This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pch_dma: Use GFP_ATOMIC because called from interrupt context to the 3.9-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: pch_dma-use-gfp_atomic-because-called-from-interrupt-context.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5c1ef59168c485318e40ba485c1eba57d81d0faa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:25:33 +0900 Subject: pch_dma: Use GFP_ATOMIC because called from interrupt context From: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5c1ef59168c485318e40ba485c1eba57d81d0faa upstream. pdc_desc_get() is called from pd_prep_slave_sg, and the function is called from interrupt context(e.g. Uart driver "pch_uart.c"). In fact, I saw kernel error message. So, GFP_ATOMIC must be used not GFP_NOIO. Signed-off-by: Tomoya MORINAGA <tomoya.rohm@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/pch_dma.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/dma/pch_dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/pch_dma.c @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ static struct pch_dma_desc *pdc_desc_get dev_dbg(chan2dev(&pd_chan->chan), "scanned %d descriptors\n", i); if (!ret) { - ret = pdc_alloc_desc(&pd_chan->chan, GFP_NOIO); + ret = pdc_alloc_desc(&pd_chan->chan, GFP_ATOMIC); if (ret) { spin_lock(&pd_chan->lock); pd_chan->descs_allocated++; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tomoya.rohm@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.9/pch_dma-use-gfp_atomic-because-called-from-interrupt-context.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html