Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:05:48 -0600 | From | Dave Kleikamp <> | Subject | [PATCH v2] vfs: __read_cache_page should use gfp argument rather than GFP_KERNEL |
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[ updated to remove now-obsolete comment in read_cache_page_gfp()]
lockdep reports a deadlock in jfs because a special inode's rw semaphore is taken recursively. The mapping's gfp mask is GFP_NOFS, but is not used when __read_cache_page() calls add_to_page_cache_lru().
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index c106d3b..5f0a3c9 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c @@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ repeat: page = __page_cache_alloc(gfp | __GFP_COLD); if (!page) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - err = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, GFP_KERNEL); + err = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, index, gfp); if (unlikely(err)) { page_cache_release(page); if (err == -EEXIST) @@ -1925,10 +1925,7 @@ static struct page *wait_on_page_read(struct page *page) * @gfp: the page allocator flags to use if allocating * * This is the same as "read_mapping_page(mapping, index, NULL)", but with - * any new page allocations done using the specified allocation flags. Note - * that the Radix tree operations will still use GFP_KERNEL, so you can't - * expect to do this atomically or anything like that - but you can pass in - * other page requirements. + * any new page allocations done using the specified allocation flags. * * If the page does not get brought uptodate, return -EIO. */
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