[PATCH 3/7] xfs: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages

[Mel Gorman]

Direct reclaim should never writeback pages. For now, handle the
situation and warn about it. Ultimately, this will be a BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 79ce38b..afea9cd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -930,11 +930,10 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
 	 * random callers for direct reclaim or memcg reclaim.  We explicitly
 	 * allow reclaim from kswapd as the stack usage there is relatively low.
 	 *
-	 * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens
-	 * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this
-	 * by themselves.
+	 * This should never happen except in the case of a VM regression so
+	 * warn about it.
 	 */
-	if ((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC)
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC))
 		goto redirty;
 
 	/*
-- 
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