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Revision a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 authored by Jens Axboe on 06 November 2012, 11:24:26 UTC, committed by Jens Axboe on 23 November 2012, 13:32:54 UTC
Request based dm attempts to re-run the request queue off the
request completion path. If used with a driver that potentially does
end_io from its request_fn, we could deadlock trying to recurse
back into request dispatch. Fix this by punting the request queue
run to kblockd.

Tested to fix a quickly reproducible deadlock in such a scenario.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Tip revision: a8c32a5c98943d370ea606a2e7dc04717eb92206 authored by Jens Axboe on 06 November 2012, 11:24:26 UTC
dm: fix deadlock with request based dm and queue request_fn recursion
Tip revision: a8c32a5

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