[PATCH 3/8] ext4: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages

[Mel Gorman]

Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. Warn if an attempt
is made.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/ext4/inode.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index e3126c0..95bb179 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -2663,8 +2663,12 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *page,
 		 * We don't want to do block allocation, so redirty
 		 * the page and return.  We may reach here when we do
 		 * a journal commit via journal_submit_inode_data_buffers.
-		 * We can also reach here via shrink_page_list
+		 * We can also reach here via shrink_page_list but it
+		 * should never be for direct reclaim so warn if that
+		 * happens
 		 */
+		WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) ==
+								PF_MEMALLOC);
 		goto redirty_page;
 	}
 	if (commit_write)
-- 
1.7.3.4

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