md: don't call ->add_disk unless there is good reason.

commit ed209584c38fb74b7eecc03e5b1bfe674e591bd8 upstream.

Commit 7bfec5f35c68121e7b18

   md/raid5: If there is a spare and a want_replacement device, start replacement.

cause md_check_recovery to call ->add_disk much more often.
Instead of only when the array is degraded, it is now called whenever
md_check_recovery finds anything useful to do, which includes
updating the metadata for clean<->dirty transition.
This causes unnecessary work, and causes info messages from ->add_disk
to be reported much too often.

So refine md_check_recovery to only do any actual recovery checking
(including ->add_disk) if MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED is set.

This fix is suitable for 3.3.y:

Reported-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@computer.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 6acc8467d8a4a0ef511cf704b6cf53a606069dbb..c5164e179bf52ae6ca2a4fc72e5f3aadb26df0c9 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7580,14 +7580,14 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mddev)
                 * any transients in the value of "sync_action".
                 */
                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery);
-               clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
                /* Clear some bits that don't mean anything, but
                 * might be left set
                 */
                clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
                clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &mddev->recovery);
 
-               if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery))
+               if (!test_and_clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery) ||
+                   test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery))
                        goto unlock;
                /* no recovery is running.
                 * remove any failed drives, then