inotify: use GFP_NOFS under potential memory pressure

inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim.

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[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.31-rc2 #16
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inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage.
khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
 (iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3
{IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at:
  [<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4
  [<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2
  [<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323
  [<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36
  [<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2
  [<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c
  [<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d
  [<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b
  [<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff

Two things are needed to fix this.  First we need a method to tell
fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using
one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time.  This solves
current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop
problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about
two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 726118a..f30d9bb 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ int inotify_max_user_watches __read_mostly;
 
 static struct kmem_cache *inotify_inode_mark_cachep __read_mostly;
 struct kmem_cache *event_priv_cachep __read_mostly;
-static struct fsnotify_event *inotify_ignored_event;
 
 /*
  * When inotify registers a new group it increments this and uses that
@@ -384,12 +383,19 @@ void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,
 				    struct fsnotify_group *group)
 {
 	struct inotify_inode_mark_entry *ientry;
+	struct fsnotify_event *ignored_event;
 	struct inotify_event_private_data *event_priv;
 	struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsn_event_priv;
 
+	ignored_event = fsnotify_create_event(NULL, FS_IN_IGNORED, NULL,
+					      FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE, NULL, 0,
+					      GFP_NOFS);
+	if (!ignored_event)
+		return;
+
 	ientry = container_of(entry, struct inotify_inode_mark_entry, fsn_entry);
 
-	event_priv = kmem_cache_alloc(event_priv_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	event_priv = kmem_cache_alloc(event_priv_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (unlikely(!event_priv))
 		goto skip_send_ignore;
 
@@ -398,7 +404,7 @@ void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,
 	fsn_event_priv->group = group;
 	event_priv->wd = ientry->wd;
 
-	fsnotify_add_notify_event(group, inotify_ignored_event, fsn_event_priv);
+	fsnotify_add_notify_event(group, ignored_event, fsn_event_priv);
 
 	/* did the private data get added? */
 	if (list_empty(&fsn_event_priv->event_list))
@@ -406,6 +412,9 @@ void inotify_ignored_and_remove_idr(struct fsnotify_mark_entry *entry,
 
 skip_send_ignore:
 
+	/* matches the reference taken when the event was created */
+	fsnotify_put_event(ignored_event);
+
 	/* remove this entry from the idr */
 	inotify_remove_from_idr(group, ientry);
 
@@ -748,9 +757,6 @@ static int __init inotify_user_setup(void)
 
 	inotify_inode_mark_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(inotify_inode_mark_entry, SLAB_PANIC);
 	event_priv_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(inotify_event_private_data, SLAB_PANIC);
-	inotify_ignored_event = fsnotify_create_event(NULL, FS_IN_IGNORED, NULL, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_NONE, NULL, 0);
-	if (!inotify_ignored_event)
-		panic("unable to allocate the inotify ignored event\n");
 
 	inotify_max_queued_events = 16384;
 	inotify_max_user_instances = 128;