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Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init()

From Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init()
Date 2016-02-19 00:50 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:29:07PM +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> 2016-02-18 23:21 GMT+03:00 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>:
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov <matwey@sai.msu.ru> wrote:
> >> serial8250_em485_init() is supposed to be protected with
> >> p->port.lock spinlock.
> >> This may lead to issues when kmalloc sleeps, so it is better to use
> >> GFP_ATOMIC in this spinlocked context.
> >>
> >> Fixes: e490c9144cfa ("tty: Add software emulated RS485 support for 8250")
> >> Reported-by: <torso.nafi@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hmm... Can't we put Cyrillic characters to tags as name of a person?
> 
> I am afraid non-ASCII will break something eventually. I think it
> would be better to ask Ilias to put his name in proper latin
> transcription here.

Why, we accept non-ASCII names all the time, why would we not do so?

Please fix up and resend.

thansk,

greg k-h

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[PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init() "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@sai.msu.ru> - 2016-02-18 19:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init() Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-18 21:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init() "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@sai.msu.ru> - 2016-02-18 21:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in  serial8250_em485_init() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-19 00:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init() "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey@sai.msu.ru> - 2016-02-19 06:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v1] tty: serial: Use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL in serial8250_em485_init() Ильяс Гасанов   <torso.nafi@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 13:00 +0100

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