Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Ethan Zhao <> | Subject | [PATCH] sparc: replace __GFP_NOFAIL with GFP_ATOMIC in mdesc_kmalloc() | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:31:17 +0800 |
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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@gmail.com> --- 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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