From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay3.corp.sgi.com [198.149.34.15]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9837F3F for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 23:19:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay3.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD91AAC004 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id x3LPSpwk0ba3Ld9H (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:19:44 -0700 (PDT) From: NeilBrown Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:03:37 +1000 Subject: [PATCH 16/19] VFS: use GFP_NOFS rather than GFP_KERNEL in __d_alloc. Message-ID: <20140416040337.10604.61837.stgit@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <20140416033623.10604.69237.stgit@notabene.brown> References: <20140416033623.10604.69237.stgit@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com __d_alloc can be called with i_mutex held, so it is safer to use GFP_NOFS. lockdep reports this can deadlock when loop-back NFS is in use, as nfsd may be required to write out for reclaim, and nfsd certainly takes i_mutex. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- fs/dcache.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index ca02c13a84aa..3651ff6185b4 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) struct dentry *dentry; char *dname; - dentry = kmem_cache_alloc(dentry_cache, GFP_KERNEL); + dentry = kmem_cache_alloc(dentry_cache, GFP_NOFS); if (!dentry) return NULL; @@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *sb, const struct qstr *name) */ dentry->d_iname[DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1] = 0; if (name->len > DNAME_INLINE_LEN-1) { - dname = kmalloc(name->len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + dname = kmalloc(name->len + 1, GFP_NOFS); if (!dname) { kmem_cache_free(dentry_cache, dentry); return NULL; _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs