Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From what I can tell, neither of the two are called in atomic context, so > you should be able to use a GFP_KERNEL allocation. You need to be careful doing that since the allocation might happen in the AFS writeback path. I use GFP_NOIO or GFP_NOFS in rxkad.c and skb_cow_data() uses GFP_ATOMIC - though we should have single ownership of the packet at this point. David