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SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc

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Currently rpc_malloc sets req->rq_buffer internally.  Make this a more
generic interface:  return a pointer to the new buffer (or NULL) and
make the caller set req->rq_buffer and req->rq_bufsize.  This looks much
more like kmalloc and eliminates the side effects.

To fix a potential deadlock, this patch also replaces GFP_NOFS with
GFP_NOWAIT in rpc_malloc.  This prevents async RPCs from sleeping outside
the RPC's task scheduler while allocating their buffer.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Chuck Lever
2007-03-29 16:47:58 -04:00
committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 2bea90d43a
commit c5a4dd8b7c
5 changed files with 39 additions and 35 deletions
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include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
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@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ struct rpc_xprt_ops {
void (*set_port)(struct rpc_xprt *xprt, unsigned short port);
void (*connect)(struct rpc_task *task);
void * (*buf_alloc)(struct rpc_task *task, size_t size);
void (*buf_free)(struct rpc_task *task);
void (*buf_free)(void *buffer);
int (*send_request)(struct rpc_task *task);
void (*set_retrans_timeout)(struct rpc_task *task);
void (*timer)(struct rpc_task *task);