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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [FBCON] Could be called outside of a process context. This fixes that.
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 03:12:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030415021242.GA2054@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030414185326.1fdf2e01.akpm@digeo.com>

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > ChangeSet 1.981, 2003/03/25 10:21:46-08:00, jsimmons@maxwell.earthlink.net
 > > 	[FBCON] Could be called outside of a process context. This fixes that.
 > > 
 > 
 > GFP_ATOMIC memory allocations can and will return NULL when the system is
 > under load.  The driver _has_ to check for this, and cope with it.

James fixed this up in 1.982, when he changed things over to use workqueues.

		Dave


      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-15  2:01 UTC|newest]

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2003-04-15  1:53 ` [FBCON] Could be called outside of a process context. This fixes that Andrew Morton
2003-04-15  2:12   ` Dave Jones [this message]

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