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SubjectRe: XFS memory allocation deadlock in 2.6.38
Can you check if the brute force patch below helps?  If it does I
still need to refine it a bit, but it could be that we are doing
an allocation under an xfs lock that could recurse back into the
filesystem. We have a per-process flag to disable that for normal
kmalloc allocation, but we lost it for vmalloc in the commit you
bisected the regression to.


Index: xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/kmem.h
===================================================================
--- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/kmem.h 2011-03-29 21:16:58.039224236 +0200
+++ xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/kmem.h 2011-03-29 21:17:08.368223598 +0200
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ static inline void *kmem_zalloc_large(si
{
void *ptr;

- ptr = vmalloc(size);
+ ptr = __vmalloc(size, GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL);
if (ptr)
memset(ptr, 0, size);
return ptr;

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