linux-kernel - XHCI: sleep inside atomic

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Date:	Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:17:14 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	andiry.xu@....com
CC:	dong.nguyen@....com, libin.yang@....com,
	sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: XHCI: sleep inside atomic

Hi,

Stanse found that commit
    USB: xHCI: PCI power management implementation
added xhci_setup_msix->kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) and request_irq inside
xhci->lock spinlock. As these functions may sleep, this is deadlockable.
Could you fix that?

thanks,
-- 
js
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