On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 06:08, Vimal <j.vimal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to allocate a per-cpu variable from a softirq context, but > the documentation for "alloc_percpu" says that the variable is > allocated in GFP_KERNEL context, which can sleep. > > Is there a way around this? perhaps, by design, you should first re-think, could you do that outside of softirq context? perhaps by deferring it into workqueue? -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
