On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Hi, > > some part of the synchronous API is used in the block io error handling > code paths. Therefore it may use only GFP_NOIO, not GFP_KERNEL. > Greg, please apply.
Oliver, is this meant to refer to the usb-storage module or to something else? For usb-storage it's true that the synchronous API is used in the I/O error handling code paths. But those code paths always execute in the context of a kernel thread -- the SCSI error-handler thread -- with no semaphores held, so it's perfectly okay for them to use GFP_KERNEL. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
