The patch titled md: fix an occasional deadlock in raid5 - FIX has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is md-fix-an-occasional-deadlock-in-raid5-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: md: fix an occasional deadlock in raid5 - FIX From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> (This should be merged with fix-occasional-deadlock-in-raid5.patch) As we don't call stripe_handle in make_request any more, we need to clear STRIPE_DELAYED to (previously done by stripe_handle) to ensure that we test if the stripe still needs to be delayed or not. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN drivers/md/raid5.c~md-fix-an-occasional-deadlock-in-raid5-fix drivers/md/raid5.c --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c~md-fix-an-occasional-deadlock-in-raid5-fix +++ a/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -3551,6 +3551,7 @@ static int make_request(struct request_q } finish_wait(&conf->wait_for_overlap, &w); set_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state); + clear_bit(STRIPE_DELAYED, &sh->state); release_stripe(sh); } else { /* cannot get stripe for read-ahead, just give-up */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are coding-style-cleanups-for-drivers-md-mktablesc.patch md-raid6-fix-mktablec.patch md-raid6-clean-up-the-style-of-raid6test-testc.patch md-update-md-bitmap-during-resync.patch md-update-md-bitmap-during-resync-fix.patch md-support-external-metadata-for-md-arrays.patch md-give-userspace-control-over-removing-failed-devices-when-external-metdata-in-use.patch md-allow-a-maximum-extent-to-be-set-for-resyncing.patch md-set-and-test-the-persistent-flag-for-md-devices-more-consistently.patch md-allow-devices-to-be-shared-between-md-arrays.patch md-lock-address-when-changing-attributes-of-component-devices.patch md-allow-an-md-array-to-appear-with-0-drives-if-it-has-external-metadata.patch md-fix-use-after-free-bug-when-dropping-an-rdev-from-an-md-array.patch md-change-a-few-int-to-size_t-in-md.patch md-change-interate_mddev-to-for_each_mddev.patch md-change-iterate_rdev-to-rdev_for_each.patch md-change-iterate_rdev_generic-to-rdev_for_each_list-and-remove-iterate_rdev_pending.patch md-fix-an-occasional-deadlock-in-raid5.patch md-fix-an-occasional-deadlock-in-raid5-fix.patch one-less-parameter-to-__d_path.patch d_path-kerneldoc-cleanup.patch d_path-use-struct-path-in-struct-avc_audit_data.patch d_path-make-proc_get_link-use-a-struct-path-argument.patch d_path-make-get_dcookie-use-a-struct-path-argument.patch use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_export.patch use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_export-checkpatch-fixes.patch use-struct-path-in-struct-svc_expkey.patch d_path-make-seq_path-use-a-struct-path-argument.patch d_path-make-d_path-use-a-struct-path.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html