Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path
if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cuase deadlock with
reclaim path so this patch solves the problem.

Cc: Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 61fb8f1..b285b3a 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_read(struct zram *zram, struct bio_vec 
*bvec,
        user_mem = kmap_atomic(page);
        if (is_partial_io(bvec))
                /* Use  a temporary buffer to decompress the page */
-               uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+               uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
        else
                uncmem = user_mem;
 
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int zram_bvec_write(struct zram *zram, struct 
bio_vec *bvec, u32 index,
                 * This is a partial IO. We need to read the full page
                 * before to write the changes.
                 */
-               uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+               uncmem = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_NOIO);
                if (!uncmem) {
                        pr_info("Error allocating temp memory!\n");
                        ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.9.5

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Reply via email to