On 05/21/2012 10:48 AM, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10890 > Weird. I am just seeing this bz now. Could you try the patches in this thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/17/215 a long with the attached patch for iscsi? The patchset is for swap over storage, but because we do not check for that case specifially I think they will allow you to dip into the reserves in your setup.
From 917d53f16d1e26b12e90e5e15df76a7a8bee35e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 12:36:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] iscsi: Set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves Set SOCK_MEMALLOC on the iscsi socket to allow access to PFMEMALLOC reserves to prevent deadlock. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c index 453a740..7360f4c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c @@ -370,17 +370,24 @@ static inline int iscsi_sw_tcp_xmit_qlen(struct iscsi_conn *conn) static int iscsi_sw_tcp_pdu_xmit(struct iscsi_task *task) { struct iscsi_conn *conn = task->conn; - int rc; + unsigned long pflags = current->flags; + int rc = 0; + + current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; while (iscsi_sw_tcp_xmit_qlen(conn)) { rc = iscsi_sw_tcp_xmit(conn); - if (rc == 0) - return -EAGAIN; + if (rc == 0) { + rc = -EAGAIN; + break; + } if (rc < 0) - return rc; + break; + rc = 0; } - return 0; + tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC); + return rc; } /* @@ -665,6 +672,7 @@ iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_bind(struct iscsi_cls_session *cls_session, sk->sk_reuse = 1; sk->sk_sndtimeo = 15 * HZ; /* FIXME: make it configurable */ sk->sk_allocation = GFP_ATOMIC; + sk_set_memalloc(sk); iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_set_callbacks(conn); tcp_sw_conn->sendpage = tcp_sw_conn->sock->ops->sendpage; -- 1.7.7.6