[PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations
throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside.
But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout.
So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some
memory, then return.
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index f7e088f..f469e3c 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -296,11 +296,21 @@
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr);
-void throttle_vm_writeout(void)
+void throttle_vm_writeout(gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
long background_thresh;
long dirty_thresh;
+ if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_IO)) {
+ /*
+ * The caller might hold locks which can prevent IO completion
+ * or progress in the filesystem. So we cannot just sit here
+ * waiting for IO to complete.
+ */
+ congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/10);
+ return;
+ }
+
for ( ; ; ) {
get_dirty_limits(&background_thresh, &dirty_thresh, NULL);
@@ -317,7 +327,6 @@
}
}
-
/*
* writeback at least _min_pages, and keep writing until the amount of dirty
* memory is less than the background threshold, or until we're all clean.