This patch applyes the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block device so that PM core will teach mm to not allocate memory with GFP_IOFS when calling the runtime_resume and runtime_suspend callback for block devices and its ancestors. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v5: - fix code style and one typo v4: - call pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(ddev, true) after device_add --- block/genhd.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 9a289d7..1905966 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ #include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/idr.h> #include <linux/log2.h> +#include <linux/pm_runtime.h> #include "blk.h" @@ -532,6 +533,14 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk) return; } } + + /* + * avoid probable deadlock caused by allocating memory with + * GFP_KERNEL in runtime_resume callback of its all ancestor + * devices + */ + pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(ddev, true); + disk->part0.holder_dir = kobject_create_and_add("holders", &ddev->kobj); disk->slave_dir = kobject_create_and_add("slaves", &ddev->kobj); @@ -661,6 +670,7 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk) disk->driverfs_dev = NULL; if (!sysfs_deprecated) sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(disk_to_dev(disk))); + pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(disk_to_dev(disk), false); device_del(disk_to_dev(disk)); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk); -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html