Claudio Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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; _ - 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/