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Re: [patch V2 16/36] net: sfc: Use GFP_KERNEL in efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats()

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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 10:25:25PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf() is now only invoked from thread context
> and can sleep after efx::stats_lock is dropped.
> 
> Change the allocation mode from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL.
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Martin Habets <mhabets@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> V2: Adjust to Edward's stats update split
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
> @@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ static int efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats
>  
>  	efx_ef10_get_stat_mask(efx, mask);
>  
> -	rc = efx_nic_alloc_buffer(efx, &stats_buf, dma_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	rc = efx_nic_alloc_buffer(efx, &stats_buf, dma_len, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (rc) {
>  		spin_lock_bh(&efx->stats_lock);
>  		return rc;



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