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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4: lots of 'in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0' with  software-raid1
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:11:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828081113.GW20055@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828075607.GA3795@skl-net.de>

On Thu, Aug 28 2008, Andre Noll wrote:
> On 09:48, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Doh right, we of course can't block inside a RCU section. Then
> > bitmap.c:write_sb_page() wants fixing:
> > 
> >         rcu_read_lock();
> >         rdev_for_each_rcu(...)
> >                 md_super_write(...)
> >                         bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
> 
> Also, md_super_write() does not check the return value of bio_alloc().
> That probably needs fixing as well.

No, that's the guarentee of mempool_alloc() - as long as you have
__GFP_WAIT set, you'll never see a NULL return.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28  8:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-27 17:05 2.6.27-rc4: lots of 'in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0' with software-raid1 jurriaan
2008-08-27 21:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-08-28  7:33   ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-28  7:45     ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-28  7:48       ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-28  7:56         ` Andre Noll
2008-08-28  8:11           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-08-28  8:04             ` Andre Noll
2008-08-28  8:27         ` Neil Brown
2008-08-28  8:36           ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-28  9:00           ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29  7:36             ` Neil Brown
2008-08-29  7:47               ` Jens Axboe
2008-08-29  8:14               ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29  5:44           ` Neil Brown
2008-08-29  5:48             ` Neil Brown
2008-08-29  7:11               ` Jens Axboe

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