The personality thread shouldn't call mddev_suspend(). Because mddev_suspend() will for all IO finish, but IO is handled in personality thread, so this could cause deadlock. To trigger this early, add a warning if mddev_suspend() is called from personality thread. Suggested-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 464627b..c068f17 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ static blk_qc_t md_make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio *bio) */ void mddev_suspend(struct mddev *mddev) { + WARN_ON_ONCE(current == mddev->thread->tsk); if (mddev->suspended++) return; synchronize_rcu(); -- 2.6.5 -- 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