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Date:      Wed, 6 Dec 2023 11:57:58 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        =?utf-8?Q?Jean-S=C3=A9bastien_P=C3=A9dron?= <dumbbell@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 14dcd4098374 - main - linuxkpi: `GFP_KERNEL` equals `M_NOWAIT` now
Message-ID:  <ZXBFpvGzHx9FxmuC@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <e7322d72-05fb-476a-ab7b-0c5310e393de@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <202311241731.3AOHVsEJ061730@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <ZW-3rwaYDW8LbTaj@kib.kiev.ua> <e7322d72-05fb-476a-ab7b-0c5310e393de@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 09:46:53AM +0100, Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote:
> On 06/12/2023 00:52, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > Unfortunately this broke even attach of the mlx5(4) driver.
> > According to the 'official' Linux kernel documentation, the GFP_KERNEL
> > flag implies sleepable context.  mlx5_core uses the passed GFP flag to
> > determine if it is called in the sleepable context, and now even initial
> > load assumes that it cannot perform sleeping ops.  See, for instance,
> > second if() statement in the mlx5_fwp_alloc() function.
> 
> Oh sorry... Thank you for reporting the issue. I will revisit this change
> then. Should I revert it in main until there is a solution?
Up to you.  I do not see a need in churn if the fix would come in several
days.

Thank you.



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