From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> vxge_os_dma_malloc() and vxge_os_dma_malloc_async() are both called from callchains which use GFP_KERNEL allocations unconditionally or have other requirements to be called from fully preemptible task context.. vxge_os_dma_malloc(): 1) __vxge_hw_blockpool_create() <- GFP_KERNEL 2) __vxge_hw_mempool_grow() <- vzalloc() __vxge_hw_blockpool_malloc() vxge_os_dma_malloc_async(): 1 __vxge_hw_mempool_grow() <- vzalloc() __vxge_hw_blockpool_malloc() __vxge_hw_blockpool_blocks_add() 2) vxge_hw_vpath_open() <- vzalloc() __vxge_hw_blockpool_block_allocate() That means neither of these functions needs a conditional allocation mode. Remove the in_interrupt() conditional and use GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c | 9 +-------- drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.h | 7 +------ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.c @@ -2303,16 +2303,9 @@ static void vxge_hw_blockpool_block_add( static inline void vxge_os_dma_malloc_async(struct pci_dev *pdev, void *devh, unsigned long size) { - gfp_t flags; void *vaddr; - if (in_interrupt()) - flags = GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA; - else - flags = GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA; - - vaddr = kmalloc((size), flags); - + vaddr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); vxge_hw_blockpool_block_add(devh, vaddr, size, pdev, pdev); } --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/neterion/vxge/vxge-config.h @@ -1899,18 +1899,13 @@ static inline void *vxge_os_dma_malloc(s struct pci_dev **p_dmah, struct pci_dev **p_dma_acch) { - gfp_t flags; void *vaddr; unsigned long misaligned = 0; int realloc_flag = 0; *p_dma_acch = *p_dmah = NULL; - if (in_interrupt()) - flags = GFP_ATOMIC | GFP_DMA; - else - flags = GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA; realloc: - vaddr = kmalloc((size), flags); + vaddr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA); if (vaddr == NULL) return vaddr; misaligned = (unsigned long)VXGE_ALIGN((unsigned long)vaddr,