On 3/9/06, anil dahiya <ak_ait@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > on 2.4.21-32(redhat enterprise update 5) when i call kmalloc with > GFP_KERNEL > my system get hangs it hangs.. Anyone can suggest what should i do .. > You shouldn't call a function that might sleep (such as kmalloc()) from schedule(). You may get away with it if you use GFP_ATOMIC or similar, but still it sounds like a really bad idea. Why do you think you need to call kmalloc() from schedule anyway? -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
