}
 }
 
-void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev)
+static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
 {
        int err;
        struct list_head *tmp;
 repeat:
        spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
 
-       if (mddev->degraded && mddev->sb_dirty == 3)
+       set_bit(MD_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->flags);
+       if (test_and_clear_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags))
+               force_change = 1;
+       if (test_and_clear_bit(MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, &mddev->flags))
+               /* just a clean<-> dirty transition, possibly leave spares alone,
+                * though if events isn't the right even/odd, we will have to do
+                * spares after all
+                */
+               nospares = 1;
+       if (force_change)
+               nospares = 0;
+       if (mddev->degraded)
                /* If the array is degraded, then skipping spares is both
                 * dangerous and fairly pointless.
                 * Dangerous because a device that was removed from the array
                 * then a recovery will happen and soon that array won't
                 * be degraded any more and the spare can go back to sleep then.
                 */
-               mddev->sb_dirty = 1;
+               nospares = 0;
 
        sync_req = mddev->in_sync;
        mddev->utime = get_seconds();
-       if (mddev->sb_dirty == 3)
-               /* just a clean<-> dirty transition, possibly leave spares alone,
-                * though if events isn't the right even/odd, we will have to do
-                * spares after all
-                */
-               nospares = 1;
 
        /* If this is just a dirty<->clean transition, and the array is clean
         * and 'events' is odd, we can roll back to the previous clean state */
-       if (mddev->sb_dirty == 3
+       if (nospares
            && (mddev->in_sync && mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector)
            && (mddev->events & 1))
                mddev->events--;
                MD_BUG();
                mddev->events --;
        }
-       mddev->sb_dirty = 2;
        sync_sbs(mddev, nospares);
 
        /*
         * nonpersistent superblocks
         */
        if (!mddev->persistent) {
-               mddev->sb_dirty = 0;
+               clear_bit(MD_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->flags);
                spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
                wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);
                return;
                        break;
        }
        md_super_wait(mddev);
-       /* if there was a failure, sb_dirty was set to 1, and we re-write super */
+       /* if there was a failure, MD_CHANGE_DEVS was set, and we re-write super */
 
        spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
-       if (mddev->in_sync != sync_req|| mddev->sb_dirty == 1) {
+       if (mddev->in_sync != sync_req ||
+           test_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags)) {
                /* have to write it out again */
                spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
                goto repeat;
        }
-       mddev->sb_dirty = 0;
+       clear_bit(MD_CHANGE_PENDING, &mddev->flags);
        spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
        wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);
 
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(md_update_sb);
 
 /* words written to sysfs files may, or my not, be \n terminated.
  * We want to accept with case. For this we use cmd_match.
                else {
                        mddev_t *mddev = rdev->mddev;
                        kick_rdev_from_array(rdev);
-                       md_update_sb(mddev);
+                       md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
                        md_new_event(mddev);
                        err = 0;
                }
                        spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
                        if (atomic_read(&mddev->writes_pending) == 0) {
                                mddev->in_sync = 1;
-                               mddev->sb_dirty = 1;
+                               set_bit(MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, &mddev->flags);
                        }
                        spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
                } else {
        case active:
                if (mddev->pers) {
                        restart_array(mddev);
-                       mddev->sb_dirty = 0;
+                       clear_bit(MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, &mddev->flags);
                        wake_up(&mddev->sb_wait);
                        err = 0;
                } else {
 
        if (mddev->pers) {
                err = update_size(mddev, size);
-               md_update_sb(mddev);
+               md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
        } else {
                if (mddev->size == 0 ||
                    mddev->size > size)
        
        set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
        
-       if (mddev->sb_dirty)
-               md_update_sb(mddev);
+       if (mddev->flags)
+               md_update_sb(mddev, 0);
 
        set_capacity(disk, mddev->array_size<<1);
 
                        if (mddev->ro)
                                mddev->ro = 0;
                }
-               if (!mddev->in_sync || mddev->sb_dirty) {
+               if (!mddev->in_sync || mddev->flags) {
                        /* mark array as shutdown cleanly */
                        mddev->in_sync = 1;
-                       md_update_sb(mddev);
+                       md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
                }
                if (mode == 1)
                        set_disk_ro(disk, 1);
                goto busy;
 
        kick_rdev_from_array(rdev);
-       md_update_sb(mddev);
+       md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
        md_new_event(mddev);
 
        return 0;
 
        rdev->raid_disk = -1;
 
-       md_update_sb(mddev);
+       md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
 
        /*
         * Kick recovery, maybe this spare has to be added to the
 
        mddev->max_disks     = MD_SB_DISKS;
 
-       mddev->sb_dirty      = 1;
+       mddev->flags         = 0;
+       set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
 
        mddev->default_bitmap_offset = MD_SB_BYTES >> 9;
        mddev->bitmap_offset = 0;
                        mddev->bitmap_offset = 0;
                }
        }
-       md_update_sb(mddev);
+       md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
        return rv;
 }
 
                spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
                if (mddev->in_sync) {
                        mddev->in_sync = 0;
-                       mddev->sb_dirty = 3;
+                       set_bit(MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, &mddev->flags);
                        md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
                }
                spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
        }
-       wait_event(mddev->sb_wait, mddev->sb_dirty==0);
+       wait_event(mddev->sb_wait, mddev->flags==0);
 }
 
 void md_write_end(mddev_t *mddev)
                                    !test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) &&
                                    rdev->recovery_offset < mddev->curr_resync)
                                        rdev->recovery_offset = mddev->curr_resync;
-                       mddev->sb_dirty = 1;
                }
        }
 
        }
 
        if ( ! (
-               mddev->sb_dirty ||
+               mddev->flags ||
                test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery) ||
                test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_DONE, &mddev->recovery) ||
                (mddev->safemode == 1) ||
                if (mddev->safemode && !atomic_read(&mddev->writes_pending) &&
                    !mddev->in_sync && mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector) {
                        mddev->in_sync = 1;
-                       mddev->sb_dirty = 3;
+                       set_bit(MD_CHANGE_CLEAN, &mddev->flags);
                }
                if (mddev->safemode == 1)
                        mddev->safemode = 0;
                spin_unlock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);
 
-               if (mddev->sb_dirty)
-                       md_update_sb(mddev);
+               if (mddev->flags)
+                       md_update_sb(mddev, 0);
 
 
                if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) &&
                                /* activate any spares */
                                mddev->pers->spare_active(mddev);
                        }
-                       md_update_sb(mddev);
+                       md_update_sb(mddev, 1);
 
                        /* if array is no-longer degraded, then any saved_raid_disk
                         * information must be scrapped
 
        PRINTK("raid5: error called\n");
 
        if (!test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) {
-               mddev->sb_dirty = 1;
+               set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
                if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) {
                        conf->working_disks--;
                        mddev->degraded++;
                wait_event(conf->wait_for_overlap,
                           atomic_read(&conf->reshape_stripes)==0);
                mddev->reshape_position = conf->expand_progress;
-               mddev->sb_dirty = 1;
+               set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
                md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
-               wait_event(mddev->sb_wait, mddev->sb_dirty == 0 ||
+               wait_event(mddev->sb_wait, mddev->flags == 0 ||
                           kthread_should_stop());
                spin_lock_irq(&conf->device_lock);
                conf->expand_lo = mddev->reshape_position;
        mddev->degraded = (conf->raid_disks - conf->previous_raid_disks) - added_devices;
        mddev->raid_disks = conf->raid_disks;
        mddev->reshape_position = 0;
-       mddev->sb_dirty = 1;
+       set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
 
        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &mddev->recovery);
        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_CHECK, &mddev->recovery);