Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:18:41 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, tglx@linutronix.de,
       andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v3
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> this is just for handling the case where that fails
> (basically near/totally OOM or the case where you get a fatal signal)

I didn't think GFP_KERNEL was interruptible by signals...
(although sometimes under oom thrashing I think it would be great if it was...) 

-Andi
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