From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can kfree sleep?
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:41:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041122054112.GA15773@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411212230.iALMUcC17182@inv.it.uc3m.es>
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:30:38PM +0100, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> 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 ...)?
vfree can't sleep, but it can't be called from every context.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-22 5:41 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
2004-11-22 5:41 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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