Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:50:23 -0500 | From | Greg Howard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Altix system controller communication driver |
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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.
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