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SubjectRe: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 - sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2502
* Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au) wrote:
> Guys, please CC netdev on issues like this.

Sorry Herbert, we hadn't yet concluded that it's not an issue that we
need to resolve within audit.

> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:43:00PM +0000, Chris Wright wrote:
> >
> > This has some issues w.r.t. truesize and socket buffer space. The trim
> > is done to keep accounting sane, so we'd either have to trim ourselves
> > or take into account the change in size. And ultimately, we'd still get
> > trimmed by netlink, so the GFP issue is still there. Ideally, gfp_any()
> > would really be _any_
>
> The trimming is completely optional. That is, if the allocation fails
> nothing bad will happen. So the solution is to simply use GFP_ATOMIC.

Well, it does more pressure on atomic pool (for those cases that
GFP_KERNEL would have sufficed).

thanks,
-chris
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