From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: [PATCH 28/31] nfs: fix various memory recursions possible with swap over NFS. Patch-mainline: not yet GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate IO, just not of any filesystem data. The problem is that previuosly NOFS was correct because that avoids recursion into the NFS code, it now is not, because also IO (swap) can lead to this recursion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman --- fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 7 ++++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static inline struct nfs_page * nfs_page_alloc(void) { struct nfs_page *p; - p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list); --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static mempool_t *nfs_commit_mempool; struct nfs_write_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void) { - struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOFS); + struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ void nfs_commit_free(struct nfs_write_da struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_alloc(unsigned int pagecount) { - struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOFS); + struct nfs_write_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ struct nfs_write_data *nfs_writedata_all if (pagecount <= ARRAY_SIZE(p->page_array)) p->pagevec = p->page_array; else { - p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS); + p->pagevec = kcalloc(pagecount, sizeof(struct page *), + GFP_NOIO); if (!p->pagevec) { mempool_free(p, nfs_wdata_mempool); p = NULL;