From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
hering2@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486E141F.6070108@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807031618.46087.ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> A mutex has to be replaced by spinlocks as it can be called from
> a context which does not allow sleeping.
> The kzalloc flag GFP_KERNEL has to be replaced by GFP_ATOMIC
> for the same reason.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
applied 1-3 to 2.6.26
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>, Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>,
kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hering2@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486E141F.6070108@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807031618.46087.ossthema@de.ibm.com>
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> A mutex has to be replaced by spinlocks as it can be called from
> a context which does not allow sleeping.
> The kzalloc flag GFP_KERNEL has to be replaced by GFP_ATOMIC
> for the same reason.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
applied 1-3 to 2.6.26
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-04 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 14:18 [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem Jan-Bernd Themann
2008-07-03 14:18 ` Jan-Bernd Themann
2008-07-04 12:14 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-07-04 12:14 ` Jeff Garzik
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