Re: Linux-2.4.5

Rik van Riel
2001-05-26T01:36:38Z

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ok, I applied Andrea's (nee Ingo's) version, as that one most clearly
> attacked the real deadlock cause. It's there as 2.4.5 now.

But only for highmem bounce buffers. Normal GFP_BUFFER
allocations can still headlock.

> I'm going to be gone in Japan for the next week

Oh well, I guess people can always run the -ac kernel ;)

Rik
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