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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP_KERNEL
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 01:29:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080508012957.c778c8e7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080508163039.0EF4.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, 08 May 2008 16:31:29 +0900 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > Now, call_usermodehelper_setup() use GFP_ATOMIC.
> > > but it is slighly odd.
> > > because call_usermodehelper() is always called process context.
> > > 
> > 
> > Are you sure? I found the following call chain:
> > 
> >   static irqreturn_t power_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
> >   ->orderly_poweroff(true);
> >     ->call_usermodehelper_setup()
> 
> sorry, you are right.
> I'll make patch again.

How many times do we have to make this mistake :(

Only the caller knows what allocation mode the callee can use. 
call_usermodehelper_setup() should be extended to take a gfp_t argument.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-08  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-08  6:41 [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP_KERNEL KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-08  7:23 ` Li Zefan
2008-05-08  7:31   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-08  8:29     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-08  9:40       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-08 10:16       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-08 10:38         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-08 12:58           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-08 23:46             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-08 23:53               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-09  0:04                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-09  0:08                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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