RPC: Do not block on skb allocation

 If we get something like the following,
 [  125.300636]  [<c04086e1>] schedule_timeout+0x54/0xa5
 [  125.305931]  [<c040866e>] io_schedule_timeout+0x29/0x33
 [  125.311495]  [<c02880c4>] blk_congestion_wait+0x70/0x85
 [  125.317058]  [<c014136b>] throttle_vm_writeout+0x69/0x7d
 [  125.322720]  [<c014714d>] shrink_zone+0xe0/0xfa
 [  125.327560]  [<c01471d4>] shrink_caches+0x6d/0x6f
 [  125.332581]  [<c01472a6>] try_to_free_pages+0xd0/0x1b5
 [  125.338056]  [<c013fa4b>] __alloc_pages+0x135/0x2e8
 [  125.343258]  [<c03b74ad>] tcp_sendmsg+0xaa0/0xb78
 [  125.348281]  [<c03d4666>] inet_sendmsg+0x48/0x53
 [  125.353212]  [<c0388716>] sock_sendmsg+0xb8/0xd3
 [  125.358147]  [<c0388773>] kernel_sendmsg+0x42/0x4f
 [  125.363259]  [<c038bc00>] sock_no_sendpage+0x5e/0x77
 [  125.368556]  [<c03ee7af>] xs_tcp_send_request+0x2af/0x375
 then the socket is blocked until memory is reclaimed, and no
 progress can ever be made.

 Try to access the emergency pools by using GFP_ATOMIC.

 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
index 0a51fd46a848..77e8800d4127 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -990,6 +990,7 @@ static void xs_udp_connect_worker(void *args)
                 sk->sk_data_ready = xs_udp_data_ready;
                 sk->sk_write_space = xs_udp_write_space;
                 sk->sk_no_check = UDP_CSUM_NORCV;
+                sk->sk_allocation = GFP_ATOMIC;
 
                 xprt_set_connected(xprt);
 
@@ -1074,6 +1075,7 @@ static void xs_tcp_connect_worker(void *args)
                 sk->sk_data_ready = xs_tcp_data_ready;
                 sk->sk_state_change = xs_tcp_state_change;
                 sk->sk_write_space = xs_tcp_write_space;
+                sk->sk_allocation = GFP_ATOMIC;
 
                 /* socket options */
                 sk->sk_userlocks |= SOCK_BINDPORT_LOCK;