From: Giridhar Pemmasani <pgiri@yahoo.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
pgiri@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:48:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <730052.85710.qm@web32412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4632CA04.6040706@yahoo.com.au>
--- Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> The patch below uses bh disabled lock for vmlist_lock, so
>> that __vmalloc can be used in interrupt context.
> Hi Giri,
>
> I'm sure I've read the reason for this one before, but when you do patches
> like these, can you include that reason in the changelog please?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
Sorry about that. There were too many mails on this subjet and thought it
might not be good to quote them. I am quoting here the ones that matter to
this discussion. If you need more (all), let me know:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0605.2/1608.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0605.2/1611.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0605.2/1656.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0605.2/1779.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0605.2/1669.html
Thanks,
Giri
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-28 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-28 4:03 [PATCH] Allow __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC Giridhar Pemmasani
2007-04-28 4:13 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-28 5:48 ` Giridhar Pemmasani [this message]
2007-04-28 7:52 ` Russell King
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