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Nishanth Aravamudan 1cf389df09 powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table()
Under heavy (DLPAR?) stress, we tripped this panic() in
arch/powerpc/kernel/iommu.c::iommu_init_table():

	page = alloc_pages_node(nid, GFP_ATOMIC, get_order(sz));
	if (!page)
		panic("iommu_init_table: Can't allocate %ld bytes\n", sz);

Before the panic() we got a page allocation failure for an order-2
allocation. There appears to be memory free, but perhaps not in the
ATOMIC context. I looked through all the call-sites of
iommu_init_table() and didn't see any obvious reason to need an ATOMIC
allocation. Most call-sites in fact have an explicit GFP_KERNEL
allocation shortly before the call to iommu_init_table(), indicating we
are not in an atomic context. There is some indirection for some paths,
but I didn't see any locks indicating that GFP_KERNEL is inappropriate.

With this change under the same conditions, we have not been able to
reproduce the panic.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2013-10-03 17:24:44 +10:00
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alpha Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
arc Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
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avr32 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
blackfin Merge branch 'genirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-09-13 07:31:38 -07:00
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m32r Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
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microblaze Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
mips MIPS: mm: Move some checks out of 'for' loop in DMA operations 2013-09-25 17:05:44 +02:00
mn10300 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
openrisc Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
parisc Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
powerpc powerpc/iommu: Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_ATOMIC in iommu_init_table() 2013-10-03 17:24:44 +10:00
s390 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
score Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
sh Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
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unicore32 Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option 2013-09-13 15:09:52 +02:00
x86 Bug-fixes: 2013-09-25 15:50:53 -07:00
xtensa Xtensa patchset for v3.12 2013-09-13 10:57:48 -07:00
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