From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:45:38 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~479
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ac331d158e198d2a91a5b0a3ec4ca9991fdb57af;p=pandora-kernel.git

call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability

Presently call_usermodehelper_setup() uses GFP_ATOMIC.  but it can return
NULL _very_ easily.

GFP_ATOMIC is needed only when we can't sleep.  and, GFP_KERNEL is robust
and better.

thus, I add gfp_mask argument to call_usermodehelper_setup().

So, its callers pass the gfp_t as below:

call_usermodehelper() and call_usermodehelper_keys():
	depend on 'wait' argument.
call_usermodehelper_pipe():
	always GFP_KERNEL because always run under process context.
orderly_poweroff():
	pass to GFP_ATOMIC because may run under interrupt context.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul Menage" <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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