Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] md: simplify md_seq_ops

[Song Liu]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:19 PM Yu Kuai <yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Before this patch, the implementation is hacky and hard to understand:
>
> 1) md_seq_start set pos to 1;
> 2) md_seq_show found pos is 1, then print Personalities;
> 3) md_seq_next found pos is 1, then it update pos to the first mddev;
> 4) md_seq_show found pos is not 1 or 2, show mddev;
> 5) md_seq_next found pos is not 1 or 2, update pos to next mddev;
> 6) loop 4-5 until the last mddev, then md_seq_next update pos to 2;
> 7) md_seq_show found pos is 2, then print unused devices;
> 8) md_seq_next found pos is 2, stop;
>
> This patch remove the magic value and use seq_list_start/next/stop()
> directly, and move printing "Personalities" to md_seq_start(),
> "unsed devices" to md_seq_stop():
>
> 1) md_seq_start print Personalities, and then set pos to first mddev;
> 2) md_seq_show show mddev;
> 3) md_seq_next update pos to next mddev;
> 4) loop 2-3 until the last mddev;
> 5) md_seq_stop print unsed devices;
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Just realized this introduced a behavior change:

When there is not md devices, before this patch, we have

[root@eth50-1 ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
unused devices: <none>

After this patch, "cat /proc/mdstat" returns nothing. This causes
some confusion for users who want to read "Personalities" line,
for example, the mdadm test suite reads it.

I haven't figured out the best fix yet.

Thanks,
Song