ixgbe_fcoe_ddp_setup can be called from the main IO path and is called with a spin_lock held, so we have to use GFP_ATOMIC allocation instead of GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c index ec7a11d..9e70b9a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_fcoe.c @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int ixgbe_fcoe_ddp_setup(struct net_device *netdev, u16 xid, } /* alloc the udl from per cpu ddp pool */ - ddp->udl = dma_pool_alloc(ddp_pool->pool, GFP_KERNEL, &ddp->udp); + ddp->udl = dma_pool_alloc(ddp_pool->pool, GFP_ATOMIC, &ddp->udp); if (!ddp->udl) { e_err(drv, "failed allocated ddp context\n"); goto out_noddp_unmap; -- 1.8.3.1