This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libceph: ceph-msgr workqueue needs a resque worker to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: libceph-ceph-msgr-workqueue-needs-a-resque-worker.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f9865f06f7f18c6661c88d0511f05c48612319cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:39:05 +0400 Subject: libceph: ceph-msgr workqueue needs a resque worker From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f9865f06f7f18c6661c88d0511f05c48612319cc upstream. Commit f363e45fd118 ("net/ceph: make ceph_msgr_wq non-reentrant") effectively removed WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag from ceph_msgr_wq. This is wrong - libceph is very much a memory reclaim path, so restore it. Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Micha Krause <micha@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ceph/messenger.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ceph/messenger.c +++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c @@ -290,7 +290,8 @@ int ceph_msgr_init(void) if (ceph_msgr_slab_init()) return -ENOMEM; - ceph_msgr_wq = alloc_workqueue("ceph-msgr", WQ_NON_REENTRANT, 0); + ceph_msgr_wq = alloc_workqueue("ceph-msgr", + WQ_NON_REENTRANT | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); if (ceph_msgr_wq) return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from idryomov@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/libceph-ceph-msgr-workqueue-needs-a-resque-worker.patch queue-3.10/rbd-fix-error-recovery-in-rbd_obj_read_sync.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html