We want to be able to use a sleeping lock for freeing vmap to keep latency down. For this we need to use the deferred vfree mechanisms no only from interrupt, but from any atomic context. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index a4e2cec..bcc1a64 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ void vfree(const void *addr) if (!addr) return; - if (unlikely(in_interrupt())) { + if (unlikely(in_atomic())) { struct vfree_deferred *p = this_cpu_ptr(&vfree_deferred); if (llist_add((struct llist_node *)addr, &p->list)) schedule_work(&p->wq); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html