From: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Subject: [RHEL5] [GFS2] Fix memory allocation in glock.c (bz #204364)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:38:49 +0000
Bugzilla: 204364
Message-Id: <1164368329.3392.153.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com>
Changelog: GFS2: Fix memory allocation in glock.c


Hi,

This patch has gone upstream (awaiting a pull from Linus) and fixes bugzilla #204364

Steve.

>From 70411bdbedb9a2726cacd5c36879b78037153782 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Change from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS as this was causing a
slow down when trying to push inodes from cache.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
---
 fs/gfs2/glock.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index 78fe0fa..e94e7c9 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ restart:
 	} else {
 		spin_unlock(&gl->gl_spin);
 
-		new_gh = gfs2_holder_get(gl, state, LM_FLAG_TRY, GFP_KERNEL);
+		new_gh = gfs2_holder_get(gl, state, LM_FLAG_TRY, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!new_gh)
 			return;
 		set_bit(HIF_DEMOTE, &new_gh->gh_iflags);
-- 
1.4.1