From c183b12aaa04f045446744be19b05665b3cdbd76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 10:54:25 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] nbd: set SOCK_MEMALLOC for access to PFMEMALLOC reserves Set SOCK_MEMALLOC on the NBD socket to allow access to PFMEMALLOC reserves so pages backed by NBD, particularly if swap related, can be cleaned to prevent the machine being deadlocked. It is still possible that the PFMEMALLOC reserves get depleted resulting in deadlock but this can be resolved by the administrator by increasing min_free_kbytes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Miller Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Christie Cc: Eric B Munson Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 061427a75d37..76bc96fd01c8 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ static int sock_xmit(struct nbd_device *nbd, int send, void *buf, int size, struct msghdr msg; struct kvec iov; sigset_t blocked, oldset; + unsigned long pflags = current->flags; if (unlikely(!sock)) { dev_err(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), @@ -167,8 +168,9 @@ static int sock_xmit(struct nbd_device *nbd, int send, void *buf, int size, siginitsetinv(&blocked, sigmask(SIGKILL)); sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &blocked, &oldset); + current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; do { - sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOIO; + sock->sk->sk_allocation = GFP_NOIO | __GFP_MEMALLOC; iov.iov_base = buf; iov.iov_len = size; msg.msg_name = NULL; @@ -214,6 +216,7 @@ static int sock_xmit(struct nbd_device *nbd, int send, void *buf, int size, } while (size > 0); sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, &oldset, NULL); + tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC); return result; } @@ -405,6 +408,7 @@ static int nbd_do_it(struct nbd_device *nbd) BUG_ON(nbd->magic != NBD_MAGIC); + sk_set_memalloc(nbd->sock->sk); nbd->pid = task_pid_nr(current); ret = device_create_file(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), &pid_attr); if (ret) { -- 2.39.5