The patch titled uml: fixup allocation in the ubd driver has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is uml-send-pointers-instead-of-structures-to-i-o-thread-fix.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: fixup allocation in the ubd driver From: Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@xxxxxxxxxx> Sanitise gfp flags; it actually is an atomic context, so drop the GFP_KERNEL part. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c~uml-send-pointers-instead-of-structures-to-i-o-thread-fix arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c~uml-send-pointers-instead-of-structures-to-i-o-thread-fix +++ a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(request_queue struct scatterlist *sg = &dev->sg[dev->start_sg]; io_req = kmalloc(sizeof(struct io_thread_req), - GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC); + GFP_ATOMIC); if(io_req == NULL){ if(list_empty(&dev->restart)) list_add(&dev->restart, &restart); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from pzijlstr@xxxxxxxxxx are uml-send-pointers-instead-of-structures-to-i-o-thread-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html