Make sure all changes to md/sync_action are notified.

When the 'resync' thread starts or stops, when we explicitly
set sync_action, or when we determine that there is definitely nothing
to do, we notify sync_action.

To stop "sync_action" from occasionally showing the wrong value,
we introduce a new flags - MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER - to say that a
recovery is probably needed or happening, and we make sure
that we set MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING before clearing MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/md.txt b/Documentation/md.txt
index dca97ba4944a..c05bfb55659e 100644
--- a/Documentation/md.txt
+++ b/Documentation/md.txt
@@ -386,6 +386,12 @@ also have
         'check' and 'repair' will start the appropriate process
            providing the current state is 'idle'.
 
+      This file responds to select/poll.  Any important change in the value
+      triggers a poll event.  Sometimes the value will briefly be
+      "recover" if a recovery seems to be needed, but cannot be
+      achieved. In that case, the transition to "recover" isn't
+      notified, but the transition away is.
+
    mismatch_count
       When performing 'check' and 'repair', and possibly when
       performing 'resync', md will count the number of errors that are