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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 74/81] mlxsw: core: Do not use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM for EMAD workqueue

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-05-07 05:38:16
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: mellanox ethernet switch drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Ido Schimmel, Petr Machata, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Ido Schimmel <redacted>

[ Upstream commit a8c133b06183c529c51cd0d54eb57d6b7078370c ]

The EMAD workqueue is used to handle retransmission of EMAD packets that
contain configuration data for the device's firmware.

Given the workers need to allocate these packets and that the code is
not called as part of memory reclaim path, remove the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
flag.

Fixes: d965465b60ba ("mlxsw: core: Fix possible deadlock")
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <redacted>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
index f7154f358f27..426aea8ad72c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/core.c
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ static int mlxsw_emad_init(struct mlxsw_core *mlxsw_core)
 	if (!(mlxsw_core->bus->features & MLXSW_BUS_F_TXRX))
 		return 0;
 
-	emad_wq = alloc_workqueue("mlxsw_core_emad", WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0);
+	emad_wq = alloc_workqueue("mlxsw_core_emad", 0, 0);
 	if (!emad_wq)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	mlxsw_core->emad_wq = emad_wq;
-- 
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