Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:03:42 +0300 | From | Vitaly Wool <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI core: turn transfers to be linked list |
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Greg KH wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:49:11AM +0300, Vitaly Wool wrote: > > >>The problem is: we're using real-time enhancements patch developed by >>Ingo/Sven/Daniel etc. You cannot call kmalloc from the interrupt >>context if you're using this patch. >> >> > >So you can't even call: > kmalloc(sizeof(foo), GFP_ATOMIC); >in an interrupt anymore? >If so, that's going to break mainline pretty bad... > > Don't think it will... Since most of the interrupts will work in threads pretty well... and it's np to alloc memory from threads.
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