@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
#include "blk.h"
@@ -519,6 +520,12 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk)
dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name);
+ /* avoid probable deadlock caused by allocate memory with
+ * GFP_KERNEL in runtime_resume callback of its all ancestor
+ * deivces
+ */
+ pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(ddev, true);
+
/* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1);
@@ -661,6 +668,7 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
disk->driverfs_dev = NULL;
if (!sysfs_deprecated)
sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(disk_to_dev(disk)));
+ pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(disk_to_dev(disk), false);
device_del(disk_to_dev(disk));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk);
This patch applyes the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block device so that PM core will teach mm to not allocate memory with GFP_IOFS when calling the runtime_resume callback for block devices. Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> --- block/genhd.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)