[PATCH 4/5] xfs: use GFP_NOFS for page cache allocation

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Jul 14 19:38:19 CDT 2010


From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>

Avoid a lockdep warning by preventing page cache allocation from
recursing back into the filesystem during memory reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index ed9c3db..1075791 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1501,8 +1501,9 @@ xfs_vm_write_begin(
 	void			**fsdata)
 {
 	*pagep = NULL;
-	return block_write_begin(file, mapping, pos, len, flags, pagep, fsdata,
-								xfs_get_blocks);
+	return block_write_begin(file, mapping, pos, len,
+				 (flags | AOP_FLAG_NOFS),
+				 pagep, fsdata, xfs_get_blocks);
 }
 
 STATIC sector_t
-- 
1.7.1




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