NFS: nfsiod should not block forever in mempool_alloc()

[ Upstream commit 515dcdcd48736576c6f5c197814da6f81c60a21e ]

The concern is that since nfsiod is sometimes required to kick off a
commit, it can get locked up waiting forever in mempool_alloc() instead
of failing gracefully and leaving the commit until later.

Try to allocate from the slab first, with GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY,
then fall back to a non-blocking attempt to allocate from the memory
pool.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Trond Myklebust
2022-03-21 12:34:19 -04:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 7a506fabcf
commit 34681aeddc
4 changed files with 23 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -70,27 +70,17 @@ static mempool_t *nfs_wdata_mempool;
static struct kmem_cache *nfs_cdata_cachep;
static mempool_t *nfs_commit_mempool;
struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(bool never_fail)
struct nfs_commit_data *nfs_commitdata_alloc(void)
{
struct nfs_commit_data *p;
if (never_fail)
p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOIO);
else {
/* It is OK to do some reclaim, not no safe to wait
* for anything to be returned to the pool.
* mempool_alloc() cannot handle that particular combination,
* so we need two separate attempts.
*/
p = kmem_cache_zalloc(nfs_cdata_cachep, nfs_io_gfp_mask());
if (!p) {
p = mempool_alloc(nfs_commit_mempool, GFP_NOWAIT);
if (!p)
p = kmem_cache_alloc(nfs_cdata_cachep, GFP_NOIO |
__GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_NORETRY);
if (!p)
return NULL;
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
}
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->pages);
return p;
}
@@ -1800,7 +1790,11 @@ nfs_commit_list(struct inode *inode, struct list_head *head, int how,
if (list_empty(head))
return 0;
data = nfs_commitdata_alloc(true);
data = nfs_commitdata_alloc();
if (!data) {
nfs_retry_commit(head, NULL, cinfo, -1);
return -ENOMEM;
}
/* Set up the argument struct */
nfs_init_commit(data, head, NULL, cinfo);