netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll

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Message-ID: <1344306531.6917.2.camel@cr0>
Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:28:51 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll()
 and __netpoll_setup()

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:20 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 22:23 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> > slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() may be called
> > with read_lock() held, so should use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate
> > memory. Eric suggested to pass gfp flags to __netpoll_setup().
> > 
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> > Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> > ---
> 
> You based this on net-next, but didnt add the net-next suffix in your
> [PATCH ...] description.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 

Oh, it is default, isn't it? :-D Anyway, I will add it the next time
when I send network patches.

Thanks!

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