Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-camera: Avoid apotential sleep while holding a spin_lock | From | Stefan Wahren <> | Date | Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:13:48 +0200 |
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Hi Christophe,
Am 24.06.2019 um 07:33 schrieb Christophe JAILLET: > Do not allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL when holding a spin_lock, it may > sleep. Use GFP_NOWAIT instead. > > Fixes: 950fd867c635 ("staging: bcm2835-camera: Replace open-coded idr with a struct idr.") > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
there has been a fix for this, which isn't upstreamed yet. The preferred solution is to replace the spin_lock with a mutex. Since i'm currently working on this i would take care of this.
Sorry about this.
Stefan
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