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Commit 20dafeef authored by Byoungyoung Lee's avatar Byoungyoung Lee Committed by Dave Chinner
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xfs: xfs_mru_cache_insert() should use GFP_NOFS



xfs_mru_cache_insert() can be called from within transaction context
during block allocation like so:

write(2)
  ....
    xfs_get_blocks
      xfs_iomap_write_direct
        start transaction
        xfs_bmapi_write
          xfs_bmapi_allocate
            xfs_bmap_btalloc
              xfs_bmap_btalloc_filestreams
                xfs_filestream_new_ag
                  xfs_filestream_pick_ag
                    xfs_mru_cache_insert
                      radix_tree_preload(GFP_KERNEL)

In this case, GFP_KERNEL is incorrect and can potentially lead to
deadlocks in memory reclaim. It should use GFP_NOFS allocations to
avoid lock recursion problems.

[dchinner: rewrote commit message]

Signed-off-by: default avatarByoungyoung Lee <blee@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
parent 65dd297a
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