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FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/33] mm: allow PF_MEMALLOC from softirq context
DateWed, 31 Oct 2007 14:51:56 +1100
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 03:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Allow PF_MEMALLOC to be set in softirq context. When running softirqs from
> a borrowed context save current->flags, ksoftirqd will have its own
> task_struct.


What's this for? Why would ksoftirqd pick up PF_MEMALLOC? (I guess
that some networking thing must be picking it up in a subsequent patch,
but I'm too lazy to look!)... Again, can you have more of a rationale in
your patch headers, or ref the patch that uses it... thanks

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