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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:18:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924131842.26f1fb1f@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100923212012.GA10925@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:20:12 +0200
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> wrote:

> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> :
> > We have fedora bug report where driver fail to initialize after
> > suspend/resume because of memory allocation errors:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629158
> > 
> > To fix use GFP_KERNEL allocation where possible. 
> 
> Feel free to add a Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> as soon as it will have been explicitely reported to improve the
> situation (it is not clear in the PR above).

I'm pretty sure patch fix the problem, however yes, we do not have
confirmation from reporter yet. Anyway atomic allocation should not
be used in process context.

Stanislaw

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-23 12:01 [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-09-23 12:01 ` [PATCH 2/2 -next] r8169: use device model DMA API Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-09-23 14:59   ` Denis Kirjanov
2010-09-23 15:23     ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2010-09-23 21:20 ` [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep Francois Romieu
2010-09-24 11:18   ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2010-09-24 22:24     ` Francois Romieu
2010-09-25  5:37       ` David Miller
2010-09-25  6:06         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-25  7:13           ` David Miller
2010-09-25  9:12             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-25 23:33               ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-26  6:09                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-26 12:46                   ` Ben Hutchings

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