Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3 1/2] ehea: kzalloc GFP_ATOMIC fix | From | Christoph Raisch <> | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:17:51 +0200 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote on 27.10.2006 05:13:13:
> On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:11:42 +0200 > Jan-Bernd Themann <ossthema@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > > This patch fixes kzalloc parameters (GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL) > > why?
these few kcallocs run in atomic context in some situations. therefore GFP_KERNEL is no good idea.
Christoph R.
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