[PATCH] s390: qdio memory allocations

Avoid memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL in qdio_establish/qdio_shutdown.  Use
memory pool instead.  (Otherwise this can lead to an I/O stall where qdio
waits for a free page and zfcp waits for end of error recovery in low memory
situations.)

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c b/drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c
index 814f9258ce00..a5bf272fe775 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/cio/qdio.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/timer.h>
+#include <linux/mempool.h>
 
 #include <asm/ccwdev.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -80,6 +81,8 @@ static int indicator_used[INDICATORS_PER_CACHELINE];
 static __u32 * volatile indicators;
 static __u32 volatile spare_indicator;
 static atomic_t spare_indicator_usecount;
+#define QDIO_MEMPOOL_SCSSC_ELEMENTS 2
+static mempool_t *qdio_mempool_scssc;
 
 static debug_info_t *qdio_dbf_setup;
 static debug_info_t *qdio_dbf_sbal;
@@ -2304,7 +2307,7 @@ qdio_get_ssqd_information(struct qdio_irq *irq_ptr)
 
         QDIO_DBF_TEXT0(0,setup,"getssqd");
         qdioac = 0;
-        ssqd_area = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+        ssqd_area = mempool_alloc(qdio_mempool_scssc, GFP_ATOMIC);
         if (!ssqd_area) {
                 QDIO_PRINT_WARN("Could not get memory for chsc. Using all " \
                                 "SIGAs for sch x%x.\n", irq_ptr->schid.sch_no);
@@ -2364,7 +2367,7 @@ qdio_get_ssqd_information(struct qdio_irq *irq_ptr)
 out:
         qdio_check_subchannel_qebsm(irq_ptr, qdioac,
                                     ssqd_area->sch_token);
-        free_page ((unsigned long) ssqd_area);
+        mempool_free(ssqd_area, qdio_mempool_scssc);
         irq_ptr->qdioac = qdioac;
 }
 
@@ -2458,7 +2461,7 @@ tiqdio_set_subchannel_ind(struct qdio_irq *irq_ptr, int reset_to_zero)
                         virt_to_phys((volatile void *)irq_ptr->dev_st_chg_ind);
         }
 
-        scssc_area = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+        scssc_area = mempool_alloc(qdio_mempool_scssc, GFP_ATOMIC);
         if (!scssc_area) {
                 QDIO_PRINT_WARN("No memory for setting indicators on " \
                                 "subchannel 0.%x.%x.\n",
@@ -2514,7 +2517,7 @@ tiqdio_set_subchannel_ind(struct qdio_irq *irq_ptr, int reset_to_zero)
         QDIO_DBF_HEX2(0,setup,&real_addr_dev_st_chg_ind,sizeof(unsigned long));
         result = 0;
 out:
-        free_page ((unsigned long) scssc_area);
+        mempool_free(scssc_area, qdio_mempool_scssc);
         return result;
 
 }
@@ -2543,7 +2546,7 @@ tiqdio_set_delay_target(struct qdio_irq *irq_ptr, unsigned long delay_target)
         if (!irq_ptr->is_thinint_irq)
                 return -ENODEV;
 
-        scsscf_area = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA);
+        scsscf_area = mempool_alloc(qdio_mempool_scssc, GFP_ATOMIC);
         if (!scsscf_area) {
                 QDIO_PRINT_WARN("No memory for setting delay target on " \
                                 "subchannel 0.%x.%x.\n",
@@ -2581,7 +2584,7 @@ tiqdio_set_delay_target(struct qdio_irq *irq_ptr, unsigned long delay_target)
         QDIO_DBF_HEX2(0,trace,&delay_target,sizeof(unsigned long));
         result = 0; /* not critical */
 out:
-        free_page ((unsigned long) scsscf_area);
+        mempool_free(scsscf_area, qdio_mempool_scssc);
         return result;
 }
 
@@ -3780,6 +3783,16 @@ oom:
         return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
+static void *qdio_mempool_alloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *size)
+{
+        return (void *) get_zeroed_page(gfp_mask|GFP_DMA);
+}
+
+static void qdio_mempool_free(void *element, void *size)
+{
+        free_page((unsigned long) element);
+}
+
 static int __init
 init_QDIO(void)
 {
@@ -3809,6 +3822,10 @@ init_QDIO(void)
 
         qdio_add_procfs_entry();
 
+        qdio_mempool_scssc = mempool_create(QDIO_MEMPOOL_SCSSC_ELEMENTS,
+                                            qdio_mempool_alloc,
+                                            qdio_mempool_free, NULL);
+
         if (tiqdio_check_chsc_availability())
                 QDIO_PRINT_ERR("Not all CHSCs supported. Continuing.\n");
 
@@ -3824,6 +3841,7 @@ cleanup_QDIO(void)
         qdio_remove_procfs_entry();
         qdio_release_qdio_memory();
         qdio_unregister_dbf_views();
+        mempool_destroy(qdio_mempool_scssc);
 
         printk("qdio: %s: module removed\n",version);
 }