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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] call_usermodehelper_setup() should use GFP_KERNEL
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 00:53:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4823928D.7080907@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080509084248.43B5.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> UMH_WAIT_EXEC and UMH_WAIT_PROC mean wait on finish of exec or process exit.
> I can't imagine situation that exec is waitable *and* allocate isn't waitable.
>   

Yeah, that's why I was asking about UMH_NO_WAIT, where the caller may 
not want to wait, but the context would allow the allocation to block if 
necessary.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-08 23:54 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
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 [this message]
2008-05-09  0:04                 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-05-09  0:08                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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