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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
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Subject: Re: PATCH: EDAC - clean up atomic stuff
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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> Hmm.  Looking at the patch it is most definitely being called from
>  process context.

Well if we retain KM_BOUNCE_READ then we'll need local_irq_save().  If
edac_mc_scrub_block() will alwyas be called from process context then we
can use KM_USER0 and leave interrupts enabled.

Alan, can you confirm please?