This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

md/raid1/10: add missed blk plug

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: md-raid1-10-add-missed-blk-plug.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018

From: Shaohua Li shli@fb.com Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 12:12:34 -0800 Subject: md/raid1/10: add missed blk plug

From: Shaohua Li shli@fb.com

[ Upstream commit 18022a1bd3709b74ca31ef0b28fccd52bcd6c504 ]

flush_pending_writes isn't always called with block plug, so add it, and plug works in nested way.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li shli@fb.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/md/raid1.c | 4 ++++ drivers/md/raid10.c | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -810,11 +810,15 @@ static void flush_pending_writes(struct spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);

if (conf->pending_bio_list.head) { + struct blk_plug plug; struct bio *bio; + bio = bio_list_get(&conf->pending_bio_list); conf->pending_count = 0; spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); + blk_start_plug(&plug); flush_bio_list(conf, bio); + blk_finish_plug(&plug); } else spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); } --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -890,10 +890,13 @@ static void flush_pending_writes(struct spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);

if (conf->pending_bio_list.head) { + struct blk_plug plug; struct bio *bio; + bio = bio_list_get(&conf->pending_bio_list); conf->pending_count = 0; spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); + blk_start_plug(&plug); /* flush any pending bitmap writes to disk * before proceeding w/ I/O */ bitmap_unplug(conf->mddev->bitmap); @@ -914,6 +917,7 @@ static void flush_pending_writes(struct generic_make_request(bio); bio = next; } + blk_finish_plug(&plug); } else spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shli@fb.com are

queue-4.14/md-raid5-correct-degraded-calculation-in-raid5_error.patch queue-4.14/md-raid1-10-add-missed-blk-plug.patch