2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown commit a5c308d4d1659b1f4833b863394e3e24cdbdfc6e upstream. md allows write to regions on an array to be suspended temporarily. This allows user-space to participate is aspects of reshape. In particular, data can be copied with not risk of a race. We should not be blocking read requests though, so don't. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -3702,7 +3702,8 @@ static int make_request(struct request_queue *q, struct bio * bi) /* FIXME what if we get a false positive because these * are being updated. */ - if (logical_sector >= mddev->suspend_lo && + if (bio_data_dir(bi) == WRITE && + logical_sector >= mddev->suspend_lo && logical_sector < mddev->suspend_hi) { release_stripe(sh); schedule(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/