Merge tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md

Pull md updates from NeilBrown:
 "Mostly little bugfixes.

  Only "feature" is a new RAID10 layout which slightly improves the
  number of sets of devices that can concurrently fail, without data
  loss."

* tag 'md-3.9' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: expedite metadata update when switching  read-auto -> active
  md: remove CONFIG_MULTICORE_RAID456
  md/raid1,raid10: fix deadlock with freeze_array()
  md/raid0: improve error message when converting RAID4-with-spares to RAID0
  md: raid0: fix error return from create_stripe_zones.
  md: fix two bugs when attempting to resize RAID0 array.
  DM RAID: Add support for MD's RAID10 "far" and "offset" algorithms
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 2)
  MD RAID10: Improve redundancy for 'far' and 'offset' algorithms (part 1)
  MD RAID10: Minor non-functional code changes
  md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
  md: protect against crash upon fsync on ro array

drivers/md/Kconfig

@@ -154,17 +154,6 @@ config MD_RAID456
 
 	  If unsure, say Y.
 
-config MULTICORE_RAID456
-	bool "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on MD_RAID456
-	depends on SMP
-	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
-	---help---
-	  Enable the raid456 module to dispatch per-stripe raid operations to a
-	  thread pool.
-
-	  If unsure, say N.
-
 config MD_MULTIPATH
 	tristate "Multipath I/O support"
 	depends on BLK_DEV_MD