linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 1/5] drm/amdgpu: Allocate coredump memory in a nonblocking way

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:14 -0300
From:   André Almeida <andrealmeid@...lia.com>
To:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-dev@...lia.com, alexander.deucher@....com,
        christian.koenig@....com, pierre-eric.pelloux-prayer@....com,
        Shashank Sharma <shashank.sharma@....com>,
        André Almeida <andrealmeid@...lia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/5] drm/amdgpu: Allocate coredump memory in a nonblocking way

During a GPU reset, a normal memory reclaim could block to reclaim
memory. Giving that coredump is a best effort mechanism, it shouldn't
disturb the reset path. Change its memory allocation flag to a
nonblocking one.

Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@...lia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
---
v5: no change
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
index aa171db68639..bf4781551f88 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_device.c
@@ -4847,7 +4847,7 @@ static void amdgpu_reset_capture_coredumpm(struct amdgpu_device *adev)
 	struct drm_device *dev = adev_to_drm(adev);
 
 	ktime_get_ts64(&adev->reset_time);
-	dev_coredumpm(dev->dev, THIS_MODULE, adev, 0, GFP_KERNEL,
+	dev_coredumpm(dev->dev, THIS_MODULE, adev, 0, GFP_NOWAIT,
 		      amdgpu_devcoredump_read, amdgpu_devcoredump_free);
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.42.0