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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: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Shaohua Li 13 years ago
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      drivers/md/md.c

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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;