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    md: enable suspend/resume of md devices. · 409c57f3
    NeilBrown authored
    To be able to change the 'level' of an md/raid array, we need to
    suspend the device so that no requests are active - then move some
    pointers around etc.
    
    The code already keeps counts of active requests and the ->quiesce
    function can be used to wait until those counts hit zero.
    However the quiesce function blocks new requests once they are all
    ready 'inside' the personality module, and that is too late if we want
    to replace the personality modules.
    
    So make all md requests come in through a common md_make_request
    function that keeps track of how many requests have entered the
    modules but may not yet be on the internal reference counts.
    Allow md_make_request to be blocked when we want to suspend the
    device, and make it possible to wait for all those in-transit requests
    to be added to internal lists so that ->quiesce can wait for them.
    
    There is still a problem that when a request completes, we drop the
    ref count inside the personality code so there is a short time between
    when the refcount hits zero, and when the personality code is no
    longer being used.
    The personality code never blocks (schedule or spinlock) between
    dropping the refcount and exiting the routine, so this should be safe
    (as put_module calls synchronize_sched() before unmapping the module
    code).
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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