Merge tag 'v3.15-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 3.15-rc1

* tag 'v3.15-rc1': (12180 commits)
  Linux 3.15-rc1
  mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read()
  cifs: Use min_t() when comparing "size_t" and "unsigned long"
  sym53c8xx_2: Set DID_REQUEUE return code when aborting squeue
  powerpc: Don't try to set LPCR unless we're in hypervisor mode
  futex: update documentation for ordering guarantees
  ceph: fix pr_fmt() redefinition
  vti: don't allow to add the same tunnel twice
  gre: don't allow to add the same tunnel twice
  drivers: net: xen-netfront: fix array initialization bug
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  pktgen: be friendly to LLTX devices
  r8152: check RTL8152_UNPLUG
  net: sun4i-emac: add promiscuous support
  net/apne: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  blackfin: cleanup board files
  bf609: clock: drop unused clock bit set/clear functions
  Blackfin: bf537: rename "CONFIG_ADT75"
  ...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 9c061ef2b0d..107f2fdfe41 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -396,7 +396,17 @@ _xfs_buf_map_pages(
 		bp->b_addr = NULL;
 	} else {
 		int retried = 0;
+		unsigned noio_flag;
 
+		/*
+		 * vm_map_ram() will allocate auxillary structures (e.g.
+		 * pagetables) with GFP_KERNEL, yet we are likely to be under
+		 * GFP_NOFS context here. Hence we need to tell memory reclaim
+		 * that we are in such a context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent
+		 * memory reclaim re-entering the filesystem here and
+		 * potentially deadlocking.
+		 */
+		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
 		do {
 			bp->b_addr = vm_map_ram(bp->b_pages, bp->b_page_count,
 						-1, PAGE_KERNEL);
@@ -404,6 +414,7 @@ _xfs_buf_map_pages(
 				break;
 			vm_unmap_aliases();
 		} while (retried++ <= 1);
+		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
 
 		if (!bp->b_addr)
 			return -ENOMEM;