linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: lustre: fix GFP

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 09:46:56 +0100
From:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Cc:	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: lustre: fix GFP_ATOMIC macro usage

GFP_ATOMIC is not a single gfp flag, but a macro which expands to the other
flags and LACK of __GFP_WAIT flag. To check if caller wanted to perform an
atomic allocation, the code must test __GFP_WAIT flag presence.

Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
---
 .../lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_private.h   |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_private.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_private.h
index d0d942c..dddccca1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_private.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/libcfs/libcfs_private.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ do {						\
 do {									    \
 	LASSERT(!in_interrupt() ||					    \
 		((size) <= LIBCFS_VMALLOC_SIZE &&			    \
-		 ((mask) & GFP_ATOMIC)) != 0);			    \
+		 ((mask) & __GFP_WAIT) == 0));				    \
 } while (0)
 
 #define LIBCFS_ALLOC_POST(ptr, size)					    \
-- 
1.7.9.5

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