misc/genwqe: get rid of atomic allocations
authorSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:23:50 +0000 (18:23 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:42:33 +0000 (12:42 +0100)
commit19f7767e297f81726e0bd7bf3729178c41b94079
tree085563d7cfc5d6ce6299da387906a47caeb815f5
parent6b1eb1450269cadfe992465db9941fc42f3bc688
misc/genwqe: get rid of atomic allocations

we received reports of failed allocations in genwqe code:

[  733.550955] genwqe_gzip: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20
[  733.550964] CPU: 2 PID: 1846 Comm: genwqe_gzip Not tainted 4.3.0-rc3-00042-g3225031 #78
[  733.550968]        000000002782b830 000000002782b8c0 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
       000000002782b960 000000002782b8d8 000000002782b8d8 00000000001134a0
       0000000000000000 0000000000892b2a 0000000000871d0a 000000000000000b
       000000002782b920 000000002782b8c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
       0000000000000000 00000000001134a0 000000002782b8c0 000000002782b920
[  733.551003] Call Trace:
[  733.551013] ([<0000000000113388>] show_trace+0xf8/0x158)
[  733.551018]  [<0000000000113452>] show_stack+0x6a/0xe8
[  733.551024]  [<00000000004611d4>] dump_stack+0x7c/0xd8
[  733.551031]  [<000000000024dc22>] warn_alloc_failed+0xda/0x150
[  733.551036]  [<000000000025268e>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x94e/0xbc0
[  733.551041]  [<000000000012bcd8>] s390_dma_alloc+0x70/0x1a0
[  733.551054]  [<000003ff804d8e8c>] __genwqe_alloc_consistent+0x84/0xd0 [genwqe_card]
[  733.551063]  [<000003ff804d90c2>] genwqe_alloc_sync_sgl+0x13a/0x328 [genwqe_card]
[  733.551066]  [<000003ff804d41a0>] do_execute_ddcb+0x1f8/0x388 [genwqe_card]
[  733.551069]  [<000003ff804d48c8>] genwqe_ioctl+0x598/0xd50 [genwqe_card]
[  733.551072]  [<00000000002cc90c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3f4/0x590
[  733.551074]  [<00000000002ccb46>] SyS_ioctl+0x9e/0xb0
[  733.551078]  [<00000000006c8166>] system_call+0xd6/0x258
[  733.551080]  [<000003fffd25819a>] 0x3fffd25819a
[  733.551082] no locks held by genwqe_gzip/1846.

This specific allocation and some others in genwqe are unnecessary flagged
as atomic.

All of genwqe's atomic allocations happen in a context where it's allowed
to sleep. Change these to use GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_dev.c
drivers/misc/genwqe/card_utils.c