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

Message ID 1334578675-23445-11-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Mel Gorman April 16, 2012, 12:17 p.m. UTC
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@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
---
 fs/nfs/pagelist.c |    2 +-
 fs/nfs/write.c    |    7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 77aa83e..8e80d71 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@  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 eea4ec0..c679527 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;