Re: [PATCH 09/19] XFS: ensure xfs_file_*_read cannot deadlock in memory allocation.

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On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 04:04:59PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 02:03:36PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> > xfs_file_*_read holds an inode lock while calling a generic 'read'
> > function.  These functions perform read-ahead and are quite likely to
> > allocate memory.
> 
> Yes, that's what reading data from disk requires.
> 
> > So set PF_FSTRANS to ensure they avoid __GFP_FS and so don't recurse
> > into a filesystem to free memory.
> 
> We already have that protection via the

Oops, stray paste. Ignore that comment.

-Dave.
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