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From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Lucas Stach" <l.stach@pengutronix.de>,
	"Ceph Development" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael Olbrich" <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>,
	"Björn Lässig" <b.laessig@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: XFS on RBD deadlock
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:19:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOi1vP8Od6RgNchXGsXP3gs-6P0x9ZTS7dVfpsmfuDMZm2ZyHg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161129120405.GA11089@infradead.org>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:17:08PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
>> 2. RBD worker is trying to handle the XFS block request, but the
>> involved crypto code recurses into the XFS superblock shrinker, as it's
>> trying to allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL in __crypto_alloc_tfm.
>
> And that's where the issues start - crypto_alloc_skcipher and friends
> are not intended to be called from the writeback path.

Yeah, and to worsen things it's allocated and then destroyed on *every*
write.  I'm in the process of re-writing that code for CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
and will look into fixing this as well.

In the meantime, disabling cephx message signing should take that
allocation out of the way.

Thanks,

                Ilya

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-29 11:17 XFS on RBD deadlock Lucas Stach
2016-11-29 12:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-29 13:19   ` Ilya Dryomov [this message]

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