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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c index 9c061ef..107f2fd 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; |
