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SubjectRe: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.
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On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:39, David S. Miller wrote:

> I hadn't considered this, good idea. I'm trying this out right now.

I hope it works. I have a sinking feeling we call it some places that
may have interrupts disabled...

> Someone should backport the might_sleep() stuff to 2.4.x, it's very
> useful.

Would be nice, but for the maximum effect we need kernel preemption
(which keeps track of atomicity via preempt_count). I doubt we want to
go there for 2.4.

Robert Love

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