Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964927AbVLSUDr (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:03:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964932AbVLSUDq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:03:46 -0500 Received: from rtsoft2.corbina.net ([85.21.88.2]:5319 "HELO mail.dev.rtsoft.ru") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964927AbVLSUDq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:03:46 -0500 Message-ID: <43A7121E.1070709@ru.mvista.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:03:42 +0300 From: Vitaly Wool User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: David Brownell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] SPI core: turn transfers to be linked list References: <43A480C0.9080201@ru.mvista.com> <200512181240.46841.david-b@pacbell.net> <43A665F7.7020404@ru.mvista.com> <20051219170005.GA1911@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20051219170005.GA1911@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 805 Lines: 26 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/