Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946399AbWJ0LPV (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:15:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946402AbWJ0LPV (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:15:21 -0400 Received: from mtagate3.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.152]:54569 "EHLO mtagate3.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946401AbWJ0LPS (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:15:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20061026201313.9c831fc9.akpm@osdl.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc3 1/2] ehea: kzalloc GFP_ATOMIC fix To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann , Jeff Garzik , "linux-kernel" , "linux-ppc" , Marcus Eder , netdev , ossthema@de.ibm.com, Thomas Q Klein X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0 HF277 June 21, 2006 Message-ID: From: Christoph Raisch Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:17:51 +0200 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D12ML067/12/M/IBM(Release 6.5.5HF607 | June 26, 2006) at 27/10/2006 13:18:00 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 21 Andrew Morton wrote on 27.10.2006 05:13:13: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:11:42 +0200 > Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > > This patch fixes kzalloc parameters (GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL) > > why? these few kcallocs run in atomic context in some situations. therefore GFP_KERNEL is no good idea. Christoph R. - 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/