[openib-general] ipoib lockdep warning
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Jul 12 09:31:53 PDT 2006
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Yes, this is true for users that pass GFP_ATOMIC to sa_query, at least. But
> might not be so for other users: send_mad in sa_query actually gets gfp_flags
> parameter, but for some reason it does not pass it to idr_pre_get, which means
> even sa query done with GFP_KERNEL flag is likely to fail.
>
> Sean, it seems we need something like the following - what do you think?
I noticed this same thing looking at the code yesterday. I can't think of any
reason why your patch wouldn't work.
- Sean
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