On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:45:15PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 12:38 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Ok, so the question is what's wrong with calling synchronize_rcu() inside > > a mutex with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y. I don't know. Ccing paul mckenney and > > peterz. > > int blkcg_activate_policy(struct request_queue *q, > > { > > ... > > preloaded = !radix_tree_preload(GFP_KERNEL); > > blk_queue_bypass_start(q); > > > > > where: > > int radix_tree_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask) > { > struct radix_tree_preload *rtp; > struct radix_tree_node *node; > int ret = -ENOMEM; > > preempt_disable(); > > > Seems obvious why it explodes.. Oh right. Thanks Peter. So just calling blk_queue_bypass_start() before radix_tree_preload() should fix it. Junichi, can you please give it a try. Thanks Vivek -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel