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NeilBrown authored
md/raid5 doesn't allow a reshape to restart if it involves writing over the same part of disk that it would be reading from. This happens at the beginning of a reshape that increases the number of devices, at the end of a reshape that decreases the number of devices, and continuously for a reshape that does not change the number of devices. The current code is correct for the "increase number of devices" case as the critical section at the start is handled by userspace performing a backup. It does not work for reducing the number of devices, or the no-change case. For 'reducing', we need to invert the test. For no-change we cannot really be sure things will be safe, so simply require the array to be read-only, which is how the user-space code which carefully starts such arrays works. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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