From a721035477fb5fb8abc738fbe410b07c12af3dc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 10:41:44 +1100 Subject: SUNRPC/xprt: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory When memory is short, new worker threads cannot be created and we depend on the minimum one rpciod thread to be able to handle everything. So it must not block waiting for memory. xprt_dynamic_alloc_slot can block indefinitely. This can tie up all workqueue threads and NFS can deadlock. So when called from a workqueue, set __GFP_NORETRY. The rdma alloc_slot already does not block. However it sets the error to -EAGAIN suggesting this will trigger a sleep. It does not. As we can see in call_reserveresult(), only -ENOMEM causes a sleep. -EAGAIN causes immediate retry. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/sunrpc/xprt.c') diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c index 9f0025e0742c..2d1f84aea516 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c @@ -1687,12 +1687,15 @@ out: static struct rpc_rqst *xprt_dynamic_alloc_slot(struct rpc_xprt *xprt) { struct rpc_rqst *req = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN); + gfp_t gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL; if (xprt->num_reqs >= xprt->max_reqs) goto out; ++xprt->num_reqs; spin_unlock(&xprt->reserve_lock); - req = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rpc_rqst), GFP_KERNEL); + if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER) + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOWARN; + req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req), gfp_mask); spin_lock(&xprt->reserve_lock); if (req != NULL) goto out; -- cgit v1.2.3