From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: [PATCH 28/31] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS. Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 19:40:32 +0530 Message-ID: <1254406232-16663-1-git-send-email-sjayaraman@suse.de> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , Miklos Szeredi , Wouter Verhelst , Peter Zijlstra , trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Suresh Jayaraman To: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Return-path: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Peter Zijlstra GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate IO, just not of any filesystem data. The problem is that previuosly NOFS was correct because that avoids recursion into the NFS code, it now is not, because also IO (swap) can lead to this recursion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman --- fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: mmotm/fs/nfs/write.c =================================================================== --- mmotm.orig/fs/nfs/write.c +++ mmotm/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ 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)); @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_da 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)); @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_all 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; Index: mmotm/fs/nfs/pagelist.c =================================================================== --- mmotm.orig/fs/nfs/pagelist.c +++ mmotm/fs/nfs/pagelist.c @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static inline struct nfs_page * nfs_page_alloc(void) { struct nfs_page *p; - p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list); -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org