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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2009-01-04 23:00:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-05 00:33:20 +0300 |
| commit | 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e (patch) | |
| tree | b373f3283fe5e197d0df29cd6b645c35adf1076c /mm | |
| parent | e687d691cb3790d25e31c74f5941fd7c565e9df5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e.tar.xz | |
fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it
could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the
allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always
assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could
cause filesystem deadlocks.
The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really
allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be
called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to
take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS
anyway, so turn that into a single flag.
Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on
this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to
accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there,
change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive
and does away with random leading underscores).
This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a
filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache
ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than
GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a
random example).
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags
untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That
just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the
logic. - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/filemap.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index f3e5f8944d17..f8c69273c37f 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -2140,19 +2140,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_direct_write); * Find or create a page at the given pagecache position. Return the locked * page. This function is specifically for buffered writes. */ -struct page *__grab_cache_page(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index) +struct page *grab_cache_page_write_begin(struct address_space *mapping, + pgoff_t index, unsigned flags) { int status; struct page *page; + gfp_t gfp_notmask = 0; + if (flags & AOP_FLAG_NOFS) + gfp_notmask = __GFP_FS; repeat: page = find_lock_page(mapping, index); if (likely(page)) return page; - page = page_cache_alloc(mapping); + page = __page_cache_alloc(mapping_gfp_mask(mapping) & ~gfp_notmask); if (!page) return NULL; - status = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, GFP_KERNEL); + status = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, + GFP_KERNEL & ~gfp_notmask); if (unlikely(status)) { page_cache_release(page); if (status == -EEXIST) @@ -2161,7 +2166,7 @@ repeat: } return page; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__grab_cache_page); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(grab_cache_page_write_begin); static ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file, struct iov_iter *i, loff_t pos) |