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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Harish Sriram <harish@linux.ibm.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm/vunmap: add cond_resched() in vunmap_pmd_range"
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:16:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201105171602.GP17076@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201105170249.387069-1-minchan@kernel.org>

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 09:02:49AM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> This reverts commit e47110e90584a22e9980510b00d0dfad3a83354e.
> 
> While I was doing zram testing, I found sometimes decompression failed
> since the compression buffer was corrupted. With investigation,
> I found below commit calls cond_resched unconditionally so it could
> make a problem in atomic context if the task is reschedule.

I don't think you're supposed to call unmap_kernel_range() from
atomic context.  At least vfree() punts to __vfree_deferred() if
in_interrupt() is true.  I forget the original reason for why that is.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 17:02 [PATCH] Revert "mm/vunmap: add cond_resched() in vunmap_pmd_range" Minchan Kim
2020-11-05 17:16 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-11-05 17:33   ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-07  1:59 ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-07  8:39   ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-09 11:33     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-11-12 20:01     ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-12 22:49       ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-13 16:25         ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-16 17:53           ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-16 23:20             ` Andrew Morton
2020-11-17 13:57               ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-11-17 13:56             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-17 20:29               ` Minchan Kim
2020-11-18  2:06                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2020-11-19  9:29                   ` Tony Lindgren

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