[PATCH 10/11] nfs: Prevent page allocator recursions with swap over NFS.

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Mon Feb 06 2012 - 17:58:21 EST


GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate
IO, just not of any filesystem data.

The problem is that previously NOFS was correct because that avoids
recursion into the NFS code. With swap-over-NFS, it is no longer
correct as swap IO can lead to this recursion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2 +-
fs/nfs/write.c | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 5ab80e3..e3c1378 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nfs_page_cachep;
static inline struct nfs_page *
nfs_page_alloc(void)
{
- struct nfs_page *p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct nfs_page *p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_NOIO);
if (p)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list);
return p;
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index 5c96ba3..2ae4f4b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static mempool_t *nfs_commit_mempool;

struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void)
{
- struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
+ struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOIO);

if (p) {
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_commit_free);

struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount)
{
- struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOFS);
+ struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOIO);

if (p) {
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount)
if (pagecount <= ARRAY_SIZE(p->page_array))
p->pagevec = p->page_array;
else {
- p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
+ p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *),
+ GFP_NOIO);
if (!p->pagevec) {
mempool_free(p, nfs_wdata_mempool);
p = NULL;
--
1.7.3.4

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