Jan Kara 9b4c0ff32c ocfs2: Fix deadlock when allocating page ...

We cannot call grab_cache_page() when holding filesystem locks or with
a transaction started as grab_cache_page() calls page allocation with
GFP_KERNEL flag and thus page reclaim can recurse back into the filesystem
causing deadlocks or various assertion failures. We have to use
find_or_create_page() instead and pass it GFP_NOFS as we do with other
allocations.

Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>

2010-09-08 14:25:57 +08:00

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