Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:39, David S. Miller wrote:

> I hadn't considered this, good idea.  I'm trying this out right now.

I hope it works.  I have a sinking feeling we call it some places that
may have interrupts disabled...

> Someone should backport the might_sleep() stuff to 2.4.x, it's very
> useful.

Would be nice, but for the maximum effect we need kernel preemption
(which keeps track of atomicity via preempt_count).  I doubt we want to
go there for 2.4.

	Robert Love

-
: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

[Index of Archives]     [Netdev]     [Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux 802.1Q VLAN]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Git]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News and Information]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux PCI]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux