From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030986AbXD1Fso (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:48:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030993AbXD1Fso (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:48:44 -0400 Received: from web32412.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.205]:46279 "HELO web32412.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030986AbXD1Fsn (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:48:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=bDSPwq5Xtkb89zWqYMS6JD0i/xqk3lj2mzAmU7iC6+LNpQNND8AGWWhzUBS926+DleXdREjQXyJoG6HQKpL3UNOrY+wHkiEx1W9+qaeu3lLwFmfoRVUdb/qLlsELw590TApnCOfPPiv17hMjZRRFLLf/z90u/ZxcN9mBz/0vn+0=; X-YMail-OSG: nKTdlqYVM1lkO99qFBzhCF0S50Orje8w_gEgNzasoBZSrDAu8bXKQoj2OGSEZApLZ.W9BGVQqc_XXhASA3OlcUtNv0RxKsCtwQB_pJ.CPhXex8TTqQXB_p1kIw-- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:48:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Giridhar Pemmasani Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , pgiri@yahoo.com In-Reply-To: <4632CA04.6040706@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <730052.85710.qm@web32412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Nick Piggin 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com