On Monday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Neil, have you had a look at the traces? Do they mean much to you? >
Just looked. bio_alloc_bioset seems implicated, as does sync_page_io. sync_page_io used to use a 'struct bio' on the stack, but Jens Axboe change it to use bio_alloc (don't know why..) and I should have checked the change better. sync_page_io can be called on the write out path, so it should use GFP_NOIO rather than GFP_KERNEL. See if this helps.... Actually this patch is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 which uses md_super_write instead of sync_page_io (which is now only used for read). So if you are using a non-mm kernel (which seems to be the case) you'll need to apply the patch by hand. Thanks, NeilBrown --- Avoid deadlock in sync_page_io by using GFP_NOIO ..as sync_page_io can be called on the write-out path. Ditto for md_super_write Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2005-04-08 11:25:26.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2005-04-12 09:42:29.000000000 +1000 @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ void md_super_write(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_ * if zero is reached. * If an error occurred, call md_error */ - struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 1); + struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1); bio->bi_bdev = rdev->bdev; bio->bi_sector = sector; @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ static int bi_complete(struct bio *bio, int sync_page_io(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector, int size, struct page *page, int rw) { - struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 1); + struct bio *bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1); struct completion event; int ret; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/