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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: can kfree sleep?
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"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> wrote:
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> Just a question: can kfree sleep?

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