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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-table.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-table.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c index 8f8783533ac7..465f08ca62b1 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c @@ -545,14 +545,28 @@ static int adjoin(struct dm_table *table, struct dm_target *ti) /* * Used to dynamically allocate the arg array. + * + * We do first allocation with GFP_NOIO because dm-mpath and dm-thin must + * process messages even if some device is suspended. These messages have a + * small fixed number of arguments. + * + * On the other hand, dm-switch needs to process bulk data using messages and + * excessive use of GFP_NOIO could cause trouble. */ static char **realloc_argv(unsigned *array_size, char **old_argv) { char **argv; unsigned new_size; + gfp_t gfp; - new_size = *array_size ? *array_size * 2 : 64; - argv = kmalloc(new_size * sizeof(*argv), GFP_KERNEL); + if (*array_size) { + new_size = *array_size * 2; + gfp = GFP_KERNEL; + } else { + new_size = 8; + gfp = GFP_NOIO; + } + argv = kmalloc(new_size * sizeof(*argv), gfp); if (argv) { memcpy(argv, old_argv, *array_size * sizeof(*argv)); *array_size = new_size; @@ -1548,8 +1562,11 @@ int dm_table_resume_targets(struct dm_table *t) continue; r = ti->type->preresume(ti); - if (r) + if (r) { + DMERR("%s: %s: preresume failed, error = %d", + dm_device_name(t->md), ti->type->name, r); return r; + } } for (i = 0; i < t->num_targets; i++) { |