From a72986c562eeec3f7b992198c168f0f41606fe53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:12:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dm raid1: keep retrying alloc if mempool_alloc failed If the code can't handle allocation failures, use __GFP_NOFAIL so that in case of memory pressure the allocator will retry indefinitely and won't return NULL which would cause a crash in the function. This is still not a correct fix, it may cause a classic deadlock when memory manager waits for I/O being done and I/O waits for some free memory. I/O code shouldn't allocate any memory. But in this case it probably doesn't matter much in practice, people usually do not swap on RAID. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c b/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c index 7b899be0b087..36dbe29f2fd6 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-region-hash.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static struct dm_region *__rh_alloc(struct dm_region_hash *rh, region_t region) nreg = mempool_alloc(rh->region_pool, GFP_ATOMIC); if (unlikely(!nreg)) - nreg = kmalloc(sizeof(*nreg), GFP_NOIO); + nreg = kmalloc(sizeof(*nreg), GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOFAIL); nreg->state = rh->log->type->in_sync(rh->log, region, 1) ? DM_RH_CLEAN : DM_RH_NOSYNC; -- 2.30.2