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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. xprt_dynamic_alloc_slot can block indefinitely. This can tie up all workqueue threads and NFS can deadlock. So when called from a workqueue, set __GFP_NORETRY. The rdma alloc_slot already does not block. However it sets the error to -EAGAIN suggesting this will trigger a sleep. It does not. As we can see in call_reserveresult(), only -ENOMEM causes a sleep. -EAGAIN causes immediate retry. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.