[PATCH 5/9] xfs: use memalloc_nofs_{save, restore} instead of memalloc_noio*

Michal Hocko mhocko at kernel.org
Thu Dec 15 06:07:11 PST 2016


From: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>

kmem_zalloc_large and _xfs_buf_map_pages use memalloc_noio_{save,restore}
API to prevent from reclaim recursion into the fs because vmalloc can
invoke unconditional GFP_KERNEL allocations and these functions might be
called from the NOFS contexts. The memalloc_noio_save will enforce
GFP_NOIO context which is even weaker than GFP_NOFS and that seems to be
unnecessary. Let's use memalloc_nofs_{save,restore} instead as it should
provide exactly what we need here - implicit GFP_NOFS context.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
---
 fs/xfs/kmem.c    | 10 +++++-----
 fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c |  8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index a76a05dae96b..d69ed5e76621 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 void *
 kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
-	unsigned noio_flag = 0;
+	unsigned nofs_flag = 0;
 	void	*ptr;
 	gfp_t	lflags;
 
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 	 * context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent memory reclaim re-entering
 	 * the filesystem here and potentially deadlocking.
 	 */
-	if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
-		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+	if (flags & KM_NOFS)
+		nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
 
 	lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
 	ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
 
-	if ((current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
-		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+	if (flags & KM_NOFS)
+		memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag);
 
 	return ptr;
 }
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index f31ae592dcae..5c6f9bd4d8be 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -441,17 +441,17 @@ _xfs_buf_map_pages(
 		bp->b_addr = NULL;
 	} else {
 		int retried = 0;
-		unsigned noio_flag;
+		unsigned nofs_flag;
 
 		/*
 		 * vm_map_ram() will allocate auxillary structures (e.g.
 		 * pagetables) with GFP_KERNEL, yet we are likely to be under
 		 * GFP_NOFS context here. Hence we need to tell memory reclaim
-		 * that we are in such a context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent
+		 * that we are in such a context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS to prevent
 		 * memory reclaim re-entering the filesystem here and
 		 * potentially deadlocking.
 		 */
-		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+		nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save();
 		do {
 			bp->b_addr = vm_map_ram(bp->b_pages, bp->b_page_count,
 						-1, PAGE_KERNEL);
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ _xfs_buf_map_pages(
 				break;
 			vm_unmap_aliases();
 		} while (retried++ <= 1);
-		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+		memalloc_noio_restore(nofs_flag);
 
 		if (!bp->b_addr)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.10.2




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