Patch "md/raid5: release/flush io in raid5_do_work()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

md/raid5: release/flush io in raid5_do_work()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
md-raid5-release-flush-io-in-raid5_do_work.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:53:59 -0700
Subject: md/raid5: release/flush io in raid5_do_work()

From: Song Liu <[email protected]>

commit 9c72a18e46ebe0f09484cce8ebf847abdab58498 upstream.

In raid5, there are scenarios where some ios are deferred to a later time, and some IO need a flush to complete. To make sure we make progress with these IOs, we need to call the following functions:

    flush_deferred_bios(conf);
    r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log);

Both of these functions are called in raid5d(), but missing in raid5_do_work(). As a result, these functions are not called when multi-threading (group_thread_cnt > 0) is enabled. This patch adds calls to these function to raid5_do_work().

Note for stable branches:

r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log) is need for 4.4+ flush_deferred_bios(conf) is only needed for 4.11+

---
 drivers/md/raid5.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -5822,6 +5822,8 @@ static void raid5_do_work(struct work_st
 
 	spin_unlock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
 
+	r5l_flush_stripe_to_raid(conf->log);
+
 	async_tx_issue_pending_all();
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/md-raid5-release-flush-io-in-raid5_do_work.patch