From: Alasdair G Kergon Reduce substantially the amount of code using PF_MEMALLOC, as envisaged in the original FIXME. If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work correctly you should update to lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or later. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1.orig/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -1359,16 +1359,11 @@ static int ctl_ioctl(struct inode *inode * Copy the parameters into kernel space. */ r = copy_params(user, ¶m); - if (r) { - current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; - return r; - } - /* - * FIXME: eventually we will remove the PF_MEMALLOC flag - * here. However the tools still do nasty things like - * 'load' while a device is suspended. - */ + current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; + + if (r) + return r; r = validate_params(cmd, param); if (r) @@ -1386,7 +1381,6 @@ static int ctl_ioctl(struct inode *inode out: free_params(param); - current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC; return r; }