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authorSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-09-29 18:23:50 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-10-04 12:42:33 +0100
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tree085563d7cfc5d6ce6299da387906a47caeb815f5 /drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
parent6b1eb1450269cadfe992465db9941fc42f3bc688 (diff)
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misc/genwqe: get rid of atomic allocations
we received reports of failed allocations in genwqe code: [ 733.550955] genwqe_gzip: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x20 [ 733.550964] CPU: 2 PID: 1846 Comm: genwqe_gzip Not tainted 4.3.0-rc3-00042-g3225031 #78 [ 733.550968] 000000002782b830 000000002782b8c0 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000002782b960 000000002782b8d8 000000002782b8d8 00000000001134a0 0000000000000000 0000000000892b2a 0000000000871d0a 000000000000000b 000000002782b920 000000002782b8c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000001134a0 000000002782b8c0 000000002782b920 [ 733.551003] Call Trace: [ 733.551013] ([<0000000000113388>] show_trace+0xf8/0x158) [ 733.551018] [<0000000000113452>] show_stack+0x6a/0xe8 [ 733.551024] [<00000000004611d4>] dump_stack+0x7c/0xd8 [ 733.551031] [<000000000024dc22>] warn_alloc_failed+0xda/0x150 [ 733.551036] [<000000000025268e>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x94e/0xbc0 [ 733.551041] [<000000000012bcd8>] s390_dma_alloc+0x70/0x1a0 [ 733.551054] [<000003ff804d8e8c>] __genwqe_alloc_consistent+0x84/0xd0 [genwqe_card] [ 733.551063] [<000003ff804d90c2>] genwqe_alloc_sync_sgl+0x13a/0x328 [genwqe_card] [ 733.551066] [<000003ff804d41a0>] do_execute_ddcb+0x1f8/0x388 [genwqe_card] [ 733.551069] [<000003ff804d48c8>] genwqe_ioctl+0x598/0xd50 [genwqe_card] [ 733.551072] [<00000000002cc90c>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x3f4/0x590 [ 733.551074] [<00000000002ccb46>] SyS_ioctl+0x9e/0xb0 [ 733.551078] [<00000000006c8166>] system_call+0xd6/0x258 [ 733.551080] [<000003fffd25819a>] 0x3fffd25819a [ 733.551082] no locks held by genwqe_gzip/1846. This specific allocation and some others in genwqe are unnecessary flagged as atomic. All of genwqe's atomic allocations happen in a context where it's allowed to sleep. Change these to use GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
index 6d51e5f08664..353ee0cc733d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/genwqe/card_ddcb.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ struct genwqe_ddcb_cmd *ddcb_requ_alloc(void)
{
struct ddcb_requ *req;
- req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ req = kzalloc(sizeof(*req), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!req)
return NULL;
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