Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756909AbYGDMOn (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:14:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753330AbYGDMOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:14:31 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:48121 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752773AbYGDMOa (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:14:30 -0400 Message-ID: <486E141F.6070108@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:23 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan-Bernd Themann CC: netdev , Christoph Raisch , Jan-Bernd Themann , linux-kernel , linux-ppc , Marcus Eder , Thomas Klein , kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, hering2@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem References: <200807031618.46087.ossthema@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200807031618.46087.ossthema@de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 550 Lines: 16 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 applied 1-3 to 2.6.26 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/