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-rw-r--r--include/linux/writeback.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c13
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index fc35e6bdfb9..0c78f7f4a97 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static inline void wait_on_inode(struct inode *inode)
int wakeup_pdflush(long nr_pages);
void laptop_io_completion(void);
void laptop_sync_completion(void);
-void throttle_vm_writeout(void);
+void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask);
/* These are exported to sysctl. */
extern int dirty_background_ratio;
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index f7e088f5a30..f469e3cd08e 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -296,11 +296,21 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
-void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
+void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
long background_thresh;
long dirty_thresh;
+ if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
+ /*
+ * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
+ * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
+ * waiting for IO to complete.
+ */
+ congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+ return;
+ }
+
for ( ; ; ) {
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
@@ -317,7 +327,6 @@ void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
}
}
-
/*
* writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
* memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 0655d5fe73e..db023e2ff38 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zone(int priority, struct zone *zone,
}
}
- throttle_vm_writeout();
+ throttle_vm_writeout(sc->gfp_mask);
atomic_dec(&zone->reclaim_in_progress);
return nr_reclaimed;