Re: [PATCH 3/3] arch/s390/kvm: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Mon May 31 2010 - 04:38:18 EST


> The containing function is called from several places. At one of them, in
> the function __sigp_stop, the spin lock &fi->lock is held.
[...]
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

[...]
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/sigp.c
> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int __inject_sigp_stop(struct kvm
> {
> struct kvm_s390_interrupt_info *inti;
>
> - inti = kzalloc(sizeof(*inti), GFP_KERNEL);
> + inti = kzalloc(sizeof(*inti), GFP_ATOMIC);
> if (!inti)
> return -ENOMEM;
> inti->type = KVM_S390_SIGP_STOP;

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