[PATCH 28/28] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS.

Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-20T15:28:20Z

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GFP_NOFS is not enough, since swap traffic is IO, hence fall back to GFP_NOIO.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
---
fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2 +-
fs/nfs/write.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nfs_wdata_cach

struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commit_alloc(void)
{
- struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+ struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO);

if (p) {
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_da

struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount)
{
- struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
+ struct nfs_write_data *p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO);

if (p) {
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ 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) {
kmem_cache_free(nfs_wdata_cachep, p);
p = NULL;
Index: linux-2.6/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ linux-2.6/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);

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