The allocation was moved to probe function in 9842c38e9176. And we can sleep there. So allocate the 4*8192 bytes as GFP_KERNEL to mitigate the allocation failure. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Tested-by: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/nozomi.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/nozomi.c b/drivers/tty/nozomi.c index fd0a9852..acaecc1 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/nozomi.c +++ b/drivers/tty/nozomi.c @@ -1431,8 +1431,8 @@ static int __devinit nozomi_card_init(struct pci_dev *pdev, } for (i = PORT_MDM; i < MAX_PORT; i++) { - if (kfifo_alloc(&dc->port[i].fifo_ul, - FIFO_BUFFER_SIZE_UL, GFP_ATOMIC)) { + if (kfifo_alloc(&dc->port[i].fifo_ul, FIFO_BUFFER_SIZE_UL, + GFP_KERNEL)) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Could not allocate kfifo buffer\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; -- 1.7.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html