Re: Can request_irq be called under spinlock?

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:35:25PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >I dont think that proc_mkdir conventions have changed
> >recently. According to git blame fs/proc/generic.c:
> >
> >^1da177e (Linus Torvalds     2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 580)     ent = 
> >kmalloc(sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) + len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> >  
> 
> I think its new that request_irq ends up calling proc_mkdir though.  But 
> its moot now anyway; I cleaned up that code, and don't call request_irq 
> under spinlock any more.

Still, the attached could be of use, no?

	Hannes

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Subject: irq: use GFP_KERNEL for action allocation in request_irq()

request_irq() calls into proc code via __setup_irq() which is not safe
in an atomic context, so request_irq() can itself use the more
reliable GFP_KERNEL allocation for the action descriptor.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/irq/manage.c b/kernel/irq/manage.c
index 291f036..0f2b3b6 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/manage.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/manage.c
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ int request_irq(unsigned int irq, irq_handler_t handler,
 	if (!handler)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	action = kmalloc(sizeof(struct irqaction), GFP_ATOMIC);
+	action = kmalloc(sizeof(struct irqaction), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!action)
 		return -ENOMEM;