[PATCH 14/14] fs,xfs: Allow kswapd to writeback pages

[Mel Gorman]

As only kswapd and memcg are writing back pages, there should be no
danger of overflowing the stack. Allow the writing back of dirty pages
in xfs from the VM.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c |   15 ---------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
index 34640d6..4c89db3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c
@@ -1333,21 +1333,6 @@ xfs_vm_writepage(
 	trace_xfs_writepage(inode, page, 0);
 
 	/*
-	 * Refuse to write the page out if we are called from reclaim context.
-	 *
-	 * This is primarily to avoid stack overflows when called from deep
-	 * used stacks in random callers for direct reclaim, but disabling
-	 * reclaim for kswap is a nice side-effect as kswapd causes rather
-	 * suboptimal I/O patters, too.
-	 *
-	 * This should really be done by the core VM, but until that happens
-	 * filesystems like XFS, btrfs and ext4 have to take care of this
-	 * by themselves.
-	 */
-	if (current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)
-		goto out_fail;
-
-	/*
 	 * We need a transaction if:
 	 *  1. There are delalloc buffers on the page
 	 *  2. The page is uptodate and we have unmapped buffers
-- 
1.7.1

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