[PATCH 17/19] VFS: set PF_FSTRANS while namespace_sem is held.

NeilBrown
2014-04-16T04:19:51Z

namespace_sem can be taken while various i_mutex locks are held, so we
need to avoid reclaim from blocking on an FS (particularly loop-back
NFS).

A memory allocation happens under namespace_sem at least in:

[<ffffffff8119d16f>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x4f/0x290
[<ffffffff811c2fff>] alloc_vfsmnt+0x1f/0x1d0
[<ffffffff811c339a>] clone_mnt+0x2a/0x310
[<ffffffff811c57e3>] copy_tree+0x53/0x380
[<ffffffff811c6aef>] copy_mnt_ns+0x7f/0x280
[<ffffffff810c16fc>] create_new_namespaces+0x5c/0x190
[<ffffffff810c1ab9>] unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x59/0x90

So set PF_FSTRANS in namespace_lock() and restore in
namespace_unlock().

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
fs/namespace.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 2ffc5a2905d4..83dcd5083dbb 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static struct hlist_head *mount_hashtable __read_mostly;
static struct hlist_head *mountpoint_hashtable __read_mostly;
static struct kmem_cache *mnt_cache __read_mostly;
static DECLARE_RWSEM(namespace_sem);
+static unsigned long namespace_sem_pflags;

/* /sys/fs */
struct kobject *fs_kobj;
@@ -1196,6 +1197,8 @@ static void namespace_unlock(void)
struct mount *mnt;
struct hlist_head head = unmounted;

+ current_restore_flags_nested(&namespace_sem_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
+
if (likely(hlist_empty(&head))) {
up_write(&namespace_sem);
return;
@@ -1220,6 +1223,7 @@ static void namespace_unlock(void)
static inline void namespace_lock(void)
{
down_write(&namespace_sem);
+ current_set_flags_nested(&namespace_sem_pflags, PF_FSTRANS);
}

/*