Re: [BUG] Scheduling in interrup

Alex Bligh - linux-kernel (linux-kernel@alex.org.uk)
Wed, 05 Sep 2001 13:49:30 +0100

>> > o Are you attempting to access paged RAM?
>>
>> I am using kmalloc to reserve my memory.
>> kmalloc as the options GFP_KERNEL and GFP_DMA.
>> I am not using any command to reserve memory in
>> the interrupt handler.
>>
>
> This is okay. These will not be paged.

Though if you are actually allocating in the
handler (as opposed to merely using) you want
to set GFP_ATOMIC (i.e. make sure __GFP_WAIT
is clear)

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Alex Bligh
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