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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2017-05-03 14:53:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-05-03 15:52:09 -0700 |
| commit | eb52da3f48f5b1ddceb7e8d4725b6c88204aa2c4 (patch) | |
| tree | 1be347a43a1b078178521f0e36f5e45d6c565608 /fs/jbd2 | |
| parent | 81378da64de6d33d0c200885f1de431c9a3e5ccd (diff) | |
jbd2: make the whole kjournald2 kthread NOFS safe
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.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306131408.9828-8-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/jbd2')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/jbd2/journal.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index 5adc2fb62b0f..c43fe83ee708 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ #include <linux/backing-dev.h> #include <linux/bitops.h> #include <linux/ratelimit.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/events/jbd2.h> @@ -206,6 +207,14 @@ 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); |