[PATCH v5 1/3] md: suspend array when sync_action=reshape

From: Chen Cheng

Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 - 08:13:48 EST


From: Chen Cheng <chencheng@xxxxxxxxx>

raid10 needs to resize/swap r10bio_pool when reshape changes
raid_disks, and, don't let new requests keep allocating r10bio
objects from the old pool while that transition is in progress.

suspend and lock array before mddev_start_reshape(), and resume
it on exit.

Other sync_action ops are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Chen Cheng <chencheng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 096bb64e87bd..e139f36e30b9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5256,30 +5256,41 @@ static int mddev_start_reshape(struct mddev *mddev)

static ssize_t
action_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *page, size_t len)
{
int ret;
+ bool suspended = false;
enum sync_action action;

if (!mddev->pers || !mddev->pers->sync_request)
return -EINVAL;

+ action = md_sync_action_by_name(page);
+ if (action == ACTION_RESHAPE) {
+ ret = mddev_suspend(mddev, true);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+ suspended = true;
+ }
retry:
if (work_busy(&mddev->sync_work))
flush_work(&mddev->sync_work);

ret = mddev_lock(mddev);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ mddev_resume(mddev);
return ret;
+ }

if (work_busy(&mddev->sync_work)) {
- mddev_unlock(mddev);
+ if (suspended)
+ mddev_unlock_and_resume(mddev);
+ else
+ mddev_unlock(mddev);
goto retry;
}

- action = md_sync_action_by_name(page);
-
/* TODO: mdadm rely on "idle" to start sync_thread. */
if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery)) {
switch (action) {
case ACTION_FROZEN:
md_frozen_sync_thread(mddev);
@@ -5344,11 +5355,14 @@ action_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *page, size_t len)
md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(mddev->sysfs_action);
ret = len;

out:
- mddev_unlock(mddev);
+ if (suspended)
+ mddev_unlock_and_resume(mddev);
+ else
+ mddev_unlock(mddev);
return ret;
}

static struct md_sysfs_entry md_scan_mode =
__ATTR_PREALLOC(sync_action, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, action_show, action_store);
--
2.54.0