From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: [PATCH 07/10] mm: warn about vfree from atomic context Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:03:53 +0100 Message-ID: <1479474236-4139-8-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> References: <1479474236-4139-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Cc: aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, joelaf@google.com, jszhang@marvell.com, chris@chris-wilson.co.uk, joaodias@google.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1479474236-4139-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org We can't handle vfree itself from atomic context, but callers can explicitly use vfree_atomic instead, which defers the actual vfree to a workqueue. Unfortunately in_atomic does not work on non-preemptible kernels, so we can't just do the right thing by default. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig --- mm/vmalloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 80f3fae..e2030b4 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1530,6 +1530,7 @@ void vfree_atomic(const void *addr) void vfree(const void *addr) { BUG_ON(in_nmi()); + WARN_ON_ONCE(in_atomic()); kmemleak_free(addr); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org