From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Since freezable workqueues are broken in 2.6.21-rc (cf. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116855740612755, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117261312523921&w=2) it's better to change the only user of them, which is XFS, to use "normal" nonfreezable workqueues. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: David Chinner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c~make-xfs-workqueues-nonfreezable fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c~make-xfs-workqueues-nonfreezable +++ a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c @@ -1829,11 +1829,11 @@ xfs_buf_init(void) if (!xfs_buf_zone) goto out_free_trace_buf; - xfslogd_workqueue = create_freezeable_workqueue("xfslogd"); + xfslogd_workqueue = create_workqueue("xfslogd"); if (!xfslogd_workqueue) goto out_free_buf_zone; - xfsdatad_workqueue = create_freezeable_workqueue("xfsdatad"); + xfsdatad_workqueue = create_workqueue("xfsdatad"); if (!xfsdatad_workqueue) goto out_destroy_xfslogd_workqueue; _