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authorRoman Kiryanov <rkir@google.com>2018-08-27 20:23:00 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-09-14 15:31:30 +0200
commit84ae527aa58c0f790233fec287d3a060a7501baa (patch)
treee0f5bae07ca7c78790a062305ae03d0bf21372f0 /drivers/platform
parentplatform: goldfish: pipe: Separate the host interface to a separate header (diff)
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platform: goldfish: pipe: Update the comment for GFP_ATOMIC
Provide an explanation why GFP_ATOMIC is needed to prevent changing it to other values. Signed-off-by: Roman Kiryanov <rkir@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
index caf514aafb21..0c55e657da5a 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/goldfish/goldfish_pipe.c
@@ -640,7 +640,10 @@ static int get_free_pipe_id_locked(struct goldfish_pipe_dev *dev)
return id;
{
- /* Reallocate the array */
+ /* Reallocate the array.
+ * Since get_free_pipe_id_locked runs with interrupts disabled,
+ * we don't want to make calls that could lead to sleep.
+ */
u32 new_capacity = 2 * dev->pipes_capacity;
struct goldfish_pipe **pipes =
kcalloc(new_capacity, sizeof(*pipes), GFP_ATOMIC);