The read_from_bdev_async is not called on atomic context. So GFP_NOIO is available rather than GFP_ATOMIC. If there were reclaimable pages with GFP_NOIO, we can avoid allocation failure and page fault failure. Reported-by: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: use GFP_NOIO only v1: use GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGHMEM --- drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c index fcaf2750f68f..081e77d595d7 100644 --- a/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c @@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ static int read_from_bdev_async(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec *bvec, { struct bio *bio; - bio = bio_alloc(GFP_ATOMIC, 1); + bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1); if (!bio) return -ENOMEM; -- 2.17.1