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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH v5 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial write
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path
> if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cuase deadlock with

s/cuase/cause/g

> reclaim path so this patch solves the problem.

It'd be nice to know about the problem in more detail. I'm also
curious on why you decided on GFP_ATOMIC for the read path and
GFP_NOIO in the write path.

>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
> ---
> 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
>
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