md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.
Some time ago we stopped the clean/active metadata updates
from being written to a 'spare' device in most cases so that
it could spin down and say spun down.  Device failure/removal
etc are still recorded on spares.
However commit 51d5668cb2 broke this 50% of the time,
depending on whether the event count is even or odd.
The change log entry said:
   This means that the alignment between 'odd/even' and
    'clean/dirty' might take a little longer to attain,
how ever the code makes no attempt to create that alignment, so it
could take arbitrarily long.
So when we find that clean/dirty is not aligned with odd/even,
force a second metadata-update immediately.  There are already cases
where a second metadata-update is needed immediately (e.g. when a
device fails during the metadata update).  We just piggy-back on that.
Reported-by: Joe Bryant <tenminjoe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
			
			
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				| @ -2150,12 +2150,18 @@ repeat: | ||||
| 		if (!mddev->in_sync || mddev->recovery_cp != MaxSector) { /* not clean */ | ||||
| 			/* .. if the array isn't clean, an 'even' event must also go
 | ||||
| 			 * to spares. */ | ||||
| 			if ((mddev->events&1)==0) | ||||
| 			if ((mddev->events&1)==0) { | ||||
| 				nospares = 0; | ||||
| 				sync_req = 2; /* force a second update to get the
 | ||||
| 					       * even/odd in sync */ | ||||
| 			} | ||||
| 		} else { | ||||
| 			/* otherwise an 'odd' event must go to spares */ | ||||
| 			if ((mddev->events&1)) | ||||
| 			if ((mddev->events&1)) { | ||||
| 				nospares = 0; | ||||
| 				sync_req = 2; /* force a second update to get the
 | ||||
| 					       * even/odd in sync */ | ||||
| 			} | ||||
| 		} | ||||
| 	} | ||||
| 
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