We can't wait for polled events to complete, as they may require active polling from whoever submitted it. If that is the same task that is submitting new IO, we could deadlock waiting for IO to complete that this task is supposed to be completing itself.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> --- fs/block_dev.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index 9acb26f7c9ec..9580ffe0cf24 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -400,8 +400,16 @@ __blkdev_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter, int nr_pages) nr_pages = iov_iter_npages(iter, BIO_MAX_PAGES); if (!nr_pages) { - if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI) + if (iocb->ki_flags & IOCB_HIPRI) { bio->bi_opf |= REQ_HIPRI; + /* + * For async polled IO, we can't wait for + * requests to complete, as they may also be + * polled and require active reaping. + */ + if (!is_sync) + bio->bi_opf |= REQ_NOWAIT; + } qc = submit_bio(bio); WRITE_ONCE(iocb->ki_cookie, qc); -- 2.17.1
