* @pool_data: optional private data available to the user-defined functions.
*
* this function creates and allocates a guaranteed size, preallocated
- * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc and mempool_free
+ * memory pool. The pool can be used from the mempool_alloc() and mempool_free()
* functions. This function might sleep. Both the alloc_fn() and the free_fn()
- * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc function is not called
+ * functions might sleep - as long as the mempool_alloc() function is not called
* from IRQ contexts.
*/
mempool_t *mempool_create(int min_nr, mempool_alloc_t *alloc_fn,
* mempool_create().
* @gfp_mask: the usual allocation bitmask.
*
- * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn function sleeps or
+ * this function only sleeps if the alloc_fn() function sleeps or
* returns NULL. Note that due to preallocation, this function
* *never* fails when called from process contexts. (it might
* fail if called from an IRQ context.)
init_wait(&wait);
prepare_to_wait(&pool->wait, &wait, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
smp_mb();
- if (!pool->curr_nr)
- io_schedule();
+ if (!pool->curr_nr) {
+ /*
+ * FIXME: this should be io_schedule(). The timeout is there
+ * as a workaround for some DM problems in 2.6.18.
+ */
+ io_schedule_timeout(5*HZ);
+ }
finish_wait(&pool->wait, &wait);
goto repeat_alloc;