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SUNRPC: Eliminate side effects from rpc_malloc

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Currently rpc_malloc sets req->rq_buffer internally.  Make this a more
generic interface:  return a pointer to the new buffer (or NULL) and
make the caller set req->rq_buffer and req->rq_bufsize.  This looks much
more like kmalloc and eliminates the side effects.

To fix a potential deadlock, this patch also replaces GFP_NOFS with
GFP_NOWAIT in rpc_malloc.  This prevents async RPCs from sleeping outside
the RPC's task scheduler while allocating their buffer.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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Chuck Lever 2007-03-29 16:47:58 -04:00 • committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 2bea90d43a
commit c5a4dd8b7c
5 changed files with 39 additions and 35 deletions
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include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
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@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ struct rpc_task *rpc_wake_up_next(struct rpc_wait_queue *);
void rpc_wake_up_status(struct rpc_wait_queue *, int);
void rpc_delay(struct rpc_task *, unsigned long);
void * rpc_malloc(struct rpc_task *, size_t);
void rpc_free(struct rpc_task *);
void rpc_free(void *);
int rpciod_up(void);
void rpciod_down(void);
int __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(struct rpc_task *task, int (*)(void *));