GFP_NOFS is _more_ permissive than GFP_NOIO in that it will initiate IO, just not of any filesystem data. The problem is that previously NOFS was correct because that avoids recursion into the NFS code. With swap-over-NFS, it is no longer correct as swap IO can lead to this recursion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2 +- fs/nfs/write.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c index 9ef8b3c..7de1646 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/pagelist.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pagelist.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ void nfs_set_pgio_error(struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr, int error, loff_t pos) static inline struct nfs_page * nfs_page_alloc(void) { - struct nfs_page *p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_KERNEL); + struct nfs_page *p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_page_cachep, GFP_NOIO); if (p) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->wb_list); return p; diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c index f45b9ca..6f90681 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ static mempool_t *nfs_commit_mempool; struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void) { - struct nfs_commit_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOFS); + struct nfs_commit_data *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p)); @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_commit_free); struct nfs_write_header *nfs_writehdr_alloc(void) { - struct nfs_write_header *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOFS); + struct nfs_write_header *p = mempool_alloc(nfs_wdata_mempool, GFP_NOIO); if (p) { struct nfs_pgio_header *hdr = &p->header; -- 1.7.9.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>