Re: i810 framebuffer - BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>]

The console cursor can be called in atomic context.  Change memory
allocation to use the GFP_ATOMIC flag in i810fb_cursor().

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>

---
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> wrote:
>> Thought I'd finally report this, seeing it still around with 2.6.16-rc6-mm1.
>>
>>  With every 2.6.16-rc-mm version I can remember (sorry, no precise records)
>>  my development machine (a Dell OptiPlex GX110, Intel P3/933, Intel chipset)
>>  has been producing the following three BUG messages while booting:
>>
>>  <6>[   36.528181] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
>>  <3>[   36.528263] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2758
>>  <4>[   36.528270] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():

This one, most probably.

Tony

 i810_main.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff --git a/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c b/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
index d8467c0..788297e 100644
--- a/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
+++ b/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ static int i810fb_cursor(struct fb_info 
 		int size = ((cursor->image.width + 7) >> 3) *
 			cursor->image.height;
 		int i;
-		u8 *data = kmalloc(64 * 8, GFP_KERNEL);
+		u8 *data = kmalloc(64 * 8, GFP_ATOMIC);
 
 		if (data == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-
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