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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2010-08-24 14:28:03 +0200
committerTao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>2010-09-08 14:25:57 +0800
commit9b4c0ff32ccd87ab52d4c5bd0a0536febce11370 (patch)
treeb9e77d2798eac9051353b29f22e9315d9d9e13b5
parentocfs2: properly set and use inode group alloc hint (diff)
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ocfs2: Fix deadlock when allocating page
We cannot call grab_cache_page() when holding filesystem locks or with a transaction started as grab_cache_page() calls page allocation with GFP_KERNEL flag and thus page reclaim can recurse back into the filesystem causing deadlocks or various assertion failures. We have to use find_or_create_page() instead and pass it GFP_NOFS as we do with other allocations. Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/alloc.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/file.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c5
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
index 215e12ce1d85..592fae5007d1 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c
@@ -6672,7 +6672,7 @@ int ocfs2_grab_pages(struct inode *inode, loff_t start, loff_t end,
last_page_bytes = PAGE_ALIGN(end);
index = start >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
do {
- pages[numpages] = grab_cache_page(mapping, index);
+ pages[numpages] = find_or_create_page(mapping, index, GFP_NOFS);
if (!pages[numpages]) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
mlog_errno(ret);
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
index 6b2be0f2eacd..2caa3a7a1a39 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/file.c
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ static int ocfs2_write_zero_page(struct inode *inode, u64 abs_from,
BUG_ON(abs_to > (((u64)index + 1) << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT));
BUG_ON(abs_from & (inode->i_blkbits - 1));
- page = grab_cache_page(mapping, index);
+ page = find_or_create_page(mapping, index, GFP_NOFS);
if (!page) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
mlog_errno(ret);
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c b/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
index 73a11ccfd4c2..0afeda83120f 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/refcounttree.c
@@ -2960,7 +2960,7 @@ static int ocfs2_duplicate_clusters_by_page(handle_t *handle,
if (map_end & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1))
to = map_end & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
- page = grab_cache_page(mapping, page_index);
+ page = find_or_create_page(mapping, page_index, GFP_NOFS);
/*
* In case PAGE_CACHE_SIZE <= CLUSTER_SIZE, This page
@@ -3179,7 +3179,8 @@ static int ocfs2_cow_sync_writeback(struct super_block *sb,
if (map_end > end)
map_end = end;
- page = grab_cache_page(context->inode->i_mapping, page_index);
+ page = find_or_create_page(context->inode->i_mapping,
+ page_index, GFP_NOFS);
BUG_ON(!page);
wait_on_page_writeback(page);