Commit 7e96d559 authored Jul 24, 2017 by Ofer Heifetz Committed by Shaohua Li Jul 24, 2017

md/raid5: add thread_group worker async_tx_issue_pending_all



Since thread_group worker and raid5d kthread are not in sync, if
worker writes stripe before raid5d then requests will be waiting
for issue_pendig.

Issue observed when building raid5 with ext4, in some build runs
jbd2 would get hung and requests were waiting in the HW engine
waiting to be issued.

Fix this by adding a call to async_tx_issue_pending_all in the
raid5_do_work.

Signed-off-by: Ofer Heifetz <oferh@marvell.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>

parent 6308d8e3

drivers/md/raid5.c

+2 −0

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		@@ -6234,6 +6234,8 @@ static void raid5_do_work(struct work_struct *work)
		pr_debug("%d stripes handled\n", handled);

		spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);

		async_tx_issue_pending_all();
		blk_finish_plug(&plug);

		pr_debug("--- raid5worker inactive\n");

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