[PATCH 3/7] xfs: Warn if direct reclaim tries to writeback pages

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed Aug 10 2011 - 06:48:32 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c | 7 +++----
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 79ce38b..afea9cd 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -930,11 +930,10 @@ 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;

/*
--
1.7.3.4

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