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authorLars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>2012-09-26 14:22:40 +0200
committerPhilipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>2012-11-09 14:11:40 +0100
commit8747d30af97232f9ff4cde78b8d259cc715a9b7a (patch)
tree4c983fe736a4bdfc80f7a978011d01932ec85e02
parentbc891c9ae3fb2848922e0f0da22fd7de0d58dc1b (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h2
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
index f223f01b4e1c..4aadd0818179 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_int.h
@@ -2294,7 +2294,7 @@ 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);
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
index 377f27bbba17..d348260301f1 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_worker.c
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ struct fifo_buffer *fifo_alloc(int fifo_size)
{
struct fifo_buffer *fb;
- fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fifo_buffer) + sizeof(int) * fifo_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct fifo_buffer) + sizeof(int) * fifo_size, GFP_NOIO);
if (!fb)
return NULL;