diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 64e7da3701a5a7c642c3e40845a2989215a99391..1364a1c97e6f5f64dc6cb0be0686d343e97334af 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -461,6 +461,7 @@ int sync_page_io(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, int size,
 	bio_put(bio);
 	return ret;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(sync_page_io);
 
 static int read_disk_sb(mdk_rdev_t * rdev, int size)
 {
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index c618015f07f65c4f045bcfb0bd95303f6a3a3424..b3856db8d6c2cc719af3c3c541ebafc0aae26b8a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ static void reschedule_retry(r1bio_t *r1_bio)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 	list_add(&r1_bio->retry_list, &conf->retry_list);
+	conf->nr_queued ++;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 
 	wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
@@ -245,9 +246,9 @@ static int raid1_end_read_request(struct bio *bio, unsigned int bytes_done, int
 	/*
 	 * this branch is our 'one mirror IO has finished' event handler:
 	 */
-	if (!uptodate)
-		md_error(r1_bio->mddev, conf->mirrors[mirror].rdev);
-	else
+	update_head_pos(mirror, r1_bio);
+
+	if (uptodate || conf->working_disks <= 1) {
 		/*
 		 * Set R1BIO_Uptodate in our master bio, so that
 		 * we will return a good error code for to the higher
@@ -259,14 +260,8 @@ static int raid1_end_read_request(struct bio *bio, unsigned int bytes_done, int
 		 */
 		set_bit(R1BIO_Uptodate, &r1_bio->state);
 
-	update_head_pos(mirror, r1_bio);
-
-	/*
-	 * we have only one bio on the read side
-	 */
-	if (uptodate)
 		raid_end_bio_io(r1_bio);
-	else {
+	} else {
 		/*
 		 * oops, read error:
 		 */
@@ -653,6 +648,32 @@ static void allow_barrier(conf_t *conf)
 	wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
 }
 
+static void freeze_array(conf_t *conf)
+{
+	/* stop syncio and normal IO and wait for everything to
+	 * go quite.
+	 * We increment barrier and nr_waiting, and then
+	 * wait until barrier+nr_pending match nr_queued+2
+	 */
+	spin_lock_irq(&conf->resync_lock);
+	conf->barrier++;
+	conf->nr_waiting++;
+	wait_event_lock_irq(conf->wait_barrier,
+			    conf->barrier+conf->nr_pending == conf->nr_queued+2,
+			    conf->resync_lock,
+			    raid1_unplug(conf->mddev->queue));
+	spin_unlock_irq(&conf->resync_lock);
+}
+static void unfreeze_array(conf_t *conf)
+{
+	/* reverse the effect of the freeze */
+	spin_lock_irq(&conf->resync_lock);
+	conf->barrier--;
+	conf->nr_waiting--;
+	wake_up(&conf->wait_barrier);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&conf->resync_lock);
+}
+
 
 /* duplicate the data pages for behind I/O */
 static struct page **alloc_behind_pages(struct bio *bio)
@@ -1196,6 +1217,7 @@ static void raid1d(mddev_t *mddev)
 			break;
 		r1_bio = list_entry(head->prev, r1bio_t, retry_list);
 		list_del(head->prev);
+		conf->nr_queued--;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 
 		mddev = r1_bio->mddev;
@@ -1235,6 +1257,74 @@ static void raid1d(mddev_t *mddev)
 				}
 		} else {
 			int disk;
+
+			/* we got a read error. Maybe the drive is bad.  Maybe just
+			 * the block and we can fix it.
+			 * We freeze all other IO, and try reading the block from
+			 * other devices.  When we find one, we re-write
+			 * and check it that fixes the read error.
+			 * This is all done synchronously while the array is
+			 * frozen
+			 */
+			sector_t sect = r1_bio->sector;
+			int sectors = r1_bio->sectors;
+			freeze_array(conf);
+			while(sectors) {
+				int s = sectors;
+				int d = r1_bio->read_disk;
+				int success = 0;
+
+				if (s > (PAGE_SIZE>>9))
+					s = PAGE_SIZE >> 9;
+
+				do {
+					rdev = conf->mirrors[d].rdev;
+					if (rdev &&
+					    test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) &&
+					    sync_page_io(rdev->bdev,
+							 sect + rdev->data_offset,
+							 s<<9,
+							 conf->tmppage, READ))
+						success = 1;
+					else {
+						d++;
+						if (d == conf->raid_disks)
+							d = 0;
+					}
+				} while (!success && d != r1_bio->read_disk);
+
+				if (success) {
+					/* write it back and re-read */
+					while (d != r1_bio->read_disk) {
+						if (d==0)
+							d = conf->raid_disks;
+						d--;
+						rdev = conf->mirrors[d].rdev;
+						if (rdev &&
+						    test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) {
+							if (sync_page_io(rdev->bdev,
+									 sect + rdev->data_offset,
+									 s<<9, conf->tmppage, WRITE) == 0 ||
+							    sync_page_io(rdev->bdev,
+									 sect + rdev->data_offset,
+									 s<<9, conf->tmppage, READ) == 0) {
+								/* Well, this device is dead */
+								md_error(mddev, rdev);
+							}
+						}
+					}
+				} else {
+					/* Cannot read from anywhere -- bye bye array */
+					md_error(mddev, conf->mirrors[r1_bio->read_disk].rdev);
+					break;
+				}
+				sectors -= s;
+				sect += s;
+			}
+
+
+			unfreeze_array(conf);
+
 			bio = r1_bio->bios[r1_bio->read_disk];
 			if ((disk=read_balance(conf, r1_bio)) == -1) {
 				printk(KERN_ALERT "raid1: %s: unrecoverable I/O"
@@ -1529,6 +1619,10 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
 
 	memset(conf->mirrors, 0, sizeof(struct mirror_info)*mddev->raid_disks);
 
+	conf->tmppage = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!conf->tmppage)
+		goto out_no_mem;
+
 	conf->poolinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*conf->poolinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!conf->poolinfo)
 		goto out_no_mem;
@@ -1635,6 +1729,7 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
 		if (conf->r1bio_pool)
 			mempool_destroy(conf->r1bio_pool);
 		kfree(conf->mirrors);
+		__free_page(conf->tmppage);
 		kfree(conf->poolinfo);
 		kfree(conf);
 		mddev->private = NULL;
diff --git a/include/linux/raid/raid1.h b/include/linux/raid/raid1.h
index c5567425253333bb5607098167a0c9b5d6a0eba9..cbe4238d3f9fd2f3be46bc5f5339919a00a44cd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/raid1.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/raid1.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct r1_private_data_s {
 	spinlock_t		resync_lock;
 	int			nr_pending;
 	int			nr_waiting;
+	int			nr_queued;
 	int			barrier;
 	sector_t		next_resync;
 	int			fullsync;  /* set to 1 if a full sync is needed,
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ struct r1_private_data_s {
 
 	struct pool_info	*poolinfo;
 
+	struct page		*tmppage;
+
 	mempool_t *r1bio_pool;
 	mempool_t *r1buf_pool;
 };