scrub on raid56



The implementation is:
- Read and check all the data with checksum in the same stripe.
  All the data which has checksum is COW data, and we are sure
  that it is not changed though we don't lock the stripe. because
  the space of that data just can be reclaimed after the current
  transction is committed, and then the fs can use it to store the
  other data, but when doing scrub, we hold the current transaction,
  that is that data can not be recovered, it is safe that read and check
  it out of the stripe lock.
- Lock the stripe
- Read out all the data without checksum and parity
  The data without checksum and the parity may be changed if we don't
  lock the stripe, so we need read it in the stripe lock context.
- Check the parity
- Re-calculate the new parity and write back it if the old parity
  is not right
- Unlock the stripe

If we can not read out the data or the data we read is corrupted,
we will try to repair it. If the repair fails. we will mark the
horizontal sub-stripe(pages on the same horizontal) as corrupted
sub-stripe, and we will skip the parity check and repair of that
horizontal sub-stripe.

And in order to skip the horizontal sub-stripe that has no data, we
introduce a bitmap. If there is some data on the horizontal sub-stripe,
we will the relative bit to 1, and when we check and repair the
parity, we will skip those horizontal sub-stripes that the relative
bits is 0.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
parent 1b94b556
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