On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:43:53PM +0530, Tapasweni Pathak wrote: > To avoid deadlock, do not call blocking functions with spinlocks held. > > Replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC, as the latter will fail if the pile > doesn't have enough free pages but will not sleep and hence deadlock can > be avoided. > > Found by Coccinelle. > > Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipat...@gmail.com> > --- > Is there any other way this can be fixed as it is better to avoid GFP_ATOMIC?
No, this is fine, nice fix. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
