From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es
Cc: ptb@it.uc3m.es, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can kfree sleep?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:10:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041121131038.6c55b91c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411211223.iALCNCTL005995@betty.it.uc3m.es>
"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>
> Just a question: can kfree sleep?
Nope. All memory freeing codepaths are atomic and may be called from any
context except NMI handlers.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-21 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-21 12:23 can kfree sleep? Peter T. Breuer
2004-11-21 21:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-21 21:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-21 22:30 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-11-22 5:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22 8:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
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2004-11-21 18:56 Manfred Spraul
2004-11-21 20:51 ` Peter T. Breuer
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