Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

Andrew Morton
2005-04-12T00:47:12Z

Claudio Martins <ctpm@rnl.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
>
> I think I'm going to give a try to Neil's patch, but I'll have to apply some
> patches from -mm.

Just this one if you're using 2.6.12-rc2:

--- 25/drivers/md/md.c~avoid-deadlock-in-sync_page_io-by-using-gfp_noio Mon Apr 11 16:55:07 2005
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c Mon Apr 11 16:55:07 2005
@@ -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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