Deadlock might be caused by allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL in runtime_resume and runtime_suspend callback of network devices in iSCSI situation, so mark network devices and its ancestor as 'memalloc_noio' with the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(). Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- v7: - rebase on v3.8-rc2-next-20130104 v4: - call pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(ddev, true) after device_add --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index 29c884a..67e00b2 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include <linux/export.h> #include <linux/jiffies.h> +#include <linux/pm_runtime.h> #include "net-sysfs.h" @@ -1409,6 +1410,8 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device * net) remove_queue_kobjects(net); + pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, false); + device_del(dev); } @@ -1453,6 +1456,8 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *net) return error; } + pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, true); + return error; } -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>