md: skip all metadata update processing when using external metadata.

All the metadata update processing for external metadata is on in user-space
or through the sysfs interfaces, so make "md_update_sb" a no-op in that case.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

drivers/md/md.c

@@ -1652,6 +1652,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
 	int sync_req;
 	int nospares = 0;
 
+	if (mddev->external)
+		return;
 repeat:
 	spin_lock_irq(&mddev->write_lock);