virtio_pmem_flush() can run from pmem_submit_bio() while filesystem IO is waiting on the flush completion. The request object allocation can sleep, but it should not enter filesystem or block IO reclaim from this flush path.
Use GFP_NOIO for the request allocation. The virtqueue descriptor allocation still uses GFP_ATOMIC because it runs under pmem_lock. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <[email protected]> --- Changes in v6: - New patch; keep GFP_NOIO only for the virtio-pmem request allocation. drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c index 4b2e9c47af0f5..91ca144607531 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/nd_virtio.c @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static int virtio_pmem_flush(struct nd_region *nd_region) return -EIO; } - req_data = kmalloc_obj(*req_data); + req_data = kmalloc_obj(*req_data, GFP_NOIO); if (!req_data) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.52.0
