Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsi: use GFP_KERNEL with dma_alloc_coherent in initialize_event_pool

[Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com>]

Just stumbled upon this trivial little patch that looks to have gotten lost in
the shuffle. Seems it even got a reviewed-by from Brian [1].

So, uh I guess after almost 3 years...ping?

-Tyrel

[1]
https://yhbt.net/lore/all/fd33df0e-012b-e437-c6e9-29cd0883808d@linux.vnet.ibm.com/

On 01/09/2019 08:59 PM, Tyrel Datwyler wrote:
> During driver probe we allocate a dma region for our event pool.
> Currently, zero is passed for the gfp_flags parameter. Driver probe
> callbacks run in process context and we hold no locks so we can sleep
> here if necessary.
>
> Fix by passing GFP_KERNEL explicitly to dma_alloc_coherent().
>
> Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
> index cb8535e..10d5e77 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvscsi.c
> @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int initialize_event_pool(struct event_pool *pool,
>  	pool->iu_storage =
>  	    dma_alloc_coherent(hostdata->dev,
>  			       pool->size * sizeof(*pool->iu_storage),
> -			       &pool->iu_token, 0);
> +			       &pool->iu_token, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!pool->iu_storage) {
>  		kfree(pool->events);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>