Linus Torvalds 5d8e7fb691 md updates for 3.20
- assorted locking changes so that access to /proc/mdstat
    and much of /sys/block/mdXX/md/* is protected by a spinlock
    rather than a mutex and will never block indefinitely.
 
  - Make an 'if' condition in RAID5 - which has been implicated
    in recent bugs - more readable.
 
  - misc minor fixes
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Merge tag 'md/3.20' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md updates from Neil Brown:

 - assorted locking changes so that access to /proc/mdstat
   and much of /sys/block/mdXX/md/* is protected by a spinlock
   rather than a mutex and will never block indefinitely.

 - Make an 'if' condition in RAID5 - which has been implicated
   in recent bugs - more readable.

 - misc minor fixes

* tag 'md/3.20' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (28 commits)
  md/raid10: fix conversion from RAID0 to RAID10
  md: wakeup thread upon rdev_dec_pending()
  md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.
  md: move mddev_lock and related to md.h
  md: use mddev->lock to protect updates to resync_{min,max}.
  md: minor cleanup in safe_delay_store.
  md: move GET_BITMAP_FILE ioctl out from mddev_lock.
  md: tidy up set_bitmap_file
  md: remove unnecessary 'buf' from get_bitmap_file.
  md: remove mddev_lock from rdev_attr_show()
  md: remove mddev_lock() from md_attr_show()
  md/raid5: use ->lock to protect accessing raid5 sysfs attributes.
  md: remove need for mddev_lock() in md_seq_show()
  md/bitmap: protect clearing of ->bitmap by mddev->lock
  md: protect ->pers changes with mddev->lock
  md: level_store: group all important changes into one place.
  md: rename ->stop to ->free
  md: split detach operation out from ->stop.
  md/linear: remove rcu protections in favour of suspend/resume
  md: make merge_bvec_fn more robust in face of personality changes.
  ...
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