er the quiesce function blocks new requests once they are all ready 'inside' the personality module, and that is too late if we want to replace the personality modules. So make all md requests come in through a common md_make_request function that keeps track of how many requests have entered the modules but may not yet be on the internal reference counts. Allow md_make_request to be blocked when we want to suspend the device, and make it possible to wait for all those in-transit requests to be added to internal lists so that ->quiesce can wait for them. There is still a problem that when a request completes, we drop the ref count inside the personality code so there is a short time between when the refcount hits zero, and when the personality code is no longer being used. The personality code never blocks (schedule or spinlock) between dropping the refcount and exiting the routine, so this should be safe (as put_module calls synchronize_sched() before unmapping the module code). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown ß