netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll

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Date:	Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:20:05 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll()
 and __netpoll_setup()

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 22:23 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called
> with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate
> memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup().
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> ---

You based this on net-next, but didnt add the net-next suffix in your
[PATCH ...] description.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

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