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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es
Cc: ptb@it.uc3m.es, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can kfree sleep?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:10:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041121131038.6c55b91c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411211223.iALCNCTL005995@betty.it.uc3m.es>

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
>
> Just a question: can kfree sleep?

Nope.  All memory freeing codepaths are atomic and may be called from any
context except NMI handlers.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-21 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-21 12:23 can kfree sleep? Peter T. Breuer
2004-11-21 21:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-21 21:14   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-21 22:30     ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-11-22  5:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22  8:18       ` Arjan van de Ven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-11-21 18:56 Manfred Spraul
2004-11-21 20:51 ` Peter T. Breuer

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