The patch titled
ext4: warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ext4-warn-if-direct-reclaim-tries-to-writeback-pages.patch
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Subject: ext4: warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. Warn if an attempt is made.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
---
fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/ext4/inode.c~ext4-warn-if-direct-reclaim-tries-to-writeback-pages fs/ext4/inode.c
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c~ext4-warn-if-direct-reclaim-tries-to-writeback-pages
+++ a/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1809,8 +1809,12 @@ static int ext4_writepage(struct page *p
* We don't want to do block allocation, so redirty
* the page and return. We may reach here when we do
* a journal commit via journal_submit_inode_data_buffers.
- * We can also reach here via shrink_page_list
+ * We can also reach here via shrink_page_list but it
+ * should never be for direct reclaim so warn if that
+ * happens
*/
+ WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) ==
+ PF_MEMALLOC);
goto redirty_page;
}
if (commit_write)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
mm-compaction-trivial-clean-up-in-acct_isolated.patch
mm-change-isolate-mode-from-define-to-bitwise-type.patch
mm-compaction-make-isolate_lru_page-filter-aware.patch
mm-zone_reclaim-make-isolate_lru_page-filter-aware.patch
mm-migration-clean-up-unmap_and_move.patch
mm-page-writebackc-make-determine_dirtyable_memory-static-again.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-writeback-filesystem-pages-in-direct-reclaim.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-dead-code-related-to-lumpy-reclaim-waiting-on-pages-under-writeback.patch
xfs-warn-if-direct-reclaim-tries-to-writeback-pages.patch
ext4-warn-if-direct-reclaim-tries-to-writeback-pages.patch
mm-vmscan-do-not-writeback-filesystem-pages-in-kswapd-except-in-high-priority.patch
mm-vmscan-throttle-reclaim-if-encountering-too-many-dirty-pages-under-writeback.patch
mm-vmscan-immediately-reclaim-end-of-lru-dirty-pages-when-writeback-completes.patch
hugepages-fix-race-between-hugetlbfs-umount-and-quota-update-checkpatch-fixes.patch
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