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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> | 2009-10-19 04:00:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> | 2009-12-11 15:11:20 -0600 |
| commit | 80641dc66a2d6dfb22af4413227a92b8ab84c7bb (patch) | |
| tree | f7353e4ca2bd4629b41c9ec79306d042d64f90f7 /Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt | |
| parent | c56c9631cbe88f08854a56ff9776c1f310916830 (diff) | |
xfs: I/O completion handlers must use NOFS allocations
When completing I/O requests we must not allow the memory allocator to
recurse into the filesystem, as we might deadlock on waiting for the
I/O completion otherwise. The only thing currently allocating normal
GFP_KERNEL memory is the allocation of the transaction structure for
the unwritten extent conversion. Add a memflags argument to
_xfs_trans_alloc to allow controlling the allocator behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
Tested-by: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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