Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/4] Convert AH and SRQ to core allocation

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On 26-Mar-19 16:56, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is continuation of our conversion from driver allocations to core
> responsibility. Current series converts SRQ and AH, while latter
> required some code preparation.
> 
> The most challenge was in supporting AH to be allocated with GFP_ATOMIC
> or GFP_KERNEL according to context. The common solution is to use in_atomic()
> and in_interrupt() already used in many drivers, but unfortunately
> checkpatch produces warning.
> 
> WARNING: use of in_atomic() is incorrect outside core kernel code
> #37: FILE: include/rdma/ib_verbs.h:2288:
> +               (in_atomic() || in_interrupt()) ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL))

Hi Leon,

The existing method to test for create AH atomic flow is using the flags
parameters (RDMA_CREATE_AH_SLEEPABLE).
I suggest you add a gfp_flags parameter to rdma_zalloc_drv_obj() and pass
GFP_ATOMIC in case RDMA_CREATE_AH_SLEEPABLE flag is set.



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