Re: Are kfree(), kmem_cache_free() operations that are guaranteed not to sleep?

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On 2/11/06, Hareesh Nagarajan <hareesh.nagarajan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the same vein as my earlier post, are kfree(), kmem_cache_free()
> operations that are guaranteed not to sleep?
>

According to my understanding (by looking at the code), they are
guaranteed not to sleep. As they both calls __cache_free which won't
sleep.

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