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-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/kmem.c21
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c11
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 66a36befc5c..844e288b957 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -65,12 +65,31 @@ kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
void *
kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
{
+ unsigned noio_flag = 0;
void *ptr;
+ gfp_t lflags;
ptr = kmem_zalloc(size, flags | KM_MAYFAIL);
if (ptr)
return ptr;
- return vzalloc(size);
+
+ /*
+ * __vmalloc() will allocate data pages and auxillary structures (e.g.
+ * pagetables) with GFP_KERNEL, yet we may 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.
+ */
+ if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
+ noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+
+ lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
+ ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
+
+ if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
+ memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+
+ return ptr;
}
void
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;