netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP

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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:18:42 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 -next] r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when
 able to sleep

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:20:12 +0200
Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com> wrote:

> Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> :
> > We have fedora bug report where driver fail to initialize after
> > suspend/resume because of memory allocation errors:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629158
> > 
> > To fix use GFP_KERNEL allocation where possible. 
> 
> Feel free to add a Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> as soon as it will have been explicitely reported to improve the
> situation (it is not clear in the PR above).

I'm pretty sure patch fix the problem, however yes, we do not have
confirmation from reporter yet. Anyway atomic allocation should not
be used in process context.

Stanislaw
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