From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx153.postini.com [74.125.245.153]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 336566B0005 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:52:28 -0500 (EST) From: Minchan Kim Subject: [PATCH v5 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial write Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:52:22 +0900 Message-Id: <1358898745-4873-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nitin Gupta , Seth Jennings , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Dan Magenheimer , Pekka Enberg , jmarchan@redhat.com, Minchan Kim , stable@vger.kernel.org Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cuase deadlock with reclaim path so this patch solves the problem. Cc: Jerome Marchand Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Nitin Gupta Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim --- drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c index 61fb8f1..b285b3a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, user_mem = kmap_atomic(page); if (is_partial_io(bvec)) /* Use a temporary buffer to decompress the page */ - uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC); else uncmem = user_mem; @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, u32 index, * This is a partial IO. We need to read the full page * before to write the changes. */ - uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO); if (!uncmem) { pr_info("Error allocating temp memory!\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org