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Andrew Morton authored
mpage_writepages() does a lock_page() on pages to be written back, even when it is being used for page reclaim writeback. This is normally OK, because the page is unlocked quickly - pages are unlocked during writeback and nobody should be performing __GFP_FS allocations inside lock_page(). But it has introduced a ranking problem in ext3: generic_file_write ->lock_page ->ext3_prepare_write ->journal_start (waits for a commit) versus ext3_create() ->journal_start() ->ext3_new_inode(GFP_KERNEL) ->page reclaim ->mpage_writepages ->lock_page (locks up, transaction is held open) Maybe sometime, I'll have to turn mpage_writepages' lock_page into a trylock if the caller is PF_MEMALLOC. But for now, let's make ext3's inside-transaction allocations use GFP_NOFS. There is only one of them.
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