From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 01:22:08 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Merge tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md
X-Git-Tag: v3.9-rc2~28
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a5e0d73163a848060ac0c2c054274e84a654986e;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-stable.git

Merge tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 "Mostly little bugfixes.

  Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
  number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
  loss."

* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: expedite metadata update when switching  read-auto -> active
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
  md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
  md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
  md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
  md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
  DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
  MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
  md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
  md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array
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