xfs: place the CIL under nofs allocation context

This is core code that needs to run in low memory conditions and
can be triggered from memory reclaim. While it runs in a workqueue,
it really shouldn't be recursing back into the filesystem during
any memory allocation it needs to function.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Dave Chinner 2024-01-16 09:59:48 +11:00 committed by Chandan Babu R
parent 2c1e31ed5c
commit c704ecb241

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@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ xlog_cil_ctx_alloc(void)
{
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx;
ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_NOFS | __GFP_NOFAIL);
ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->committing);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->busy_extents.extent_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->log_items);
@ -1116,11 +1116,18 @@ xlog_cil_cleanup_whiteouts(
* same sequence twice. If we get a race between multiple pushes for the same
* sequence they will block on the first one and then abort, hence avoiding
* needless pushes.
*
* This runs from a workqueue so it does not inherent any specific memory
* allocation context. However, we do not want to block on memory reclaim
* recursing back into the filesystem because this push may have been triggered
* by memory reclaim itself. Hence we really need to run under full GFP_NOFS
* contraints here.
*/
static void
xlog_cil_push_work(
struct work_struct *work)
{
unsigned int nofs_flags = memalloc_nofs_save();
struct xfs_cil_ctx *ctx =
container_of(work, struct xfs_cil_ctx, push_work);
struct xfs_cil *cil = ctx->cil;
@ -1334,12 +1341,14 @@ xlog_cil_push_work(
spin_unlock(&log->l_icloglock);
xlog_cil_cleanup_whiteouts(&whiteouts);
xfs_log_ticket_ungrant(log, ticket);
memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flags);
return;
out_skip:
up_write(&cil->xc_ctx_lock);
xfs_log_ticket_put(new_ctx->ticket);
kfree(new_ctx);
memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flags);
return;
out_abort_free_ticket:
@ -1348,6 +1357,7 @@ out_abort_free_ticket:
if (!ctx->commit_iclog) {
xfs_log_ticket_ungrant(log, ctx->ticket);
xlog_cil_committed(ctx);
memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flags);
return;
}
spin_lock(&log->l_icloglock);
@ -1356,6 +1366,7 @@ out_abort_free_ticket:
/* Not safe to reference ctx now! */
spin_unlock(&log->l_icloglock);
xfs_log_ticket_ungrant(log, ticket);
memalloc_nofs_restore(nofs_flags);
}
/*