> Trying a dynamic memory allocation, and fallback on a single
> pre-allocated bloc of memory, shared by all cpus, protected by a
> spinlock
...
> -
> + static u64 msg_schedule[80];
> + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(msg_schedule_lock);
> int i;
> - u64 *W = get_cpu_var(msg_schedule);
> + u64 *W = kzalloc(sizeof(msg_schedule), GFP_ATOMIC |
__GFP_NOWARN);
>
> +
> + if (!W) {
> + spin_lock_bh(&msg_schedule_lock);
> + W = msg_schedule;
> + }
If this code can be called from an ISR is the kmalloc()
call safe?
If the above is safe, wouldn't it be better to:
1) try to use the static buffer
2) try to kalloc() a buffer
3) spinwait for the static buffer to be free
David
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