commit: b5e1b8cee7ad58a15d2fa79bcd7946acb592602d
From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:26:59 +1000
Subject: md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request

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.

Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/md/md.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 01233d8..2b30ffd 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;
-- 
1.7.3.4
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