From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f69.google.com (mail-wm0-f69.google.com [74.125.82.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E506B0267 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2017 09:11:24 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f69.google.com with SMTP id s63so3583459wms.7 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 06:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com (mail-wm0-f67.google.com. [74.125.82.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h10si9272032wjf.235.2017.01.06.06.11.23 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 06 Jan 2017 06:11:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm0-f67.google.com with SMTP id c85so5243390wmi.1 for ; Fri, 06 Jan 2017 06:11:23 -0800 (PST) From: Michal Hocko Subject: [PATCH 6/8] jbd2: make the whole kjournald2 kthread NOFS safe Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 15:11:05 +0100 Message-Id: <20170106141107.23953-7-mhocko@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20170106141107.23953-1-mhocko@kernel.org> References: <20170106141107.23953-1-mhocko@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Chinner , djwong@kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , Chris Mason , David Sterba , Jan Kara , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, logfs@logfs.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, LKML , Michal Hocko From: Michal Hocko kjournald2 is central to the transaction commit processing. As such any potential allocation from this kernel thread has to be GFP_NOFS. Make sure to mark the whole kernel thread GFP_NOFS by the memalloc_nofs_save. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index a097048ed1a3..3a449150f834 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ static int kjournald2(void *arg) wake_up(&journal->j_wait_done_commit); /* + * Make sure that no allocations from this kernel thread will ever recurse + * to the fs layer because we are responsible for the transaction commit + * and any fs involvement might get stuck waiting for the trasn. commit. + */ + memalloc_nofs_save(); + + /* * And now, wait forever for commit wakeup events. */ write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org