On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:43:53PM +0530, Tapasweni Pathak wrote:
> To avoid deadlock, do not call blocking functions with spinlocks held.
> 
> Replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC, as the latter will fail if the pile
> doesn't have enough free pages but will not sleep and hence deadlock can
> be avoided.
> 
> Found by Coccinelle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipat...@gmail.com>
> ---
> Is there any other way this can be fixed as it is better to avoid GFP_ATOMIC?

No, this is fine, nice fix.

thanks,

greg k-h
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