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xfs: I/O completion handlers must use NOFS allocations

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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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Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-19 04:00:03 +00:00
committed by Alex Elder
parent c56c9631cb
commit 80641dc66a
5 changed files with 15 additions and 7 deletions
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fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h
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@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_trans {
* XFS transaction mechanism exported interfaces.
*/
xfs_trans_t *xfs_trans_alloc(struct xfs_mount *, uint);
xfs_trans_t *_xfs_trans_alloc(struct xfs_mount *, uint);
xfs_trans_t *_xfs_trans_alloc(struct xfs_mount *, uint, uint);
xfs_trans_t *xfs_trans_dup(xfs_trans_t *);
int xfs_trans_reserve(xfs_trans_t *, uint, uint, uint,
uint, uint);