From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> kjournald2 is central to the transaction commit processing. As such any potential allocation from this kernel thread has to be GFP_NOFS. Make sure to mark the whole kernel thread GFP_NOFS by the memalloc_nofs_save. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/jbd2/journal.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c index 8ed971eeab44..6dad8c5d6ddf 100644 --- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c +++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c @@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ static int kjournald2(void *arg) wake_up(&journal->j_wait_done_commit); /* + * Make sure that no allocations from this kernel thread will ever recurse + * to the fs layer because we are responsible for the transaction commit + * and any fs involvement might get stuck waiting for the trasn. commit. + */ + memalloc_nofs_save(); + + /* * And now, wait forever for commit wakeup events. */ write_lock(&journal->j_state_lock); -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
