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Commit f2c817be authored by Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)'s avatar Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path



Ensure that memory allocations in the readahead path do not attempt to
reclaim file-backed pages, which could lead to a deadlock.  It is
possible, though unlikely this is the root cause of a problem observed
by Cong Wang.

Reported-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarWilliam Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414150233.24495-16-willy@infradead.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 2d8163e4
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