linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 5/6] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with no I/O during runtime

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Message-Id: <1351513440-9286-6-git-send-email-ming.lei@canonical.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:23:59 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/6] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with no I/O during runtime_resume callbcack

This patch applies the introduced memalloc_noio_save() and
memalloc_noio_restore() to force memory allocation with no I/O
during runtime_resume callback on device which is marked as
memalloc_noio_resume.

Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/base/power/runtime.c |   16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
index 9fa6ea7..c9e26b9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/runtime.c
@@ -575,6 +575,7 @@ static int rpm_resume(struct device *dev, int rpmflags)
 	int (*callback)(struct device *);
 	struct device *parent = NULL;
 	int retval = 0;
+	unsigned int noio_flag;
 
 	trace_rpm_resume(dev, rpmflags);
 
@@ -724,7 +725,20 @@ static int rpm_resume(struct device *dev, int rpmflags)
 	if (!callback && dev->driver && dev->driver->pm)
 		callback = dev->driver->pm->runtime_resume;
 
-	retval = rpm_callback(callback, dev);
+	/*
+	 * Deadlock might be caused if memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL
+	 * happens inside runtime_resume callback of one block device's
+	 * ancestor or the block device itself. Network device might be
+	 * thought as part of iSCSI block device, so network device and
+	 * its ancestor should be marked as memalloc_noio_resume.
+	 */
+	if (dev->power.memalloc_noio_resume) {
+		memalloc_noio_save(noio_flag);
+		retval = rpm_callback(callback, dev);
+		memalloc_noio_restore(noio_flag);
+	} else {
+		retval = rpm_callback(callback, dev);
+	}
 	if (retval) {
 		__update_runtime_status(dev, RPM_SUSPENDED);
 		pm_runtime_cancel_pending(dev);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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