Don't allow memory reclaim to wait on the filesystem in inode writeback
If we allow memory reclaim to wait on the pages under writeback in
inode cluster writeback we could deadlock because we are currently
holding the ILOCK on the initial writeback inode which is needed in
data I/O completion to change the file size or do unwritten extent
conversion before the pages are taken out of writeback state.
Date: Fri May 2 12:29:03 AEST 2008
Workarea: chook.melbourne.sgi.com:/build/dgc/isms/2.6.x-xfs
Inspected by: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The following file(s) were checked into:
longdrop.melbourne.sgi.com:/isms/linux/2.6.x-xfs-melb
Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31015a
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c - 1.501 - changed
http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-linux/xfs_inode.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.501&r2=text&tr2=1.500&f=h
- Allocate the inode cluster list with KM_NOFS to prevent reclaim
from recursing into the filesystem.
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