blk-mq: fix for flush deadlock

The flush state machine takes in a struct request, which then is
submitted multiple times to the underling driver.  The old block code
requeses the same request for each of those, so it does not have an
issue with tapping into the request pool.  The new one on the other hand
allocates a new request for each of the actualy steps of the flush
sequence. If have already allocated all of the tags for IO, we will
fail allocating the flush request.

Set aside a reserved request just for flushes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blk-mq.h b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
index 3368b97bee7..ab0e9b2025b 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk-mq.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk-mq.h
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void blk_mq_insert_request(struct request_queue *, struct request *, bool);
 void blk_mq_run_queues(struct request_queue *q, bool async);
 void blk_mq_free_request(struct request *rq);
 bool blk_mq_can_queue(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *);
-struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, int rw, gfp_t gfp);
+struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, int rw, gfp_t gfp, bool reserved);
 struct request *blk_mq_alloc_reserved_request(struct request_queue *q, int rw, gfp_t gfp);
 struct request *blk_mq_rq_from_tag(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int tag);