Merge tag 'v3.15-rc1' into patchwork

Linux 3.15-rc1

* tag 'v3.15-rc1': (12180 commits)
  Linux 3.15-rc1
  mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read()
  cifs: Use min_t() when comparing "size_t" and "unsigned long"
  sym53c8xx_2: Set DID_REQUEUE return code when aborting squeue
  powerpc: Don't try to set LPCR unless we're in hypervisor mode
  futex: update documentation for ordering guarantees
  ceph: fix pr_fmt() redefinition
  vti: don't allow to add the same tunnel twice
  gre: don't allow to add the same tunnel twice
  drivers: net: xen-netfront: fix array initialization bug
  missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
  cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
  ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
  pktgen: be friendly to LLTX devices
  r8152: check RTL8152_UNPLUG
  net: sun4i-emac: add promiscuous support
  net/apne: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
  blackfin: cleanup board files
  bf609: clock: drop unused clock bit set/clear functions
  Blackfin: bf537: rename "CONFIG_ADT75"
  ...

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/kmem.c b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
index 66a36befc5c0..844e288b9576 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/kmem.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/kmem.c
@@ -65,12 +65,31 @@ kmem_alloc(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 void *
 kmem_zalloc_large(size_t size, xfs_km_flags_t flags)
 {
+	unsigned noio_flag = 0;
 	void	*ptr;
+	gfp_t	lflags;
 
 	ptr = kmem_zalloc(size, flags | KM_MAYFAIL);
 	if (ptr)
 		return ptr;
-	return vzalloc(size);
+
+	/*
+	 * __vmalloc() will allocate data pages and auxillary structures (e.g.
+	 * pagetables) with GFP_KERNEL, yet we may be under GFP_NOFS context
+	 * here. Hence we need to tell memory reclaim that we are in such a
+	 * context via PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO to prevent memory reclaim re-entering
+	 * the filesystem here and potentially deadlocking.
+	 */
+	if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
+		noio_flag = memalloc_noio_save();
+
+	lflags = kmem_flags_convert(flags);
+	ptr = __vmalloc(size, lflags | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO, PAGE_KERNEL);
+
+	if ((current->flags & PF_FSTRANS) || (flags & KM_NOFS))
+		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+
+	return ptr;
 }
 
 void