Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v4 0/2] Lockless memory allocator and list | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:49:18 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 08:53 +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > Hi, Len, > > This patchset is needed by APEI support. Which involves some lockless > operations. And I think they can be used by some other part of kernel > too.
The whole notion of allocating memory from NMI context seems incredibly offensive.
And then there's the whole point of not merging stuff without a user.
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