Hello Neil,Jes,
Question about the patch
" md/raid1: Avoid raid1 resync getting stuck"
Is this patch relevant for kernel 3.18? In Linus's tree I don't see
this patch being tagged for stable[1].
Thanks,
Alex.
[1]
commit e8ff8bf09ff49733534ff3cee91bde030186055f
Author: Jes Sorensen [off-list ref]
Date: Wed Sep 16 10:20:05 2015 -0400
md/raid1: Avoid raid1 resync getting stuck
close_sync() needs to set conf->next_resync to a large, but safe value
below MaxSector and use it to determine whether or not to set
start_next_window in wait_barrier()
Solution suggested by Neil Brown.
Reported-by: Nate Dailey [off-list ref]
Tested-by: Xiao Ni [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown [off-list ref]
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Neil Brown [off-list ref] wrote:
Hi Linus,
a few md bug fixes.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
The following changes since commit bcee19f424a0d8c26ecf2607b73c690802658b29:
Merge branch 'for-4.3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup (2015-09-21 18:26:54 -0700)
are available in the git repository at:
git://neil.brown.name/md tags/md/4.3-fixes
for you to fetch changes up to da6fb7a9e5bd6f04f7e15070f630bdf1ea502841:
md/bitmap: don't pass -1 to bitmap_storage_alloc. (2015-10-02 17:24:13 +1000)
----------------------------------------------------------------
Assorted fixes for md in 4.3-rc
Two tagged for -stable
One is really a cleanup to match and improve kmemcache interface.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Jes Sorensen (1):
md/raid1: Avoid raid1 resync getting stuck
Julia Lawall (1):
md: drop null test before destroy functions
NeilBrown (4):
md: wait for pending superblock updates before switching to read-only
md/raid5: don't index beyond end of array in need_this_block().
md/raid0: apply base queue limits *before* disk_stack_limits
md/bitmap: don't pass -1 to bitmap_storage_alloc.
Shaohua Li (2):
raid5: update analysis state for failed stripe
md: clear CHANGE_PENDING in readonly array
drivers/md/bitmap.c | 3 ++-
drivers/md/md.c | 5 +++++
drivers/md/multipath.c | 3 +--
drivers/md/raid0.c | 12 ++++++------
drivers/md/raid1.c | 11 ++++-------
drivers/md/raid10.c | 9 +++------
drivers/md/raid5.c | 11 +++++++----
7 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)