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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:39:33 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: BUG or not? GFP_KERNEL with interrupts disabled.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:22:55 -0800 (PST)

   	if (gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT)
   		might_sleep();
   
   and might_sleep() should be updated.
   
   Anybody want to try that and see whether things break horribly?

I hadn't considered this, good idea.  I'm trying this out right now.

Someone should backport the might_sleep() stuff to 2.4.x, it's very
useful.
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