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Fix race condition involving ZFS remove events
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Authored by asomers on Jan 12 2016, 9:16 PM.
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Summary

When a ZFS drive disappears, ZFS sends a resource.fs.zfs.removed event to
userland. A userland program like zfsd(8) can use that event, for example
to activate a hotspare. The current code contains a race condition:
vdev_geom will sent the sysevent _before_ spa.c would update the vdev's
status, causing userland processes to see pool state that does not reflect
the device removal. This change moves the sysevent to spa.c, closing the
race.

Test Plan

It's a race, so it's hard to test. But doing repeated iterations of the
following should work:

  1. Create a redundant zpool
  2. Start zfsd
  3. Pull a drive, wait 2 seconds
  4. Reinsert drive
  5. Check that the drive comes back online and resilvers
  6. Goto 3

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asomers retitled this revision from to Fix race condition involving ZFS remove events.
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delphij, please let me know if you feel there would be someone better to review this change. I was looking for somebody from iXSystems, because I think they use ZFS's devctl events.

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The change looks reasonable to me (I don't represent iXsystems, though). Can you make the similar change to vdev_disk.c and upstream?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jan 13 2016, 8:46 AM
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