i_lock is taken in the reclaim context so all allocations under it
must avoid recursions into the filesystem.

Reported by the new reclaim context tracing in lockdep.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c	2009-07-10 13:05:24.812364541 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c	2009-07-10 13:16:00.834365485 +0200
@@ -2261,9 +2261,9 @@ xfs_da_buf_make(int nbuf, xfs_buf_t **bp
 	int		off;
 
 	if (nbuf == 1)
-		dabuf = kmem_zone_alloc(xfs_dabuf_zone, KM_SLEEP);
+		dabuf = kmem_zone_alloc(xfs_dabuf_zone, KM_NOFS);
 	else
-		dabuf = kmem_alloc(XFS_DA_BUF_SIZE(nbuf), KM_SLEEP);
+		dabuf = kmem_alloc(XFS_DA_BUF_SIZE(nbuf), KM_NOFS);
 	dabuf->dirty = 0;
 #ifdef XFS_DABUF_DEBUG
 	dabuf->ra = ra;

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