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[5.10,093/171] NFS: Avoid writeback threads getting stuck in mempool_alloc()

Message ID 20220412062930.575293698@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman April 12, 2022, 6:29 a.m. UTC 
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

[ Upstream commit 0bae835b63c53f86cdc524f5962e39409585b22c ]

In a low memory situation, allow the NFS writeback code to fail without
getting stuck in infinite loops in mempool_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 10 +++++-----
 fs/nfs/write.c    | 10 ++++++++--
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
index 98b9c1ed366e..17fef6eb490c 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@  void nfs_set_pgio_error(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr, int error, loff_t pos)
 	}
 }
 
-static inline struct nfs_page *
-nfs_page_alloc(void)
+static inline struct nfs_page *nfs_page_alloc(void)
 {
-	struct nfs_page	*p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct nfs_page *p =
+		kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_page_cachep, nfs_io_gfp_mask());
 	if (p)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list);
 	return p;
@@ -901,7 +901,7 @@  int nfs_generic_pgio(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *desc,
 	struct nfs_commit_info cinfo;
 	struct nfs_page_array *pg_array = &hdr->page_array;
 	unsigned int pagecount, pageused;
-	gfp_t gfp_flags = GFP_KERNEL;
+	gfp_t gfp_flags = nfs_io_gfp_mask();
 
 	pagecount = nfs_page_array_len(mirror->pg_base, mirror->pg_count);
 	pg_array->npages = pagecount;
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@  nfs_pageio_alloc_mirrors(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *desc,
 	desc->pg_mirrors_dynamic = NULL;
 	if (mirror_count == 1)
 		return desc->pg_mirrors_static;
-	ret = kmalloc_array(mirror_count, sizeof(*ret), GFP_KERNEL);
+	ret = kmalloc_array(mirror_count, sizeof(*ret), nfs_io_gfp_mask());
 	if (ret != NULL) {
 		for (i = 0; i < mirror_count; i++)
 			nfs_pageio_mirror_init(&ret[i], desc->pg_bsize);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index a97eaf4e813c..5d07799513a6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -94,9 +94,15 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_commit_free);
 
 static struct nfs_pgio_header *nfs_writehdr_alloc(void)
 {
-	struct nfs_pgio_header *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct nfs_pgio_header *p;
 
-	memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
+	p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_wdata_cachep, nfs_io_gfp_mask());
+	if (!p) {
+		p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOWAIT);
+		if (!p)
+			return NULL;
+		memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
+	}
 	p->rw_mode = FMODE_WRITE;
 	return p;
 }