Re: PCI PM: Restore standard config registers of all devices early

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > * Memory allocations with GFP_KERNEL are made, which is even worse, because
> >   we really shouldn't do that during suspend _at_ _all_, even during the regular
> >   ->suspend() with interrupts on, because there's not guarantee that swap will
> >   will be available at that time.  So, for the sake of correctness, we should
> >   get rid of the GFP_KERNEL from the ACPI code paths executed during
> >   suspend-resume anyway.
> 
> Well, as I said, this is a problem with more than just ACPI and again, I
> don't think the fix is to be done in ACPI itself. The buddy and slab
> should basically stick NOIO or ATOMIC to any allocation done after we
> started suspending the system.

We already do have magic code for things like PF_MEMALLOC (recursion), or 
TIF_MEMDIE (oom) or "(rt_task(p)) && !in_interrupt()" (give RT tasks 
higher priorities) in the page allocator.

Having a special case for NOT_RUNNING wouldn't be _pretty_, but it 
certainly isn't totally unreasonable either.

			Linus
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