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| author | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2010-05-13 16:51:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2010-05-14 19:09:33 (GMT) |
| commit | 8535b2be5181fc3019e4150567ef53210fe3b04f (patch) | |
| tree | ba366f5304f12876f1e45d3c2b423d12f9ec0c90 /fs/nfs/delegation.c | |
| parent | 712a4338669d7d57f952244abb608e6ac07e39da (diff) | |
| download | linux-8535b2be5181fc3019e4150567ef53210fe3b04f.tar.xz | |
NFSv4: Don't use GFP_KERNEL allocations in state recovery
We do not want to have the state recovery thread kick off and wait for a
memory reclaim, since that may deadlock when the writebacks end up
waiting for the state recovery thread to complete.
The safe thing is therefore to use GFP_NOFS in all open, close,
delegation return, lock, etc. operations that may be called by the
state recovery thread.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/delegation.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/nfs/delegation.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/delegation.c b/fs/nfs/delegation.c index ea61d26..3016345 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/delegation.c +++ b/fs/nfs/delegation.c @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ int nfs_inode_set_delegation(struct inode *inode, struct rpc_cred *cred, struct struct nfs_delegation *freeme = NULL; int status = 0; - delegation = kmalloc(sizeof(*delegation), GFP_KERNEL); + delegation = kmalloc(sizeof(*delegation), GFP_NOFS); if (delegation == NULL) return -ENOMEM; memcpy(delegation->stateid.data, res->delegation.data, |