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authorMing Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>2013-02-22 16:34:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 17:50:16 -0800
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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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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