Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 16:14:03 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC causes 'sleeping from invalid context' |
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Nick Piggin wrote:
> OTOH, it doesn't seem to be particularly wrong to allow __vmalloc > GFP_ATOMIC allocations. The correct fix is to pass the gfp_mask > to kmalloc: if you're worried about breaking the API, introduce a > new __get_vm_area_node_mask() and implement __get_vm_area_node() > as a simple wrapper that passes in GFP_KERNEL.
Oh, and __get_vm_area_node{_mask} should BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
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