Return-Path: Received: from mail-wj0-f196.google.com ([209.85.210.196]:33429 "EHLO mail-wj0-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752560AbcLOOH7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2016 09:07:59 -0500 From: Michal Hocko To: , Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Chinner , "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 7/9] jbd2: make the whole kjournald2 kthread NOFS safe Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:07:13 +0100 Message-Id: <20161215140715.12732-8-mhocko@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20161215140715.12732-1-mhocko@kernel.org> References: <20161215140715.12732-1-mhocko@kernel.org> Sender: linux-nfs-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 Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko --- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index 8ed971eeab44..6dad8c5d6ddf 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ 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); -- 2.10.2