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authorShaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>2012-04-13 10:27:35 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-27 10:16:49 -0700
commit633a19a518ac8a58f02ece56e482a577831b70e2 (patch)
tree568a3100a4eb14f66eca977abb25b368a7ce8919 /fs
parentff459d1ea87ea7d3bdbe7e2eaee26a6b535d7d31 (diff)
jbd2: use GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flush
commit 99aa78466777083255b876293e9e83dec7cd809a upstream. flush request is issued in transaction commit code path, so looks using GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic deadlock issue. I saw btrfs and dm get it right, but ext4, xfs and md are using GFP. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/jbd2/commit.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index 5069b847515..cff940a3116 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ start_journal_io:
if (commit_transaction->t_need_data_flush &&
(journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
(journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
- blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+ blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL);
/* Done it all: now write the commit record asynchronously. */
if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal,
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal,
JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT) &&
journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER) {
- blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+ blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL);
}
if (err)