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SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Sun, 6 Mar 2022 23:41:44 +0000 (10:41 +1100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:08:28 +0000 (09:08 +0200)
commit5364fe29920dc39b0ecafdaa8c2c0e975a6985b3
tree0ad3421410c1a21553edee3888a89a389c24577a
parentaba111deed002b98c1034053c5ade17c982155d0
SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory

[ Upstream commit c487216bec83b0c5a8803e5c61433d33ad7b104d ]

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@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/sunrpc/sched.c
net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/transport.c