The raid5 stripe cache was recently changed from fixed size (NR_STRIPES) to variable size (conf->max_nr_stripes). However there are two places that still use the constant and as a result, reducing the size of the stripe cache can result in a deadlock. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/raid5.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff ./drivers/md/raid5.c~current~ ./drivers/md/raid5.c --- ./drivers/md/raid5.c~current~ 2005-12-12 10:45:16.000000000 +1100 +++ ./drivers/md/raid5.c 2005-12-12 10:45:24.000000000 +1100 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static inline void __release_stripe(raid list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->inactive_list); atomic_dec(&conf->active_stripes); if (!conf->inactive_blocked || - atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (NR_STRIPES*3/4)) + atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (conf->max_nr_stripes*3/4)) wake_up(&conf->wait_for_stripe); } } @@ -255,7 +255,8 @@ static struct stripe_head *get_active_st conf->inactive_blocked = 1; wait_event_lock_irq(conf->wait_for_stripe, !list_empty(&conf->inactive_list) && - (atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (NR_STRIPES *3/4) + (atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) + < (conf->max_nr_stripes *3/4) || !conf->inactive_blocked), conf->device_lock, unplug_slaves(conf->mddev); @@ -1915,7 +1916,7 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev) goto abort; } } -memory = conf->max_nr_stripes * (sizeof(struct stripe_head) + + memory = conf->max_nr_stripes * (sizeof(struct stripe_head) + conf->raid_disks * ((sizeof(struct bio) + PAGE_SIZE))) / 1024; if (grow_stripes(conf, conf->max_nr_stripes)) { printk(KERN_ERR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html