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nbd: set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves 

Set SOCK_MEMALLOC on the NBD socket to allow access to PFMEMALLOC reserves
so pages backed by NBD, particularly if swap related, can be cleaned to
prevent the machine being deadlocked.  It is still possible that the
PFMEMALLOC reserves get depleted resulting in deadlock but this can be
resolved by the administrator by increasing min_free_kbytes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman 2012-07-31 16:44:32 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 381760eadc
commit 7f338fe454
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/block/nbd.c
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@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static int sock_xmit(struct nbd_device *nbd, int send, void *buf, int size,
struct msghdr msg;
struct kvec iov;
sigset_t blocked, oldset;
unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
if (unlikely(!sock)) {
dev_err(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk),
@ -167,8 +168,9 @@ static int sock_xmit(struct nbd_device *nbd, int send, void *buf, int size,
siginitsetinv(&blocked, sigmask(SIGKILL));
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &blocked, &oldset);
current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
do {
sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOIO;
sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_MEMALLOC;
iov.iov_base = buf;
iov.iov_len = size;
msg.msg_name = NULL;
@ -214,6 +216,7 @@ static int sock_xmit(struct nbd_device *nbd, int send, void *buf, int size,
} while (size > 0);
sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldset, NULL);
tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
return result;
}
@ -405,6 +408,7 @@ static int nbd_do_it(struct nbd_device *nbd)
BUG_ON(nbd->magic != NBD_MAGIC);
sk_set_memalloc(nbd->sock->sk);
nbd->pid = task_pid_nr(current);
ret = device_create_file(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), &pid_attr);
if (ret) {