zfs/module
Chunwei Chen b4ad50ac5f Use spl_fstrans_mark instead of memalloc_noio_save
For earlier versions of the kernel with memalloc_noio_save, it only turns
off __GFP_IO but leaves __GFP_FS untouched during direct reclaim. This
would cause threads to direct reclaim into ZFS and cause deadlock.

Instead, we should stick to using spl_fstrans_mark. Since we would
explicitly turn off both __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS before allocation, it
will work on every version of the kernel.

This impacts kernel versions 3.9-3.17, see upstream kernel commit
torvalds/linux@934f307 for reference.

Signed-off-by: Chunwei Chen <david.chen@osnexus.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Tim Chase <tim@chase2k.com>
Closes #515
Issue zfsonlinux/zfs#4111
2015-12-18 13:24:52 -08:00
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spl Use spl_fstrans_mark instead of memalloc_noio_save 2015-12-18 13:24:52 -08:00
splat Limit maximum object size in kmem tests 2015-11-16 15:02:24 -08:00
.gitignore gitignore: anchor entries at their respective directory 2013-04-02 11:07:52 -07:00
Makefile.in Prevent rm modules.* when make install 2015-12-02 14:38:20 -08:00