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authorJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>2013-10-04 09:29:12 -0400
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2013-11-08 14:43:11 -0800
commit603e7729920e42b3c2f4dbfab9eef4878cb6e8fa (patch)
tree447d2329598d102375c38230f01396662ef57443 /Makefile
parent4adcf7fb6783e354aab38824d803fa8c4f8e8a27 (diff)
IB/qib: Convert qib_user_sdma_pin_pages() to use get_user_pages_fast()
qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts() gets called with mmap_sem held for writing. Except for get_user_pages() deep down in qib_user_sdma_pin_pages() we don't seem to need mmap_sem at all. Even more interestingly the function qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts() (and also qib_user_sdma_coalesce() called somewhat later) call copy_from_user() which can hit a page fault and we deadlock on trying to get mmap_sem when handling that fault. So just make qib_user_sdma_pin_pages() use get_user_pages_fast() and leave mmap_sem locking for mm. This deadlock has actually been observed in the wild when the node is under memory pressure. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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