From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:34537 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932090AbdCFNqH (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2017 08:46:07 -0500 From: Michal Hocko To: Andrew Morton , Cc: , Dave Chinner , djwong@kernel.org, "Theodore Ts'o" , Chris Mason , David Sterba , Jan Kara , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, logfs@logfs.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, LKML , Michal Hocko Subject: [PATCH 7/7] jbd2: make the whole kjournald2 kthread NOFS safe Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 14:14:08 +0100 Message-Id: <20170306131408.9828-8-mhocko@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20170306131408.9828-1-mhocko@kernel.org> References: <20170306131408.9828-1-mhocko@kernel.org> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Michal Hocko kjournald2 is central to the transaction commit processing. As such any potential allocation from this kernel thread has to be GFP_NOFS. Make sure to mark the whole kernel thread GFP_NOFS by the memalloc_nofs_save. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko --- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index a1a359bfcc9c..78433ce1db40 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include @@ -206,6 +207,13 @@ static int kjournald2(void *arg) wake_up(&journal->j_wait_done_commit); /* + * Make sure that no allocations from this kernel thread will ever recurse + * to the fs layer because we are responsible for the transaction commit + * and any fs involvement might get stuck waiting for the trasn. commit. + */ + memalloc_nofs_save(); + + /* * And now, wait forever for commit wakeup events. */ write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); -- 2.11.0