dlm: always use GFP_NOFS
Replace all GFP_KERNEL and ls_allocation with GFP_NOFS.
ls_allocation would be GFP_KERNEL for userland lockspaces
and GFP_NOFS for file system lockspaces.
It was discovered that any lockspaces on the system can
affect all others by triggering memory reclaim in the
file system which could in turn call back into the dlm
to acquire locks, deadlocking dlm threads that were
shared by all lockspaces, like dlm_recv.
Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/dlm/requestqueue.c b/fs/dlm/requestqueue.c
index 7a2307c..a44fa22 100644
--- a/fs/dlm/requestqueue.c
+++ b/fs/dlm/requestqueue.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
struct rq_entry *e;
int length = ms->m_header.h_length - sizeof(struct dlm_message);
- e = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rq_entry) + length, ls->ls_allocation);
+ e = kmalloc(sizeof(struct rq_entry) + length, GFP_NOFS);
if (!e) {
log_print("dlm_add_requestqueue: out of memory len %d", length);
return;