[PATCH] ioapic: fix potential resume deadlock

From: Daniel J Blueman
Date: Sun May 08 2011 - 22:40:46 EST


Fix a potential deadlock when resuming; here the calling function
has disabled interrupts, so we cannot sleep.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
index 45fd33d..df63620 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c
@@ -621,14 +621,14 @@ struct IO_APIC_route_entry **alloc_ioapic_entries(void)
struct IO_APIC_route_entry **ioapic_entries;

ioapic_entries = kzalloc(sizeof(*ioapic_entries) * nr_ioapics,
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!ioapic_entries)
return 0;

for (apic = 0; apic < nr_ioapics; apic++) {
ioapic_entries[apic] =
kzalloc(sizeof(struct IO_APIC_route_entry) *
- nr_ioapic_registers[apic], GFP_KERNEL);
+ nr_ioapic_registers[apic], GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!ioapic_entries[apic])
goto nomem;
}
--
1.7.4.1

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