Hi Mulyadi On 7 December 2011 10:48, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Yes, that's definitely a possibility; I was just wondering if there was a reason behind not allowing it, or if I had missed something... Thanks, -- Vimal _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
