On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 06:25, Andre.Messerschmidt@infineon.com wrote: > Hi. > > I always thought that it is save to use kmalloc in an interrupt handler as > long as you use GFP_ATOMIC. > Now someone told me that it is not allowed to use these functions in any way > in an interrupt. > > Can please someone clarify me here? GFP_ATOMIC is safe in an interrupt handler. You might get NULL back and that it is your problem, but the kmalloc is safe
