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authorShaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>2012-05-21 09:26:59 +1000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-06-01 15:15:46 +0800
commit5404dd3464ae620fbcb9977a0690670f91544be1 (patch)
tree43be0f165599617e1e20da6b31b349585e6b9fbe /drivers
parent29fdad4cf1cd116ff029456bf85d62d032c2c3e2 (diff)
md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request
commit b5e1b8cee7ad58a15d2fa79bcd7946acb592602d upstream. A flush request is usually issued in transaction commit code path, so using GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic deadlock issue. This is suitable for any -stable kernel to which it applies as it avoids a possible deadlock. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/md.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 363aaf40500..1ae432764b9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static void submit_flushes(struct work_struct *ws)
atomic_inc(&rdev->nr_pending);
atomic_inc(&rdev->nr_pending);
rcu_read_unlock();
- bi = bio_alloc_mddev(GFP_KERNEL, 0, mddev);
+ bi = bio_alloc_mddev(GFP_NOIO, 0, mddev);
bi->bi_end_io = md_end_flush;
bi->bi_private = rdev;
bi->bi_bdev = rdev->bdev;