This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86, ioapic: Fix potential resume deadlock
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-ioapic-fix-potential-resume-deadlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b64ce24daffb634b5b3133a2e411bd4de50654e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:31:31 -0700
Subject: x86, ioapic: Fix potential resume deadlock
From: Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]>
commit b64ce24daffb634b5b3133a2e411bd4de50654e8 upstream.
Fix a potential deadlock when resuming; here the calling
function has disabled interrupts, so we cannot sleep.
Change the memory allocation flag from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC.
TODO: We can do away with this memory allocation during resume
by reusing the ioapic suspend/resume code that uses boot time
allocated buffers, but we want to keep this -stable patch
simple.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Link:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -621,14 +621,14 @@ struct IO_APIC_route_entry **alloc_ioapi
struct IO_APIC_route_entry **ioapic_entries;
ioapic_entries = kzalloc(sizeof(*ioapic_entries) * nr_ioapics,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!ioapic_entries)
return 0;
for (apic = 0; apic < nr_ioapics; apic++) {
ioapic_entries[apic] =
kzalloc(sizeof(struct IO_APIC_route_entry) *
- nr_ioapic_registers[apic], GFP_KERNEL);
+ nr_ioapic_registers[apic], GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!ioapic_entries[apic])
goto nomem;
}
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