Re: [PATCH] usb: yurex: Rearrange code not to need GFP_ATOMIC

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Sep 21 2020 - 08:52:42 EST


Hi!

> > Move prepare to wait around, so that normal GFP_KERNEL allocation can
> > be used.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ehm. Please recheck.

Sorry about that.

> > +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c
> > @@ -489,10 +489,10 @@ static ssize_t yurex_write(struct file *file, const char __user *user_buffer,
> > }
> >
> > /* send the data as the control msg */
> > - prepare_to_wait(&dev->waitq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> > dev_dbg(&dev->interface->dev, "%s - submit %c\n", __func__,
> > dev->cntl_buffer[0]);
> > - retval = usb_submit_urb(dev->cntl_urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + retval = usb_submit_urb(dev->cntl_urb, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> URB completes here. wake_up() returns the task to RUNNING.
>
> > + prepare_to_wait(&dev->waitq, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>
> Task goes to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
>
> > if (retval >= 0)
> > timeout = schedule_timeout(YUREX_WRITE_TIMEOUT);
>
> Task turns into Sleeping Beauty until timeout

Is there way to do the allocations for submit_urb before the
prepare_to_wait? GFP_ATOMIC would be nice to avoid... and doing
GFP_ATOMIC from normal process context just because of task_state
seems ... wrong.

Pavel
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