jbd2: use GFP_NOFS for blkdev_issue_flush

flush request is issued in transaction commit code path, so looks using
GFP_KERNEL to allocate memory for flush request bio falls into the classic
deadlock issue.  I saw btrfs and dm get it right, but ext4, xfs and md are
using GFP.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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Shaohua Li 2012-04-13 10:27:35 +08:00 • committed by Theodore Ts'o
commit 99aa784667

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@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ start_journal_io:
if (commit_transaction->t_need_data_flush &&
(journal->j_fs_dev != journal->j_dev) &&
(journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_fs_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL);
/* Done it all: now write the commit record asynchronously. */
if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal,
@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal,
JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT) &&
journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER) {
blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
blkdev_issue_flush(journal->j_dev, GFP_NOFS, NULL);
}
if (err)