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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Altix system controller communication driver
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Greg Howard <ghoward@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> > My understanding is that poll_wait just sets up a poll_table
> > structure; it doesn't sleep itself.
>
> It calls into __pollwait(), which can perform sleeping memory allocations.
>

Ah, okay. Well, I moved the poll_wait() calls out from under the
lock; from what I can tell that ought to be safe enough anyhow.

Thanks - Greg
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