NFSv4: Don't use GFP_KERNEL allocations in state recovery
We do not want to have the state recovery thread kick off and wait for a
memory reclaim, since that may deadlock when the writebacks end up
waiting for the state recovery thread to complete.
The safe thing is therefore to use GFP_NOFS in all open, close,
delegation return, lock, etc. operations that may be called by the
state recovery thread.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/delegation.c b/fs/nfs/delegation.c
index ea61d26..3016345 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/delegation.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/delegation.c
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@
struct nfs_delegation *freeme = NULL;
int status = 0;
- delegation = kmalloc(sizeof(*delegation), GFP_KERNEL);
+ delegation = kmalloc(sizeof(*delegation), GFP_NOFS);
if (delegation == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(delegation->stateid.data, res->delegation.data,