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* [RFC][PATCH v3 00/22] __vmalloc: Propagating GFP allocation flag inside __vmalloc()
@ 2011-03-18 19:41 Prasad Joshi
  2011-03-18 19:43 ` [RFC][PATCH v3 01/22] mm: " Prasad Joshi
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Prasad Joshi @ 2011-03-18 19:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm, linux-arch, linux-kernel, linux-mm, prasadjoshi124, mitra
  Cc: chris, x86, jdike, tj, cmetcalf, linux-sh, liqin.chen, lennox.wu,
	schwidefsky, heiko.carstens, linux390, benh, paulus, linuxppc-dev,
	kyle, deller, jejb, linux-parisc, dhowells, yasutake.koichi,
	linux-am33-list, ralf, linux-mips, monstr, microblaze-uclinux,
	geert, zippel, sammy, linux-m68k, takata, linux-m32r, tony.luck,
	fenghua.yu, linux-ia64, starvik, jesper.nilsson,
	linux-cris-kernel, hans-christian.egtvedt, linux, rth,
	linux-alpha

A filesystem might run into a problem while calling __vmalloc(GFP_NOFS)
inside a lock.

It is expected than __vmalloc when called with GFP_NOFS should not
callback the filesystem code even incase of the increased memory
pressure. But the problem is that even if we pass this flag, __vmalloc
itself allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL.

Using GFP_KERNEL allocations may go into the memory reclaim path and try
to free memory by calling file system evict_inode function. Which might
lead into deadlock.

For further details
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128942194520631&w=4
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30702

The patch passes the gfp allocation flag all the way down to those
allocating functions.

 arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h           |   11 +++++-
 arch/avr32/include/asm/pgalloc.h         |    8 ++++-
 arch/cris/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |   10 ++++-
 arch/frv/include/asm/pgalloc.h           |    3 ++
 arch/frv/include/asm/pgtable.h           |    1 +
 arch/frv/mm/pgalloc.c                    |    9 ++++-
 arch/ia64/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |   24 +++++++++++--
 arch/m32r/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |   11 ++++--
 arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgalloc.h |   20 +++++++++--
 arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3_pgalloc.h     |   14 ++++++--
 arch/m68k/mm/memory.c                    |    9 ++++-
 arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h    |    3 ++
 arch/microblaze/mm/pgtable.c             |   13 +++++--
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |   22 ++++++++----
 arch/mn10300/include/asm/pgalloc.h       |    2 +
 arch/mn10300/mm/pgtable.c                |   10 ++++-
 arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h        |   21 ++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc-32.h    |    2 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgalloc-64.h    |   27 +++++++++++---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c             |   10 ++++-
 arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |   30 +++++++++++++---
 arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c                   |   22 +++++++++---
 arch/score/include/asm/pgalloc.h         |   13 ++++---
 arch/sh/include/asm/pgalloc.h            |    8 ++++-
 arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c                     |    8 ++++-
 arch/sparc/include/asm/pgalloc_32.h      |    5 +++
 arch/sparc/include/asm/pgalloc_64.h      |   17 ++++++++-
 arch/tile/include/asm/pgalloc.h          |   13 ++++++-
 arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c                   |   10 ++++-
 arch/um/include/asm/pgalloc.h            |    1 +
 arch/um/kernel/mem.c                     |   21 ++++++++---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgalloc.h           |   17 ++++++++-
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c                    |    8 ++++-
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/pgalloc.h        |    9 ++++-
 arch/xtensa/mm/pgtable.c                 |   11 +++++-
 include/asm-generic/4level-fixup.h       |    8 +++-
 include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h      |    3 +-
 include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h      |    1 +
 include/linux/mm.h                       |   40 ++++++++++++++++-----
 mm/memory.c                              |   14 ++++---
 mm/vmalloc.c                             |   57 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
 41 files changed, 427 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)

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