Commit 49383b0e authored by David Chinner's avatar David Chinner Committed by Lachlan McIlroy

[XFS] Don't allow memory reclaim to wait on the filesystem in inode

writeback

If we allow memory reclaim to wait on the pages under writeback in inode
cluster writeback we could deadlock because we are currently holding the
ILOCK on the initial writeback inode which is needed in data I/O
completion to change the file size or do unwritten extent conversion
before the pages are taken out of writeback state.

SGI-PV: 981091
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31015a
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
parent 978b7237
......@@ -2986,7 +2986,7 @@ xfs_iflush_cluster(
ASSERT(pag->pag_ici_init);
ilist_size = XFS_INODE_CLUSTER_SIZE(mp) * sizeof(xfs_inode_t *);
ilist = kmem_alloc(ilist_size, KM_MAYFAIL);
ilist = kmem_alloc(ilist_size, KM_MAYFAIL|KM_NOFS);
if (!ilist)
return 0;
......
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