Commit 79bd9959 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Jens Axboe
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blk: improve order of bio handling in generic_make_request()

To avoid recursion on the kernel stack when stacked block devices
are in use, generic_make_request() will, when called recursively,
queue new requests for later handling.  They will be handled when the
make_request_fn for the current bio completes.

If any bios are submitted by a make_request_fn, these will ultimately
be handled seqeuntially.  If the handling of one of those generates
further requests, they will be added to the end of the queue.

This strict first-in-first-out behaviour can lead to deadlocks in
various ways, normally because a request might need to wait for a
previous request to the same device to complete.  This can happen when
they share a mempool, and can happen due to interdependencies
particular to the device.  Both md and dm have examples where this happens.

These deadlocks can be erradicated by more selective ordering of bios.
Specifically by handling them in depth-first order.  That is: when the
handling of one bio gene...
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