Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] solve deadlock caused by memory allocation with I/O

2012-11-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:59:12 +0800 Ming Lei wrote: > This patchset try to solve one deadlock problem which might be caused > by memory allocation with block I/O during runtime PM and block device > error handling path. Traditionly, the problem is addressed by passing > GFP_NOIO statically to mm,

[PATCH v6 0/6] solve deadlock caused by memory allocation with I/O

2012-11-24 Thread Ming Lei
Hi, This patchset try to solve one deadlock problem which might be caused by memory allocation with block I/O during runtime PM and block device error handling path. Traditionly, the problem is addressed by passing GFP_NOIO statically to mm, but that is not a effective solution, see detailed descr