Re: Deadlock in 2.2 sock_alloc_send_skb?

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Fri, 11 May 2001 10:36:40 +0200


On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:32:25PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> you said interrupt won't call that function so I don't see the
> GFP_ATOMIC issue.

I said interrupts should not call it, but apparently somebody tries to
call it with GFP_ATOMIC and I'm suspecting that caller is broken (whatever
it is, I don't think it is in the main tree)

>
> I also don't what's the issue with GFP_ATOMIC regardless somebody uses

[...]

No argument about that it should handle oom anyways.

-Andi

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