Hi Jens, Please consider pulling the following changes for md-next on top of your for-6.7/block branch. Major changes in these patches are: 1. Make rdev add/remove independent from daemon thread, by Yu Kuai; 2. Refactor code around quiesce() and mddev_suspend(), by Yu Kuai. Thanks, Song The following changes since commit d78bfa1346ab1fe04d20aa45a0678d1fc866f37c: block/null_blk: add queue_rqs() support (2023-09-22 08:52:13 -0600) are available in the Git repository at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md.git tags/md-next-20230927 for you to fetch changes up to ceb0416383988dbd5decd6a70141a3507732c160: md: replace deprecated strncpy with memcpy (2023-09-25 14:36:41 -0700) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Justin Stitt (1): md: replace deprecated strncpy with memcpy Kees Cook (1): md/md-linear: Annotate struct linear_conf with __counted_by Yu Kuai (14): md: use separate work_struct for md_start_sync() md: factor out a helper to choose sync action from md_check_recovery() md: delay choosing sync action to md_start_sync() md: factor out a helper rdev_removeable() from remove_and_add_spares() md: factor out a helper rdev_is_spare() from remove_and_add_spares() md: factor out a helper rdev_addable() from remove_and_add_spares() md: delay remove_and_add_spares() for read only array to md_start_sync() md: initialize 'active_io' while allocating mddev md: initialize 'writes_pending' while allocating mddev md: don't rely on 'mddev->pers' to be set in mddev_suspend() md-bitmap: remove the checking of 'pers->quiesce' from location_store() md-bitmap: suspend array earlier in location_store() md: don't check 'mddev->pers' from suspend_hi_store() md: don't check 'mddev->pers' and 'pers->quiesce' from suspend_lo_store() drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 7 ++- drivers/md/md-bitmap.c | 47 ++++++++---------- drivers/md/md-linear.c | 26 +++++----- drivers/md/md-linear.h | 2 +- drivers/md/md.c | 414 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------------------------- drivers/md/md.h | 9 ++-- drivers/md/raid1.c | 3 +- drivers/md/raid10.c | 3 -- drivers/md/raid5.c | 3 -- 9 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)