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pm / runtime: introduce pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio()
authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 02:14:34 +0000 (13:14 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:52:43 +0000 (16:52 +1100)
commitecf2edfbe640558e79abebdf9f4529c7c4c37093
tree58adaf62659d02233fb4fc4358f84ad70417c72e
parent1ee8223608465217566a0c2ee00d7cb681188093
pm / runtime: introduce pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio()

Introduce the flag memalloc_noio in 'struct dev_pm_info' to help PM core
to teach mm not allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL flag for avoiding
probable deadlock.

As explained in the comment, any GFP_KERNEL allocation inside
runtime_resume() or runtime_suspend() on any one of device in the path
from one block or network device to the root device in the device tree may
cause deadlock, the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio() sets or
clears the flag on device in the path recursively.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jiri.kosina@suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@google.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/base/power/runtime.c
include/linux/pm.h
include/linux/pm_runtime.h