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Mikulas Patocka a72986c562 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 <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2009-06-22 10:12:13 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig 8f3d8ba20e block: move bio list helpers into bio.h
It's used by DM and MD and generally useful, so move the bio list
helpers into bio.h.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-04-15 08:28:09 +02:00
Heinz Mauelshagen 1f965b1943 dm raid1: separate region_hash interface part1
Separate the region hash code from raid1 so it can be shared by forthcoming
targets.  Use BUG_ON() for failed async dm_io() calls.

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <hjm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2008-10-21 17:45:06 +01:00