[PATCH] sparc: replace __GFP_NOFAIL with GFP_ATOMIC in mdesc_kmalloc()

[Ethan Zhao]

Has kmalloc() failure checking there, so it is unnecessary to allocate with
__GFP_NOFAIL flag that might block forever.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
index b90bf23..e8d678c 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ static struct mdesc_handle *mdesc_kmalloc(unsigned int mdesc_size)
 		       sizeof(struct mdesc_hdr) +
 		       mdesc_size);
 
-	base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+	base = kmalloc(handle_size + 15, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (base) {
 		struct mdesc_handle *hp;
 		unsigned long addr;
-- 
1.8.3.4 (Apple Git-47)

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