This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/raid10: wait up frozen array in handle_write_completed to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: md-raid10-wait-up-frozen-array-in-handle_write_completed.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Mar 22 14:57:32 CET 2018 From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 17:11:05 +0800 Subject: md/raid10: wait up frozen array in handle_write_completed From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cf25ae78fc50010f66b9be945017796da34c434d ] Since nr_queued is changed, we need to call wake_up here if the array is already frozen and waiting for condition "nr_pending == nr_queued + extra" to be true. And commit 824e47daddbf ("RAID1: avoid unnecessary spin locks in I/O barrier code") which has already added the wake_up for raid1. Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid10.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -2698,6 +2698,11 @@ static void handle_write_completed(struc list_add(&r10_bio->retry_list, &conf->bio_end_io_list); conf->nr_queued++; spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); + /* + * In case freeze_array() is waiting for condition + * nr_pending == nr_queued + extra to be true. + */ + wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier); md_wakeup_thread(conf->mddev->thread); } else { if (test_bit(R10BIO_WriteError, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gqjiang@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/md-raid10-wait-up-frozen-array-in-handle_write_completed.patch queue-4.4/md-raid10-skip-spare-disk-as-first-disk.patch