Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path
if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cuase deadlock with
reclaim path so this patch solves the problem.
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarc...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngu...@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@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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