On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 09:38:42 +0200 Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is no good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC here. Other memory allocations > are performed with GFP_KERNEL (see other 'dma_alloc_coherent()' below and > 'kzalloc()' in 'et131x_rx_dma_memory_alloc()') > > Use GFP_KERNEL which should be enough. > > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]> Sure, but generally I'd say GFP_ATOMIC is ok if you're in an init path and you can afford to have the allocation thread sleep while memory is being found by the kernel. Reviewed-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email protected]>
