From c487216bec83b0c5a8803e5c61433d33ad7b104d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 10:41:44 +1100 Subject: SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory When memory is short, new worker threads cannot be created and we depend on the minimum one rpciod thread to be able to handle everything. So it must not block waiting for memory. mempools are particularly a problem as memory can only be released back to the mempool by an async rpc task running. If all available workqueue threads are waiting on the mempool, no thread is available to return anything. rpc_malloc() can block, and this might cause deadlocks. So check RPC_IS_ASYNC(), rather than RPC_IS_SWAPPER() to determine if blocking is acceptable. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c') diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c index 42e375dbdadb..5714bf880e95 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c @@ -570,8 +570,10 @@ xprt_rdma_allocate(struct rpc_task *task) gfp_t flags; flags = RPCRDMA_DEF_GFP; + if (RPC_IS_ASYNC(task)) + flags = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN; if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task)) - flags = __GFP_MEMALLOC | GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN; + flags |= __GFP_MEMALLOC; if (!rpcrdma_check_regbuf(r_xprt, req->rl_sendbuf, rqst->rq_callsize, flags)) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b