mdadm can cause a deadlock with raid devices using a bitmap file
Issue
- System hangs on spinlocks in
dputandbitmap_endwritefrommd_seq_show. - System hangs while reading
/proc/mdstat
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 and earlier
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
mdadmMD RAID devices with a bitmap file
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