[PATCH] xfs: Fix inode buffer deadlock during memory reclaim

Peter Watkins treestem at gmail.com
Tue May 17 09:39:35 CDT 2011


During reclaim under clear_inode, one thread holds the iprune_mutex while
trying to get an inode buffer lock. The other thread has the inode buffer
lock while trying to get the iprune_mutex lock.

Avoid reclaim recursing into the file system by using KM_NOFS in
xfs_trans_alloc.

Signed-off-by: Peter Watkins <treestem at gmail.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
index 7692279..f26f6d8 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ xfs_trans_alloc(
 	uint		type)
 {
 	xfs_wait_for_freeze(mp, SB_FREEZE_TRANS);
-	return _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, type, KM_SLEEP);
+	return _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, type, KM_SLEEP|KM_NOFS);
 }
 
 xfs_trans_t *
-- 
1.7.0.4




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