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SubjectRe: can kfree sleep?
In article <20041121211451.GA12826@infradead.org> you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:10:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Nope. All memory freeing codepaths are atomic and may be called from any
> > context except NMI handlers.
>
> Not true for vfree()

My interest at the moment is in what can sleep and what cannot sleep.
Are you saying that vfree can sleep or that vfree cannot be called from
at least one other context in addition to the NMI handler context (from
which it cannot be called ...)?

:)

Peter
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