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Subject[patch 002/198] Avoid deadlock in sync_page_io by using GFP_NOIO
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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

..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>
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25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~avoid-deadlock-in-sync_page_io-by-using-gfp_noio drivers/md/md.c
--- 25/drivers/md/md.c~avoid-deadlock-in-sync_page_io-by-using-gfp_noio 2005-04-12 03:21:04.115511248 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c 2005-04-12 03:21:04.121510336 -0700
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static int bi_complete(struct bio *bio,
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;

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