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;
