From: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:aic7xxx_slave_alloc() unnecessarily passes GFP_ATOMIC (along with GFP_KERNEL) to kmalloc() from a context that is not atomic. Remove the pointless GFP_ATOMIC. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c~drivers-scsi-aic7xxx_oldc-remove-redundant-gfp_atomic-from-kmalloc drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c --- a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c~drivers-scsi-aic7xxx_oldc-remove-redundant-gfp_atomic-from-kmalloc +++ a/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c @@ -6581,7 +6581,7 @@ aic7xxx_slave_alloc(struct scsi_device * struct aic7xxx_host *p = (struct aic7xxx_host *)SDptr->host->hostdata; struct aic_dev_data *aic_dev; - aic_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct aic_dev_data), GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_KERNEL); + aic_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct aic_dev_data), GFP_KERNEL); if(!aic_dev) return 1; /* _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html