From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Zuov5-0004Br-MJ for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:51:39 +0000 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143] helo=radon.swed.at) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) id 1Zuov4-0002bi-6U for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:51:39 +0000 References: <1446132632-23623-1-git-send-email-saurabh.truth@gmail.com> From: Richard Weinberger Message-ID: <563D20E0.6010702@nod.at> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:51:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1446132632-23623-1-git-send-email-saurabh.truth@gmail.com> List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH v4] um: net: replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC when spinlock is held To: Saurabh Sengar , jdike@addtoit.com, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 29.10.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Saurabh Sengar: > since GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC while spinlock is held, > as code while holding a spinlock should be atomic. > GFP_KERNEL may sleep and can cause deadlock, > where as GFP_ATOMIC may fail but certainly avoids deadlockdex f70dd54..d898f6c 100644 > > Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar Applied! Thanks, //richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel