Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:37:31 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) |
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Disagree. A significant percentage of the netfilter bugs have been > SMP only (the whole thing is non-reentrant on UP).
I really doubt it. <looking through the thing> <raised brows> Well, if you use GFP_ATOMIC for everything... grep... Erm... AFAICS, you call create_chain() with interrupts disabled (under write_lock_irq_save()). Unless I'm _very_ mistaken, kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) is a Bad Thing(tm) in that situation. And create_chain() leads to it.
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