Am 29.10.2015 um 15:50 schrieb Joe Perches: > On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 14:46 +0530, Saurabh Sengar wrote: >> replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC while spinlock is held, >> as code while holding a spinlock should be atomic. >> GFP_KERNEL may sleep and can cause deadlock, >> where as GFP_ATOMIC may fail but certainly avoids deadlock >> >> Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.tr...@gmail.com> >> --- >> v3: removed the atomic variable, as per Richard comment > > Trivia: You could remove the gfp_mask variables too > and just use GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC directly.
Yep. And "int gfp_mask" does also not make sense, GFP_* is of type gfp_t. Thanks, //richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
