From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:34:11 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] slab: fix sleeping in atomic bug
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc1~115
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd47ea755693228bf842c779e8afdfa47efb20a3;p=linux-2.6

[PATCH] slab: fix sleeping in atomic bug

Fallback_alloc() does not do the check for GFP_WAIT as done in
cache_grow().  Thus interrupts are disabled when we call kmem_getpages()
which results in the failure.

Duplicate the handling of GFP_WAIT in cache_grow().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 2c655532f5..c7576b9027 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3252,6 +3252,7 @@ void *fallback_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cache, gfp_t flags)
 	struct zone **z;
 	void *obj = NULL;
 	int nid;
+	gfp_t local_flags = (flags & GFP_LEVEL_MASK);
 
 retry:
 	/*
@@ -3275,7 +3276,12 @@ retry:
 		 * We may trigger various forms of reclaim on the allowed
 		 * set and go into memory reserves if necessary.
 		 */
+		if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
+			local_irq_enable();
+		kmem_flagcheck(cache, flags);
 		obj = kmem_getpages(cache, flags, -1);
+		if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
+			local_irq_disable();
 		if (obj) {
 			/*
 			 * Insert into the appropriate per node queues