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    dm raid1: keep retrying alloc if mempool_alloc failed · a72986c5
    Mikulas Patocka authored
    If the code can't handle allocation failures, use __GFP_NOFAIL so that
    in case of memory pressure the allocator will retry indefinitely and
    won't return NULL which would cause a crash in the function.
    
    This is still not a correct fix, it may cause a classic deadlock when
    memory manager waits for I/O being done and I/O waits for some free memory.
    I/O code shouldn't allocate any memory. But in this case it probably
    doesn't matter much in practice, people usually do not swap on RAID.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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