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Subject[PATCH 4.9 60/96] scsi: mpt3sas: Do not mark fw_event workqueue as WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit 864449eea7c600596e305ffdc4a6a846414b222c ]

The firmware event workqueue should not be marked as WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
as it's doesn't need to make forward progress under memory pressure.
In the current state it will result in a deadlock if the device had been
forcefully removed.

Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com>
Cc: Suganath Prabu Subramani <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>
Acked-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_scsih.c
@@ -8853,7 +8853,7 @@ _scsih_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const
snprintf(ioc->firmware_event_name, sizeof(ioc->firmware_event_name),
"fw_event_%s%d", ioc->driver_name, ioc->id);
ioc->firmware_event_thread = alloc_ordered_workqueue(
- ioc->firmware_event_name, WQ_MEM_RECLAIM);
+ ioc->firmware_event_name, 0);
if (!ioc->firmware_event_thread) {
pr_err(MPT3SAS_FMT "failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n",
ioc->name, __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__);

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