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From: 520047054719-0001@t-online.de (Oliver Neukum)
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To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Subject: Re: current->state after kmalloc
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:08:07 +0100
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On Tuesday 05 February 2002 01:50, Robert Love wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 19:43, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Is it safe with GFP_ATOMIC ?
>
> You are guaranteed kmalloc will not sleep if you use GFP_ATOMIC, yes.
>
> But I still find it gross to mark yourself sleeping but not sleep
> immediately.

usb_submit_urb() uses kmalloc internally.
To code a simple waiting for the results of an urb,
it is necessary.

	Regards
		Oliver
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