3.16.47-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodd...@redhat.com> commit ae97aa524ef495b6276fd26f5d5449fb22975d7c upstream. Prevent a deadlock that can occur if we wait on allocations that try to write back our pages. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodd...@redhat.com> Fixes: 00bfa30abe869 ("NFS: Create a common pgio_alloc and pgio_release...") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: - Drop changes in nfs_pageio_init() - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> --- fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c @@ -29,13 +29,14 @@ static struct kmem_cache *nfs_page_cachep; static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_pgio_common_ops; -static bool nfs_pgarray_set(struct nfs_page_array *p, unsigned int pagecount) +static bool nfs_pgarray_set(struct nfs_page_array *p, unsigned int pagecount, + gfp_t gfp_flags) { p->npages = pagecount; if (pagecount <= ARRAY_SIZE(p->page_array)) p->pagevec = p->page_array; else { - p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_KERNEL); + p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), gfp_flags); if (!p->pagevec) p->npages = 0; } @@ -739,9 +740,12 @@ int nfs_generic_pgio(struct nfs_pageio_d struct list_head *head = &desc->pg_list; struct nfs_commit_info cinfo; unsigned int pagecount, pageused; + gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL; pagecount = nfs_page_array_len(desc->pg_base, desc->pg_count); - if (!nfs_pgarray_set(&hdr->page_array, pagecount)) + if (desc->pg_rw_ops->rw_mode == FMODE_WRITE) + gfp_flags = GFP_NOIO; + if (!nfs_pgarray_set(&hdr->page_array, pagecount, gfp_flags)) return nfs_pgio_error(desc, hdr); nfs_init_cinfo(&cinfo, desc->pg_inode, desc->pg_dreq);