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From: Naoto Kobayashi <naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: Naoto Kobayashi <naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] ext4: Prevent memory reclaim from re-entering the filesystem and deadlocking
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:05:20 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191227080523.31808-1-naoto.kobayashi4c@gmail.com> (raw)

This series aims to prevent ext4_kvmalloc() from re-entering
the filesystem and deadlocking. Although __vmalloc() doesn't
support GFP_NOFS[1], all of the user of ext4_kvmalloc are using
GFP_NOFS (e.g. fs/ext4/resize.c::add_new_gdb), causing the memory
reclaim to re-enter the filesystem.

To fix this issue, use memalloc_nfs_save/restore() that get
__vmalloc() to drop __GFP_FS.

[1] linux-tree/Documentation/core-api/gfp-mask-fs-io.rst

Changes since v1:
  - Add Patch 1 to delete ext4_kvzvalloc() that is not used anywhere.
  - Add Patch 2 to rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and
    drop its flags argument since all the users of ext4_kvmalloc() are
    using GFP_NOFS

Thanks,


Naoto Kobayashi (3):
  ext4: Delete ext4_kvzvalloc()
  ext4: Rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and drop its
    flags argument
  ext4: Prevent ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() from re-entering the filesystem and
    deadlocking

 fs/ext4/ext4.h   |  3 +--
 fs/ext4/resize.c | 10 ++++------
 fs/ext4/super.c  | 21 +++++++--------------
 fs/ext4/xattr.c  |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)


--
2.16.6


             reply	other threads:[~2019-12-27  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-27  8:05 Naoto Kobayashi [this message]
2019-12-27  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] ext4: Delete ext4_kvzvalloc() Naoto Kobayashi
2020-01-09  9:51   ` Jan Kara
2020-01-13 22:32   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-27  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] ext4: Rename ext4_kvmalloc() to ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() and drop its flags argument Naoto Kobayashi
2020-01-09 10:00   ` Jan Kara
2020-01-13 22:32   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-16 12:37     ` Jan Kara
2020-01-16 15:12       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-16 15:50         ` [PATCH] ext4: drop ext4_kvmalloc() Theodore Ts'o
2020-01-17 10:30           ` Jan Kara
2020-01-17 16:36             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-12-27  8:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] ext4: Prevent ext4_kvmalloc_nofs() from re-entering the filesystem and deadlocking Naoto Kobayashi

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