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Message-ID: <563D20E0.6010702@nod.at>
Date:	Fri, 6 Nov 2015 22:51:28 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@...il.com>, jdike@...toit.com,
	user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	user-mode-linux-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] um: net: replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC when
 spinlock is held

Am 29.10.2015 um 16:30 schrieb Saurabh Sengar:
> since GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC while spinlock is held,
> as code while holding a spinlock should be atomic.
> GFP_KERNEL may sleep and can cause deadlock,
> where as GFP_ATOMIC may fail but certainly avoids deadlockdex f70dd54..d898f6c 100644
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@...il.com>

Applied!

Thanks,
//richard
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