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drbd: a few more GFP_KERNEL -> GFP_NOIO

This has not yet been observed, but conceivably, when using GFP_KERNEL
allocations from drbd_md_sync(), drbd_flush_after_epoch() or
receive_SyncParam(), we could trigger additional IO to our own device,
or an other device in a criss-cross setup, and end up in a local
deadlock, or potentially a distributed deadlock in a criss-cross setup
involving the peer blocked in a similar way waiting for us to make
progress.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Lars Ellenberg 13 years ago
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2 changed files with 3 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 1 1
      drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
  2. 2 2
      drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c

+ 1 - 1
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h

@@ -2497,7 +2497,7 @@ static inline void drbd_md_flush(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
 	if (test_bit(MD_NO_FUA, &mdev->flags))
 		return;
 
-	r = blkdev_issue_flush(mdev->ldev->md_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+	r = blkdev_issue_flush(mdev->ldev->md_bdev, GFP_NOIO, NULL);
 	if (r) {
 		set_bit(MD_NO_FUA, &mdev->flags);
 		dev_err(DEV, "meta data flush failed with status %d, disabling md-flushes\n", r);

+ 2 - 2
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c

@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ static void drbd_flush(struct drbd_conf *mdev)
 	int rv;
 
 	if (mdev->write_ordering >= WO_bdev_flush && get_ldev(mdev)) {
-		rv = blkdev_issue_flush(mdev->ldev->backing_bdev, GFP_KERNEL,
+		rv = blkdev_issue_flush(mdev->ldev->backing_bdev, GFP_NOIO,
 					NULL);
 		if (rv) {
 			dev_info(DEV, "local disk flush failed with status %d\n", rv);
@@ -2907,7 +2907,7 @@ static int receive_SyncParam(struct drbd_conf *mdev, enum drbd_packets cmd, unsi
 
 			fifo_size = (mdev->sync_conf.c_plan_ahead * 10 * SLEEP_TIME) / HZ;
 			if (fifo_size != mdev->rs_plan_s.size && fifo_size > 0) {
-				rs_plan_s   = kzalloc(sizeof(int) * fifo_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+				rs_plan_s   = kzalloc(sizeof(int) * fifo_size, GFP_NOIO);
 				if (!rs_plan_s) {
 					dev_err(DEV, "kmalloc of fifo_buffer failed");
 					goto disconnect;