xfs: I/O completion handlers must use NOFS allocations
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:03 +0000 (04:00 +0000)
committerAlex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:11:20 +0000 (15:11 -0600)
When completing I/O requests we must not allow the memory allocator to
recurse into the filesystem, as we might deadlock on waiting for the
I/O completion otherwise.  The only thing currently allocating normal
GFP_KERNEL memory is the allocation of the transaction structure for
the unwritten extent conversion.  Add a memflags argument to
_xfs_trans_alloc to allow controlling the allocator behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reported-by: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
Tested-by: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
fs/xfs/xfs_trans.h

index 2d0b3e1da9e69094f798967e3ff432d679249f00..6f83f58c099fee2db91d80f6d31c51f3b46f6830 100644 (file)
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ xfs_fs_log_dummy(
        xfs_inode_t     *ip;
        int             error;
 
-       tp = _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_DUMMY1);
+       tp = _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_DUMMY1, KM_SLEEP);
        error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, XFS_ICHANGE_LOG_RES(mp), 0, 0, 0);
        if (error) {
                xfs_trans_cancel(tp, 0);
index 67ae5555a30a6e8be0bd415b1596bea17854add5..7294abce6ef2f4d7d7e7ecae29dd377b14a4a2b3 100644 (file)
@@ -860,8 +860,15 @@ xfs_iomap_write_unwritten(
                 * set up a transaction to convert the range of extents
                 * from unwritten to real. Do allocations in a loop until
                 * we have covered the range passed in.
+                *
+                * Note that we open code the transaction allocation here
+                * to pass KM_NOFS--we can't risk to recursing back into
+                * the filesystem here as we might be asked to write out
+                * the same inode that we complete here and might deadlock
+                * on the iolock.
                 */
-               tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_STRAT_WRITE);
+               xfs_wait_for_freeze(mp, SB_FREEZE_TRANS);
+               tp = _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_STRAT_WRITE, KM_NOFS);
                tp->t_flags |= XFS_TRANS_RESERVE;
                error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resblks,
                                XFS_WRITE_LOG_RES(mp), 0,
index 8b6c9e807efb7b8a47bf493563bd5d8dadde3f4f..4d509f742bd20aba743310378c8c5a8a2b327363 100644 (file)
@@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ xfs_log_sbcount(
        if (!xfs_sb_version_haslazysbcount(&mp->m_sb))
                return 0;
 
-       tp = _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SB_COUNT);
+       tp = _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SB_COUNT, KM_SLEEP);
        error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, mp->m_sb.sb_sectsize + 128, 0, 0,
                                        XFS_DEFAULT_LOG_COUNT);
        if (error) {
index 66b849358e62d16e9a01fc307bc5a03dc1605ffb..237badcbac3bcbbc9fbbba8ecea9229cdac80f08 100644 (file)
@@ -236,19 +236,20 @@ xfs_trans_alloc(
        uint            type)
 {
        xfs_wait_for_freeze(mp, SB_FREEZE_TRANS);
-       return _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, type);
+       return _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, type, KM_SLEEP);
 }
 
 xfs_trans_t *
 _xfs_trans_alloc(
        xfs_mount_t     *mp,
-       uint            type)
+       uint            type,
+       uint            memflags)
 {
        xfs_trans_t     *tp;
 
        atomic_inc(&mp->m_active_trans);
 
-       tp = kmem_zone_zalloc(xfs_trans_zone, KM_SLEEP);
+       tp = kmem_zone_zalloc(xfs_trans_zone, memflags);
        tp->t_magic = XFS_TRANS_MAGIC;
        tp->t_type = type;
        tp->t_mountp = mp;
index ed47fc77759c7cce24f98f283a717fae33fa9eea..a0574f593f5272764adf820c12ad724c9d90011e 100644 (file)
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_trans {
  * XFS transaction mechanism exported interfaces.
  */
 xfs_trans_t    *xfs_trans_alloc(struct xfs_mount *, uint);
-xfs_trans_t    *_xfs_trans_alloc(struct xfs_mount *, uint);
+xfs_trans_t    *_xfs_trans_alloc(struct xfs_mount *, uint, uint);
 xfs_trans_t    *xfs_trans_dup(xfs_trans_t *);
 int            xfs_trans_reserve(xfs_trans_t *, uint, uint, uint,
                                  uint, uint);