From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:50:06 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: xfs: warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages
X-Git-Tag: next-20111004~1^2~182
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e9153a5441cf8ba19ddbad24fa35168b0ddd0b35;p=karo-tx-linux.git

xfs: warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages

Direct reclaim should never writeback pages.  For now, handle the
situation and warn about it.  Ultimately, this will be a BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <>
---

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
index 462e93756078..35dbbeded05f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
@@ -902,11 +902,11 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
 	 * random callers for direct reclaim or memcg reclaim.  We explicitly
 	 * allow reclaim from kswapd as the stack usage there is relatively low.
 	 *
-	 * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens
-	 * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this
-	 * by themselves.
+	 * This should never happen except in the case of a VM regression so
+	 * warn about it.
 	 */
-	if ((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == PF_MEMALLOC)
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) ==
+			PF_MEMALLOC))
 		goto redirty;
 
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