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
next prev parent 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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=43A7121E.1070709@ru.mvista.com \
--to=vwool@ru.mvista.com \
--cc=david-b@pacbell.net \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox