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authorJosef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>2008-04-09 09:33:41 -0400
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2008-04-10 09:55:26 +0100
commit16c5f06f15ad4e5a5d6e90b78ffb1ac14319e445 (patch)
tree84204e44e0246e9a3f4db23223a5209105fde368 /fs/gfs2/inode.c
parent773adff8e983cba1f5844c3be3be224ca6645f26 (diff)
downloadlinux-16c5f06f15ad4e5a5d6e90b78ffb1ac14319e445.tar.bz2
[GFS2] fix GFP_KERNEL misuses
There are several places where GFP_KERNEL allocations happen under a glock, which will result in hangs if we're under memory pressure and go to re-enter the fs in order to flush stuff out. This patch changes the culprits to GFS_NOFS to keep this problem from happening. Thank you, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/inode.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/gfs2/inode.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
index dcae2aa83f13..3a9ef526c308 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@ int gfs2_readlinki(struct gfs2_inode *ip, char **buf, unsigned int *len)
x = ip->i_di.di_size + 1;
if (x > *len) {
- *buf = kmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL);
+ *buf = kmalloc(x, GFP_NOFS);
if (!*buf) {
error = -ENOMEM;
goto out_brelse;