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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c index 767d53222f31..1eb625fdcb1e 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c @@ -531,8 +531,19 @@ xfs_submit_ioend( { /* Convert CoW extents to regular */ if (!status && ioend->io_type == XFS_IO_COW) { + /* + * Yuk. This can do memory allocation, but is not a + * transactional operation so everything is done in GFP_KERNEL + * context. That can deadlock, because we hold pages in + * writeback state and GFP_KERNEL allocations can block on them. + * Hence we must operate in nofs conditions here. + */ + unsigned nofs_flag; + + nofs_flag = memalloc_nofs_save(); status = xfs_reflink_convert_cow(XFS_I(ioend->io_inode), ioend->io_offset, ioend->io_size); + memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flag); } /* Reserve log space if we might write beyond the on-disk inode size. */ |