md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.
commitfdb07a230a9f146bad017b8ec577a25c29ca1856
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fri, 7 May 2010 09:44:26 +0000 (7 19:44 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Wed, 12 May 2010 21:57:14 +0000 (12 14:57 -0700)
tree9dabb789278ddf10749dbdbe10c9ee8747c09692
parente3a126e62222b90f6c9ec63cc30cf443210764f7
md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.

commit 1176568de7e066c0be9e46c37503b9fd4730edcf upstream.

Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates
from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that
it could spin down and say spun down.  Device failure/removal
etc are still recorded on spares.

However commit 51d5668cb2e3fd1827a55 broke this 50% of the time,
depending on whether the event count is even or odd.
The change log entry said:

   This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
    'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain,

how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it
could take arbitrarily long.

So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even,
force a second metadata-update immediately.  There are already cases
where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a
device fails during the metadata update).  We just piggy-back on that.

Reported-by: Joe Bryant <tenminjoe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/md/md.c