linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/7] Char: nozomi, use GFP

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:43:12 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	gregkh@...e.de
Cc:	jirislaby@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 1/7] Char: nozomi, use GFP_KERNEL for kfifo allocation

The allocation was moved to probe function in 9842c38e9176. And we can
sleep there. So allocate the 4*8192 bytes as GFP_KERNEL to mitigate
the allocation failure.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Tested-by: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@...ifer.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 drivers/tty/nozomi.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/nozomi.c b/drivers/tty/nozomi.c
index fd0a9852..acaecc1 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/nozomi.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/nozomi.c
@@ -1431,8 +1431,8 @@ static int __devinit nozomi_card_init(struct pci_dev *pdev,
 	}
 
 	for (i = PORT_MDM; i < MAX_PORT; i++) {
-		if (kfifo_alloc(&dc->port[i].fifo_ul,
-		      FIFO_BUFFER_SIZE_UL, GFP_ATOMIC)) {
+		if (kfifo_alloc(&dc->port[i].fifo_ul, FIFO_BUFFER_SIZE_UL,
+					GFP_KERNEL)) {
 			dev_err(&pdev->dev,
 					"Could not allocate kfifo buffer\n");
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.4.2


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