commit baaa2c512dc1c47e3afeb9d558c5323c9240bd21
author Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sat Apr 16 15:23:54 2005 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 16 15:23:54 2005 -0700
tree b4a3fcd63090a3c5a5ba7e13c1c01897318eb948
parent 8d38eadb7a97f265f7b3a9e8a30df358c3a546c8

[PATCH] Avoid deadlock in sync_page_io by using GFP_NOIO

..as sync_page_io can be called on the write-out path.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

drivers/md/md.c

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 04562ad..aa72c88 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@
 static 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;