Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB hangs | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:33:40 +0100 |
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Am Montag, 12. Januar 2004 00:25 schrieb David Brownell: > Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sul, 2004-01-11 at 00:23, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > > >>Where is USB kmalloc'ing with GFP_KERNEL? I thought we tracked all those > >>down and eliminated them. > > > > > > Not sure. I just worked from tracebacks. I needed it to work rather > > than having the time to go hunting for specific faults. Plus I'd > > argue PF_MEMALLOC is a better solution anyway. > > It certainly seems like a more comprehensive fix for that > particular class of problems! :)
For users of a kernel thread it helps. But what affects storage also make affect anything else that has a filesystem running over it. Plus it forces us to keep the storage thread model, which might be a solution that needs to be revisited.
Regards Oliver
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