linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/18] led-triggers: use atomic kzalloc during led trigger registering

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Message-Id: <1314349415-889-2-git-send-email-bryan.wu@canonical.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:03:18 +0800
From:	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...onical.com>
To:	linux@....linux.org.uk, linus.walleij@...aro.org,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, tony@...mide.com, jochen@...am.de,
	linux@...im.org.za, nicolas.pitre@...aro.org, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, jamie@...ieiles.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/18] led-triggers: use atomic kzalloc during led trigger registering

kzalloc might cause sleep and will generate some warning detected by lockdep,
when call led_trigger_register_simple on each cpu cores in SMP. This patch fix
this.

[    1.999938] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    2.004791] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2664 lockdep_trace_alloc+0xd8/0xf0()
[    2.012298] Modules linked in:
[    2.015563] [<c001b0cc>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xf0) from [<c0052408>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64)
[    2.025451] [<c0052408>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x4c/0x64) from [<c005243c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24)
[    2.035583] [<c005243c>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x24) from [<c008be28>] (lockdep_trace_alloc+0xd8/0xf0)
[    2.045684] [<c008be28>] (lockdep_trace_alloc+0xd8/0xf0) from [<c00feeb4>] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2c/0x148)
[    2.056213] [<c00feeb4>] (kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2c/0x148) from [<c03770a0>] (led_trigger_register_simple+0x20/0x74)
[    2.067474] [<c03770a0>] (led_trigger_register_simple+0x20/0x74) from [<c0627a30>] (ledtrig_cpu_register+0x4c/0x8c)
[    2.078460] [<c0627a30>] (ledtrig_cpu_register+0x4c/0x8c) from [<c0094ca4>] (generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xcc/0x138)
[    2.090911] [<c0094ca4>] (generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xcc/0x138) from [<c0008408>] (do_IPI+0xb0/0x128)
[    2.102172] [<c0008408>] (do_IPI+0xb0/0x128) from [<c045921c>] (__irq_svc+0x3c/0x100)
[    2.110412] Exception stack(0xc07adf70 to 0xc07adfb8)
[    2.115722] df60:                                     c07c80f8 0000fb45 00000000 c07c80f8
[    2.124328] df80: c07ac000 c0837be4 c0464b64 c07c9d8c 00000000 411fc092 00000000 00000000
[    2.132934] dfa0: c0649760 c07adfb8 c07c5c58 c0014d50 20000013 ffffffff
[    2.139892] [<c045921c>] (__irq_svc+0x3c/0x100) from [<c0014d50>] (default_idle+0x30/0x38)
[    2.148590] [<c0014d50>] (default_idle+0x30/0x38) from [<c0014f74>] (cpu_idle+0xb4/0xf4)
[    2.157135] [<c0014f74>] (cpu_idle+0xb4/0xf4) from [<c0602778>] (start_kernel+0x2a8/0x2fc)
[    2.165832] [<c0602778>] (start_kernel+0x2a8/0x2fc) from [<80008040>] (0x80008040)
[    2.173797] ---[ end trace 97549d21d8dad3f5 ]---

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/leds/led-triggers.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
index 4bebae7..9a9c78d 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ void led_trigger_register_simple(const char *name, struct led_trigger **tp)
 	struct led_trigger *trigger;
 	int err;
 
-	trigger = kzalloc(sizeof(struct led_trigger), GFP_KERNEL);
+	trigger = kzalloc(sizeof(struct led_trigger), GFP_ATOMIC);
 
 	if (trigger) {
 		trigger->name = name;
-- 
1.7.5

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