From: "Andrew Vasquez" <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
To: Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: 2.6.8-rc3-mm2: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mempool.c:197
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 16:56:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B179AE41C1147041AA1121F44614F0B0DD03A6@AVEXCH02.qlogic.org> (raw)
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On Monday, August 09, 2004 6:42 AM, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
wrote:
> I see the msg below while running on 2.6.8-rc3-mm2, but not
> on the plain
> rc3 tree;
> ditto for rc1-mm1 vs rc1, which is as far back as I've gone so far.
>
This allocation should be done with GFP_ATOMIC flags. The attached
patch should apply cleanly to any recent kernel.
Regards,
Andrew Vasquez
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===== drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c 1.39 vs edited =====
--- 1.39/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c 2004-07-12 09:54:49 -07:00
+++ edited/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c 2004-08-09 16:48:29 -07:00
@@ -3590,7 +3590,7 @@
{
srb_t *sp;
- sp = mempool_alloc(ha->srb_mempool, GFP_KERNEL);
+ sp = mempool_alloc(ha->srb_mempool, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (sp)
atomic_set(&sp->ref_count, 1);
return (sp);
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