Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] pvcalls-front: Replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC in create_active

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 1/14/19 10:48 AM, wangbo wrote:
> Create_active may called inside spinlock,replace GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip.git/commit/?h=for-linus-4.21&id=9f51c05dc41a6d69423e3d03d18eb7ab22f9ec19
is queued and addresses this problem.

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-boris


>
> Signed-off-by: wangbo <wang.bo116@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> index 77224d8..31bd3c9 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> @@ -344,11 +344,11 @@ static int create_active(struct sock_mapping *map, int *evtchn)
>  	init_waitqueue_head(&map->active.inflight_conn_req);
>  
>  	map->active.ring = (struct pvcalls_data_intf *)
> -		__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO);
> +		__get_free_page(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO);
>  	if (map->active.ring == NULL)
>  		goto out_error;
>  	map->active.ring->ring_order = PVCALLS_RING_ORDER;
> -	bytes = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO,
> +	bytes = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_ZERO,
>  					PVCALLS_RING_ORDER);
>  	if (bytes == NULL)
>  		goto out_error;