Commit f9244d31 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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SUNRPC/call_alloc: async tasks mustn't block waiting for memory



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When memory is short, new worker threads cannot be created and we depend
on the minimum one rpciod thread to be able to handle everything.
So it must not block waiting for memory.

mempools are particularly a problem as memory can only be released back
to the mempool by an async rpc task running.  If all available
workqueue threads are waiting on the mempool, no thread is available to
return anything.

rpc_malloc() can block, and this might cause deadlocks.
So check RPC_IS_ASYNC(), rather than RPC_IS_SWAPPER() to determine if
blocking is acceptable.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent e2b2542f
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