At ibm vtpm initialzation, tpm_ibmvtpm_probe() registers its interrupt handler, ibmvtpm_interrupt, which calls ibmvtpm_crq_process to allocate memory for rtce buffer. The current code uses 'GFP_KERNEL' as the type of kernel memory allocation, which resulted a warning at kernel/lockdep.c. This patch uses 'GFP_ATOMIC' instead so that the allocation is high-priority and does not sleep.
Signed-off-by: Hon Ching(Vicky) Lo <hon...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c index 27ebf95..3e6a226 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_ibmvtpm.c @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static void ibmvtpm_crq_process(struct ibmvtpm_crq *crq, } ibmvtpm->rtce_size = be16_to_cpu(crq->len); ibmvtpm->rtce_buf = kmalloc(ibmvtpm->rtce_size, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_ATOMIC); if (!ibmvtpm->rtce_buf) { dev_err(ibmvtpm->dev, "Failed to allocate memory for rtce buffer\n"); return; -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/