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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:23 -0400
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Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>, kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	hering2@de.ibm.com
To: Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com>
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Jan-Bernd Themann wrote:
> A mutex has to be replaced by spinlocks as it can be called from
> a context which does not allow sleeping.
> The kzalloc flag GFP_KERNEL has to be replaced by GFP_ATOMIC
> for the same reason.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>

applied 1-3 to 2.6.26