On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 06:07:23PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote: > Ugh... I don't know. What we had previously is always guaranteed to > work. I'm not really liking the fact that we're adding a possibility > of failure here. Even if we do mempool, we would still have to > protect it with a spinlock as mempool only guarantees one allocation > at a time. Until we have a better solution, can we please revert back > to where we were at least for the buffers needed from atomic context? In that case you'll need to drop all but the first patch from the series as ->queuecommand can always be called from atomic context. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html