Deadlock might be caused by allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL in
runtime_resume callback of network devices in iSCSI situation, so
mark network devices and its ancestor as 'memalloc_noio_resume'
with the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio().
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Cc: David Decotigny <redacted>
Cc: Tom Herbert <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <redacted>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index bcf02f6..9aba5be 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
#include <net/wext.h>
#include "net-sysfs.h"
@@ -1386,6 +1387,8 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device * net)
remove_queue_kobjects(net);
+ pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, false);
+
device_del(dev);
}
@@ -1411,6 +1414,8 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *net)
*groups++ = &netstat_group;
#endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
+ pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, true);
+
error = device_add(dev);
if (error)
return error;
--
1.7.9.5