From: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
To: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Ming Lei" <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store()
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:23:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fa89c60-a507-43a0-98ed-4d182bcea3ee@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250113015833.698458-1-ming.lei@redhat.com>
On 13/01/2025 01:58, Ming Lei wrote:
> sysfs ->store is called with queue freezed, meantime we have several
> ->store() callbacks(update_nr_requests, wbt, scheduler) to allocate
> memory with GFP_KERNEL which may run into direct reclaim code path,
> then potential deadlock can be caused.
>
> Fix the issue by marking NOIO around sysfs ->store()
>
> Reported-by: Thomas Hellström<thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>
> Cc:stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei<ming.lei@redhat.com>
I guess that you should be including a link to
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/Z4RkemI9f6N5zoEF@fedora/T/#mc774c65eeca5c024d29695f9ac6152b87763f305
Regardless, FWIW:
Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-01-13 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-13 1:58 [PATCH] block: mark GFP_NOIO around sysfs ->store() Ming Lei
2025-01-13 5:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-01-13 8:23 ` John Garry [this message]
2025-01-13 8:29 ` Ming Lei
2025-01-13 14:46 ` Jens Axboe
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2025-08-06 2:50 xu.xin16
2025-08-06 7:27 ` Ming Lei
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