linux-kernel - [PATCH 15/23] SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory

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Date:   Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:48:32 +1100
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:     Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
        Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 15/23] SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting
 for memory

When memory is short, new worker threads cannot be created and we depend
on the minimum one rpciod thread to be able to handle everything.
So it must not block waiting for memory.

mempools are particularly a problem as memory can only be released back
to the mempool by an async rpc task running.  If all available
workqueue threads are waiting on the mempool, no thread is available to
return anything.

rpc_malloc() can block, and this might cause deadlocks.
So check RPC_IS_ASYNC(), rather than RPC_IS_SWAPPER() to determine if
blocking is acceptable.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
---
 net/sunrpc/sched.c              |    4 +++-
 net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c |    4 +++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index e2c835482791..d5b6e897f5a5 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -1023,8 +1023,10 @@ int rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *task)
 	struct rpc_buffer *buf;
 	gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS;
 
+	if (RPC_IS_ASYNC(task))
+		gfp = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
 	if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
-		gfp = __GFP_MEMALLOC | GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
+		gfp |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
 
 	size += sizeof(struct rpc_buffer);
 	if (size <= RPC_BUFFER_MAXSIZE)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
index 16e5696314a4..a52277115500 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c
@@ -574,8 +574,10 @@ xprt_rdma_allocate(struct rpc_task *task)
 	gfp_t flags;
 
 	flags = RPCRDMA_DEF_GFP;
+	if (RPC_IS_ASYNC(task))
+		flags = GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
 	if (RPC_IS_SWAPPER(task))
-		flags = __GFP_MEMALLOC | GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN;
+		flags |= __GFP_MEMALLOC;
 
 	if (!rpcrdma_check_regbuf(r_xprt, req->rl_sendbuf, rqst->rq_callsize,
 				  flags))