The patch titled
md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata.
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata.patch
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Subject: md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata.
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space
or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata drivers/md/md.c
--- a/drivers/md/md.c~md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata
+++ a/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1651,6 +1651,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev
int sync_req;
int nospares = 0;
+ if (mddev->external)
+ return;
repeat:
spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-nfsd.patch
md-fix-use-after-free-when-removing-rdev-via-sysfs.patch
md-skip-all-metadata-update-processing-when-using-external-metadata.patch
md-reinitialise-more-mddev-fields-in-do_md_stop.patch
md-fix-safemode-handling-for-external-metadata.patch
md-fix-up-switching-md-arrays-between-read-only-and-read-write.patch
md-remove-a-stray-command-from-a-copy-and-paste-error-in-resync_start_store.patch
md-prevent-duplicates-in-bind_rdev_to_array.patch
md-md-raid5-rate-limit-error-printk.patch
md-md-support-blocking-writes-to-an-array-on-device-failure.patch
proc-introduce-proc_create_data-to-setup-de-data.patch
nfsd-use-proc_create-to-setup-de-proc_fops.patch
drivers-use-non-racy-method-for-proc-entries-creation-2.patch
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