On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 05:22:00AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > Whee... The very first ->poll() instance in alphabetic order on pathnames: > in arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/gpio.c > > static __poll_t gpio_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) > { > __poll_t mask = 0; > struct gpio_private *priv = file->private_data; > unsigned long data; > unsigned long flags; > > spin_lock_irqsave(&gpio_lock, flags); > > poll_wait(file, &priv->alarm_wq, wait); > > IOW, we are doing poll_wait() (== possible GFP_KERNEL __get_free_page()) under > a spinlock... Yes. Another god reason to separate poll_wait and the actual event check callback.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html