Re: [PATCH v2] scsi: ufs: core: Avoid possible memory reclaim deadlock in TX EQTR context

[Martin K. Petersen]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:09:29 -0700, Can Guo wrote:

> TX EQTR may run while devfreq gear scaling has quiesced the UFS tagset. In
> that context, functions ufshcd_tx_eqtr(), __ufshcd_tx_eqtr() and
> ufs_qcom_get_rx_fom() allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. If direct reclaim
> is triggered, reclaim/writeback can depend on I/O to UFS device. Because
> the queue is quiesced, this can cause deadlock.
> 
> Use memalloc_noio_save/restore() in ufshcd_tx_eqtr() to cover all
> allocations in the TX EQTR call tree, including:
> - params->eqtr_record in ufshcd_tx_eqtr()
> - eqtr_data in __ufshcd_tx_eqtr()
> - params in ufs_qcom_get_rx_fom()
> 
> [...]

Applied to 7.3/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: ufs: core: Avoid possible memory reclaim deadlock in TX EQTR context
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/760fc6f0e25a

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Martin K. Petersen