On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:43:53PM +0530, Tapasweni Pathak wrote: > To avoid deadlock, do not call blocking functions with spinlocks held. > > Replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC, as the latter will fail if the pile > doesn't have enough free pages but will not sleep and hence deadlock can > be avoided. > > Found by Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Is there any other way this can be fixed as it is better to avoid GFP_ATOMIC? No, this is fine, nice fix. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
