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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add freezer call in
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:37:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050315233740.GE21292@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110925280.6454.143.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au>

Hi!

> This patch adds a freezer call to the slow path in __alloc_pages. It
> thus avoids freezing failures in low memory situations. Like the other
> patches, it has been in Suspend2 for longer than I can remember.

This one seems wrong.

What if someone does

	down(&some_lock_needed_during_suspend);
	kmalloc()

? If you freeze him during that allocation, you'll deadlock later...

								Pavel


> Signed-of-by: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
> 
> diff -ruNp 213-missing-refrigerator-calls-old/mm/page_alloc.c 213-missing-refrigerator-calls-new/mm/page_alloc.c
> --- 213-missing-refrigerator-calls-old/mm/page_alloc.c	2005-02-03 22:33:50.000000000 +1100
> +++ 213-missing-refrigerator-calls-new/mm/page_alloc.c	2005-03-16 09:01:28.000000000 +1100
> @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ rebalance:
>  			do_retry = 1;
>  	}
>  	if (do_retry) {
> +		try_to_freeze(0);
>  		blk_congestion_wait(WRITE, HZ/50);
>  		goto rebalance;
>  	}


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-15 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-15 22:21 Nigel Cunningham
2005-03-15 23:37 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-03-16  1:09   ` Nigel Cunningham

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