On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:44:17PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:56:14 +1100 > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > > Thanks, I can do that. I guess my question is: why does it think it's in > > software interrupt context anyway. It's just a syscall, right? > > If the caller has done any IRQ or BH disabling, that is > the same as being in HW or software interrupt context. Thanks for explaining that. Looks like in 2.4.20 it's called allocation and setting it to GFP_ATOMIC certainly did the trick. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good > men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke > "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be > governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato
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