raid5: fix incorrectly counter of conf->empty_inactive_list_nr
The counter conf->empty_inactive_list_nr is only used for determine if the raid5 is congested which is deal with in function raid5_congested(). It was increased in get_free_stripe() when conf->inactive_list got to be empty and decreased in release_inactive_stripe_list() when splice temp_inactive_list to conf->inactive_list. However, this may have a problem when raid5_get_active_stripe or stripe_add_to_batch_list was called, because these two functions may call list_del_init(&sh->lru) to delete sh from "conf->inactive_list + hash" which may cause "conf->inactive_list + hash" to be empty when atomic_inc_not_zero(&sh->count) got false. So a check should be done at these two point and increase empty_inactive_list_nr accordingly. Otherwise the counter may get to be negative number which would influence async readahead from VFS. Signed-off-by: ZhengYuan Liu <liuzhengyuan@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
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