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Commit 23541d2d authored by Milan Broz's avatar Milan Broz Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] dm crypt: move io to workqueue



This patch is designed to help dm-crypt comply with the
new constraints imposed by the following patch in -mm:
  md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

Under low memory the existing implementation relies upon waiting for I/O
submitted recursively to generic_make_request() completing before the original
generic_make_request() call can return.

This patch moves the I/O submission to a workqueue so the original
generic_make_request() can return immediately.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 93e605c2
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