Just do a plain list_for_each that only grabs a mddev reference in the case where the thread sleeps and restarts the list iteration. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 581cebd5478d6..bd87d59086947 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -8723,7 +8723,6 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread) unsigned long update_time; sector_t mark_cnt[SYNC_MARKS]; int last_mark,m; - struct list_head *tmp; sector_t last_check; int skipped = 0; struct md_rdev *rdev; @@ -8787,7 +8786,8 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread) try_again: if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery)) goto skip; - for_each_mddev(mddev2, tmp) { + spin_lock(&all_mddevs_lock); + list_for_each_entry(mddev2, &all_mddevs, all_mddevs) { if (mddev2 == mddev) continue; if (!mddev->parallel_resync @@ -8819,7 +8819,8 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread) desc, mdname(mddev), mdname(mddev2)); } - mddev_put(mddev2); + spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock); + if (signal_pending(current)) flush_signals(current); schedule(); @@ -8829,6 +8830,7 @@ void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread) finish_wait(&resync_wait, &wq); } } + spin_unlock(&all_mddevs_lock); } while (mddev->curr_resync < MD_RESYNC_DELAYED); j = 0; -- 2.30.2