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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/7] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup()
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On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 17:08 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 12:10 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > I did this , just take it ;)
>
> Do we have to pass gfp to ->ndo_netpoll_setup() too? It seems no, so far
> I don't think we have to do that.
>
> Thanks.
>

It is needed.

->ndo_netpoll_setup() is called from __netpoll_setup()

So it would make no sense to allow GFP_KERNEL allocations in
ndo_netpoll_setup() hgandlers if we called __netpoll_setup() with
GFP_ATOMIC gfp





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