From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, matthias.bgg@gmail.com,
tony.luck@intel.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
hpa@zytor.com, grant.likely@linaro.org, wangyijing@huawei.com,
marc.zyngier@arm.com, bhelgaas@google.com,
yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:irq/irqdomain] irqdomain: Introduce helper function irq_domain_add_hierarchy()
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 23:21:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5479E467.5070701@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141129145616.GC5075@pd.tnic>
On 2014/11/29 22:56, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:29:33PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> Thanks for reporting and fixing this. How about using GFP_ATOMIC
>> here?
>
> Well, I don't see the need to use GFP_ATOMIC if we absolutely don't have
> to. And in this case lockdep is, AFAICT, correct in saying that we still
> can do allocations with interrupts disabled, only not go down into fs
> and do all kinds of lock grabbing operations like page reclaim, writeout
> or whatever it is being done nowadays there.
>
> Yeah, this is also some old "no-no" in my memory which says that we
> should almost never use GFP_ATOMIC if it can be helped.
Thanks for the info about GFP_ATOMIC, originally I have an impression
that we should use GFP_ATOMIC when interrupt is disabled:(
>
> OTOH, I wonder if this code would rather need to hand down explicit gfp
> flags in case it should be able to do GFP_ATOMIC operations at some
> point...
>
> Thanks.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-29 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-15 14:23 [Patch V2 0/9] Refine generic/PCI MSI irqodmian interfaces Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:23 ` [Patch V2 1/9] PCI, MSI: Fix errors caused by commit e5f1a59c4e12 Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 2/9] irqdomain: Use consistent prototype for irq_domain_free_irqs_* Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 3/9] irqdomain: Implement a method to automatically call parent domain's alloc/free Jiang Liu
2014-11-23 18:11 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] irqdomain: Implement a method to automatically call parent domains alloc/free tip-bot for Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 4/9] irqdomain: Introduce helper function irq_domain_add_hierarchy() Jiang Liu
2014-11-23 18:11 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] " tip-bot for Jiang Liu
2014-11-29 12:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-29 14:29 ` Jiang Liu
2014-11-29 14:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-29 15:21 ` Jiang Liu [this message]
2014-11-29 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-29 20:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-11-30 12:37 ` [PATCH] irqdomain: Correct early allocation of irq domains with IRQs off Borislav Petkov
2014-12-01 9:45 ` [tip:x86/apic] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2014-12-01 2:20 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] irqdomain: Introduce helper function irq_domain_add_hierarchy() Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 5/9] PCI, MSI: Introduce helpers to hide struct msi_desc implementation details Jiang Liu
2014-11-23 18:08 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] PCI/MSI: " tip-bot for Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 6/9] genirq: Introduce msi_domain_{alloc|free}_irqs() Jiang Liu
2014-11-23 18:13 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] genirq: Introduce msi_domain_alloc/free_irqs( ) tip-bot for Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 7/9] genirq: Provide default callbacks for msi_domain_ops Jiang Liu
2014-11-23 18:13 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] " tip-bot for Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 8/9] PCI, MSI: Refine irqdomain interfaces to simplify its usage Jiang Liu
2014-11-15 14:24 ` [Patch V2 9/9] PCI, MSI: Provide mechanism to alloc/free MSI/MSIX interrupt from irqdomain Jiang Liu
2014-11-23 18:14 ` [tip:irq/irqdomain] PCI/MSI: Provide mechanism to alloc/free MSI/ MSIX " tip-bot for Jiang Liu
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