From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> writebacks can recurse into itself under low memory situations. Set memalloc_nofs_save() in order to make sure it does not recurse. Since writeouts are performed for fdatawrites as well, set memalloc_nofs_save while performing fdatawrites. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 8 ++++++++ fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 7 ------- mm/filemap.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index d4d04fee568a..42f7f4c2063b 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include <linux/tracepoint.h> #include <linux/device.h> #include <linux/memcontrol.h> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h> #include "internal.h" /* @@ -1713,7 +1714,12 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, struct inode *inode; long progress; struct blk_plug plug; + unsigned flags; + if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS) + return 0; + + flags = memalloc_nofs_save(); oldest_jif = jiffies; work->older_than_this = &oldest_jif; @@ -1797,6 +1803,8 @@ static long wb_writeback(struct bdi_writeback *wb, spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); blk_finish_plug(&plug); + memalloc_nofs_restore(flags); + return nr_pages - work->nr_pages; } diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c index 9c6a830da0ee..943ade03489a 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c @@ -1086,13 +1086,6 @@ xfs_do_writepage( PF_MEMALLOC)) goto redirty; - /* - * Given that we do not allow direct reclaim to call us, we should - * never be called while in a filesystem transaction. - */ - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC_NOFS)) - goto redirty; - /* * Is this page beyond the end of the file? * diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 693f62212a59..3c9ead9a1e32 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ int __filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start, loff_t end, int sync_mode) { int ret; + unsigned flags; struct writeback_control wbc = { .sync_mode = sync_mode, .nr_to_write = LONG_MAX, @@ -440,9 +441,11 @@ int __filemap_fdatawrite_range(struct address_space *mapping, loff_t start, if (!mapping_cap_writeback_dirty(mapping)) return 0; + flags = memalloc_nofs_save(); wbc_attach_fdatawrite_inode(&wbc, mapping->host); ret = do_writepages(mapping, &wbc); wbc_detach_inode(&wbc); + memalloc_nofs_restore(flags); return ret; } -- 2.16.2