Re: Can request_irq be called under spinlock?

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:

> 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;

Good catch - applied to tip:irq/genirq, thanks Johannes!

	Ingo