From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] solve deadlock caused by memory allocation with I/O
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:44:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2496969.ClbQ8gLATp@linux-5eaq.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVOipr0VMyPQaZTLckxTaPan7ZneERUqZ1S_mYo11A5AeA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 17 January 2013 09:28:14 Ming Lei wrote:
> - we still need some synchronization to avoid accessing the storage
> between sys_sync and device suspend, just like system sleep case,
> pm_restrict_gfp_mask is needed even sys_sync has been done
> inside enter_state().
>
> So looks the approach in the patch is simpler and more efficient,
Even worse. The memory may be needed to resume and the reason
we need to resume may be that we need to write out memory. And
there is no way to make sure we don't dirty memory unless user space
is frozen, so it is either this approach, or GFP_NOIO in the whole resume
code path.
Regards
Oliver
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-05 2:25 Ming Lei
2013-01-05 2:25 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation Ming Lei
2013-01-05 2:25 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] PM / Runtime: introduce pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio() Ming Lei
2013-01-05 2:25 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] block/genhd.c: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block devices Ming Lei
2013-01-05 2:25 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] net/core: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on network devices Ming Lei
2013-01-05 2:25 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with no I/O during Runtime PM callbcack Ming Lei
2013-01-05 2:25 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] USB: forbid memory allocation with I/O during bus reset Ming Lei
2013-01-16 23:37 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] solve deadlock caused by memory allocation with I/O Andrew Morton
2013-01-17 1:28 ` Ming Lei
2013-01-17 9:44 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2013-01-17 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-18 10:22 ` Ming Lei
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