Hi Greg and Sasha, This is a backport of 6d7fdb0ab351 for 3.18.y and 3.19.y. Please apply. Thanks, Ilya -- >8 -- From: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 14:40:58 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "libceph: use memalloc flags for net IO" This reverts commit 89baaa570ab0b476db09408d209578cfed700e9f. Dirty page throttling should be sufficient for us in the general case so there is no need to use __GFP_MEMALLOC - it would be needed only in the swap-over-rbd case, which we currently don't support. (It would probably take approximately the commit that is being reverted to add that support, but we would also need the "swap" option to distinguish from the general case and make sure swap ceph_client-s aren't shared with anything else.) See ceph-devel threads [1] and [2] for the details of why enabling pfmemalloc reserves for all cases is a bad thing. On top of potential system lockups related to drained emergency reserves, this turned out to cause ceph lockups in case peers are on the same host and communicating via loopback due to sk_filter() dropping pfmemalloc skbs on the receiving side because the receiving loopback socket is not tagged with SOCK_MEMALLOC. [1] "SOCK_MEMALLOC vs loopback" http://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg22998.html [2] "[PATCH] libceph: don't set memalloc flags in loopback case" http://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg23392.html Conflicts: net/ceph/messenger.c [ context: tcp_nodelay option ] Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.18+, needs backporting Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> [idryomov@xxxxxxxxx: backport to 3.18, 3.19: context] --- net/ceph/messenger.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ceph/messenger.c b/net/ceph/messenger.c index 8d1653caffdb..56a65536c8f1 100644 --- a/net/ceph/messenger.c +++ b/net/ceph/messenger.c @@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ static int ceph_tcp_connect(struct ceph_connection *con) IPPROTO_TCP, &sock); if (ret) return ret; - sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOFS | __GFP_MEMALLOC; + sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOFS; #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP lockdep_set_class(&sock->sk->sk_lock, &socket_class); @@ -510,8 +510,6 @@ static int ceph_tcp_connect(struct ceph_connection *con) return ret; } - sk_set_memalloc(sock->sk); - con->sock = sock; return 0; } @@ -2772,11 +2770,8 @@ static void con_work(struct work_struct *work) { struct ceph_connection *con = container_of(work, struct ceph_connection, work.work); - unsigned long pflags = current->flags; bool fault; - current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; - mutex_lock(&con->mutex); while (true) { int ret; @@ -2830,8 +2825,6 @@ static void con_work(struct work_struct *work) con_fault_finish(con); con->ops->put(con); - - tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC); } /* -- 1.9.3 -- 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