This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dmaengine: mediatek: use GFP_NOWAIT instead of GFP_ATOMIC in prep_dma to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dmaengine-mediatek-use-gfp_nowait-instead-of-gfp_ato.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9e48686e4511832b374f879669609ae48db10573 Author: Guillaume Ranquet <granquet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 13 21:26:42 2021 +0200 dmaengine: mediatek: use GFP_NOWAIT instead of GFP_ATOMIC in prep_dma [ Upstream commit 9041575348b21ade1fb74d790f1aac85d68198c7 ] As recommended by the doc in: Documentation/drivers-api/dmaengine/provider.rst Use GFP_NOWAIT to not deplete the emergency pool. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Ranquet <granquet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210513192642.29446-4-granquet@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c b/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c index a09ab2dd3b46..375e7e647df6 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/mediatek/mtk-uart-apdma.c @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *mtk_uart_apdma_prep_slave_sg return NULL; /* Now allocate and setup the descriptor */ - d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_ATOMIC); + d = kzalloc(sizeof(*d), GFP_NOWAIT); if (!d) return NULL;