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From: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI core: turn transfers to be linked list
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:03:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43A7121E.1070709@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051219170005.GA1911@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:49:11AM +0300, Vitaly Wool wrote:
>  
>
>>The problem is: we're using real-time enhancements patch developed by 
>>Ingo/Sven/Daniel etc. You cannot call kmalloc from the interrupt 
>>context  if you're using this patch.
>>    
>>
>
>So you can't even call:
>	kmalloc(sizeof(foo), GFP_ATOMIC);
>in an interrupt anymore?
>If so, that's going to break mainline pretty bad...
>  
>
Don't think it will... Since most of the interrupts will work in threads 
pretty well... and it's np to alloc memory from threads.

Vitaly

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-19 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-17 21:18 [PATCH/RFC] SPI core: turn transfers to be linked list Vitaly Wool
2005-12-18 20:40 ` David Brownell
2005-12-19  7:49   ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-19 17:00     ` Greg KH
2005-12-19 20:03       ` Vitaly Wool [this message]
2005-12-20  8:11     ` David Brownell
2005-12-20 18:15       ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-21 13:22       ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-22 17:55         ` David Brownell
2005-12-22 22:12           ` Vitaly Wool
2005-12-22 23:57             ` David Brownell

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