18 Mar
2014
18 Mar
'14
12:27 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:20:00PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
regmap deploys the spinlock for the protection when set up in fast_io mode. But some places are still left with possible sleep in the lock, typically allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL. This patch fixes these calls by moving the allocations out of the lock.
You should have split these two unrelated changes into two patches. I already have a fix for the cache sync in my tree locally which I will test just a soon as I fix whatever broke the -next build for me.