Hi, Please pull MD update for 4.8. The patches are based on 4.7 rc initially, I merged them to lastest upstream to fix merge conflict against block layer changes: - A bunch of patches from Neil Brown to fix RCU usage - Two performance improvement patches from Tomasz Majchrzak - Alexey Obitotskiy fixes module refcount issue - Arnd Bergmann fixes time granularity - Cong Wang fixes a list corruption issue - Guoqing Jiang fixes a deadlock in md-cluster - A null pointer deference fix from me - Song Liu fixes misuse of raid6 rmw - Other trival/cleanup fixes from Guoqing Jiang and Xiao Ni Thanks, Shaohua The following changes since commit 194dc870a5890e855ecffb30f3b80ba7c88f96d6: Add braces to avoid "ambiguous ‘else’" compiler warnings (2016-07-27 20:03:31 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md.git for-linus for you to fetch changes up to 3f35e210ed4617a68b6baa9b7ac6c72bf7e313d9: Merge branch 'mymd/for-next' into mymd/for-linus (2016-07-28 09:34:14 -0700) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alexey Obitotskiy (1): Fix kernel module refcount handling Arnd Bergmann (1): md: use seconds granularity for error logging Cong Wang (1): md: use a mutex to protect a global list Guoqing Jiang (2): md-cluster: fix deadlock issue when add disk to an recoverying array md: simplify the code with md_kick_rdev_from_array NeilBrown (17): md: disconnect device from personality before trying to remove it. md/raid1, raid10: don't recheck "Faulty" flag in read-balance. md/raid10: fix refounct imbalance when resyncing an array with a replacement device. md/raid10: add rcu protection in raid10_status. md/raid10: add rcu protection to rdev access in raid10_sync_request. md/raid10: add rcu protection to rdev access during reshape. md/raid10: minor code improvement in fix_read_error() md/raid10: simplify print_conf a little. md/raid1: small cleanup in raid1_end_read/write_request md/raid1: small code cleanup in end_sync_write md/raid1: add rcu protection to rdev in fix_read_error md/raid5: add rcu protection to rdev accesses in handle_failed_sync. md/raid5: add rcu protection to rdev accesses in want_replace md/raid5: add rcu protection to rdev accesses in raid5_status. md/multipath: add rcu protection to rdev access in multipath_status. md: be extra careful not to take a reference to a Faulty device. md: reduce the number of synchronize_rcu() calls when multiple devices fail. Shaohua Li (2): MD: fix null pointer deference Merge branch 'mymd/for-next' into mymd/for-linus Song Liu (1): right meaning of PARITY_ENABLE_RMW and PARITY_PREFER_RMW Tomasz Majchrzak (3): raid1/raid10: slow down resync if there is non-resync activity pending md: add missing sysfs_notify on array_state update raid10: improve random reads performance Xiao Ni (1): MD:Update superblock when err == 0 in size_store drivers/md/md.c | 74 +++++++++++---- drivers/md/md.h | 10 +- drivers/md/multipath.c | 29 +++--- drivers/md/raid1.c | 130 ++++++++++++------------- drivers/md/raid10.c | 250 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- drivers/md/raid10.h | 3 +- drivers/md/raid5.c | 45 +++++---- 7 files changed, 328 insertions(+), 213 deletions(-) -- 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