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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com
Subject: Re: GFP_ATOMIC allocations...
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 11:46:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208301646.g7UGk2c15401@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com> of "Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:22:57 PDT." <20020830092257.A19730@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>

patmans@us.ibm.com said:
> There was past discussion about calling into scsi_build_commandblocks()
>  while not in user context (via usb etc.), this implies that we could
> scan while not in user context.

> I don't see how that would work, since the scan sleeps waiting for IO.
> 

> Do we really call scan_scsis and scsi_build_commandblocks while not in
> user context? Who is the caller (to scsi_register_host)?

> Here is Pete's response saying he found such a case, but not where:

> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=101678634608966&w=2 

I agree we shouldn't not be in user context here.

What about, instead of Pete's patch, changing the GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL and 
adding a BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) at the top and see who sends back bug 
reports...

James



  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-30 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-29  0:25 GFP_ATOMIC allocations Doug Ledford
2002-08-29  0:47 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-08-29  1:42   ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 10:47     ` Alan Cox
2002-08-29 15:58       ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 17:10     ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-08-30 16:22     ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-08-30 16:46       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2002-08-30 18:58         ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-30 21:55           ` [PATCH] " Patrick Mansfield
2002-09-03 14:57             ` James Bottomley
2002-09-03 16:07       ` Pete Zaitcev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-29 15:59 Bryan Henderson
2002-08-29 16:25 ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 16:50 ` Alan Cox

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