coccinelle check scripts/coccinelle/locks/call_kern.cocci found that in drivers/usb/host/xhci.c an allocation with GFP_KERNEL is done with locks held: xhci_resume spin_lock_irq(xhci->lock) xhci_setup_msix kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) Change it to GFP_ATOMIC. Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxx> CC: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Exists in v2.6.37-rc1 and current linux-next diff -u -p a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c 2010-10-27 11:27:23.534310054 +0200 +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c 2010-11-02 15:53:03.000000000 +0100 @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static int xhci_setup_msix(struct xhci_h xhci->msix_entries = kmalloc((sizeof(struct msix_entry))*xhci->msix_count, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!xhci->msix_entries) { xhci_err(xhci, "Failed to allocate MSI-X entries\n"); return -ENOMEM; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html