NFS: kswapd must not block in nfs_release_page

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16056

If other processes are blocked waiting for kswapd to free up some memory so
that they can make progress, then we cannot allow kswapd to block on those
processes.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
This commit is contained in:
Trond Myklebust 2010-07-30 15:31:54 -04:00
commit b608b283a9
3 changed files with 14 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
#include <linux/aio.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
@ -493,11 +494,19 @@ static void nfs_invalidate_page(struct page *page, unsigned long offset)
*/
static int nfs_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
dfprintk(PAGECACHE, "NFS: release_page(%p)\n", page);
/* Only do I/O if gfp is a superset of GFP_KERNEL */
if ((gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL)
nfs_wb_page(page->mapping->host, page);
if (mapping && (gfp & GFP_KERNEL) == GFP_KERNEL) {
int how = FLUSH_SYNC;
/* Don't let kswapd deadlock waiting for OOM RPC calls */
if (current_is_kswapd())
how = 0;
nfs_commit_inode(mapping->host, how);
}
/* If PagePrivate() is set, then the page is not freeable */
if (PagePrivate(page))
return 0;

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@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@ static const struct rpc_call_ops nfs_commit_ops = {
.rpc_release = nfs_commit_release,
};
static int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
{
LIST_HEAD(head);
int may_wait = how & FLUSH_SYNC;
@ -1443,7 +1443,7 @@ out_mark_dirty:
return ret;
}
#else
static int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode, int how)
{
return 0;
}