From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:04:07 +0800
>
>> This fixed a lockdep warning which appeared when doing stress
>> memory tests over NFS:
>>
>> inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
>>
>> page reclaim => nfs_writepage => tcp_sendmsg => lock sk_lock
>>
>> mount_root => nfs_root_data => tcp_close => lock sk_lock =>
>> tcp_send_fin => alloc_skb_fclone => page reclaim
>>
>> David raised a concern that if the allocation fails in tcp_send_fin(), and it's
>> GFP_ATOMIC, we are going to yield() (which sleeps) and loop endlessly waiting
>> for the allocation to succeed.
>>
>> But fact is, the original GFP_KERNEL also sleeps. GFP_ATOMIC+yield() looks
>> weird, but it is no worse the implicit sleep inside GFP_KERNEL. Both could
>> loop endlessly under memory pressure.
>>
>> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
You obviously didn't build test this with TCP MD5 support
enabled, that fails.
I'm fixing it up, but if you're going to go through the motions
of submitting a patch multiple times, at least do a thorough
build test of the code you're changing.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
