linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem

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Date:	Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:14:23 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@...ibm.com>
CC:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ppc <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Marcus Eder <meder@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Klein <tklein@...ibm.com>, kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	hering2@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ehea: fix might sleep problem

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 <themann@...ibm.com>

applied 1-3 to 2.6.26


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