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md: using GFP_NOIO to allocate bio for flush request
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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: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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Shaohua Li authored and NeilBrown committed May 20, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -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;
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