Hello Miaoqing Pan, The patch b2d70d4944c1: "ath9k: make GPIO API to support both of WMAC and SOC" from Mar 7, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:1960 gpiod_free_commit() warn: sleeping in atomic context drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hw.c 2728 static void ath9k_hw_gpio_cfg_soc(struct ath_hw *ah, u32 gpio, bool out, 2729 const char *label) 2730 { 2731 if (ah->caps.gpio_requested & BIT(gpio)) 2732 return; 2733 2734 /* may be requested by BSP, free anyway */ 2735 gpio_free(gpio); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The problem is that gpio_free() can sleep and the cfg_soc() can be called with spinlocks held. One problematic call tree is: --> ath_reset_internal() takes &sc->sc_pcu_lock spin lock --> ath9k_hw_reset() --> ath9k_hw_gpio_request_in() --> ath9k_hw_gpio_request() --> ath9k_hw_gpio_cfg_soc() 2736 2737 if (gpio_request_one(gpio, out ? GPIOF_OUT_INIT_LOW : GPIOF_IN, label)) 2738 return; 2739 2740 ah->caps.gpio_requested |= BIT(gpio); 2741 } regards, dan carpenter