From 80641dc66a2d6dfb22af4413227a92b8ab84c7bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:03 +0000 Subject: 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 Reported-by: Thomas Neumann Tested-by: Thomas Neumann Reviewed-by: Alex Elder Signed-off-by: Alex Elder --- fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c') diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c index 66b849358e6..237badcbac3 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c @@ -236,19 +236,20 @@ xfs_trans_alloc( uint type) { xfs_wait_for_freeze(mp, SB_FREEZE_TRANS); - return _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, type); + return _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, type, KM_SLEEP); } xfs_trans_t * _xfs_trans_alloc( xfs_mount_t *mp, - uint type) + uint type, + uint memflags) { xfs_trans_t *tp; atomic_inc(&mp->m_active_trans); - tp = kmem_zone_zalloc(xfs_trans_zone, KM_SLEEP); + tp = kmem_zone_zalloc(xfs_trans_zone, memflags); tp->t_magic = XFS_TRANS_MAGIC; tp->t_type = type; tp->t_mountp = mp; -- cgit v1.2.3