netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] ehea: Allocate stats buffer with GFP

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Message-Id: <20100701.224805.221588889.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:48:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	ossthema@...ibm.com, osstklei@...ibm.com, raisch@...ibm.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ehea: Allocate stats buffer with GFP_KERNEL

From: Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:12 -0500

> 
> Since ehea_get_stats calls ehea_h_query_ehea_port, which
> can sleep, we can also sleep when allocating a page in
> this function. This fixes some memory allocation failure
> warnings seen under low memory conditions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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