From: Alasdair G Kergon <[email-masked]>

The same workqueue is used both for sending uevents and processing queued I/O.
Deadlock has been reported in RHEL5 when sending a uevent was blocked waiting
for the queued I/O to be processed.  Use scheduled_work() for the asynchronous
uevents instead.

Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.28/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.28.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c	2009-01-05 18:18:16.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.28/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c	2009-01-05 18:18:35.000000000 +0000
@@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ static int fail_path(struct pgpath *pgpa
 	dm_path_uevent(DM_UEVENT_PATH_FAILED, m->ti,
 		      pgpath->path.dev->name, m->nr_valid_paths);
 
-	queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->trigger_event);
+	schedule_work(&m->trigger_event);
 	queue_work(kmultipathd, &pgpath->deactivate_path);
 
 out:
@@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ static int reinstate_path(struct pgpath 
 	dm_path_uevent(DM_UEVENT_PATH_REINSTATED, m->ti,
 		      pgpath->path.dev->name, m->nr_valid_paths);
 
-	queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->trigger_event);
+	schedule_work(&m->trigger_event);
 
 out:
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
@@ -976,7 +976,7 @@ static void bypass_pg(struct multipath *
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
 
-	queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->trigger_event);
+	schedule_work(&m->trigger_event);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1006,7 +1006,7 @@ static int switch_pg_num(struct multipat
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&m->lock, flags);
 
-	queue_work(kmultipathd, &m->trigger_event);
+	schedule_work(&m->trigger_event);
 	return 0;
 }