[PATCH] staging: netlogic: Change GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL

Hariprasad Kelam hariprasad.kelam at gmail.com
Sat Jun 29 19:10:35 UTC 2019


Below is data path of xlr_config_spill
xlr_net_probe
  -->xlr_config_fifo_spill_area
  --->xlr_config_spill

We can use GFP_KERNEL as this function is getting called from
xlr_net_probe and there are no locks.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
index 07a06c5..05079f7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static void *xlr_config_spill(struct xlr_net_priv *priv, int reg_start_0,
 
 	base = priv->base_addr;
 	spill_size = size;
-	spill = kmalloc(spill_size + SMP_CACHE_BYTES, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	spill = kmalloc(spill_size + SMP_CACHE_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!spill)
 		return ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
 
-- 
2.7.4



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