Messages in this thread |  | | From | arjan@fenrus ... | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed | Date | Sat, 06 Oct 2001 20:22:02 +0100 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1011006210743.7808D-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> you wrote:
> NOTE: no allocations in IRQ are safe. Not only high-order ones. > Allocation in IRQ may fail any time and you must recover without lost of > functionality (network can lose packets any time, if you are doing some > general device driver, you must preallocate all buffers in process > context).
how again do you deal with calling vfree() on the ones where you used vmalloc instead of the buddy allocator ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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