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| author | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2007-08-28 21:29:32 +0300 |
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| committer | Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> | 2007-10-14 13:10:20 +0300 |
| commit | 33818bbb84cd371b63ed8849cc5264d24c8b3aa2 (patch) | |
| tree | ecee6a8f02d2d103c6eb33cc6173e74343b1861b /drivers/lguest | |
| parent | ef6075fbfca9139f428d52d60e671da38aa2e212 (diff) | |
UBI: allocate memory with GFP_NOFS
Use GFP_NOFS flag when allocating memory on I/O path, because otherwise
we may deadlock the filesystem which works on top of us. We observed
the deadlocks with UBIFS. Example:
VFS->FS lock a lock->UBI->kmalloc()->VFS writeback->FS locks the same
lock again.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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