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-rw-r--r--fs/fscache/page.c19
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/fscache/page.c b/fs/fscache/page.c
index 4dbbca16262..f9b2fb3ae49 100644
--- a/fs/fscache/page.c
+++ b/fs/fscache/page.c
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ bool __fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
_enter("%p,%p,%x", cookie, page, gfp);
+try_again:
rcu_read_lock();
val = radix_tree_lookup(&cookie->stores, page->index);
if (!val) {
@@ -104,11 +105,19 @@ bool __fscache_maybe_release_page(struct fscache_cookie *cookie,
return true;
page_busy:
- /* we might want to wait here, but that could deadlock the allocator as
- * the work threads writing to the cache may all end up sleeping
- * on memory allocation */
- fscache_stat(&fscache_n_store_vmscan_busy);
- return false;
+ /* We will wait here if we're allowed to, but that could deadlock the
+ * allocator as the work threads writing to the cache may all end up
+ * sleeping on memory allocation, so we may need to impose a timeout
+ * too. */
+ if (!(gfp & __GFP_WAIT)) {
+ fscache_stat(&fscache_n_store_vmscan_busy);
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ fscache_stat(&fscache_n_store_vmscan_wait);
+ __fscache_wait_on_page_write(cookie, page);
+ gfp &= ~__GFP_WAIT;
+ goto try_again;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fscache_maybe_release_page);