From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755427AbaCKTNp (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:13:45 -0400 Received: from vm1.sequanux.org ([188.165.36.56]:53480 "EHLO vm1.sequanux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754269AbaCKTMw (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:12:52 -0400 From: Simon Guinot To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?q?R=C3=A9mi=20R=C3=A9rolle?= , Simon Guinot Subject: [PATCH 0/2] md: fix fix deadlock while suspending RAID array Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:12:08 +0100 Message-Id: <1394565130-24233-1-git-send-email-simon.guinot@sequanux.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This patch series fixes a deadlock which have been observed while updating a RAID array level, using the mdadm --grow command. A full description of the issue (hopefully understandable enough) is provided by the commit message in the second patch. Please, let me know if this patches are correct and/or if there is an another way (maybe more handy) to solve this deadlock issue. Thanks, Simon Simon Guinot (2): md: move up mddev locking functions md: fix deadlock while suspending RAID array drivers/md/md.c | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-) -- 1.8.5.3