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Subject: Memory barrier -- fix sample code
From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:32:26 +1000
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From: Balbir singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 10:26:34 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Correct a sample in memorybarriers.tex

We probably don't want to show GFP_KERNEL allocation
under spin_lock, GFP_ATOMIC seems much better.

Signed-off-by: Balbir singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
---
 advsync/memorybarriers.tex | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/advsync/memorybarriers.tex b/advsync/memorybarriers.tex
index 9eaa0ea..efbd4a2 100644
--- a/advsync/memorybarriers.tex
+++ b/advsync/memorybarriers.tex
@@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ Then the following code might leak memory!
 \begin{verbatim}
 spin_lock(&mylock);
 if (p == NULL)
-  p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
+  p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_ATOMIC);
 spin_unlock(&mylock);
 \end{verbatim}
 \end{minipage}
-- 
2.7.4