Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:16:02 +0000 | | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "mm/vunmap: add cond_resched() in vunmap_pmd_range" |
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 09:02:49AM -0800, Minchan Kim wrote: > This reverts commit e47110e90584a22e9980510b00d0dfad3a83354e. > > While I was doing zram testing, I found sometimes decompression failed > since the compression buffer was corrupted. With investigation, > I found below commit calls cond_resched unconditionally so it could > make a problem in atomic context if the task is reschedule.
I don't think you're supposed to call unmap_kernel_range() from atomic context. At least vfree() punts to __vfree_deferred() if in_interrupt() is true. I forget the original reason for why that is.
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