On Apr 14, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:
The rheap allocation function, rh_alloc, could call kmalloc with
GFP_KERNEL.
This can sleep, which means you couldn't hold a spinlock while
called rh_alloc.
Change all kmalloc calls to use GFP_ATOMIC so that it won't sleep.
This is
safe because only small blocks are allocated.
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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This patch is for 2.6.26.
Is this need to fix a bug with an existing driver of for a new driver?
- k
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