---

yaml
---
r: 30384
b: refs/heads/master
c: a94213b
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d4dbd0250ea1d24bb3d2d13559432fa069d795e2
+refs/heads/master: a94213b1fa7b26dcc271bf4b4f9eebf1f1af33a2

trunk/Documentation/md.txt

@@ -205,6 +205,12 @@ All md devices contain:
      simply a number that is interpretted differently by different
      levels.  It can be written while assembling an array.
 
+  resync_start
+     The point at which resync should start.  If no resync is needed,
+     this will be a very large number.  At array creation it will
+     default to 0, though starting the array as 'clean' will
+     set it much larger.
+
    new_dev
      This file can be written but not read.  The value written should
      be a block device number as major:minor.  e.g. 8:0

trunk/drivers/md/md.c

@@ -2235,6 +2235,30 @@ chunk_size_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
 static struct md_sysfs_entry md_chunk_size =
 __ATTR(chunk_size, 0644, chunk_size_show, chunk_size_store);
 
+static ssize_t
+resync_start_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)mddev->recovery_cp);
+}
+
+static ssize_t
+resync_start_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	/* can only set chunk_size if array is not yet active */
+	char *e;
+	unsigned long long n = simple_strtoull(buf, &e, 10);
+
+	if (mddev->pers)
+		return -EBUSY;
+	if (!*buf || (*e && *e != '\n'))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	mddev->recovery_cp = n;
+	return len;
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_resync_start =
+__ATTR(resync_start, 0644, resync_start_show, resync_start_store);
+
 /*
  * The array state can be:
  *
@@ -2771,6 +2795,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
 	&md_raid_disks.attr,
 	&md_chunk_size.attr,
 	&md_size.attr,
+	&md_resync_start.attr,
 	&md_metadata.attr,
 	&md_new_device.attr,
 	&md_safe_delay.attr,
@@ -3263,6 +3288,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, int mode)
 		mddev->array_size = 0;
 		mddev->size = 0;
 		mddev->raid_disks = 0;
+		mddev->recovery_cp = 0;
 
 		disk = mddev->gendisk;
 		if (disk)