From: Minchan Kim Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:41:39 +0000 (+0900) Subject: zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write X-Git-Tag: v3.9-rc1~127^2~155 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7e5a5104c6af709a8d97d5f4711e7c917761d464;p=pandora-kernel.git zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cause deadlock with reclaim path like below. write_page from fs fs_lock allocation(GFP_KERNEL) reclaim pageout write_page from fs fs_lock <-- deadlock This patch fixes it by using GFP_NOIO. In read path, we reorganize code flow so that kmap_atomic is called after the GFP_NOIO allocation. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Jerome Marchand Acked-by: Nitin Gupta [ penberg@kernel.org: don't use GFP_ATOMIC ] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-diff-tree failed