[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-bufio: avoid a possible __vmalloc deadlock

Joe Thornber thornber at redhat.com
Mon Apr 8 10:00:06 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 03:57:50PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This patch avoids a possible deadlock in dm-bufio. (it could happen only 
> with large block size, at most PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER (typically 8MiB).

Does anything currently use such large block sizes? (dm-thin and
dm-cache stick to 4k blocks).

- Joe




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