mm,writeback: don't use memory reserves for wb_start_writeback
When writeback operation cannot make forward progress because memory
allocation requests needed for doing I/O cannot be satisfied (e.g.
under OOM-livelock situation), we can observe flood of order-0 page
allocation failure messages caused by complete depletion of memory
reserves.
This is caused by unconditionally allocating "struct wb_writeback_work"
objects using GFP_ATOMIC from PF_MEMALLOC context.
__alloc_pages_nodemask() {
__alloc_pages_slowpath() {
__alloc_pages_direct_reclaim() {
__perform_reclaim() {
current->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC;
try_to_free_pages() {
do_try_to_free_pages() {
wakeup_flusher_threads() {
wb_start_writeback() {
kzalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC) {
/* ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS via PF_MEMALLOC */
}
}
}
}
}
current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
}
}
}
}
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