From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Kernel Stuff <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage (resend)
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:59:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41B33E70.2000107@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412051105.10934.kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Kernel Stuff wrote:
>> * May not be called in interrupt context
>>
>>
>Does this need to change to
> * Must not be called in interrupt context
>?
>Is there a case where it is guaranteed that kfree will not sleep?
>
kfree never sleeps. The comment you mention is part of the vfree
documentation.
And you are right: for vfree, it's "must not be called". I'll send a
separate patch. Or Andrew could just change it directly.
--
Manfred
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-05 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-03 19:48 [PATCH] Document kfree and vfree NULL usage (resend) Pekka Enberg
2004-12-05 15:33 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-05 16:05 ` Kernel Stuff
2004-12-05 16:59 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-12-05 17:44 ` Kernel Stuff
2004-12-05 17:57 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-12-05 18:12 ` Parag Warudkar
2004-12-05 20:29 ` Pekka Enberg
[not found] ` <200412051648.08283.kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
2004-12-06 8:09 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-12-05 20:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2004-12-05 20:38 ` Parag Warudkar
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