snapraid/raid/raid.h
2014-01-03 10:36:21 +01:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2013 Andrea Mazzoleni
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*/
#ifndef __RAID_H
#define __RAID_H
/**
* RAID mode supporting up to 6 parities.
*
* It requires SSSE3 to get good performance with triple or more
* parities.
*
* This is the default mode set after calling raid_init().
*/
#define RAID_MODE_CAUCHY 0
/**
* RAID mode supporting up to 3 parities,
*
* It has a fast triple parity implementation even without SSSE3, but it
* cannot go beyond triple parity.
* This is mostly intended for low end CPUs like ARM and AMD Athlon.
*/
#define RAID_MODE_VANDERMONDE 1
/**
* Max level of parity disks supported.
*/
#define RAID_PARITY_MAX 6
/**
* Maximum number of data disks supported.
*/
#define RAID_DATA_MAX 251
/**
* Initializes the RAID system.
*/
void raid_init(void);
/**
* Runs a basic functionality self test.
*
* It returns 0 on success.
*/
int raid_selftest(void);
/**
* Sets the mode to use. One of RAID_MODE_*.
*
* You can change mode at any time, and it will affect next calls to raid_par(),
* raid_rec() and raid_recpar().
*
* The two modes are compatible for the first two levels of parity.
* The third one is different.
*/
void raid_mode(int mode);
/**
* Sets the zero buffer to use in recovering.
*
* Before calling raid_rec_dataonly() and raid_recpar() you must provide a memory
* buffer filled with zero with the same size of the blocks to recover.
*/
void raid_zero(void *zero);
/**
* Sets an additional buffer used by raid_rec_dataonly() to avoid to overwrite
* unused parities.
*/
void raid_waste(void *zero);
/**
* Computes the parity.
*
* @nd Number of data blocks.
* @np Number of parities blocks to compute.
* @size Size of the blocks pointed by @v. It must be a multipler of 64.
* @v Vector of pointers to the blocks of data and parity.
* It has (@nd + @np) elements. The starting elements are the blocks for
* data, following with the parity blocks.
* Each blocks has @size bytes.
*/
void raid_par(int nd, int np, size_t size, void **v);
/**
* Recovers failures in data and parity blocks.
*
* All the data and parity blocks marked as bad in the @id and @ip vector
* are recovered and recomputed.
*
* The parities blocks to use for recovering are automatically selected from
* the ones NOT present in the @ip vector.
*
* Ensure to have @nrd + @nrp <= @np, otherwise recovering is not possible.
*
* @nrd Number of failed data blocks to recover.
* @id[] Vector of @nrd indexes of the data blocks to recover.
* The indexes start from 0. They must be in order.
* @nrp Number of failed parity blocks to recover.
* @ip[] Vector of @nrp indexes of the parity blocks to recover.
* The indexes start from 0. They must be in order.
* All the parities not specified here are assumed correct, and they are
* not recomputed.
* @nd Number of data blocks.
* @np Number of parity blocks.
* @size Size of the blocks pointed by @v. It must be a multipler of 64.
* @v Vector of pointers to the blocks of data and parity.
* It has (@nd + @np) elements. The starting elements are the blocks
* for data, following with the parity blocks.
* Each blocks has @size bytes.
*/
void raid_rec(int nrd, int *id, int nrp, int *ip, int nd, int np, size_t size, void **v);
/**
* Recovers failures of data blocks using the specified parities.
*
* The data blocks marked as bad in the @id vector are recovered.
*
* If you have provided an additional buffer with raid_waste(), the
* parity blocks are not modified. Without this buffer, the content of
* parities blocks not specified in the @ip vector will be destroyed.
*
* @nr Number of failed data blocks to recover.
* @id[] Vector of @nr indexes of the data blocksto recover.
* The indexes start from 0. They must be in order.
* @ip[] Vector of @nr indexes of the parity blocks to use for recovering.
* The indexes start from 0. They must be in order.
* @nd Number of data blocks.
* @size Size of the blocks pointed by @v. It must be a multipler of 64.
* @v Vector of pointers to the blocks of data and parity.
* It has (@nd + @ip[@nr - 1] + 1) elements. The starting elements are the
* blocks for data, following with the parity blocks.
* Each blocks has @size bytes.
*/
void raid_rec_dataonly(int nr, int *id, int *ip, int nd, size_t size, void **v);
/**
* Sorts a small vector of integers.
*
* If you have block indexes not in order, you can use this function to sort
* them before callign raid_rec().
*
* @n Number of integers. No more than RAID_PARITY_MAX.
* \paran v Vector of integers.
*/
void raid_sort(int n, int *v);
#endif