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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] PM / Runtime: introduce pm_runtime_set[get]_memalloc_noio()
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:20:02 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1210311117310.1954-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVNxucCVLS-=EQkmVop3LQMkeXW7RbZq4yfkiq_MUGndvg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, Ming Lei wrote:

> The below idea may help the problem which 'memalloc_noio' flag isn't set during
> usb_reset_device().
> 
> - for usb mass storage device, call pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(true)
>   inside usb_stor_probe2() and uas_probe(), and call
>   pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(false) inside uas_disconnect()
>   and usb_stor_disconnect().

Why would you want to do that?  The probe and disconnect routines
usually -- but not always -- run in the khubd thread.  Surely you don't
want to prevent khubd from using GFP_KERNEL?

And what if probe runs in khubd but disconnect runs in a different 
thread?

Alan Stern


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-31 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-29 12:23 [PATCH v3 0/6] solve deadlock caused by memory allocation with I/O Ming Lei
2012-10-29 12:23 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation Ming Lei
2012-10-29 12:23 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] PM / Runtime: introduce pm_runtime_set[get]_memalloc_noio() Ming Lei
2012-10-29 15:41   ` Alan Stern
2012-10-30  3:21     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-30 10:57       ` Oliver Neukum
2012-10-30 11:30         ` Ming Lei
2012-10-30 15:38       ` Alan Stern
2012-10-30 16:00         ` Ming Lei
2012-10-30 16:15           ` Ming Lei
2012-10-30 16:30           ` Oliver Neukum
2012-10-31  2:08             ` Ming Lei
2012-10-31  3:05               ` Ming Lei
2012-10-31  8:37                 ` Oliver Neukum
2012-10-31 15:20                 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2012-10-31 15:41                   ` Alan Stern
2012-10-31 23:18                     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-30 16:54           ` Alan Stern
2012-10-29 12:23 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] block/genhd.c: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block devices Ming Lei
2012-10-29 12:23 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] net/core: apply pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on network devices Ming Lei
2012-10-29 15:44   ` Alan Stern
2012-10-29 12:23 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with no I/O during runtime_resume callbcack Ming Lei
2012-10-29 12:24 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] USB: forbid memory allocation with I/O during bus reset Ming Lei

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