Merge branch 'topic/acpi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi into spi-pxa2xx

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 8ed2ffd963c5..cc5d29d2da9b 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ static int cgwb_bdi_init(struct backing_dev_info *bdi)
 
 	ret = wb_init(&bdi->wb, bdi, 1, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ret) {
-		bdi->wb.memcg_css = mem_cgroup_root_css;
+		bdi->wb.memcg_css = &root_mem_cgroup->css;
 		bdi->wb.blkcg_css = blkcg_root_css;
 	}
 	return ret;
@@ -957,8 +957,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(congestion_wait);
  * jiffies for either a BDI to exit congestion of the given @sync queue
  * or a write to complete.
  *
- * In the absence of zone congestion, cond_resched() is called to yield
- * the processor if necessary but otherwise does not sleep.
+ * In the absence of zone congestion, a short sleep or a cond_resched is
+ * performed to yield the processor and to allow other subsystems to make
+ * a forward progress.
  *
  * The return value is 0 if the sleep is for the full timeout. Otherwise,
  * it is the number of jiffies that were still remaining when the function
@@ -978,7 +979,19 @@ long wait_iff_congested(struct zone *zone, int sync, long timeout)
 	 */
 	if (atomic_read(&nr_wb_congested[sync]) == 0 ||
 	    !test_bit(ZONE_CONGESTED, &zone->flags)) {
-		cond_resched();
+
+		/*
+		 * Memory allocation/reclaim might be called from a WQ
+		 * context and the current implementation of the WQ
+		 * concurrency control doesn't recognize that a particular
+		 * WQ is congested if the worker thread is looping without
+		 * ever sleeping. Therefore we have to do a short sleep
+		 * here rather than calling cond_resched().
+		 */
+		if (current->flags & PF_WQ_WORKER)
+			schedule_timeout(1);
+		else
+			cond_resched();
 
 		/* In case we scheduled, work out time remaining */
 		ret = timeout - (jiffies - start);