Re: [PATCH 2/8] xfs: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages

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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:28:44PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> --- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
> @@ -930,12 +930,13 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
>  	 * random callers for direct reclaim or memcg reclaim.  We explicitly
>  	 * allow reclaim from kswapd as the stack usage there is relatively low.
>  	 *
> -	 * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens
> -	 * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this
> -	 * by themselves.
> +	 * This should never happen except in the case of a VM regression so
> +	 * warn about it.
>  	 */
> -	if ((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC)
> +	if ((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC) {
> +		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>  		goto redirty;

The nicer way to write this is

	if (WARN_ON(current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC)
		goto redirty;

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