Since we are in the memory reclaim path we need our recv work to be on a workqueue that has WQ_MEM_RECLAIM set so we can avoid deadlocks. Also set WQ_HIGHPRI since we are in the completion path for IO. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 99c8446..e0a8d51 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ struct nbd_device { struct task_struct *task_recv; struct task_struct *task_setup; + struct workqueue_struct *recv_workqueue; #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS) struct dentry *dbg_dir; #endif @@ -787,7 +788,7 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd, INIT_WORK(&args[i].work, recv_work); args[i].nbd = nbd; args[i].index = i; - queue_work(system_long_wq, &args[i].work); + queue_work(nbd->recv_workqueue, &args[i].work); } wait_event_interruptible(nbd->recv_wq, atomic_read(&nbd->recv_threads) == 0); @@ -1074,6 +1075,16 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void) goto out; } + nbd_dev[i].recv_workqueue = + alloc_workqueue("knbd-recv", + WQ_MEM_RECLAIM | WQ_HIGHPRI, 0); + if (!nbd_dev[i].recv_workqueue) { + blk_mq_free_tag_set(&nbd_dev[i].tag_set); + blk_cleanup_queue(disk->queue); + put_disk(disk); + goto out; + } + /* * Tell the block layer that we are not a rotational device */ @@ -1115,6 +1126,7 @@ static int __init nbd_init(void) blk_mq_free_tag_set(&nbd_dev[i].tag_set); blk_cleanup_queue(nbd_dev[i].disk->queue); put_disk(nbd_dev[i].disk); + destroy_workqueue(nbd_dev[i].recv_workqueue); } kfree(nbd_dev); return err; @@ -1134,6 +1146,7 @@ static void __exit nbd_cleanup(void) blk_cleanup_queue(disk->queue); blk_mq_free_tag_set(&nbd_dev[i].tag_set); put_disk(disk); + destroy_workqueue(nbd_dev[i].recv_workqueue); } } unregister_blkdev(NBD_MAJOR, "nbd"); -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html