On Tuesday 12 April 2005 00:46, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Neil, have you had a look at the traces? Do they mean much to you? > > Just looked. > bio_alloc_bioset seems implicated, as does sync_page_io. > > sync_page_io used to use a 'struct bio' on the stack, but Jens Axboe > change it to use bio_alloc (don't know why..) and I should have > checked the change better. > > sync_page_io can be called on the write out path, so it should use > GFP_NOIO rather than GFP_KERNEL. > > See if this helps.... Actually this patch is against 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 > which uses md_super_write instead of sync_page_io (which is now only > used for read). So if you are using a non-mm kernel (which seems to > be the case) you'll need to apply the patch by hand. >
Hi Neil, I'll test this patch, but I'm wondering if I have to apply all the md-related patches from broken out directory of 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 or only some specific ones? Anyway I'm happy to test all those md updates, if you think they might help. Thanks Claudio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/