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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with no I/O during runtime_resume callbcack
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:16:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11374134.vToUn932b7@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACVXFVP-JerxiTU9Kr9Lrwe2XkKBU=EsZJUcEiPVCQWw6iiw2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 17 of October 2012 19:07:25 Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >
> > This appears to be a bit too heavy handed.  First of all, it seems to affect
> > all memory allocations going in parallel with the resume callback.  Second,
> 
> No, the flag is per task, only memory allocation inside resume callback
> is effected.

OK

> > it affects all resume callbacks, not only those where the problem really
> 
> We can do it only on block device, block device's ancestor and network
> devices(iSCSI case), but that may introduce policy into PM core or add
> one flag of memalloc_noio_resume into 'dev_pm_info', could you agree
> on it?

Well, the question is how many runtime resume callbacks actually allocate
memory.  If they are not too many, we can just flag all of them.  Otherwise,
adding a flag may be a better approach.  I'm not sure ATM.

Thanks,
Rafael


-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-18 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-16 15:59 [RFC PATCH v1 0/3] mm/PM/USB: memory allocation with no io in need Ming Lei
2012-10-16 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 1/3] mm: teach mm by current context info to not do I/O during memory allocation Ming Lei
2012-10-16 20:19   ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-17  1:54     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-17 23:54       ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-19  3:52         ` Ming Lei
2012-10-17  3:40     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-17  5:14   ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2012-10-17 10:56     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-16 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 2/3] PM / Runtime: force memory allocation with no I/O during runtime_resume callbcack Ming Lei
2012-10-17  5:43   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-10-17 11:07     ` Ming Lei
2012-10-18 23:16       ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2012-10-19  1:41         ` Ming Lei
2012-10-16 15:59 ` [RFC PATCH v1 3/3] USB: forbid memory allocation with I/O during bus reset Ming Lei

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