Re: [GIT PULL] md-7.1-20260407

From: Jens Axboe

Date: Wed Apr 08 2026 - 09:00:41 EST


On 4/7/26 11:05 PM, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> Please consider pulling the following changes into your for-7.1/block branch.
>
> This pull request contains:
>
> Bug Fixes:
> - avoid a sysfs deadlock when clearing array state (Yu Kuai)
> - validate raid5 journal payloads before reading metadata (Junrui Luo)
> - fall back to the correct bitmap operations after version mismatches (Yu Kuai)
> - serialize overlapping writes on writemostly raid1 disks (Xiao Ni)
> - wake raid456 reshape waiters before suspend (Yu Kuai)
> - prevent retry_aligned_read() from triggering soft lockups (Chia-Ming Chang)
>
> Improvements:
> - switch raid0 strip zone and devlist allocations to kvmalloc helpers (Gregory Price)
> - track clean unwritten stripes for proactive RAID5 parity building (Yu Kuai)
> - speed up initial llbitmap sync with write_zeroes_unmap support (Yu Kuai)
>
> Cleanups:
> - remove the unused static md workqueue definition (Abd-Alrhman Masalkhi)

Pulled, thanks.

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Jens Axboe