bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid deadlock
After write SSD completed, bcache schedules journal_write work to system_wq, which is a public workqueue in system, without WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. system_wq is also a bound wq, and there may be no idle kworker on current processor. Creating a new kworker may unfortunately need to reclaim memory first, by shrinking cache and slab used by vfs, which depends on bcache device. That's a deadlock. This patch create a new workqueue for journal_write with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag. It's rescuer thread will work to avoid the deadlock. Signed-off-by: Guoju Fang <fangguoju@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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