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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:42:44 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:07:57 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:


> 
> Certainly.  Therefore, changing from GFP_ATOMIC will increase likelihood 
> of breakage, no?

No, except for places that are already broken on preemptive kernels
(and note this change only does something on preemptive kernels) 

-Andi