linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: host: xhci: allow __GFP

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1905281021120.1564-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 May 2019 10:25:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
cc:     Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@...il.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@...sung.com>,
        <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>, <ytk.lee@...sung.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: host: xhci: allow __GFP_FS in dma allocation

On Tue, 28 May 2019, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 23.05.2019, 10:01 -0400 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > On Wed, 22 May 2019, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mi, 2019-05-22 at 10:56 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 22 May 2019, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > I agree with the problem, but I fail to see why this issue would be
> > > > > specific to USB. Shouldn't this be done in the device core layer?
> > > > 
> > > > Only for drivers that are on the block-device writeback path.  The 
> > > > device core doesn't know which drivers these are.
> > > 
> > > Neither does USB know. It is very hard to predict or even tell which
> > > devices are block device drivers. I think we must assume that
> > > any device may be affected.
> > 
> > All right.  Would you like to submit a patch?
> 
> Do you like this one?

Hmmm.  I might be inclined to move the start of the I/O-protected
region a little earlier.  For example, the first
blocking_notifier_call_chain() might result in some memory allocations.

The end is okay; once bus_remove_device() has returned the driver will 
be completely unbound, so there shouldn't be any pending I/O through 
the device.

Alan Stern