A RAID1 device does not necessarily need a fullsync if the bitmap can be used instead.

Similar to commit d6b212f4b19da5301e6b6eca562e5c7a2a6e8c8d in raid5.c, if a raid1
device can be brought back (i.e. from a transient failure) it shouldn't need a
complete resync. Provided the bitmap is not to old, it will have recorded the areas
of the disk that need recovery.

** I've used 'saved_raid_disk' here similar to RAID5, but it doesn't seem to fit
as well. The positions aren't really as important as they are in RAID5, and
I'm using the 'saved_raid_disk' as more of an indicator that it can use the
bitmap, rather than for any other purpose. Perhaps the meaning is being
overloaded and a different solution should be found?

RFC-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>

Index: linux-upstream/drivers/md/raid1.c
================================================== =================
--- linux-upstream.orig/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ linux-upstream/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -2597,7 +2597,8 @@ static struct r1conf *setup_conf(struct
if (!disk->rdev ||
!test_bit(In_sync, &disk->rdev->flags)) {
disk->head_position = 0;
- if (disk->rdev)
+ if (disk->rdev &&
+ (disk->rdev->saved_raid_disk != disk->rdev->raid_disk))
conf->fullsync = 1;
} else if (conf->last_used < 0)
/*


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