Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial write

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 30 2013 - 03:06:09 EST


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:38:23AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path
> if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cuase deadlock with
> reclaim path so this patch solves the problem.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Due to the discussion on this series, I don't know what patch to apply,
so care to do a v6 of this with the patches that everyone has finally
agreed on?

I'm dropping these from my to-apply queue now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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