Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [patch] 2.4 fix to allow vmalloc at interrupt time | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 13 May 2003 23:34:15 +0100 |
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On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 22:11, Matthew Jacob wrote: > This fixes a buglet wrt doing vmalloc at interrupt time for 2.4. > > get_vm_area should call kmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC- after all, it's > set up to allow for an allocation failure. As best as I read > the 2.4 code, the rest of the path through _kmem_cache_alloc > should be safe.
You aren't allow to vmalloc in an IRQ. The kmalloc is the least of your programs - you have to worry about the page table handling.
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