md/raid5: replace sh->lock with an 'active' flag.
sh->lock is now mainly used to ensure that two threads aren't running in the locked part of handle_stripe[56] at the same time. That can more neatly be achieved with an 'active' flag which we set while running handle_stripe. If we find the flag is set, we simply requeue the stripe for later by setting STRIPE_HANDLE. For safety we take ->device_lock while examining the state of the stripe and creating a summary in 'stripe_head_state / r6_state'. This possibly isn't needed but as shared fields like ->toread, ->towrite are checked it is safer for now at least. We leave the label after the old 'unlock' called "unlock" because it will disappear in a few patches, so renaming seems pointless. This leaves the stripe 'locked' for longer as we clear STRIPE_ACTIVE later, but that is not a problem. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
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