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Subject: Re: Tasklet doubt!
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On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 12:46, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> You only need GFP_ATOMIC for stuff allocated and freed when the
> interrupts are off like in ISRs.

Not just when the interrupts are off but whenever you cannot sleep.

In most interrupt handlers, interrupts are enabled anyhow (except the
current line which is masked out -- but the interrupt system itself is
on i.e. sti is set).  But they cannot sleep.

	Robert Love