Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-next

Pull 7.0 devel branch for further cleanups of ctxfi driver & co.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/debugobjects.c b/lib/debugobjects.c
index 89a1d6745dc2..12f50de85b62 100644
--- a/lib/debugobjects.c
+++ b/lib/debugobjects.c
@@ -398,9 +398,26 @@ static void fill_pool(void)
 
 	atomic_inc(&cpus_allocating);
 	while (pool_should_refill(&pool_global)) {
+		gfp_t gfp = __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOWARN;
 		HLIST_HEAD(head);
 
-		if (!kmem_alloc_batch(&head, obj_cache, __GFP_HIGH | __GFP_NOWARN))
+		/*
+		 * Allow reclaim only in preemptible context and during
+		 * early boot. If not preemptible, the caller might hold
+		 * locks causing a deadlock in the allocator.
+		 *
+		 * If the reclaim flag is not set during early boot then
+		 * allocations, which happen before deferred page
+		 * initialization has completed, will fail.
+		 *
+		 * In preemptible context the flag is harmless and not a
+		 * performance issue as that's usually invoked from slow
+		 * path initialization context.
+		 */
+		if (preemptible() || system_state < SYSTEM_SCHEDULING)
+			gfp |= __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM;
+
+		if (!kmem_alloc_batch(&head, obj_cache, gfp))
 			break;
 
 		guard(raw_spinlock_irqsave)(&pool_lock);