[dm-devel] [PATCH] dm-zoned: Use GFP_NOIO in I/O path

[Damien Le Moal]

Use GFP_NOIO for memory allocations in the I/O path. Other memory
allocations in the initialization path can keep using GFP_KERNEL.

Problem reported by Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal at wdc.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c
index f694fb98b002..f45ac8b1121d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-zoned-metadata.c
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ static int dmz_write_sb(struct dmz_metadata *zmd, unsigned int set)
 
 	ret = dmz_rdwr_block(zmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, block, mblk->page);
 	if (ret == 0)
-		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(zmd->dev->bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(zmd->dev->bdev, GFP_NOIO, NULL);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static int dmz_write_dirty_mblocks(struct dmz_metadata *zmd,
 
 	/* Flush drive cache (this will also sync data) */
 	if (ret == 0)
-		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(zmd->dev->bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(zmd->dev->bdev, GFP_NOIO, NULL);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ int dmz_flush_metadata(struct dmz_metadata *zmd)
 
 	/* If there are no dirty metadata blocks, just flush the device cache */
 	if (list_empty(&write_list)) {
-		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(zmd->dev->bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
+		ret = blkdev_issue_flush(zmd->dev->bdev, GFP_NOIO, NULL);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ static int dmz_recover_mblocks(struct dmz_metadata *zmd, unsigned int dst_set)
 			(zmd->nr_meta_zones << zmd->dev->zone_nr_blocks_shift);
 	}
 
-	page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	page = alloc_page(GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ static int dmz_update_zone(struct dmz_metadata *zmd, struct dm_zone *zone)
 
 	/* Get zone information from disk */
 	ret = blkdev_report_zones(zmd->dev->bdev, dmz_start_sect(zmd, zone),
-				  &blkz, &nr_blkz, GFP_KERNEL);
+				  &blkz, &nr_blkz, GFP_NOIO);
 	if (ret) {
 		dmz_dev_err(zmd->dev, "Get zone %u report failed",
 			    dmz_id(zmd, zone));
@@ -1258,7 +1258,7 @@ static int dmz_reset_zone(struct dmz_metadata *zmd, struct dm_zone *zone)
 
 		ret = blkdev_reset_zones(dev->bdev,
 					 dmz_start_sect(zmd, zone),
-					 dev->zone_nr_sectors, GFP_KERNEL);
+					 dev->zone_nr_sectors, GFP_NOIO);
 		if (ret) {
 			dmz_dev_err(dev, "Reset zone %u failed %d",
 				    dmz_id(zmd, zone), ret);
-- 
2.13.3