tree ae10253861afd7ce27aae967a4cf075f4b2621af
parent 497280509f32340d90feac030bce18006a3e3605
author NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> 1489547112 +1100
committer Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> 1490235357 -0700

md/raid5: simplfy delaying of writes while metadata is updated.

If a device fails during a write, we must ensure the failure is
recorded in the metadata before the completion of the write is
acknowleged.

Commit c3cce6cda162 ("md/raid5: ensure device failure recorded before
write request returns.")  added code for this, but it was
unnecessarily complicated.  We already had similar functionality for
handling updates to the bad-block-list, thanks to Commit de393cdea66c
("md: make it easier to wait for bad blocks to be acknowledged.")

So revert most of the former commit, and instead avoid collecting
completed writes if MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set.  raid5d() will then flush
the metadata and retry the stripe_head.
As this change can leave a stripe_head ready for handling immediately
after handle_active_stripes() returns, we change raid5_do_work() to
pause when MD_CHANGE_PENDING is set, so that it doesn't spin.

We check MD_CHANGE_PENDING *after* analyse_stripe() as it could be set
asynchronously.  After analyse_stripe(), we have collected stable data
about the state of devices, which will be used to make decisions.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>