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gfs2: Disable page faults during lockless buffered reads
authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:32:02 +0000 (18:32 +0100)
committerAndreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:52:41 +0000 (16:52 +0100)
commit52f3f033a5dbd023307520af1ff551cadfd7f037
tree398a3f660177b830fad71291b7741af7e8cc9a3d
parentbb7f5d96aaa87d5aee2f5eb98ae0b84f08988489
gfs2: Disable page faults during lockless buffered reads

During lockless buffered reads, filemap_read() holds page cache page
references while trying to copy data to the user-space buffer.  The
calling process isn't holding the inode glock, but the page references
it holds prevent those pages from being removed from the page cache, and
that prevents the underlying inode glock from being moved to another
node.  Thus, we can end up in the same kinds of distributed deadlock
situations as with normal (non-lockless) buffered reads.

Fix that by disabling page faults during lockless reads as well.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
fs/gfs2/file.c