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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