[patch V2 16/36] net: sfc: Use GFP_KERNEL in efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats()

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 16:39:31 EST


From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf() is now only invoked from thread context
and can sleep after efx::stats_lock is dropped.

Change the allocation mode from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2: Adjust to Edward's stats update split
---
drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/ef10.c
@@ -1873,7 +1873,7 @@ static int efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats

efx_ef10_get_stat_mask(efx, mask);

- rc = efx_nic_alloc_buffer(efx, &stats_buf, dma_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ rc = efx_nic_alloc_buffer(efx, &stats_buf, dma_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (rc) {
spin_lock_bh(&efx->stats_lock);
return rc;