md: Add new_level sysfs interface
Now reshape supports two ways: with backup file or without backup file. For the situation without backup file, it needs to change data offset. It doesn't need systemd service mdadm-grow-continue. So it can finish the reshape job in one process environment. It can know the new level from mdadm --grow command and can change to new level after reshape finishes. For the situation with backup file, it needs systemd service mdadm-grow-continue to monitor reshape progress. So there are two process envolved. One is mdadm --grow command whick kicks off reshape and wakes up mdadm-grow-continue service. The second process is the service, which doesn't know the new level from the first process. In kernel space mddev->new_level is used to record the new level when doing reshape. This patch adds a new interface to help mdadm update new_level and sync it to metadata. Then mdadm-grow-continue can read the right new_level. Commit log revised by Song Liu. Please refer to the link for more details. Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240904235453.99120-1-xni@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
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