From: ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es (Peter T. Breuer)
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can kfree sleep?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:30:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411212230.iALMUcC17182@inv.it.uc3m.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041121211451.GA12826@infradead.org>
In article <20041121211451.GA12826@infradead.org> you wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 01:10:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Nope. All memory freeing codepaths are atomic and may be called from any
> > context except NMI handlers.
>
> Not true for vfree()
My interest at the moment is in what can sleep and what cannot sleep.
Are you saying that vfree can sleep or that vfree cannot be called from
at least one other context in addition to the NMI handler context (from
which it cannot be called ...)?
:)
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-21 22:31 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
2004-11-21 21:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-21 22:30 ` Peter T. Breuer [this message]
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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