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authorJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>2011-10-17 12:57:23 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-11-11 09:44:36 -0800
commite94d1d00463f6fdcef956828ff698a2bce3f7a8f (patch)
tree711c335eda09b34a63e7ff3969c79710ce68ffde /fs
parentd16a63a89dcb0cece02469b3bb17062c3d48656f (diff)
blk-flush: move the queue kick into
commit e67b77c791ca2778198c9e7088f3266ed2da7a55 upstream. A dm-multipath user reported[1] a problem when trying to boot a kernel with commit 4853abaae7e4a2af938115ce9071ef8684fb7af4 (block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags) applied. It turns out that an empty flush request can be sent into blk_insert_flush. When the BUG_ON was fixed to allow for this, I/O on the underlying device would stall. The reason is that blk_insert_cloned_request does not kick the queue. In the aforementioned commit, I had added a special case to kick the queue if data was sent down but the queue flags did not require a flush. A better solution is to push the queue kick up into blk_insert_cloned_request. This patch, along with a follow-on which fixes the BUG_ON, fixes the issue reported. [1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2011-September/msg00154.html Reported-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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