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authorArtur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com>2017-05-08 11:56:55 +0200
committerShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>2017-05-08 10:32:59 -0700
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md: don't return -EAGAIN in md_allow_write for external metadata arrays
This essentially reverts commit b5470dc5fc18 ("md: resolve external metadata handling deadlock in md_allow_write") with some adjustments. Since commit 6791875e2e53 ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.") changing array_state to 'active' does not use mddev_lock() and will not cause a deadlock with md_allow_write(). This revert simplifies userspace tools that write to sysfs attributes like "stripe_cache_size" or "consistency_policy" because it removes the need for special handling for external metadata arrays, checking for EAGAIN and retrying the write. Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/md.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 4e75d121bfcc..11f15146ce51 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ extern int sync_page_io(struct md_rdev *rdev, sector_t sector, int size,
bool metadata_op);
extern void md_do_sync(struct md_thread *thread);
extern void md_new_event(struct mddev *mddev);
-extern int md_allow_write(struct mddev *mddev);
+extern void md_allow_write(struct mddev *mddev);
extern void md_wait_for_blocked_rdev(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct mddev *mddev);
extern void md_set_array_sectors(struct mddev *mddev, sector_t array_sectors);
extern int md_check_no_bitmap(struct mddev *mddev);