On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 03:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On 1 Dec 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Does that also apply to kmalloc()/kfree(), or are they safe?
kfree() (or free_pages() or others of that type) is always safe.
kmalloc(x, GFP_ATOMIC) works, but has problems (ie being over-eager about
On Son, 2002-12-01 at 20:40, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I'm following the DRM kernel changes, and over the last few days code
appeared that I really don't think should be in the kernel, and that I
really don't want to merge.
The problem appears to be that the DRM people are used to using
On 1 Dec 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:
Actually, I did that because I thought send_sig_info() or kfree() might
not be interrupt safe.
Signals are commonly sent from interrupts: kill_fasync() is quite commonly
supported by many device drivers, and the resulting SIGIO is almost
universally sent
