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-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/xfs_super.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index 5a5d9453cf51..5ef5d8416f70 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -910,11 +910,21 @@ xfs_fs_freeze(
struct super_block *sb)
{
struct xfs_mount *mp = XFS_M(sb);
+ unsigned int flags;
+ int ret;
+ /*
+ * The filesystem is now frozen far enough that memory reclaim
+ * cannot safely operate on the filesystem. Hence we need to
+ * set a GFP_NOFS context here to avoid recursion deadlocks.
+ */
+ flags = memalloc_nofs_save();
xfs_stop_block_reaping(mp);
xfs_save_resvblks(mp);
xfs_quiesce_attr(mp);
- return xfs_sync_sb(mp, true);
+ ret = xfs_sync_sb(mp, true);
+ memalloc_nofs_restore(flags);
+ return ret;
}
STATIC int