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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de, james.smart@broadcom.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] scsi: efct: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 15:28:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211221142859.GA30187@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211221113706.329791-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com>

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 07:37:06PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> A spin lock is taken here so we should use GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> Fixes: efac162a4e4d ("scsi: efct: Don't pass GFP_DMA to dma_alloc_coherent()")

No, it does not fix that commit.  The driver did sleeping allocations
even before the commit.

But wher is "here"?  Can we look into not holding that lock over an
allocation if it is preferable?  If not we should at least pass down
the gfp_flags so that only the caller(s) that can't sleep pass GFP_ATOMIC.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-21 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-21 11:37 [PATCH -next] scsi: efct: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock Yang Yingliang
2021-12-21 14:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-12-23  3:56   ` Yang Yingliang
2022-01-10  8:54     ` Christoph Hellwig

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